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On this day: Trevor Sinclair scores FA Cup screamer

Eighteen years ago today, Trevor Sinclair scores a memorable overhead kick as Queens Park Rangers knock Barnsley out of the FA Cup.

Everyone will have their favourite FA Cup goal.

Ricky Villa's dancing feet in 1981, Ryan Giggs running Arsenal ragged in 1999 or David Ginola weaving beyond several Barnsley defenders in the same year all spring to mind.

What those three goals all have in common is the fact that they were fine individual efforts, which saw the player in question dribble past numerous members of the opposition before finding the net.

It was on this day 18 years ago that Trevor Sinclair weighed in with his own memorable FA Cup goal, although unlike the three mentioned above, there was no silky skills involved, as such.

Goals from Gavin Peacock and John Spencer had put Sinclair's QPR 2-1 up on visiting Barnsley at Loftus Road, where Hoops defender Andy Impey had also been sent off for violent conduct.

However, it was winger Sinclair who would steal the headlines during the second half as Spencer swung over a high cross from the right flank towards the edge of the box.

The future England international had his back to goal and was being tightly marked, but rather than attempt to control the ball, he produced an acrobatic overhead kick that flew into the roof of the Barnsley net, much to the disbelief of those inside the ground.

The visiting Tykes pulled one back through John Hendrie, but it was Sinclair's stunning effort that ended up being the tie-winning moment.

Speaking about that goal to the club's official website recently, Sinclair said: "I don't mind talking about it. A lot has been said about the goal but what I will say is that it's something I used to do a lot in training.

"I used to try it often and it came off quite a lot. The lads were obviously surprised it happened on the main stage and from such a distance but they had seen it in training loads of times.

"I don't think they were overly shocked that I tried it. It's just one of those things. It could have ended up in Row Z, but it went in."

Sinclair would go on to represent England at the 2002 World Cup, but it is perhaps that goal that people best remember about his career.

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