Jack Colback scored a goal he will surely never repeat at any level of football to keep alive Nottingham Forest’s lingering hopes of automatic promotion.
In first-half stoppage time and with his team 2-0 up against 10-man West Bromwich Albion, Colback swung his boot at a dropping ball on the left touchline and was as astonished as anyone to see it fly into the net from an apparently impossible angle. His low-key celebration seemed to give away that he had meant merely to cross it.
Colback’s absurd strike, which followed an early penalty from Brennan Johnson and a header from Ryan Yates, left Forest on 70 points with five games remaining, with Sam Surridge also adding a fourth in the closing seconds of the match.