Not exactly a phenomenon that I can recollect witnessing that often during my five decades of supporting Alty.
After some dredging of the memory banks to try to recall the last Alty player to have performed the feat prior to Ryan Colclough's mesmerising pea roller yesterday, I had it in my head that James Lawrie may well have been that man, having benefitted from some extremely dodgy goalkeeping at the Golf Road End.
This may well have been the incident (description courtesy of John Laidlar's match report):
ALTRINCHAM (1) 2 KIDDERMINSTER HARRIERS (1) 2
Vanarama National League
Tuesday, 13th October 2015
Altrincham had taken a 21st minute lead when Lawrie's corner from the right curled directly into the bottom near corner of the net.
For Alty, a Lawrie cross won a corner on the right. This was cleared back to Lawrie who fed O'Keefe and his shot prompted a good save at the cost of another corner on Alty's right. From this, Lawrie scored directly with a left footed inswinger which crept in near the base of the near post (21 mins).
Going further back, an alternative candidate had been Chris Sharratt on a windy afternoon at Telford United.
A consultation of Mark Harris' splendid publication Kingdom Come duly revealed the following:
"New boy Sharratt made an immediate impact, scoring in his two opening games for Alty - both direct from corners!"
These comprised a 2-1 defeat against Southport on Easter Saturday, 2nd April 1994 and a 2-0 victory at Telford United on Easter Monday, 4th April 1994.
So, do any other examples of a Robins player scoring directly from a corner spring to mind?
Is it something that, say, Graham Heathcote may have accomplished?