After bringing up a landmark of 1,000 Hinckley AFC goals, we asked you, our members and fans, for your favourites. These are the standouts of the 1,000 – as explained by you…
Lee Dixon: Luke Richards v Southam United, 2014. Our first ever league game, our first ever league goal. To celebrate a Hinckley goal after everything we went through the year before. Priceless
David Hynes: Nathan Walker v Uttoxeter Town, 2015. A goal scored direct from a free-kick so wide it was nearly a corner!
Mark Langley: Marco Adaggio v Bolehall Swifts, 2015. 3-1 down going into stoppage time, Luke Richards pulls one back and then Marco levels it to make it 23 games unbeaten.
Keith Hookham: Sam Arnold v Leicester Road, 2015. The only goal out of the 1,000 scored by a recognised goalkeeper. He played 90 minutes in goal, moved to play up front in extra time and scored a goal to help win the game. Superb.
Dave Jackson: Luke Richards v Berkhamsted, 2017. It took me a while to narrow it down but in the end I’ve settled for Luke Richards scoring the second goal in the Berkhamsted game. A superb move, the nature of the ball played from right back through the midfield to left back Lee Thomas overlapping and a simple square ball for Luke Richards to finish. Picked if only for the reaction of Lee Thomas when we scored.
Chris Jiggens: Sam Agar’s hat-trick v Buckland Athletic, 2017. It was unbelievable that a newly formed club could make it that far in the Vase. We may have lost, but the crowd of 400+ showed the affection and support we had.
Nick Gay: Sean Williams v Worksop Town, 2017. We’d been under the cosh against a good team when Sean got the ball wide right and took a speculative shot from more than twenty yards. It completely deflated their fans and team, our lot went mad.
James Davis: Steve Hart v Leicester Road, 2017. The sheer delirium at completing a second-half turnaround makes it my favourite and most memorable. After a topsy-turvy start to the season in which we changed managers for the first time, Leicester Road would’ve been confident, something which added to the sense of pride at Hart’s rounding off of the game. Victory writes the names of the players involved into the Hinckley history books, which is why Steve Hart belongs there and his goal lives long in the memory.
Liam Finn: Charlie Evans v Aylestone Park, 2022. A massive game at the time, a big away end, and we came from behind to score a brilliantly worked team goal (which summed up a lot of our better performances last year). Cue massive celebration from a large Hinckley away following
Ryan Conneely: Drew Kear v Kimberley Miners Welfare, 2021. The scenes from the fans players and staff at the end were incredible.
Lee Sharrard: Drew Kear v Kimberley Miners Welfare, 2021. We were up against it with ten men all second half and a man in the sinbin in a top of the table clash. So to score that late, with a well-worked goal, meant the scenes after the game were brilliant.
Andy Gibbs: Drew Kear v Kimberley Miners Welfare, 2021. I narrowed it down to three, but the challenge was picking one. So with apologies to Tom Weale and Luke Richards, I’ve gone for Drew – a goal more about the emotion of the moment. Away at the league leaders, down to ten men for most of the game (nine for part of it) and a feeling that everything was going against us. The celebrations when Drew scored late on and then at the final whistle brought a real togetherness between fans, team and management.
Lee Measom: Luke Richards v Leicester Road, 2015. It speaks for itself. 2-0 down against Leicester Road, stoppage time, win 3-2. My favourite memory in football.
Liam Gibbs: Luke Richards v Leicester Road, 2015. So much about the goal itself is average. Marcus Jackson’s pass is overhit. Alex Penny only just keeps it in with a loopy cross. How the goalkeeper doesn’t just come and catch it, I’ll never know. But given the context, Luke’s header pulls together as the most magnificent explosion of joy and celebration I can remember.
Ron Ashby: Luke Richards v Leicester Road, 2015. Utter delirium.
Jason Tipping: Luke Richards v Leicester Road, 2015.
Alan Henson: Ryan Seal v Pershore Town, 2016. A goal from the halfway line! The fact an ex-AFC ‘keeper was in goal for them, Tom Cross, is purely coincidental…
Scott Sharman: Ryan Seal v Pershore Town, 2016. It was from the halfway line!
Steve Holmes: Ryan Seal v Pershore Town, 2016. It was a great goal. To see it that quickly and take the chance that well made it the most memorable.
Richard Pyatt: Ryan Seal v Pershore Town, 2016. It could have gone anywhere – but what a goal!
