SELECTIVE MEMORY DISORDER

Fiddling about on Twitter can be a time-consuming and unnerving experience. It's a bit like reading in the bath. After a while you check the time and realise you have turned into a prune. Last night I asked Twitter an important question: who scored the best ever Derby goal? Twitter does not allow you to elaborate, thankfully, so that was it.

You interpret the question how you want. Best can be most beautiful or most important. Here's a selection of the replies....

Question:  Best ever derby goal? Brighty? Goater/Neville? Denis? SWP? Yaya? Franny? Nellie? Edin? Hinchy? Mackenzie? Robinson? Or next Monday's winner?

• Hinchy. I was right in line with Whitey sat in the Main Stand as he crossed it. Magical for a 13 year old that.Macca ‏@The_Paris_Angel
•  Can I have Yaya in the semi? That goal (and the eventual result of course) was proper cathartic. Tom Griffiths ‏@Tom_SLP
•  I go Vinny last year for same reason. We changed a lifetime with that goal.Richard Burns ‏@RichardTheBurns 
• All those are the best, although a goal nicked in off Jim Tolmie's perm would be the best.Adventurebaby ‏@Adventurebaby
•  Edin - 60,000 empty seats.. Tim Kent ‏@TimK_Adatis
•  EVERY winning goal in the derby is the best ever. Graham Ward ‏@exohms
•  Apart from the obvious few, Keith Curle Penalty at OT in '91. That shut the twats up Murd ‏@murdochD 
• Goater/Neville. One of the first Derby goals I remember being stood shoulder to shoulder with my dad for. Nathan Ratcliffe ‏@Nathski22
•  Brightwell's pile driver at OT I remember really well. Think it was the 5-1 return match, 1-1? Bob Boyle ‏@nastybob 
• Bish. Sat in the North Stand. First derby and first and last time a bald stranger kissed me.... Damian Moore ‏@damomoz79 
• Mick McCarthy header at Maine Road Fbloke (Andy M) ‏@TheRealFbloke
• Law. They went down. Simple. Marshy ‏@wakmarshall
• DENIS HAS DONE IT! is one that people still rub in the faces of United fans to this day. Henry Francis ‏@TheHenryFrancis 
• All of them. Even that one by Kavalashvili. Mancunian Socrates ‏@CTZNCorinthian 
• Remember a belter by Bell that went in off George Best's arse! glenn ellaby ‏@glennellaby
• Benjani at OT Daniel Spooner ‏@Spooner_MCFC 
• Benjani's at OT in '08 Neal Doyle ‏@nealdoyle34 
• VK header last season (ignoring 6-1, all good) Pat Rose ‏@Emumsy 
• G Neville feeding Goat after mouthing off before Anji (Blue Spice) ‏@BSpice
• Fave: Hinchliffe in 5-1. Greatest: YaYa at Wembley. mikenumber5 ‏@MikeNumber5
• Bellamy goal a few years back in the *gulp* 4-3 was a jazzer. James C. L. Faulkner ‏@JCLFAULKNER 
• Best goal: Silva in the 6-1 Ravenesque ‏@Billy_Azul 
• My fave derby moment!! Bob Brightwell!!(see first clip below) Darren Taylor ‏@dazmertaz 
• Rooney overhead best and law back-heel the worst moment - Mark Payne, ESPN Manchester United correspondent 
• Agh, what a question! It's brought up not one but two horrific memories.Every single goal after Manchester City's third in the 6-1 defeat almost made me feel like vomiting.
  
  Most memorable derby goal for United was Mark Hughes in the 5-1 defeat at Maine Road in 1989 - he was pretty much United's only ray of hope in those days. - Musa Okwonga, author, broadcaster, ESPN's Manchester United correspondent

Whet your appetite? Then take a look at these and prepare yourself for the ride. Let us hope the spirit, guile, skill and guts shown in some of these clips reappear in spade-loads tomorrow night. Come on you Blues, make us proud again!