Matty Burrows: His Two Wonder Goals and Steven Davis’ Crappy Corner

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Published: October 13, 2010

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Within the space of three days, Northern Irish football produced three of the best “What Happened Next” moments in the history of football.

On Tuesday, Oct. 5, Matty Burrows scored one of the greatest goals ever seen in football.

His audacious back-heeled volley from the edge of the box has catapulted the hitherto unknown Glentoran striker into being mentioned in the same breath as the likes of Diego Maradona, Pele, Lionel Messi and Archie Gemmill for when it comes to talking about the greatest goals ever scored.

Then on Friday, Oct. 8, Steven Davis saw himself inserted in football blooper reels for years to come before Burrows contributed with yet another wonder goal on the Saturday.

Such is the popularity of his first goal that, in the following seven days, the goal has been hit over three million times on Glentoran TV and has become one of the defining moments of the footballing year.

Which is really saying something when you consider that we had the World Cup in the summer, the debacle at Liverpool all year long, and GroundDrog day every time Arsenal plays Chelsea!

The goal was made all the sweeter by coming in what was literally the last kick of the game in the 92nd minute, after Burrows had been sprung from the bench in an effort at breaking Portadown’s resolve.

Despite scoring what will definitely go down as one of the greatest goals of all time, the 24-year-old Burrows seems to have taken all the attention in his stride.

“I have been really surprised by the amount of people who have been talking about it and contacting me,” he said.

“I got a lot of texts that night from people I know who were at the match and the boys were giving me a bit of stick too, but the next day it all went a wee bit crazy.

“I got loads of messages and people were phoning me up saying that thousands and thousands of people ha...
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