The Best Sporting Moments You Have Witnessed

lindor 1999 champions league final was the last i time wanted man utd to win. great final great drama, also liverpool v milan 2005 was another great final.

great sporting moments does not have to be about winning or losing. derek redmond showing the true omplyic spirit like so many gone before him and after him. (i did not see it at the time but see footage of it since)

this guy was a total outsider but this goes to show anything can happen even in the olympic games and he won the gold medal.

Ricardo Villa - FA Cup Final 1981

(24-03-2011 20:08 )malicious fan Wrote:  

(24-03-2011 19:51 )The Narcissist Wrote:  

(24-03-2011 19:25 )malicious fan Wrote:  im a big athletics fan and jonathan edwards did 2 consecutive jumps over 18 metres in the world champs in 1995. very rarely do people get over 18 metres nowadays, so i can see his world record not getting beat for decades, hes already held it for 16 years now. also that year he jumped 18 metres 43 cm but it was over the legal limit so it didnt stand as a world record. theres not been alot of british sporting greats but he was deffo one.

Jonothan Edwards, what a Legend he is. One of the few british sportsman who excelled in the olympics of recent times. Great post, malicous fan

thank you son

(Sigh) And just when i thought we were past all that from yesterday. Oh well in keeping with the spirit of it, where is my child support money dad?

(24-03-2011 20:42 )mrwotzup Wrote:  Ricardo Villa - FA Cup Final 1981

What the hell? Was the ball glued to his feet? Only messi can compete with that kind of skill

(24-03-2011 20:53 )The Narcissist Wrote:  

(24-03-2011 20:08 )malicious fan Wrote:  

(24-03-2011 19:51 )The Narcissist Wrote:  

(24-03-2011 19:25 )malicious fan Wrote:  im a big athletics fan and jonathan edwards did 2 consecutive jumps over 18 metres in the world champs in 1995. very rarely do people get over 18 metres nowadays, so i can see his world record not getting beat for decades, hes already held it for 16 years now. also that year he jumped 18 metres 43 cm but it was over the legal limit so it didnt stand as a world record. theres not been alot of british sporting greats but he was deffo one.

Jonothan Edwards, what a Legend he is. One of the few british sportsman who excelled in the olympics of recent times. Great post, malicous fan

thank you son

(Sigh) And just when i thought we were past all that from yesterday. Oh well in keeping with the spirit of it, where is my child support money dad?

bookies!

(24-03-2011 20:02 )bigguy01 Wrote:  harmisons bouncer to ponting at lords in 2005 ashes series, setting the tone for the rest of the series

gary pratt running out ponting in the same series

flintoff running ponting at lords 2009

flintoff's greatest over ever 2005

That Ashes test series was the best test series I have ever seen. I saw all those games live on channel 4. The drama was there in every single day of the 5 tests. The whole nation got into it, no wonder they called it Ashes fever. Great choice, really, very good, for one of the best sporting moments ever witnessed.

(24-03-2011 20:54 )The Narcissist Wrote:  

(24-03-2011 20:42 )mrwotzup Wrote:  Ricardo Villa - FA Cup Final 1981

What the hell? Was the ball glued to his feet? Only messi can compete with that kind of skill

not just messi, my brother, which makes him your uncle, told me about this eddie gray goal for leeds against burnley.

(24-03-2011 20:07 )lindor Wrote:  Great thread idea Narcissist!

Simple one for me really, even though as a sports fan in general there are loads of other truly great goosepimples moments I could recall! But I actually was at the 1999 Champions League Final, row 17 right behind the goal where all the drama took place. Sadly, it was just all-too surreal to comprehend at the time, such was the speed at which circumstances, and with it emotions, changed. I prefer not to look back but to move on so I seldom watch this, but whenever I do it does bring it all back

Thanks Lindor, the idea to make this thread just came to me suddenly lol. Anyway this one is for all you man united supporters out there, even though i am an arsenal fan, i have to say this was one hell of a sporting moment

The best sporting moments are any time that a British team beat a German team at sport.... as a follow on to Winning the World Cup in 1966.

I remember when Manchester United beat Bayern Munich in 1999 to win the UEFA Champions Cup. And they were losing 1-0 going into injury time. They scored twice in two mins.

Then in the World Cup quailify match v Germany in Munich in 2001.
England went 1-0 before thrashing Germany 1-5. And Michael Owen scored a hat-trick.

But the best moment was when Great Britain played West Germany in the 1988 Olympic final at Men's Hockey (I'm not normally a hockey fan)
We had a top shooter in Sean Kerly and went on to win 3-1.
"Where, oh where were the Germans? And frankly, who cares?" screamed commentator Barry Davies as Imran Sherwani scored Great Britain's third goal to seal gold.

I've already forgotten about the last World Cup