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Our expert guests come together to celebrate the best players, goals and moments of the footballing year, from Cole Palmer and Lamine Yamal to the excellence of Euro 2024.
Transcript
00:00And speaking of goals, just before we get to the halfway point of the show,
00:03have you got a favourite goal of the year, Mark?
00:06What's your personal Busquets winner?
00:08I have, but I'm going beyond the Premier League here.
00:12Le Mania Mal for Spain against France in the Euro 2024 semi-final.
00:19I remember that game because I wasn't watching it on TV,
00:22I was actually watching it on my mobile phone.
00:25I had a local non-league friendly that I was supposed to be working at,
00:29but kind of had one eye on the game.
00:33And it was quite funny because when the goal went in,
00:35it was everyone that was around me stopped and started watching the replays of it.
00:40And it was just, to me, it felt like one of those moments where,
00:43you know, when a young player just arrives, and we knew how good
00:47Emile was, you know, at La Liga, or he'd done it over the previous
00:50season and a half, two seasons.
00:52This felt like the moment when someone that could go on to become
00:56a genuine great over the coming years, fully arrived on the world scene.
01:01What about you, Jason? You got a favourite goal of the year?
01:05Yeah, I think it has to be Alejandro Garnaccio against Everton, doesn't it?
01:09I mean, just, that was this year.
01:12It would be that guy, that was last November, wasn't it?
01:14Wasn't that 2023?
01:16Timer's suit, man. Timer's suit.
01:18You've just, I know what you've done, Jason.
01:21You have not done your research properly,
01:23you've looked at the Pushcash award shortlist, you've picked one out,
01:26and you've expected to get away with it, haven't you?
01:30In my defence, I sorely cover the Championship,
01:37so the Premier League isn't exactly my strong suit, anyway.
01:42But yeah, I mean, if we're going beyond the Premier League,
01:45and if I'm not allowed to not look at last year, for some reason,
01:49in this annual recap, then I think it has to be Jude Bellingham, doesn't it?
01:55And we'll probably, I imagine, talk about it in the next section, anyway,
01:58but that goal to keep England in the Euros,
02:01that overhead kick, that moment,
02:05you know, just the ability to produce that from absolute thin air,
02:08to keep a dream alive,
02:10I don't think I've ever made a sound like that in my life,
02:13I don't think I ever will again.
02:15And while it might not be the best overhead kick that we've seen in the past,
02:18I don't know, let's say 12 to 18 months,
02:21yeah, you know, it's certainly still a truly special goal,
02:25so I'll go with Jude Bellingham.

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