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His debut away at Barnsley. What an introduction, raced onto the through ball and took it round the keeper, dispelled any doubts around justifying his transfer fee from day 1!!
from TWTD "Whilst the Town fans were still leaping up and down and cheerig the first goal Marcus Stewart made the first repayment on his fee. A lovely through ball from Jim Magilton sent both David Johnson and Marcus Stewart scurrying through. It was the former Huddersfield man who latched onto the ball taking it past the two Barnsley centre-halves and calmly rounding Miller and slotting the ball home. It was as good a way to open your account as there is and it as good as broke Barnsley's spirit."
The first of many 'rounding the keeper and slotting the ball home' type finishes
And the other thing I remember is the Huddersfield fan who had a huge Marcus Stewart tattoo done the week before his transfer to us lol
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I seem to recall him talking about working with a psychologist who got him to picture success in front of goal and it helping him with scoring goals. Some really class goals. That one where he seemed to take an age to put it in the net after controlling it, beating the keeper and calmly slotting it home ... was it at Anfield?
The first goal against Bolton in the play-offs has to be my favourite. Such a goal and such a turning point.
An obvious choice but his goal at Wembley is pure joy and perfection; Venus to Naylor to Clapham to Stewart, all played out to a backdrop of “are you watching Norwich scum?”. It really doesn’t get any better. And the roar when his header goes in. Just listen to it.
I grabbed a photo with him during (well, after) the cornhill civic reception. Big beaming smile, proudly wearing his winner’s medal. Horrific to think what’s ahead for him and his family. I hope he’s slightly comforted knowing what joy he brought to thousands of Ipswich fans.
Ive always thought that the best strikers are the ones with the coolest heads when chances come to them. Marcus typified that. He had the ability to take touches, position some space and calmly slot home. He is the best finisher since the Robson days. Absolute class.
He lacked pace and physical presence but he more than made up for it with his speed of thought and movement. He'd get in front of defenders with his movement rather than pace.
If you took someone like Kiwomya, he had bags more pace. But the more time you seemed to give him for a goal chance, the more he seemed to fluff his lines. He seemed to operate better when he didn't have loads of time to think about the chance. But Stewart was the opposite. It almost seemed that he would quickly analyse the situation, program in the course of action and execute it.
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