Just in case you missed this at the weekend or even if you didn’t and you fancy watching it again. And again… It’s the Brazilian defender Maicon cracking a spectacular volley against Juventus to take Inter back to the top of Serie A. For a brief time anyway, until Roma’s win over Lazio on Sunday. Exciting times in Italy.

Everyone knows Ricky Villa’s scintillating winner win the 1981 cup final but who remembers the opening goal? If this effort from a 19 year old Steve MacKenzie had been the only goal of the game it might just have gone down with the same reverence…

The Wild Thing’s volley at 0.24 is stunning, so good in fact that it beat Thierry Henry’s effort against Inter at the San Siro to win the 2004 ITV goal of the year award. His second shortly after isn’t too bad either.

Wales 3 Spain 0 and an absolute humdinger from Mark Hughes. Has Wrexham ever seen another night like it?

Wales actually had a decent side at the time with Neville Southall in goal, his Everton captain Kevin Ratcliffe at the heart of the defence while up front there was the legendary Ian Rush, here at his peak, alongside a young Mark Hughes. As a mark of the quality on display the Spanish team were in the European Championship final only a year previously.

Inter v Genoa on the 17th October 2009. Just before half-time Genoa keeper Marco Amelia makes a poor clearance which falls straight to Dejan Stankovic on the half way line… What else can he do but volley straight back in?

Stankovic said afterwards “I went a bit to my right as I thought he might miskick it. It was perfect”. In slow motion it looks even sweeter.

It’s practised on the training ground but rarely attempted during a game; the volley straight from a corner is fraught with too many dangers. There is the small issue of putting the ball in just the right spot for the striker, the risk of giving the ball straight to the opposition but worse is the high likelihood of looking a pratt when it all goes wrong, which is why it looks so spectacular when it does make a rare appearance. Here are a few of the best.

Eyal Berkovic – Man City v Ipswich in the 2002 FA Cup

Tugay thunders in a long-range volley from Pedersen’s corner for Blackburn against Fulham in 2005

Alessio “powershot” Tacchinardi hits a perfect volley across his body for Juventus against Villareal

Gaizka Mendieta will probably never hit one sweeter than this for Valencia against Barca

Gianfranco Zola doing only what Gianfranco Zola can do against Norwich

And maybe the best of the lot – Paul Scholes for Man United against Bradford in 2000

The goal of the 80′s? It’s been played a million times over but it’s always worth one more look.

If Rivaldo had scored this the media would still be crowing about it on a daily basis.