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This is the best that I can remember. We were behind it and anyone who was there will swear that the shoddy camerawork does it no justice. The swerve on it was incredible, impossible even at that pace. Add in that we were incredulous that he was taking it and that (I think?) it was his first and last free kick for us (he didn't even take our penos) and the shock factor also added to the joy. Others?
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
Not sure the goalie could do a thing about it, which is one of the defining criteria - sure, Gazza, with your long-range belter to sink your team's rivals at Wembley, but here at Rangers we all expected Seaman to step right plant the wrong foot before edging left slowly, meekly, like a shy kid seeing his first wasps' nest.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
I was standing right at the back of the loft that night when Bardsley hit that I missed the first 25 minutes and got in to the ground to see them score , second half we totally battered them Happy days and only seems like yesterday
And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot
That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles
Brian Moore
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Best Rangers Free Kick on 19:52 - Aug 20 with 7269 views
I know what you’re saying Brian, but I don’t think the video does this one justice either. Yeni had one of those free kick techniques coming straight onto the ball and giving it a vicious backspin, making the keeper misjudge the ball’s flight path. I think he realised too late that it was dipping, making it look even more of a fluff on his part than giving the taker the credit.
Admittedly Keisuke Honda and Ronaldo are more renowned exponents of that skill, but I think Yeni struck that particular one quite sweetly.
Edit: undermining my own argument here! Upon further review he thumps it dead on with little spin, but still with an awkward trajectory. True the keeper wasn’t ready, but he wasn’t going to get that at that pace!
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Best Rangers Free Kick on 20:04 - Aug 20 with 7205 views
By my memory, that entire reputation was based on this (non) free kick. I was at that game though, we were effing brilliant in the second half. Could've scored, no lie, 7 or 8.
Bare bones.
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Best Rangers Free Kick on 20:25 - Aug 20 with 7119 views
I loved watching the free kick ploys that Terry Venables came up with. Some were well dodgy. I remember Gerry Francis would stand on the edge of the wall and pull the last player in the wall out of position as the ball was struck.
I also have a vague memory of some one counting out the 10 yards to the wall. He reached 8 as he got to the wall and waived his arms and the wall parted to let him through. The ball was quickly played through the gap to him and he slotted it in. Anyone else remember that?
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Best Rangers Free Kick on 20:28 - Aug 20 with 7102 views
Kevin Brock, last minute winner away to Southampton in 87 in the blazing sunshine. Pure bedlam on that away terrace. Cue the song, Kevin Brock is magic
Fenwick had a lovely foot on him. That free kick at Anfield in the semi final that just skimmed the post would have been our best ever if that had gone in
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