Must be me age, but McGuigan beating Pedroza and Honeyghan going to America and destroying Don Curry were far more amazing than Bruno-Tyson to me!

I am a McGuigan fan as well, but the whole Bruno thing just had more “theatre” surrounding the fight, etc.

And maybe just watching it live on TV with family and friends. No-one expected Bruno to stand a chance and that was evident during the fight but still great fun.

In person, Edgebaston aged 8:
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjSDvdgTOzg[/video]

That was the summer that got me hooked on cricket. Used to get in and watch it with my dad…fantastic times 🙂
Even had one of Beefy’s bats as a friend of the family worked at DF making them for him and, when he found out I’d started playing, did an extra one to exact same spec as Beefy’s. Bit heavy for me at the time but it broke in so well and had a middle that seemed to go from the toe to the grip. Was a sad day when it gave up the ghost after about 8 years service 🙁

every time I see those Botham films, does make me wonder if the defensive shot wasn’t introduced to Australia until the 90’s. They only lost by 29 runs yet four of those wickets were total swipes!

Three stand out for me.

Liverpool vs Newcastle 4-3 Stan collymore injury time winner. Such a bonkers game!

Liverpool vs Milan champions league win. Comeback of all comebacks

Miracle of medinah. Another unbelievable come back.

It’s obviously something delicious about the swing in emotions when victory is snatched from the jaws of defeat. Nothing like it.

It’s obviously something delicious about the swing in emotions when victory is snatched from the jaws of defeat.

Yeah like Leeds v Liverpool November 2000 – we won 4-3 despite not playing that well, going behind then equalising, then going behind again. We pretty much only had four shots on target all game. 🙂

Match report

I believe the loudest ever recorded noise at a Premiership match was recorded there – and I was at the match to savour every last minute of it 🙂

It’s obviously something delicious about the swing in emotions when victory is snatched from the jaws of defeat.

The English cricket team have a very good ability of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory… 😉

Liverpool vs Milan champions league win. Comeback of all comebacks

It’s obviously something delicious about the swing in emotions when victory is snatched from the jaws of defeat. Nothing like it.

Indeed. its that that made the 99 Champions league final such a classic. They think its all over…..

What made the Liverpool game so outstanding was an individual performance too. Stevie Gerard was immense in that game. You’d be hard pressed to come up with a more inspiring and passionate captains performance. Incredible!

Seve winning the Open at St Andrews in 1984, the last day sitting on the grass at the 17 the road hole from 9am.
Seeing Colin Macrae in Perthshire forests flat out in an Escort a visual and audial delight

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In person would be at Highbury when Steve Bould chipped the ball over Evertons midfield to Tony Adams to score, the most unlikely goal scoring duo! think it was around 98? and Arsenal won 4-0 I was also at that game, but in the away end so have the opposite feeling – stands out as one of the worst games I’ve been to. We needed at least a draw to avoid the prospect of relgation, which wasn’t ever on the cards given the state of us then, but you never know.
In the event we were absolutely steamrollered and it could have been 8-0 – that was a great Arsenal side. None of the hey-ho we’re going down, it’s only football attitude you might get with someone like Newcastle, either. Pretty much the opposite of that, horrible, toxic atmosphere.

As it turned out we stayed up by an absolute arse hair the last game of the season [drew with Coventry whilst Chelsea beat Bolton].

Slightly different. I was in the Olympic Park for hockey matches in the morning then hung around soaking up the atmosphere, before Basketball in teh evening.

We (and 10,000 others) were watching the final rounds on the show jumping on the big screens. You could have heard a pin drop. A couple of people were shouting and were hushed in case it upset the horses (who were over 5 miles away). When the final rider went clear and Team GB had gold the place went mad.

As an F1 fan it has to be Jenson in Canada.

This all reminds me of BBC2’s 100 greatest sporting moments from the 80’s

My two best mates in the back room at The Old Barrel on a Sunday afternoon, having an arm wrestle for a quid

In person it’s got to be the finale to the Wigan v Saints Good Friday derby 2015. Tony Clubb’s tackling and Saints’ forgetting the tackle count added up to an awesome finish.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7ehzbheKSs[/video]

Haven’t really watched a lot of sport, so nothing that I was really invested in, but the most “WTAF just happened” was probably Germany-Brazil in 2014.. They just kept scoring! Watched it in a hotel bar in Caen, surrounded by some sort of works trip made up of about 20 Germans and one Brazilian guy 😀

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Haven’t really watched a lot of sport, so nothing that I was really invested in, but the most “WTAF just happened” was probably Germany-Brazil in 2014.. They just kept scoring! Watched it in a hotel bar in Caen, surrounded by some sort of works trip made up of about 20 Germans and one Brazilian guy That was like a batting collapse in cricket – psychological contagion, where the whole team just collectively loses their bottle. You can see how it happens in cricket, but quite rare to see in football.

For pure jaw dropping sporting incident, it has to be Sagan crashing at Flanders this year. We were on the barriers about 10ft from where he clipped a fellas jacket and he went down with Naesen and Van Avermaet. Gilbert’s lead was pretty much insurmountable after that. As Inner Ring would say – it was where the race was won. We were on the peasants’ side of the course with the VIPs opposite – clearly many of them had a few quid of Sagan or GVA to win – I had a fiver on Gilbert. Pure drama, adrenaline and blind panic. Awesome.

That was like a batting collapse in cricket – psychological contagion, where the whole team just collectively loses their bottle. You can see how it happens in cricket, but quite rare to see in football.

But it’s also in several people’s moments above – I’m thinking the Instanbul CL Final. We watched the first half in the pub and at halftime my mates said it was done and over and we should go to a quieter pub with better beer / a curry. I said let’s give it 5-10 mins, if Liverpool get a goal it could all change. Then at 2 behind, another goal can come anytime and then you’re a moment away, the difference between a 3 goal lead and 2 goal lead is huge.

And then Milan just collectively lost their bottle – you could see the body language was ‘shit – we were 3-0 up and we might screw this up’ and then panic sets in.

It’s the aspect of sport that fascinates me, they ALL have the best skills, but who can do it when the pressures properly on, and who crumples. If there was no such thing as pressure, no-one would ever miss a penalty again.

In person
Gazza at Wembley

April 1989: Scores his first international goal to help England to a 5-0 win over Albania.

The ashes series of 2005. A full summer of scintillating, topsy turvy cricket that went to the final day of the final test with everything to play for. After decades of decline we suddenly had a team. A bloody good team that could bat, bowl and catch the bloody ball! And we won the ashes back. I personally don’t think there is a sweeter triumph in sport than that. More impressive, more valuable, more important? Perhaps. Sweeter. Nope.

and catch the bloody ball!

every time I see Strauss’s catch I have to rewind it and watch again.

‘I’ve got that…… no, it’s just a bit too far……. but if I REALLY stretch then……yep!’
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vPuO5yrSAM[/video]

Scotland v France to win the grand slam in 84. Spine tingling and first time at Murrayfield.

McRae Wrc in 95 – epic And watched through kielder.

On tv, Stephen Roche almost catching Delgado.

Not everyones cup of tea, but someone mentioned Dennis Taylor above and it reminded me of Cliff Thorburn making the first ever televised 147. I was 9 at the time and seeing the players on the other table stop their match to watch around the screen made you realize just how special a moment it was.

Cleland v Soper at Silverstone final race of the1992 BTCC. Truly epic.

Cleland v Mansel 1998 Donington

Not a big sport fan but do enjoy bits. But I loved this on TV. Watched BTCC at Knockhill a few times motor sport is sometimes better on TV than picking a corner on the track IMO/

In person, Munster winning the Heineken Cup against Biarritz in Cardiff after being the nearly-boys for so many years. I remember the big screen switching to pictures of O’Connell street in Limerick which was just a sea of humanity. The crowd there knew we could all see them. And we knew they were watching us. If there’s ever been a moment where a crowd hundreds of miles away influenced a game, that was it. (Of course many said it was unfair on Biarritz which was probably true; not that we gave a shite!)

Also in person, Liverpool absolutely mugging Arsenal for the FA cup in 2001. Outplayed for most of the game. The Henchoz handball and Owen’s goal to make it 2-1. All in blazing sunshine, and a brilliant pre- and post-match atmosphere between all the fans.

On TV in a pub…the green machine’s Grand Slam and RoI beating Romania on penalties to reach the quarter finals of Italia ’90.

gawd, how could I forget this…….

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY16I1-YZTM[/video]

I was at University, had finished my finals 4 days before the start of Italia 90 and the whole remaining term was devoted to watching the football and having fun. No-one had a TV and watching in pubs wasn’t really a thing yet, so we were watching in the college TV room, while the Arts Society (tried to) stage open air Shakespeare in the grounds.

Blokes who were only watching the play to appear sensitive (and to get in girls pants) went from dropping in to check the score every now and then, to dropping in and watching a bit under the pretence of going to the bar or having a wee, to dropping in because frankly, it was rapidly becoming the only thing worth watching. So when Platty scored that goal the place went absolutely beserk, and lives were nearly lost as the audience for As You Like It suddenly decided they didn’t like it and wanted to watch something else instead and stampeded for the TV room.

I never saw the restart or the final whistle, being near the bottom of a 200 man pile on. Brilliant.

On TV Stephen Roche 1987 La Plagne and Lemond winning v Fignon are up there and also England v Scotland and Gazza’s goal in the pub and

In person – Peaty worlds , watching Great Britain v Brazil football with my lad at the Olympics and Graham Noyce at Farleigh Castle on the way to winning the worlds

March 1997 UEFA Cup Quarter Finals, Dundee United -v- Barcelona. United won 2-1 at home and 1-0 away.

Lee Bowyer scoring past Dida in the 2000 Champions League. I was sat parallel to the edge of the area at the Revie Stand end. Its fair to say the place errupted.

I’m a huge Leeds fan and theres not been too much to cheer about in my lifetime but the most amazing sporting event I’ve not quite witnessed but was listening to on the radio was when Johnny Howson scored against Brizzle to send Leeds up a few years back. My youngest was about 2 at the time and I remember him screaming because he thought something had gone wrong with his dad!

Since I grew up in South Africa:

1992 Cricket World Cup Semi-Final vs England: 22 off 1 ball
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBOaMJmcVi0[/video]

1995 Rugby world cup vs New Zealand
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JKPN9xBcNI[/video]

Other than that, the comeback by Team Oracle against NZ in the last Americas Cup.

few great northern Irish sporting moments

1982 World Cup beating the hosts Spain with 10 men.
Barry McGuigans world championship fight 1985 and Dennis Taylor’s World championship the same year.
Joey dunlops 26th TT

NI qualifying for the euros