I think he was aiming for the top corner and got a bit lucky. But he had tried something similar earlier, when he hit a volley in the same direction but it went high over the bar. These players have tricks which they practise and practise and then try them during a match. He played a version of the trick in the Cup at Millwall, when he curled a low one for the Palace opener and then hit the post with the same trick shortly afterwards. Wilf's current trick is the one where he cuts outside the defenders and curls it in at the far post - that's how he scored at Norwich, and he's been trying it again since then.

I suspect the reason this post is still going is because the response to it seems to be in two distinct camps. None of us has the slightest idea whether he mis-hit it or not but half of us are rejoicing in what we've witnessed and the other half are Corinthian luddites who read Henry Newbolt and would prefer the Palace to be far from the top table.
And as to folk refusing to believe that anything new can possibly be developed I must say that that is the most patronising and bewildering part of all.

Those plastic balks were called FRIDO if my memory serves

I did.

He said he meant it.