Britton believed that the odds on him striking such a shot were long enough as they were but he was prepared to extend those odds by trying to claim a goal that can only ever go down as one of the own variety.<\/p>\n
As his shot bounced back off the post it hit the diving Paul Smith on the back of the head and rolled into an unguarded net to give the Swans a 6th minute lead in a game that they went onto dominate.<\/p>\n
Goals are always a premium for Britton and it is understandable that he wants to claim this one but it looks like a long shot if not an impossible one even though his tongue may have been firmly in his cheek at the time he tried to claim it<\/p>\n
He told the Evening Post after the game "It's just a case of me getting my head down and swinging on my left foot from that distance<\/p>\n
"It seemed like time froze after it rebounded off the keeper, and I was just glad the defender couldn't get back to clear it.<\/p>\n
"You would have got long odds on me hitting a shot like that, so I'm claiming the goal. Whether the ref will give it to me I'm not sure."<\/p>\n
One suspects that he really is sure though – Paul Smith og will be deemed to stay in the record books at least officially even if not in the Britton household…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Britton believed that the odds on him striking such a shot were long enough as they were but he was prepared to extend those odds by trying to claim a goal that can only ever go down as one of the own variety. As his shot bounced back off the post it hit the diving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}