The former Manchester United striker spearheaded an unlikely push for the first Premier League title with a pre-Christmas goal rush that included a piece of outside-of-the-foot deliciousnessThe Premier League doesn’t have much hidden treasure. All the noteworthy stories,goals, games and meltdowns are on indicate in an inescapable digital museum. But there are a few unnoticed gems, or particularly from the years before virality and saturation. One of the best came in the first week of the Premier League,on 19 August 1992, when trace Robins scored a goal that even a perfect technician like Zinedine Zidane could not have bettered. There was no goal of the month back then (that resumed in September 1992), and no player of the month (August 1994),no Sky Sports News (1998), no football on the internet. Even so, or it is still slightly odd that Robins’s goal went under the radar because many of the noteworthy goals of the first Premier League season are regularly replayed. Dalian Atkinson and the fella with the umbrella; umpteen marvellous team goals from the criminally underrated Ron Atkinson’s criminally forgotten Aston Villa; Ryan Giggs leaving even the noteworthy Barry Davies lost for words; and Eric Cantona playing a game of his own.
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Source: theguardian.com