FINAL RESULTS OF BORO QUIZ - junos_boots favourite 90s-ish goals

Yes I liked Beck, didnt realsie regarding Derby poll
Sadly it seems to be true - just do a Google search for Mikkel Beck worst Derby player and see how often that stat gets quoted. I guess some players just don't fit in at a club - see the Tommy Wright ranking in your second quiz/poll that you did in this series.
 
Sadly it seems to be true - just do a Google search for Mikkel Beck worst Derby player and see how often that stat gets quoted. I guess some players just don't fit in at a club - see the Tommy Wright ranking in your second quiz/poll that you did in this series.
Uwe for us also, he was poor at Millwall
 
not a beck fan at all ... funny how we are all different about certain players... headless chicken with odd flashes of good stuff... cross to little fella for the chelsea header comes to mind.
 
So here we go with the results....

As usual we start with the words from junos_boots:

John Hendrie - My Selections

Song Michael Jackson Earth Song (can they get any worse – unlikely)

Always liked Jarvis Cocker.

The goals

1st No real surprise here, Robbie Mustoe’s greatest Boro assist, sees Hendrie run a good 80+ yards before calmly clipping it into the net past the keeper. I must admit looking back at his goals I was shocked to find that it was only his 2nd for the Boro.

Oct 1990 v Millwall https://youtu.be/7h8OOt-Cp_g?t=73

2nd The build up was absolutely keystone cops – but what a strike by John, curling it around the keeper with pace. This game saw another of Bernie’s hat tricks against Brighton, but this strike by Hendrie sealed an emphatic performance by the Boro.

March 1992v Brighton https://youtu.be/SuDt8hkcUbI?t=156

3rd Sentimentality maybe, but such an important goal. It looked to me sat in the Luton end that we were about to do a ‘typical Boro’ by blowing our chances, including a missed penalty. Then Pollock, in almost an action replay of his bustling run against Wolves three years earlier, broke through the defence and Derek Whyte had (in my opinion) his best moment in a Boro shirt, cutting the ball back for Hendrie. He calmly controlled and finished and three days later it was confirmed that we were back in the premier league as champions.

April 1995 v Luton https://youtu.be/_km7sERMPzQ?t=157

I loved John Hendrie and was sad that his Boro career fizzled out a bit in his last season. Indeed after Luton he only scored one more goal for us in a win against West Ham, before we had our annual post Christmas slump.

In his first few seasons and the start of the Robbo era he was a brilliant, almost talismanic figure. At the start of Lennie Lawrence’s final season we started with 4 wins on the bounce, with Hendrie scoring 5 goals, but the break for international duty seemed to completely disrupt us and the season tailed away.


Today we invoked the everyone got it right rule. So extra points available for everyone except NZBoro1.

Come and join me coluka. At least we are not too far away from mid-table mediocrity.
Round5Resultsjunos_bootsFavourite90s-ishGoals.jpg

Tomorrow is Sunday. So I will be playing golf. I have a 10:30 tee time and we are likely to play 18 holes. So the results are likely to be published at somewhere between 15:00 and 16:00 UK time.

So you can probably be an hour or two late with your entry if you wish. Official closing time is 12:00 noon (ish) UK time tomorrow (31 May 2020).

I am sure that junos_boots will open the next round around 12:00 tomorrow UK time.

Now for some Mikkel Beck goals watching.....
 
Just a reminder.... Answers to the video tie-break question direct to junos_boots please. At the moment I have no idea at all. So if you send them to me you are just giving me a hint.
 
Here is that clip of John Hendrie, at the end of his final Leeds game - they have just gone up, but I think he knew he wasn't going to be there next season as he was joining the mighty Boro

 
Think I will have to get my answers in early. As I will not have much time available tomorrow.....

1. I missed this on my first run through the video. Chester 4/11/97 - header as first part of a 1-2. Then a fine first touch finish.
2. West Brom 29/11/97 - lovely chip over the keeper.
3. Villa 23/8/98 twisting header at the front post.
 
Here we go then.

1st. Goal v Leicester. Lovely move.
2n d v Birmingham. Lovely chip over the keeper
. 3rd.V villa 97. Did well to get the ball past the keeper and slot in from a narrow angle.

Some good goals there, he was Johnny on the spot for most of them. Did he score any outside the box?
 
I have had a number of queries about the music connection and I have been way too vague in my explanation of what the answer is about on here.

I will try and be more specific without giving too much away.

Each player has a song listed with them The question should have been what is the relationship between each song and the player of the day. Only 1 answer that covers all 10 players and I will continue tomorrrow by revealing the track for Mikkel (I didn't really do screamers) Beck

If you have the connection message me the answer - nobody correct so far, hence the attempt at a better explanation.
 
not a beck fan at all ... funny how we are all different about certain players... headless chicken with odd flashes of good stuff... cross to little fella for the chelsea header comes to mind.
All about opinions alan, it's what makes the world go round
I don't think Ravanelli helped him, though in the white feathers defence was he being too professional & expected the same standards he had at Juventus
 
I liked Mikkel Beck another player who was part of something that could have been massive, that in the end was heartbreaking & have we really got over the full impact of that relegated season, which promised so much, dived to all list around January then our spirits lifted thinking the impossible could happen only to fall & realise, no it couldnt
Mikkel Beck was a big part of that incredible season, scoring a few goals & assists along the way
My 3 MB goals, though TBH, I could have chosen another two to along with my favourite No 1 goal

No1 v Newcastle league cup 5th round, 27th November 1996
Boro had taken the lead, Shearer equalised on half time, Boro came out the 2nd half after that late sicker punch but took the game to the Geordie, Juninho was awesome that night, one move he instrumental in with his footwork, drew the defender, skipped by him then laid the ball to Ravanelli who 1st timed the ball across for Beck to put himself infront of the Newcastle defender to stab the ball home & the Riverside were exstatic, Mikkel Beck celebrated his goal sliding along the Riverside turf with Juninho joining in the celebrations & laying on top of Beck simulating an aeroplane, good days when the infamous 3 points were forgotten

The next 2 are difficult ones

No2 v Leicester, 15th March 1997
I think the majority of Boro fans wished this game hadn't taken place when it did, we battered em & were 3-0 up within 35 minutes, Mikkel Beck scoring our 3rd in a very good move that when the mighty Boro were up for it we were a formidable team, if only our cup performance was as good

No 3 v WBA at the Riverside, Hignett won the ball in the middle ran forward & played in Mikkel Beck who ran in to the box waited then delicately chipped the keeper to put the mighty Boro in front for his 9th goal of the season

Otgher goals coukd have been Stockport LC SF, Forest, WBA again to name a few

Juno, spanishman I have banged on long enough on this board & the previous about the 70's, 80's & Ayresome Park but have thoroughly enjoyed reminiscing these past few months with life after AP, loved it, cheers
 
When you have Juninho, Rav and Emerson going on full cylinders it’s going to be hard to say that Mikkel Beck was one of your favourite players. I think It’s easy to criticise a player when you compare them with the world class players we had around him in that first season especially. I agree he was a frustrating player at times, lost the ball rather softly and the players who seem to irritate crowds most are those that squander possession seemingly too easy. I didn’t like Ravanelli’s occasional overt flamboyant demonstrations of frustration with him. No wonder he went through a loss of confidence. His strength however was a magical left foot. It was a bit of a wand and some of those finishes were nothing short of precision clinical. He could very much ghost through a defence and suddenly be put in one on one. That happened time after time. He missed quite a few of course but he also finished many. And two of my favourite goals were exactly that and they also happened to be very significant ones to boot

His assists were seemingly significant too. His jinking run into the box in the League Cup semi final against Liverpool and winning the penalty set up that magnificent night at the Riverside in 1998. The other was that cross for Juninho’s diving header to beat Chelsea in a very tense game.

1. The Newcastle League Cup Nov 96 goal finishing off a fabulous move. Andy Gray said it all. “A magnificent footballing goal“

2. In the first game against Chesterfield in 1997 FA Cup semi final at Old Trafford Mikkel Beck started in lively form but sadly he was withdrawn when Kinder stupidly got himself sent off. His crucial opener in the FA Cup Semifinal replay ghosting through and deftly lifting the ball over the keeper inside the far post. Sent us wild.

3. His crucial opener in the League Cup semifinal first leg at Edgeley Park Stockport again finding himself one on one with the keeper and finishing with aplomb.
 
Last edited:
1. Newcastle in Lge Cup, Nov 96 Great team Goal. Juninho joining in a funny celebration too.
2. WBA in Nov 97 superb chip to beat defender into the net after good team play
3. Forest Mar 97 Another superb team goal, whilst for Beck it was a tap in the beauty of the goal was excellent and without his excellent positioning to be in the right place at the right time would be for nought.

His positioning, movement and clinical finishing put him high in the most underrated Boro strikers league.
 
Beck seemed to score important goals rather than spectacular ones....

(1) League Cup Semi-final v Stockport
(2) FA Cup Semi-final replay v Chesterfield
(3) League Cup Quarter Final v Geordies

He played for the team rather than himself in contrast to a few others we bought in that period!
 
One of those players who did a lot for us and little for any other team. A Boro man therefore and the fact that he is involved in organising this charity get together game endears him more to me. He has created many memories and most posts above have been on the button with those. I look back at his three seasons with us with great fondness. I was at Hereford the night he scored his first goal for us in a comfortable enough win (we were already 7 up from the first leg).He could also head the ball too. Witness the goal at Barnet and rising at the back stick like a salmon for his second against Huddersfield.

1. Agree with others that the Newcastle League Cup goal in November 1996 is the pick of the crop not only for the great atmosphere but it involves the skills of Juninho and Emerson in the build up.

2. The volley against Sheff United in Oct 1997. This goal shouldn't be underestimated. Merson floats a free kick in from the right and from a tight angle and on the volley MB lashes the ball home. Incredibly skilful to execute.

3. The goal against Newcastle was a great team goal but also so was the one away at Bury in 97-98. A 6 man move involving Ormerod, Hignett, Merson and Beck finishing off a move that lit up the away end.
 
Last edited:
Back
Top