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Tim's Overhead Bicycle Kick

Can anyone remember Everton scoring with a goal like this before.. If so, when was it?
David Kenrick, Stockport Posted 13/11/2007 at 18:12:27

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George Jefferson
1 Posted 14/11/2007 at 04:01:15

I was at Goodison Park when Claus Thomsen (!) scored from a deflected overhead kick against Derby. We lost. I didn’t have a good view of it because the goal was in the Park End and I was in the Gladwys, I think.

Dan Measor
2 Posted 14/11/2007 at 04:05:00

I remember David Unsworth smashing in a mid-air scissor kick against Aston Villa......

Brian Hill
3 Posted 14/11/2007 at 04:28:05

David Smallman in the mid seventies, can’t remember the opposition, possibly Wrexham in the FA Cup?

Mike Coates
4 Posted 14/11/2007 at 06:47:45

Don’t remember any time in recent years..

Vaughany came close last season if I recall against who else.. but Chelsea :)

Richard Ewart
5 Posted 14/11/2007 at 07:12:54

Steve Watson was the last I can remember at Bolton, January 28 2003. He was on the edge of the box when he hit it. Not exactly a pure bicycle kick but near as damn it. It’s in the 125 Premiership Goals DVD. I doubt though that many will beat Tim’s for sheer drama, and dare I say, technical perfection. It was a sweet sweet strike!

Richard Ewart
6 Posted 14/11/2007 at 07:27:06

No sooner had I posted about Steve Watson, than my son Daniel (aged8) reminded me that Cahill himself did it as recently as May 15th 2005, also at Bolton. And just to prove what a player he is, he did it with his left foot! Anyone who has the 04-05 season review DVD will find it in the Goal of the Season Top Ten at number 5 in special features. How quickly we forget!

Chris Hanrahan
7 Posted 14/11/2007 at 07:46:59

Seem to remember Duncan McKenzie doing something similar, but that was a long time ago...

Gaz Davies
8 Posted 14/11/2007 at 08:05:48

Brian McBride scored one during his loan spell with us.
I think it was against Sunderland at home, and if I remember rightly the connection was nowhere near as good and it took a deflection on it’s way in.

Ian Short
9 Posted 14/11/2007 at 08:22:34

Believe it or not Paul Rideout scored an overhead kick but that must have been 10-11 years ago. I seem to remember it gave us a 1-0 away win at the end of the season against Ipswich or something?

Koi Yu Ng
10 Posted 14/11/2007 at 09:07:35

If I remember, Cahill himself actually scored the first goal using a bicycle kick in the last game of 2004-5, vs. Bolton (away). Anybdoy remembered it?

Eve Austin
11 Posted 14/11/2007 at 08:56:53

I’m pretty sure Kevin Sheedy did an overhead kick in the early ninties and it looked ace!! I must of been about 12 when I saw it and have not seen it since. Memory fades.

Dave Griffin
12 Posted 14/11/2007 at 09:27:46

I well remember Sheedy?s goal - it was against Man City in a live TV match. I think it was January 1991 - shortly after Howard Kendall came back for his second spell as manager.

Arthur Jones
13 Posted 14/11/2007 at 09:55:57

I remember the Cahill one against Bolton at the Reebok First goal of the gme if my memory serves me correct and we lost 3 - 2 , last game of the season

Ant Gird
14 Posted 14/11/2007 at 10:22:35

Can anyone suggest a site where I can see the goal? Tried YouTube, but all the clips have been removed cos of copyright etc. Any ideas? Please!

Greg Murphy
15 Posted 14/11/2007 at 11:13:35

Brian Hill- yep, Dave Smallman was the one that came to mind for me too; but I think it was v Sheff Utd (he’d well gone - retired, in fact, by the time we played Wrexham).
Certainly remember him scoring it into the Street End.
Lovely player.

Hugo Kondratiuk
16 Posted 14/11/2007 at 11:47:25

Jim Pearson scored one just like Tiny’s in a 2-2 draw at QPR in 1974. I was right behind the goal, and someone behind me yelled "Bye bye, Big Joe!" amid the celebrations when it went in. And indeed Joe Royle was sold not long after. Unfortunately Pearson proved to be a bit of a disappointment - that goal was probably the high point of his time in a blue shirt.

Lee Spargo
17 Posted 14/11/2007 at 12:57:09

Paul Rideout away at Bolton in about 94 or 95

Greg Murphy
18 Posted 14/11/2007 at 13:18:08

Yes, Lee Spargo, well recalled mate! Forgotten all about it. Last minute equaliser jobby, I think, at the same Burnden Park "Supermarket" end that the Blues fans were congregated in. Joke of a ground. October 95, I think. Always get this game mixed up (probably due to the fact that I was suitably caned at both!) with the FA 3rd Rd game we played there in Jan 94 (Walker was appointed the night before) but I think Rideout gave us the lead in that one.

Dave Roberts
19 Posted 14/11/2007 at 19:45:00

I can’t add any more than has already been said but the first overhead kicked goal I remember seeing was scored by Dennis Law, on telly, in the sixties. At the time I played for Dunlop’s in Speke and tried it myself a few weeks later. I was in hospital for two days and off work for three weeks with a cracked bone in my neck!

I never tried it again. Well done Tim!

(i didn’t connect with the ball by the way!)

Kevin O Regan
20 Posted 15/11/2007 at 12:08:46

Watch the goal on :
http://www.footytube.com/2007/11/11/chelsea-vs-everton/

Great player, great attitude. Well done faddy too.