It’s official: Olivier Giroud’s scorpion kick against Crystal Palace wasn’t the best Premier League goal in January.
In fact, it wasn’t even the best Premier League goal scored against Crystal Palace in January.
That honour goes to Andy Carroll, who won the Premier League Goal of the Month award for his bicycle kick in West Ham United’s 3-0 victory over Sam Allardyce’s team.
.@AndyTCarroll's thunderous bicycle kick has been voted the Carling Goal of the Month for January. What an effort 👏🚲 pic.twitter.com/0AlSZJJVNF
— Carling (@carling) February 10, 2017
Now, Arsenal fans are a reasonable bunch, and we’re sure they can appreciate that such an award isn’t the be all and end all.
After all, it’s not like some of them were arguing that Giroud’s goal, scored in January, deserved the December award.
No, there was none of that.
Arsenal fan demanding that Giroud should have won December's goal of the month – despite it being scored in January. pic.twitter.com/hSAFk5sxaQ
— McBain! (@NCobainnnn) January 2, 2017
In fact, even before Carroll won his award, plenty of people had convinced themselves that the England international would win, and wind up plenty of Arsenal fans in the process.
https://twitter.com/thebigdod/status/820360289325613056
https://twitter.com/TheUnitedWay78/status/820411121651818496
Anyway, Carroll’s goal has its own mural outside the London Stadium. If Arsenal really believed Giroud’s was the better of the two then they’d have surely copied the not-at-all-cringeworthy display.
And we’re pretty sure the scorpion kick didn’t convince the club to cancel their internal Goal of the Month vote in its honour.
If you think Olivier Giroud's donkey kick was better than Andy Carroll's marriage of power and barbarian beauty you are an Arsenal fan.
— John Brewin (@JohnBrewin_) February 10, 2017
That measured response from Arsenal fans that we were talking about? Well we’re sure you’ll be able to find it somewhere, but not here.
https://twitter.com/TacticalGiroud/status/830016760128618496
can't believe Carroll won goal of the month over Giroud's scorpion kick, I don't want to go overboard, but I think we should boycott the PL
— Gav (@NorthBankGav) February 10, 2017
How's Andy Carroll got goal of the month over Giroud??? That's poor from you @premierleague SMH! pic.twitter.com/j2Yc33cGuR
— Passive Aggressive Papi (@Karlito_donjuan) February 10, 2017
In fairness, it wasn’t exclusively Arsenal fans.
Don't usually care about monthly awards but how in the hell did Andy Carroll's goal win goal of the month over Giroud's scorpion kick?
— Eric (@EMcLean1982) February 10, 2017
And there was a new conspiracy theory at play after the award was announced.
Andy Carroll 100% won it because he's english. If Giroud had scored the bicycle and he had scored the scorpion. Caroll would still win.
— Maaz (@GoonerMaaz) February 10, 2017
Picking Carroll's bicycle kick over Giroud's scorpion kick, is just the English media wanking publicly again.
— Ifreke Inyang (@Ifreke) February 10, 2017
https://twitter.com/HorsemanZiik/status/830003636143083520
https://twitter.com/bryoshavin/status/830007326375608320
Andy Carroll winning goal of the month over Olivier Giroud is even more Brexit than actual Brexit.
— Dave Tickner (@tickerscricket) February 10, 2017
They’re really not a happy bunch.
