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Remember the KK bit well. Great soundbites as usual. Seem to recall the problem also being that due to the large fee the club didn't have the sufficient insurance cover in place for a place on the flight for him :lol:

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The free-kick he scored for his first NUFC goal is so unlike a Shearer free-kick. Brilliant though. I'm in agreement with joeyt, the Villa volley is incredible. It just pips the Everton because of the angle.

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The free-kick he scored for his first NUFC goal is so unlike a Shearer free-kick. Brilliant though. I'm in agreement with joeyt, the Villa volley is incredible. It just pips the Everton because of the angle.

 

I could be wrong but I seem to remember him scoring a few like that when he started/before he left Blackburn and then he didn't score any like that ever again.

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He scored another curler type free kick in the cup against Charlton in his first Newcastle season.

 

After that I guess we always had someone better to take the curlers. Solano, Robert...

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The free-kick he scored for his first NUFC goal is so unlike a Shearer free-kick. Brilliant though. I'm in agreement with joeyt, the Villa volley is incredible. It just pips the Everton because of the angle.

 

I could be wrong but I seem to remember him scoring a few like that when he started/before he left Blackburn and then he didn't score any like that ever again.

Had to change technique due to his ankle injury iirc.

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I might have made this up but I seem to remember on one of the end of season DVDs that Shearer's daughter was mascot against Villa so he thought "I'll have to do something special for her" and then he did that.

 

The fact its against Schmeichel too makes it so wonderful

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There was definitely a good 3-4 years towards the end of his career when he was still taking free kicks and every single one of them went straight into the wall :lol:

The last one that immediately comes to mind of him scoring is an indirect free-kick against Sunderland. I think we went 2-0 within the first 3 minutes or so.
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I can remember hearing about the Everton goal on the radio. Commentators saying that it was something "you're going to want to see", and probably Alan's best ever goal.

 

Which was some statement at that point in his career. Didn't disappoint.

 

I like that he had those three screamers in consecutive seasons near the end of his career. Villa, Everton and the Chelsea/Desailly goal.

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