GOLDEN GOAL: When Doncaster Rovers passed rings around Leeds United and Billy Sharp finished them off

Whether a piece of individual brilliance, a vital match winner or a historic strike, we will highlight these stand-out moments over the coming weeks.

Given it was the sixth anniversary of this goal on Sunday, we start with Billy Sharp’s effort in the win over Leeds United at Elland Road in March 2014 – a goal of significance for all sorts of reasons.

It proved to be the winning effort in a derby, for a three points that looked to have all-but secured Championship status for Paul Dickov’s Rovers side for another season.

But it was the manner of the goal that makes it most memorable - particularly as Rovers ultimately picked up just one more point that season and were relegated in the final minute, on the final day, on goal difference.

It might not initially stand out as a major Rovers goal. But when ‘28 passes’ are mentioned, the memories will come flooding back.

Rovers passed rings around Leeds for 84 seconds before James Coppinger played in Sharp to strike in first half stoppage time. Who doesn’t like getting one over on the Whites of West Yorkshire?

Such lengthy, flowing passing moves were the norm under Sean O’Driscoll just a few years earlier.

Passing play was something Dickov was keen to instil in his side, along with a high, intense press. Up against it in the Championship, there had been few occasions that it could be fully displayed, particularly as the season wore on.

This passage of play showed exactly what Rovers were capable of at the time and demonstrated the work ethic of the side to its fullest.

It began with former Ivory Coast international Abdoulaye Meite stepping out from the back to cut out a diagonal pass intended for Leeds’ Doncaster-born midfielder Alex Mowatt.

Meite - who was excellent in the second half of that campaign - quickly played a pass out to Richie Wellens, who had dropped deep to collect.

Wellens strolled forward and slipped a short ball to Chris Brown who, himself having dropped deep onto half way, laid off to the on-rushing James Husband.

David Cotterill - who had given Rovers the lead with a rasping angled strike on 22 minutes - moved into space on the left to receive the ball, opting against taking on full back Sam Byram and instead playing back to Wellens who had raced forward in support.

Paul Keegan received a pass with Wellens under pressure but returned it quickly.

The masterful midfielder - on his second spell with Rovers - stabbed a delightful 40 yard pass into the left channel where Brown motored to receive.

Brown held off Tom Lees well before laying back to Wellens. Meite joined the fray, collecting a pass just inside the half and pushing forward before squaring back to Wellens.

A sublime lofted ball from Wellens brought Sharp into play, with the striker bringing the ball down superbly with his thigh on the corner of the box and holding off his marker.

He then laid back to Husband, who sparked a quick triangle through Cotterill and Wellens.

Another ball back to Meite and a quick one-two with Cotterill brought the first rumblings of boos from Leeds supporters who were frustrated seeing their side failing to touch the ball for almost a minute at that point.

Cotterill played across to Keegan, who knocked back to Australian international Lucas Neill. A left-footed pass was threaded through low to Cotterill, who quickly found the industrious Brown, this time on the right.

James Coppinger nipped the ball off his team mate, with the ball then going through Neill and Keegan before finding its way back to the club’s all-time record appearance maker.

Coppinger then clipped a wonderful ball to the edge of the box, where Sharp spun off his marker Byram, allowed the ball to run and fired low into the bottom corner, beyond future England international goalkeeper Jack Butland.

It was a typical Sharp strike, using his physicality to make the best of a pass from his most reliable supplier Coppinger before finding the corner with great accuracy.

But it was a goal overall that highlighted the quality in Rovers’ side - be it the class and vision of Wellens or the unyielding workrate of Brown.

Former Rovers loanee Ross McCormack would pull a goal back for Leeds in the second half and Rovers found themselves under pressure they would ultimately withstand.

Celebrations from Rovers at the final whistle reflected the magnitude of the win, both on the day and for what it meant for the season.

At that point - with only their second away win of the season - they had moved eight points clear of the Championship’s bottom three with seven games remaining.

The smile on Dickov’s face afterwards was big and broad. "You can't give yourselves a points target for survival in this league but we have given ourselves a chance," he said.

It was a chance they failed to take, losing six of the last seven with only a single point from a battling performance with ten men at Millwall to show from it as they dropped straight back into League One.

Reliving Sharp’s goal at Elland Road brings questions of ‘what if’ - particularly had this side survived, been kept together and built upon the following year.