The teenage signing from Everton captured the imagination at Old Trafford with a storybook debut hat-trick

The Hammers’ title hopes were rocked by an extraordinary thunderbolt of a free-kick from the Dutch master

Ignominy now overshadows Beardsley’s talents as a forward, which he displayed with a stunning strike at the City Ground

This was not just a unique goal but the uniquest goal; a goal more unique than all other goals that are also unique

The 1998 Uefa Cup final witnessed a goal that was probably the greatest moment of Ronaldo’s greatest game

A goal that meant nothing also meant everything, because football is about a lot more than football

With Barcelona facing Athletic Bilbao in the Copa del Rey final on Saturday, we look back at the same fixture in 1984

The snobbery towards Martin O’Neill’s Leicester meant that this glorious team goal was criminally underappreciated

A violent game remembered for a spectacular rampage by Norman Whiteside had a poignant footnote when Gibson scored his only goal for United

Belloumi, a great denied a move to Europe by age and violence, stunned an overconfident West Germany at the World Cup

Bulgaria exploded in pure identity, while the rest of the world enjoyed a moment of luscious joy in the misfortune of another

An equaliser from 40 yards announced the 18-year-old Enyinnaya to the world but before the match ended he had been upstaged by a younger player, Antonio Cassano

The final goal at the old Wembley marked the end of an era but also signalled the beginning of a new one for England

The striker had an extraordinary ability to score from any distance and any angle but even by his standards this was magical

A Van Basten-esque chest and volley – with the midfielder’s weaker foot – was a masterclass of instinct and execution

Allen’s triple drag-back at a muddy Upton Park was the kind of instinctive brilliance that belonged on the Copacabana

The midfielder was the Merseyside club’s most consistent attacking threat for a decade and dazzled with his trademark dribbling skills in Glasgow

Il Fenomeno’s one season at the Camp Nou brought 47 goals – one against Compostela will live long in the memory

John Barnes epitomised the tag of ‘flying winger’ in the late-80s and never more so than with the nimble footwork that rounded off a 4-0 win as Liverpool replaced QPR at the top of the table

Colombia’s first World Cup appearance has largely been forgotten but midfielder Coll wrote his name into history with a moment of improvisation that remains unique to this day