The day Glass shattered Scarborough's footballing dream

The Morecambe goalkeeper joined an exclusive club on Tuesday night when his 94th-minute equaliser salvaged a point for his team against Portsmouth.

Roche can now count himself among the likes of Peter Schmeichel and Pat Jennings as goalkeepers who have featured on the scoresheet.

Yet for all the fame enjoyed by former Manchester United ’keeper Schmeichel and Ireland legend Jennings, their exploits pale in significance compared to the profile of the goalkeeper who sent Scarborough out of the Football League in 1999: Jimmy Glass

The season was just seconds from its conclusion in a Division Three fixture between Carlisle United and Plymouth Argyle when Glass, who had joined the Cumbrians on-loan from Swindon Town, went up to contest a late, late corner kick.

With the scores tied at 1-1, Carlisle were staring down the relegation barrel until Glass fired home a loose ball to give them the win that secured their Football League status and sent Scarborough down to the Conference League.

Scarborough would not recover and within 10 years the club folded: a dream really did perish on broken Glass.

Here are five other heroic goal-scoring moments by goalkeepers:

Pat Jennings

The evergreen Northern Irish goalkeeper got his big moment playing for Spurs in the 1967 Charity Shield against Manchester United. His long hoof downfield just kept going and going before bouncing over the head of United’s Alex Stepney. Ironically, Stepney was himself no slouch in the goalscoring stakes - in the Old Trafford club’s disastrous relegation season in the early 1970s he was joint top scorer at Christmas, thanks to two penalties he tucked away.

Peter Shilton

England’s most-capped goalkeeper got on the score sheet early in his career - in a match against Southampton. Playing for Leicester City at The Dell in October 1967, he netted direct from a clearance at the opposite end of the pitch. Southampton goalkeeper Campbell Forsyth misjudged Shilton’s long punt upfield in a match to forget for Saints - they lost 5-1.

Peter Schmeichel

Manchester United were usually winning rather than losing towards the end of games, but when defeat loomed, Schmeichel loved to cause havoc in the opposition’s area, racing into the attack at corner kicks. But his spectacular goal for United in a 1995 UEFA Cup match against Rotor Volgograd was in vain - the Red Devils were eliminated from the tournament on the away goals rule.

Asmir Begovic

Begovic’s goal was the quickest ever scored by a goalkeeper (13 seconds into the match) and the longest ‘shot’ (97.5 yards) and, just like Shilton’s moment of magic, it was scored against Southampton. Begovic’s 2013 effort for Stoke City earned him a place in the 2015 Guinness World Records for the ‘longest goal scored in football’.

Tim Howard

Surprisingly, the normally-effusive Howard didn’t do much celebrating when he scored with a long kick against Bolton in 2012. He explained afterwards that he knew how cruel it felt on the opposing goalkeeper, having been on the wrong end of a ‘goalie’s goal’ playing for Manchester United reserves in 2005.

The record number of career goals scored by a keeper is an incredible 131 by Brazilian Rogério Ceni, Mind you, he was a bit of a dab hand at penalties and free kicks.