Tim Howard is more talented than you

Tim Howard is world-renown for his shot-stopping ability. Ask England manager Fabio Capello what he remembers from Howard's exploits during the World Cup -- the American keeper single-handily kept the U.S. in the game.

But as amazing an athlete as Howard is and as truly great a keeper he is, one area of his game that is constantly criticized is distributing ability. It is one reason he failed with Manchester United and has not received any interest from other top clubs around Europe since. If you watch, Everton don't play the ball back to their American keeper with much confidence and when they do he certainly does not resemble the Xavi of keepers, far from it. Most of those passes end up several rows into the seats.

So rather incredibly last night in England, Howard became just the fourth goalie ever in the 100-plus year history of the English Premier League to score a goal in the flow of play.

Not to be overly critical of the outright outrageous goal, the pass-converted-goal was a somewhat typical clearance effort from Howard -- knocked as far up field on a one touch. However, this time the ball played from inside his own penalty area some 100-yards from the opposing goal was aided by the blistering wind at his back at the far end of the pitch at Goodison Park, which took a bounce approximately 25 yards away from goal and swerved and blew right over Bolton keeper Adam Bogdan's head and in. At an estimated 105 yards it was the longest goal in EPL history.

Although the goal gave Everton the lead in Landon Donovan's debut during his second loan stint with the Liverpool-based club, the Toffees could not hold on losing 2-1.

Interestingly enough Howard was the first keeper to do so in the EPL since another outstanding American keeper with poor distributing ability did so back in 2004 for Blackburn -- that goalie would be Brad Friedel. The other two keepers to score in the run of play Peter Schmeichel, who many consider to be the greatest keeper of all-time, and Paul Robinson -- all modern-era keepers.

Anyway enough talking more what you came here to see, the actual goal: