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Best Rangers Free Kick 19:23 - Aug 20 with 13876 viewsBrianMcCarthy

This is the best that I can remember.
We were behind it and anyone who was there will swear that the shoddy camerawork does it no justice. The swerve on it was incredible, impossible even at that pace.
Add in that we were incredulous that he was taking it and that (I think?) it was his first and last free kick for us (he didn't even take our penos) and the shock factor also added to the joy.
Others?

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Best Rangers Free Kick on 19:26 - Aug 20 with 8946 viewsaston_hoop

In recent years, so much love for this one. Hit the sweet spot perfectly


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Best Rangers Free Kick on 19:26 - Aug 20 with 8941 viewsLeedsR

Wow, even in slo-mo, it doesn’t half have some pace!!
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Best Rangers Free Kick on 19:30 - Aug 20 with 8924 viewsLeedsR



How about this from the lesser spotted Yeni...
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Best Rangers Free Kick on 19:33 - Aug 20 with 8910 viewsBrianMcCarthy

Best Rangers Free Kick on 19:26 - Aug 20 by aston_hoop

In recent years, so much love for this one. Hit the sweet spot perfectly



Ya, great call.

Not sure the goalie could do a thing about it, which is one of the defining criteria - sure, Gazza, with your long-range belter to sink your team's rivals at Wembley, but here at Rangers we all expected Seaman to step right plant the wrong foot before edging left slowly, meekly, like a shy kid seeing his first wasps' nest.

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Best Rangers Free Kick on 19:41 - Aug 20 with 8860 viewsCamberleyR


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Best Rangers Free Kick on 19:47 - Aug 20 with 8814 viewsLongsufferingR

Not QPR but I love this one that ends in a well taken goal

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Best Rangers Free Kick on 19:47 - Aug 20 with 8810 viewsBrianMcCarthy

Best Rangers Free Kick on 19:41 - Aug 20 by CamberleyR



9/10.

But -1 because I wasn't right behind it. Which was a bad call by Bards.

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Best Rangers Free Kick on 19:48 - Aug 20 with 8804 viewsBrianMcCarthy

Best Rangers Free Kick on 19:30 - Aug 20 by LeedsR



How about this from the lesser spotted Yeni...


Sorry, but bad goalkeeping?

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Best Rangers Free Kick on 19:51 - Aug 20 with 8766 viewspaulparker

Best Rangers Free Kick on 19:47 - Aug 20 by BrianMcCarthy

9/10.

But -1 because I wasn't right behind it. Which was a bad call by Bards.


I was standing right at the back of the loft that night when Bardsley hit that
I missed the first 25 minutes and got in to the ground to see them score , second half we totally battered them
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And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles Brian Moore

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Best Rangers Free Kick on 19:52 - Aug 20 with 8779 viewsAntti_Heinola

Best Rangers Free Kick on 19:47 - Aug 20 by BrianMcCarthy

9/10.

But -1 because I wasn't right behind it. Which was a bad call by Bards.


Well I love this one.
but.
Technically.
Not a free kick, is it?
Might as well include a great header from a wide free kick.

DISQUALIFIED!

Bare bones.

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Best Rangers Free Kick on 20:02 - Aug 20 with 8726 viewsBrianMcCarthy

Best Rangers Free Kick on 19:52 - Aug 20 by Antti_Heinola

Well I love this one.
but.
Technically.
Not a free kick, is it?
Might as well include a great header from a wide free kick.

DISQUALIFIED!


Wooooooah - controversy!

By the way, I sometimes hear that Bardsley was great at free kicks - was this the only one he scored for us?

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Best Rangers Free Kick on 20:03 - Aug 20 with 8728 viewsLeedsR

Best Rangers Free Kick on 19:48 - Aug 20 by BrianMcCarthy

Sorry, but bad goalkeeping?


I know what you’re saying Brian, but I don’t think the video does this one justice either. Yeni had one of those free kick techniques coming straight onto the ball and giving it a vicious backspin, making the keeper misjudge the ball’s flight path. I think he realised too late that it was dipping, making it look even more of a fluff on his part than giving the taker the credit.

Admittedly Keisuke Honda and Ronaldo are more renowned exponents of that skill, but I think Yeni struck that particular one quite sweetly.

Edit: undermining my own argument here! Upon further review he thumps it dead on with little spin, but still with an awkward trajectory. True the keeper wasn’t ready, but he wasn’t going to get that at that pace!
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Best Rangers Free Kick on 20:04 - Aug 20 with 8715 viewsBrianMcCarthy

Best Rangers Free Kick on 20:03 - Aug 20 by LeedsR

I know what you’re saying Brian, but I don’t think the video does this one justice either. Yeni had one of those free kick techniques coming straight onto the ball and giving it a vicious backspin, making the keeper misjudge the ball’s flight path. I think he realised too late that it was dipping, making it look even more of a fluff on his part than giving the taker the credit.

Admittedly Keisuke Honda and Ronaldo are more renowned exponents of that skill, but I think Yeni struck that particular one quite sweetly.

Edit: undermining my own argument here! Upon further review he thumps it dead on with little spin, but still with an awkward trajectory. True the keeper wasn’t ready, but he wasn’t going to get that at that pace!
[Post edited 20 Aug 2020 20:08]


Fair comments, Leeds. I wasn't there.

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Best Rangers Free Kick on 20:14 - Aug 20 with 8665 viewsAntti_Heinola

Best Rangers Free Kick on 20:02 - Aug 20 by BrianMcCarthy

Wooooooah - controversy!

By the way, I sometimes hear that Bardsley was great at free kicks - was this the only one he scored for us?


By my memory, that entire reputation was based on this (non) free kick.
I was at that game though, we were effing brilliant in the second half. Could've scored, no lie, 7 or 8.

Bare bones.

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Best Rangers Free Kick on 20:25 - Aug 20 with 8629 viewsAntti_Heinola

Akos was the best FK taker of the last 30-odd years for us.

Bare bones.

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Best Rangers Free Kick on 20:25 - Aug 20 with 8629 viewsQPRSteve

I loved watching the free kick ploys that Terry Venables came up with. Some were well dodgy. I remember Gerry Francis would stand on the edge of the wall and pull the last player in the wall out of position as the ball was struck.

I also have a vague memory of some one counting out the 10 yards to the wall. He reached 8 as he got to the wall and waived his arms and the wall parted to let him through. The ball was quickly played through the gap to him and he slotted it in. Anyone else remember that?
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Best Rangers Free Kick on 20:28 - Aug 20 with 8612 viewsflynnbo

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Best Rangers Free Kick on 20:35 - Aug 20 with 8592 viewsHayesender

Kevin Brock, last minute winner away to Southampton in 87 in the blazing sunshine. Pure bedlam on that away terrace. Cue the song, Kevin Brock is magic

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Best Rangers Free Kick on 20:47 - Aug 20 with 8546 viewsBrixtonR

Best Rangers Free Kick on 20:35 - Aug 20 by Hayesender

Kevin Brock, last minute winner away to Southampton in 87 in the blazing sunshine. Pure bedlam on that away terrace. Cue the song, Kevin Brock is magic


Yeah defo ! We were top the league and mayhem after.
Also a few weeks later Fenwick at home v Portsmouth
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Best Rangers Free Kick on 20:58 - Aug 20 with 8501 viewsloftboy

Best Rangers Free Kick on 20:35 - Aug 20 by Hayesender

Kevin Brock, last minute winner away to Southampton in 87 in the blazing sunshine. Pure bedlam on that away terrace. Cue the song, Kevin Brock is magic


That one and Fenwick the same season last minute home to pompey.

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Best Rangers Free Kick on 21:01 - Aug 20 with 8491 viewsHayesender

Best Rangers Free Kick on 20:58 - Aug 20 by loftboy

That one and Fenwick the same season last minute home to pompey.


Fenwick had a lovely foot on him. That free kick at Anfield in the semi final that just skimmed the post would have been our best ever if that had gone in

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Best Rangers Free Kick on 21:09 - Aug 20 with 8470 viewsqpr_1968

not qpr, but would this be allowed nowadays.
watch the replay


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Best Rangers Free Kick on 21:30 - Aug 20 with 8411 viewsHastings_Hoops

Best Rangers Free Kick on 19:47 - Aug 20 by LongsufferingR

Not QPR but I love this one that ends in a well taken goal



Absolutely love the ‘one man wall’
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Best Rangers Free Kick on 21:33 - Aug 20 with 8398 viewsHastings_Hoops

Best Rangers Free Kick on 20:02 - Aug 20 by BrianMcCarthy

Wooooooah - controversy!

By the way, I sometimes hear that Bardsley was great at free kicks - was this the only one he scored for us?


You started it Brian. There’s some absolute filth on the thread.
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Best Rangers Free Kick on 21:34 - Aug 20 with 8380 viewsBrianMcCarthy

Best Rangers Free Kick on 20:47 - Aug 20 by BrixtonR

Yeah defo ! We were top the league and mayhem after.
Also a few weeks later Fenwick at home v Portsmouth


Good call Hayes and Brixton.

Brock's helped put us top of the league, if you count opening days.

Fenwick's helped steady the ship after Liverpool knocked us off it two months later.

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