Ok, I am biassed, but the greatest goal for me is Matthew Le Tissier against Newcastle in 1994.

Goals are often judged by occasion, and rightly so, as big goals in the big games will be more memorable, usually require more skill, and be more important.

However, when you are the sole gifted player in a team relying on you to beat relegation, there is huge pressure. Any player can see a powerful shot fly in from distance on their day, but there are some goals when you just know very few, if any other player could do it.

This summed up everything about Le Tissier because he made something no-one else has done look very, very easy. A headed pass behind him was flicked over his own head with his heal, run on to, flicked over the oncoming defender, round him, flicked over the last defender, and then, reflecting everything about him, sidefooted into the goal like a regular training ground finish when most people would have gone for power. Easily the slowest player to regularly beat several defenders, and that takes a lot of skill.

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