dribbling on a shitty pitch against a decent team
And let’s not forget – against a decent team, a few of who tried to just kick him on the way through. It was one of the greatest goals ever.
Bale’s one has to be taken in context. It’s the in the final of the Spanish equivalent of the FA Cup (I think anyway, or is it a league cup type thing?) – and it’s with five minutes to go against your biggest rivals – the team whose fans despise you more than any others. So, yeah, it’s a fantastic goal, but an equivalent comparison would be Giggs’ (great personality btw) against Arsenal – for me that was a better goal.
But up there with Maradona’s, Cruyff’s, Van Basten’s, Ronnie Whelan’s against Russia, or Ray Houghton’s against Italy, or anyone’s against France (the cheating bastards)? Nah.