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You simply can’t beat a goalkeeper scoring a goal

YOU can keep your last-minute winners and 35-yard thunderbolts. You can forget promotions and trophies.

You simply

Chris Dunlavy
A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL

MAGIC MOMENT: Leyton Orient keeper Josh Keeley heads his dramatic equaliser against Oldham
PICTURE: Darren Campbell

YOU can keep your last-minute winners and 35-yard thunderbolts. You can forget promotions and trophies.
The best thing in football? An outfielder playing between the sticks comes close, but a goalkeeper scoring tops the lot.
It’s vanishingly rare and that’s what makes it so brilliant.
In 18 years as a football writer, I’ve only ever seen it happen once, when Seny Dieng scored a lastgasp equaliser for QPR against Sunderland at the...

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