Goals

This weekend has featured some absolutely incredible goals, simply sensational. There's the already infamous Wilshere goal featuring some passes that absolutely stagger belief. The passing and movement was absolutely sublime and some of the best passing you'll see all season, if not for many a season to come.

And on the complete other end of the scale, we have an absolutely incredible volley from Kasami of Fulham, whose rocket had me jumping out of my seat. I was lucky enough to watch this with a Fulham fan and his eyes nearly popped out of his head, only for Steve Sidwell to pull off an almost as good volley minutes later. Volleys are always among the great goals in footballing history. After all, some of the greatest Premier League and all time goals have been volleys. In recent times, we've seen Glen Johnson pull off a couple of absolute rockets for Pompey, Fernando Torres pull a blinder against Blackburn and just last season, young Matt Lowton put in an absolute belter.

Drilled shots from along the ground from tight angles are more popular now than ever, with Sergio Aguero in particular the King of such efforts. Combining both volleys and tight angles, young Januzaj gave us a masterclass in how to do so and no great goals discussion would be complete without mentioning the genius of Zinedine Zidane in the 2002 Champions League Final for Madrid.

Some goals are made perfect by the act of an individual, beating five or six players before rifling home or some brilliant finish to follow. Pires against Villa is the archetype of this, absolute class. You could look at so many great Arsenal players over the Premier Leaue years for this sort of contribution: Henry, Bergkamp, Pires, RVP, Fabregas, even Arshavin on occasion.

Sometimes, goals can be of momentus impact because of their timing rather than the quality. For this, there are moments of pure ingenious gold, such as Frederico Macheda's last gasp winner for United at Villa and Ji's 93rd minute finish against a City side who had thrown everything and the kitchen sink at Sunderland.

Great goals are often definied by great commentary. Gary Neville's infamous orgasms at various points of Chelsea's Champions League campaign define this perfectly, culminating in Didier Drogba's final hurrah for the Blues with a 90th minute leveller in the final against Bayern that was as priceless as Neville's reaction.

We all know of course, that Martin Tyler is the King of great goal commentary and this is never clearer than when City stole the title from United in the dying seconds of their game against QPR, with that man Sergio Aguero scoring a goal that sent the Etihad and Tyler into euphoria. It was incredible.

Tyler was often accompanied by his co-king of commentary Andy Gray, when moments such as Andrey Arshavin's epic 4 goals against Liverpool or England trounced Germany 5-1 were occuring and the pair's commentary matches the epicness of the moments.

And of course, there are players. Scorers if truly incredible goals. Naturally, players of the ilk of Thierry Henry, Maradona and Messi are thrown into the mix, as they scored stunning goals on a regular basis. Ronaldinho, Pele, Wayne Rooney and his plethora of beauties, THAT overhead kick against City being a highlight.

Put all these elements together and what do you get?

Steven Gerrard. Olympiacos. 2005. Growing up as a Liverpool fan, this was THE goal. I think I lost my head when it went in. It has everything you want in a great goal. The circumstances were set, with 5 minutes until Liverpool crashed out of the Champions League at the group stage. The fact we went on to win it that year only adds to the cruciality and brilliance of the goal. And as the ball bounced thirty yards out and Gerrard strode onto it, the technical brilliance of the volley was astounding. Pace, power and inch-perfect accuracy combining to send Anfield into raptures. And what makes this moment one of the greatest ever is the commentary, as Andy Gray completely and utterly loses his head, before he and Tyler compose themselves enough to not even bother to analyse it. It was that brilliant.

For any true football fan, I hope I've reminded you of some of the moments in your life that you truly appreciate and goals that have made you completely lose your mind. And if there's any on here you feel you've missed out on, get on Youtube and get looking, because there are some absolute belters out there.