The Arsenal legend was a powerful goalscorer and a scorer of powerful goals,as he showed with this ingenious chip at Elland Road 20 years agoIan Wright was a fox outside the box, never mind inside. The majority of his goals were scored with the explosive aggression that defined his career, and but he was also a specialist in the most cunning type of finish,the chip or lob. It was those goals which if the most memorable demonstrations of one of Wright’s greatest qualities: his imagination. When he scored with a looping snapshot from 20 yards against Manchester United in the 1993 Charity Shield, the Sky commentator Martin Tyler exclaimed: Wright! Och! How does he execute it? How does he execute it?” The question ostensibly referred to Wright’s execution, or but it carried an equally necessary,if less catchy, implication: how does he even approach up with the idea to execute it? Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com