The Art of Goalscoring

What are the secrets of being a brilliant centre forward? Who are the best strikers of all time? Will the traditional ‘Number 9’ come back into fashion?

Gary and Alan, two of England’s greatest ever strikers, discuss the art of scoring lots and lots of goals. They also offer some advice to young players trying to make their way in the game now.
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00:00 - Intro
01:10 - Starting Out As A Striker
04:00 - Player Idol’s
06:40 - Playing As A Kid
13:55 - Striking Techniques
22:50 - Dealing With Bad Patches
25:18 - The Best Strikers Of Our Generation

[jamesking]

Defoe was vey underrated.. movement and finishing was up there with the best throughout his career

[CKM-]

For someone that Idolised Shearer growing up, this was a real treat! 👍
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[BizzleByron]

Peak Torres was one of my favourites to watch, he was a beast.

[jzwadlo]

That was a nice touch touch going easy on the language so that young strikers all over can listen to and learn from 2 of the best to ever do it! 😎

[jamesmilligan]

Shearer was incredible in the air....not just scoring but winning ariel duals with defenders bigger than him

[DYL]

I absolutely idolised Shearer when I was a bairn, I had his DVD of all his goals and would watch it before playing on a Sunday and it helped me score a lot of goals so it’s great to hear this👏

[samduckers-cwyu]

Just managed to finish watching all of this. First off I know it was a duo on this episode but the three of you are fantastic to watch and listen to the way you discuss different areas of the game with no one sided or leaning towards the current big teams is a breath of fresh air.
I grow up watching Alan with my grandad every weekend on match of the day watching him score week in week out most times I am a little young to remember Gary as I am now 38. I think this episode you have covered what I have been saying since Harland has joined the prem is a round about way. Teams have changed and not had that out and out goal scorer since Alan really the type that is goal hungry not dropping to try and get or create something the type that waits and make and makes again the runs to get on the end of. I feel this is why teams struggle to deal with harland due to not being able to handle and adapt to that type of player and out and out number 9. When harland has not been as effective in games it’s due to team stopping the delivery of the ball this does not allow him to play the way he wants to and try’s to change and he then looks average due to this not being his style of football. He is no doubt a prolific goal scorer but without the delivery not as effective. Keep up the good work lads I look forward to to every episode. SAM the Villa fan

[The_inked_traveller]

Gabriel Batistuta was always one of my favourites. I remember one charity match around 1997 (ish) when him and R9 played together. Wow! Them together was just unreal!

[sharpvidtube]

I agree that Ian Rush was far ahead of his time, loved watching how hard he worked. He was so natural, he didn't do anything spectacular, just knew how to put it past the keeper. Probably helped having players like Kenny Dalgleish to supply him, but he still had to make the runs.

[michaelmckie]

You can feel the buzz Shearer gets just talking about scoring goals, you can see why he is the PL greatest ever goal scorer.

[simongilliat]

4:30 Frank Worthington! I was wandering around Manchester one afternoon, back in the 80s, and bumped into Frank outside the Arndale. There he was, long but immaculate hair, camel coat, smoking a ciggie while his wife was shopping. He gave me about 15 minutes of his time - few other people seemed to recognise him. Lovely, lovely guy. Thanks Gary!

[jamesbennett]

Absolutely riveting lads from two amazing strikers from back in the day, loved watching you both, Gary was the first fox in the box I noticed and Shearer was an beast of a finisher from anywhere around the penalty box.
Being a wolves fan I grew up watching Steve Bull and another striker who I adored watching was Robbie Keane, two different styles of strikers but I certainly do miss watching a proper number 9, the last great Wolves number 9 was Raul Jiminez!! What a joy it was to watch him live.

[SuperRichierich]

Gary did have fantastic positional sense, seemed like a ball magnet around the box, has good agility too. I re-watched some of Alan's goals a few years back and what I noticed apart from his ferocious shoot was his reaction time, he was often so far ahead the ball was hitting the net before defenders had a chance to think.

[BitcoinKal]

Micah’s ace. How can anyone dislike Big Meeks. All these comments from little people who won’t have done half the things he’s done by the end of their lives. 🤦🏽‍♂️

[ngash]

Nothing better than scoring a goal. On a pitch, that feeling is unmatched. Love the podcast. My absolute fave.

[axellsabode]

Getting someone on like Jamie Vardy to talk about this would be great. Someone so often overlooked

[deanjackson]

The sages of striking. I feel like every young player needs to listen to this.

[SuperRichierich]

Jean Pierre Papin was another great striker during Gary and Alan's time.

[nickoliver]

You've hit the nail on the head as to why I failed as a striker as a kid. Playing for my first junior side, I missed a golden opportunity to score. I was so embarrassed to miss. After that I would deliberately not run in the areas where I would have a chance to score, I did not want to put myself in a position where I should score, I did not want to embarrass myself again. I did carry on playing but went back to a more defensive midfield role but to be honest striker was my true position. I would love to go back to being a kid and getting that advise from you guys, don't be afraid to miss. Probably the best advise for a kid you could give.

[benshelton]

Always loved a good strike partnership, something of a dying breed

Beardsley & Cole
Shearer & Sutton
Dalglish & Rush

Much as I hate to say it being a Watford supporter, but I did enjoy Morris & Adebayo in the PL last season. Mind you we had Ighalo & Deeney a few years ago - and Vydra & Deeney actually - what fun they were ⚽️⚽️⚽️