Comments on: Peter Crouch Scores a Brilliant Overhead Kick http://www.runofplay.com/2008/10/05/peter-crouch-scores-a-brilliant-overhead-kick/ Attacking Football Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:36:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Brian http://www.runofplay.com/2008/10/05/peter-crouch-scores-a-brilliant-overhead-kick/#comment-2064 Brian Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:56:41 +0000 http://www.runofplay.com/?p=2050#comment-2064 I should write about this more clearly on the site, but...how amazing is it that the bicycle kick is one of his best moves? Here's a 6'7" player who really can't head the ball well but somehow finds it perfectly intuitive to face away from the goal, fling his body into the air, and lash out at the ball with his foot as his torso is falling back to ground. The YouTube clip I keep waiting to see is the one that combines Crouch's highlight reel with the Kinks' "I'm Not Like Everybody Else." I should write about this more clearly on the site, but…how amazing is it that the bicycle kick is one of his best moves? Here’s a 6’7″ player who really can’t head the ball well but somehow finds it perfectly intuitive to face away from the goal, fling his body into the air, and lash out at the ball with his foot as his torso is falling back to ground.

The YouTube clip I keep waiting to see is the one that combines Crouch’s highlight reel with the Kinks’ “I’m Not Like Everybody Else.”

]]> By: edmatic http://www.runofplay.com/2008/10/05/peter-crouch-scores-a-brilliant-overhead-kick/#comment-2063 edmatic Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:48:18 +0000 http://www.runofplay.com/?p=2050#comment-2063 Fair enough. Fair enough.

]]> By: Brian http://www.runofplay.com/2008/10/05/peter-crouch-scores-a-brilliant-overhead-kick/#comment-2062 Brian Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:29:31 +0000 http://www.runofplay.com/?p=2050#comment-2062 I know, edmatic, it's one of his best moves. And every time he does it---even when he only attempts it, as he did in the England-USA match this past spring---it's like watching Niagara Falls run upward. I know, edmatic, it’s one of his best moves. And every time he does it—even when he only attempts it, as he did in the England-USA match this past spring—it’s like watching Niagara Falls run upward.

]]> By: edmatic http://www.runofplay.com/2008/10/05/peter-crouch-scores-a-brilliant-overhead-kick/#comment-2061 edmatic Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:16:07 +0000 http://www.runofplay.com/?p=2050#comment-2061 It would be like watching Niagara Falls run upward, unless he hadn't already scored two overheads, just as good, for Liverpool. Once in the Premier League, once in the Champions League. It seems to be more or less his trademark. It would be like watching Niagara Falls run upward, unless he hadn’t already scored two overheads, just as good, for Liverpool. Once in the Premier League, once in the Champions League. It seems to be more or less his trademark.

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