What's the highlight of your Sports viewing career?

The 2012  AFL Grand Final for me, the best moment in my life.

that evening when Mo, Jess and Rutherford won golds takes some beating

That I've actually seen live I can't seperate these four - Shergar's Derby, Best Mate's third Gold Cup, Slippy Blue's Derby, Devon Malcolm's 9-57 against S.A. at The Oval.

Seen on tv - Dancing Brave's Arc, Steve Redgrave winning his fifth gold.

When Paula Radcliffe did the poo on the road in the middle of the Marathon...

Agree with the Tennis

id go
Fed v Nadal in Wimbledon 2008

The Duel in the Sun 1977, Nicklaus was tied for the lead at halfway shot something like 65-66 in the last 2 rounds and got beaten, best head to head in golf that i saw

Italy v Brazil, World Cup 1982, virtual 1/4 Final, between one of the greatest sides to watch, who then got undone by some sublime finishing from Rossi, heartbreak

Fight of the Century, Ali Frazier 1, Madison Square Garden, Brutal, anthe build up simmered nicely for ages, when boxing was popular, half the world wanted to see these two

TL, I'm fairly certain Radcliff did a jimmy riddle and not as you suggest

Should possible be a W/O TV market.

Michael Thomas at Anfield.

AP winning the Grand National

Nigel Benn v Gerald McClellan

Carl Froch v Jermaine Taylor (Last round)

1994 Derby Erhaab

Being behind the posts and having the ideal view of Jonny Wilkinson's world cup winning drop goal in 2003. (10 years ago this year )

1968 olympics, used to put the tv on every morning before I went to school and watch what had happened overnight. At that time did't know much about any other athletes apart from the British ones. One morning the first clip was of Bob Beamon's jump - WOW!!!!!!!

Oldham 16  Australia 22 , 1986 Rugby League Kangaroo tour.

Seeing my hometown team push one of the greatest sporting outfits to the closest result of their unbeaten tour , is a night I will never forget.

Murray is not one of the 4 best ever tennis players Kev.



I was at Best Mates 3rd gold cup. I've never been somewhere that had an atmosphere like it.

The Ryder cup last year would take some beating....

Live... Luton 3 west ham 2 qf of the cup 1994, scotty oakes hat trick.  Me and my best mate behind the goal as he scored the winner, absolutely delirious.  Watching frankel at ascot and wiggins on a union jack and st george covered champs elysses was great and then watching us beat the injuns india for the first time in 28 years, all this year was great too

On tv... Germany 1 england 5' rugby world cup final 2003, ashes 2005, olympics 2012.  Mo farah prob the best of the olympics for me.

On radio.... 2010/11 ashes drinking wine all night listening to us annihilate them all through a freezing winter was so warming.

For the live experience you can't beat 10th Jan 2010

Manchester millions united 0 Leeds United 1

There with my 3 sons in seats bought by Paul Scholes in the extended Leeds end.

Wonderful day.

Live, being at the 1976 Cup Winners Cup final in the Heysel a month or so before my 17th Birthday, even though we lost to Anderlecht it was a great experience

Two Stand Out For Me.
Hagler V Hearns
Red Rum V Crisp

Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor 18th Hole.  You can see me - I have the red cap.

*3rd Jan.

In the flesh, a couple of League Cup Finals in the 90's, but mostly racing: Best Mate's 3rd Gold Cup, Peintre Celebre's Arc, One Man's Sandown King George and later Champion Chase (real lump in throat time, loved the horse). Was good to see Frankel's last race too.

The first Cheltenham I had to miss for 7 or 8 years had the Edredon Bleu v Direct Route Champion Chase, one of, if not the best finish ever.

On TV, Red Rum's third National footage still reminds me how I got fascinated in the first place. Hagler v Hearns, Headingley in 81, France V West Germany in 82, Benn v McClellan are a few that spring to mind.

A few in the flesh my first Cheltenham Gold Cup, also Best Mate's 3rd CGC, seeing the ball come in my direction (admittedly I was a long way up) and nestle into the corner of the net when Sniffer scored the goal, seeing Mark Viduka scoring all the goals in the 4-3 win was good but to then watch him getting his MOM after a delay of about 1/2 hour due to worldwide TV interviews then signing autographs for about the same length of time (he shook everyones hand & said thank you after he had signed What a top man!)

All pale into insignificance at seeing my children winning their medals at their sports

live Benn v Eubanks 2
tv Italia 90

I was only 13 , but my Dad took me to the 1976 British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch. Crash at the first corner caused a re-start but the officials wouldn't let James Hunt restart as they said he hadn't copmpleted the first lap. There was nearly a riot as me,and 100.000 other fans started chanting "we want Hunt". Fearing trouble, the stewards allowed him to race, and Hunt went on to win after Lauda retired. Hunt was disqualified 2 months later after an appeal by Ferrari, but I have never experienced atmosphere like it since (and I was at Best Mates 3rd Gold Cup, and Desert Orchids last King George)

Can't wait till next year when Ron Howards film RUSH, about the 1976 F1 season hits the big screen.

#### CORRECTION #####   Lauda didnt retire from the race, Hunt overtook him, and came over the line second, later promoted to first.  Thank God for Wikipedia

FA Cup Semi-Final 2011 Stoke City v Bolton
Bolton were flying high with Coyle being tipped to replace Wenger as Arsenal manager. Most the pundits saw this as a win for Bolton, I was expecting a tight win. So never expected a 5-nil beating of Bolton to reach our first FA Cup final in our history. Great day out as well with mates and drinks.

Headingley 1981,i was only a kid but still get goosebumps thinking about it

Slippy : She did have a poo


When she was on Frank Skinner she said that she often did a No 2 while running as she didnt have time to stop. FS went on to joke that someone was probably trying to sell her No 2 on Ebay.

http://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?69382-Paula-Radcliffe-poo-or-pee

That's probably gonna' seem mild when they review the old London Marathon footage and spot Jimmy Savile having a wank as he trots past an orphanage.

HRH The Lager Khan • January 12, 2013 2:45 PM GMT
That's probably gonna' seem mild when they review the old London Marathon footage and spot Jimmy Savile having a wank as he trots past an orphanage.

It's not that funny...

Challenge Cup Final 1996 - St Helens vs Bradford

26-12 down to Bradford then Bobbie Goulding put those three bombs up to Nathan Graham who made a hash of them all leading to three Saints tries - best game i'll ever see live in all probability, it had everything




Miracle at Medinah was fantastic to watch too, although I wasn't there for that

Kelly Holmes, two golds after all those years.
Liverpool's astonishing Champions League comeback.

Watching Federer's progression to the greatest player ever.  Numerous highlights but the one that gave me the most satisfaction was copleting the set with the French even though he played fairly poorly throughout and Soderling rolled over in the final.

in the flesh

1973 - Barbarians v NZ

on tv

Underwood bowling out the Aussies at the Oval & Sobers hitting six 6's in an over

Tom Watson winning the 2009 Open Championship.  Ah well, it would have been....

Ali Frazier - all three fights...ALI-FOREMAN...Shergar's Derby...Dancing Brave's Arc...Lammtarra's career...Dawn Run, Dessie, Kauto, Zenyatta....d'you want a list of horses? Maradona v England - a feckin' delight for the ages...and finally, when the giant titanium alien robots attacked Rangers and destroyed them.

Jan 12, 2013 -- 1:27PM, TheCoat wrote:

I was only 13 , but my Dad took me to the 1976 British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch. Crash at the first corner caused a re-start but the officials wouldn't let James Hunt restart as they said he hadn't copmpleted the first lap. There was nearly a riot as me,and 100.000 other fans started chanting "we want Hunt". Fearing trouble, the stewards allowed him to race, and Hunt went on to win after Lauda retired. Hunt was disqualified 2 months later after an appeal by Ferrari, but I have never experienced atmosphere like it since (and I was at Best Mates 3rd Gold Cup, and Desert Orchids last King George) Can't wait till next year when Ron Howards film RUSH, about the 1976 F1 season hits the big screen.

And I was 12 and there with my Dad too!! Just remember the crowd going nuts on a boiling hot day and the incredible noise of the engines. Fantastic stuff. Went the following year too when Hunt won for real.

Best three are:

Red Rum in 1977
Davis/Taylor final in 1985
Boxing Day at MCG 2010: Australia 98 all out, England 157-0

All on telly sadly.

nadal v fed wimby was something special, but im going to say barca absoloutly destroying utd at wembley

Murray is not in the top 20 best tennis players of all time and probably not the top 40

anyway greatest thing I saw live was Botham & Willis beating the Aussies at Headingley in 1981

Hi Rick!

Happy New Year x

Hi Sue hun

Happy New Year to you too xx

Muhammad Ali knocking out George Foreman, in Zaire

John H Stracey, after getting knocked down in the opening round, stopping Jose Napoles on cuts in the 6th round, and winning the world welterweight title, in Mexico

The incomparable Red Rum getting up to beat the long time leader, Crisp, in Liverpool. (And I had backed Crisp)

Dawn Run Gold Cup 86

Lloyd Honeyghan beating Don Curry for the undisputed welterweight title in 1986

Millwall winning 1-0 at Hull to get promoted to the old first division

The nadal - rosol match at wimbledon 2012, if ur not a tennis fan, u probabaly wont pay too much attention to this pick, but for a player ranked exactly 100 in the world at the times to knock out out an 11x slam winner and five time wimbledon finalist was unthinkable, but it was the way he played that was unreal, every single shot almost was a smashed winner, almost missing nothing, sometimes in lower ranked tournies loweer ranked players can beat the top 4 in the best of 2 sets, esp when the motivation is lower to win, but to beat nadal in 5 sets !wow. I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

hamilton winning the 2008 f1 title on the last corner in the last race of the season in brazil - to steal it from massa, a brazilian, the whole of massa garage, family, friends and all were celebrating like mad, then they realise the mclaren garage was celebrating, probably the most deflated ive ever seen anyone in sport.

british 4x1 relay team athens 2004 - marc lewis fracis on the last leg to steal it form the maurice green and the yanks

I finished work early in Twickenham one midweek afternoon, rushed home to South London and picked up three mates to hurtle to Liverpool to make the kick off in time to see Palace play at Anfield.

Liverpool 9 - Crystal Palace 0

It was a highlight in so far as it was well beyond the ridiculous. We were 8-0 down and got a penalty in the Palace end (about 1200 of us.)
Missed of course and we all started singing "we're going to win the league and now you're gunna believe us."

The Kop burst out laughing and gave us a huge round of applause, that memory has always stuck in my mind. One of those 'I was there evenings.'

you kicked off 10 times that soiree

Nice memory to have, Slippy.

Some of the best remembrances of your life can come in moments of adversity - when good old British humour saves the day.

Indeed we did Capt_F, it was a great night in the end. We went to a club afterwards and the Scousers were all cool with us as we got the sympathy vote It was just a great night in the end.

Best moments witnessed live

Leicester City beating Shrewsbury 5-2 in the FA Cup 1982,back in the days of 1 sub.Keeper(Mark Wallington ) got injured and went off, Alan Young ( centre forward )went in goal then he got injured .Alan Young came out of goal and back as centre forward and Stevie Lynex the winger went in as goalkeeper.When Alan Young ran off his injury he swapped goalkeeping duties with Lynex. Just an amazing game we were losing 1-2 when our keeper went off.

Best Mate winning his 3rd Gold Cup,a piece of history and the last time my Dad was with us at the Festival.He died 6 weeks later.

Frankel winning his last race at Ascot,amazing atmosphere.

1. Frankel winning the Guineas
2.Istanbul 2005
3.Danedream winning the Arc

nice won slippy

Up the Palace

2012 London Olympics - Amazing.
1999 Cricket World Cup - Including Australia vs South Africa Semi final cray drama.
2008 - Wimbledon Fed vs Nadal....can't believe that was nearly 5 years ago!
2011 - European Darts in Germany  - hosted in a hotel function room but provided amazing atmosphere and a thrilling few days of arrows.
1990 - Italia 90 - the best football tournament I can remember.

2005 Ashes ( Iwent to the 3rd Day at Old Trafford, only saw 14 overs, and the only thing that happened was Geraint jones dropping two easy chances - the rest of it was amazing though

I'd put the 1991 Ryder Cup in there as well - absolutely gutting that we lost, but there was genuine hatred and animosity between the teams, and it was a belting finish

Live- Foe me has to be Simon Kerrigan taking 9 wickets for Lancs vs Hampshire on the fourth and final day of the game last year at Aigburth. The last wicket coming in the penultimate over of the day (after the Hants last pair had held out for an hour) to keep Lancs in the hunt for the elusive title which they clinched the following week

Seeing my team beat Alliansi of Finland in Helsinki 2004, first preliminary round of UEFA Cup.

It was the first time since 1984 we had won a tie in Europe and the first time ever we had won away from home in Europe. I was at the game and all I could do was cry. We travelled to Sweden in the next round and narrowly lost to Elfsborg. Only 90 of us made it to Finland but there were 400 that went to Sweden for the next round.

We are the minnows of Europe but I still love my team with a passion. All the defeats throughout the years were swept away that night. I've followed them all over Europe and had far better trips but nothing can beat the elation I had on that night.

2008 Australian Open final.

Sharapova v Ivanovic. Magnificent.

Live, the 'Duel in the Sun' in 1977.

On TV, a tie between Botham's Match in 1981 and the 2005 Edgbaston Test.

I was at Anfield for the second leg of the Champions League semi final in 2005 v Chelsea. An atmosphere that has never been matched or come close too being matched in the hundreds of games i have attended including FA Cup and Champions league finals.

Best mate's 3rd gold cup was fantastic to be part of, as was Frankels demolition of the field in the Juddmonte at York. Crowds were at the parade ring whilst the race prior was being run and if he was still parading up and down the straight now im sure the punters would still be there lauding him.

On television Hagler v Hearns was and will always be the most brutal fight of the modern age.

I meant to mention Jack Nicklaus' win at The Masters in 1986. First time I'd seen it, I was 16, a bit drunk, and to me he seemed impossibly old to be competing in a sport. He came from some way back as I recall. Began a life long love affair with the contest for me. The next year no-hoper Larry Mize chipped in from off the green, and then there were an incredible four British wins in a row!

So many of us were at Cheltenham to see Best Mate win his third Gold Cup and that's great to see. If you all rememeber it was a filthy day, cold, grey and raining. We were sorting out our placepots and my brother said to me did I want to go halves on his which came to £128. I had already done mine and said no. Anyway, I got busted on my perm and after the last race we were in the tote queue in the rain to pick his ticket up. At the time he nor I had any idea what the dividend was when the tote girl said those immortal words,"do you want cash or a cheque." We looked at each other and started laughing, he said cash please and she paid him just under 5 grand. The night ended up being a bit messy and that's putting it mildly, great memory though and the roar of the crowd when BM got home was truly unforgettable. What a day that was.

I binned a fiver trifecta slip on that race Slippy with Matey, Sir Rembrandt and Harbour Pilot, and moderated it to a tenner exacta! If memory serves, it paid the best part of 300-1! Was still a great day though to say you were there, especially as Culloty looked boxed in and fecked two out.

I am afraid, philistine that I am, that I cannot remember the highlight of my sports viewing career because it was probably some old horse that I had been following for yonks and had decided that today was his day.  I cannot remember offhand their names, so long ago, but I am sure fellow horseracing fanatics would know what I mean.  I loved it when an old stager, particularly over the jumps, tried his heart out and won some piddly little race.

watching Murray humiliating Federer to win the Olympic gold with the whole of Great Britain willing him on. cheers.

Here's my random top ten sporting events:

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In recent years, the highlight of my sporting life has to be the last day of the 2005 Ashes series.

I am a huge cricket fan, but as I am also a fúcking idiot I missed out on Ashes tickets for the first four days of all five Tests cos they'd gone on sale in October and November 2004 and I didn't realise.

Luckily, the Oval (for the first time) were selling fifth-day tickets for £10 each, in January 2005. I bought ten, sold four on eBay for £35 each (while the Oval were still selling them for £10 each, amazingly!) and pretty much forgot about them. Then it all came down to that day.

And that day (September 12, 2005 - I don't need to look it up) had it all. One of the greatest days in English sporting history. All I would say about the day that you lot will not know is that I am on TV - cowering (and kicking over a freshly-poured pint) as my mate two seats down from me drops one of Kevin Pietersen's sixes!

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I was also at the following genuinely great occasions:

:: Everton 4 Liverpool 4 in 1991. Everton trailed four times and came back four times. Dalglish quit two days later. Incredible.
:: Australia v South Africa's tied Cricket World Cup semi-final in 1999. I was in the press box, and when the game ended (with a chaotic run out) and Australia celebrated getting through to the final, all of us in the press box knew they'd won, but no one knew why they'd won!!!
:: France beating New Zealand in the 1999 Rugby Union World Cup semi-final - though as a gorgeous girl I'd been chasing for six months had finally noshed me off the night before, I wasn't that bothered
:: Shane Warne's "Ball of the Century" against Mike Gatting. Gatting couldn't believe he'd been bowled. He had to be (almost literally) dragged off the pitch. I can still hear the gasp that went round the ground when the replay was shown on the big screen.

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And these few events mean a lot to me:

:: Everton beating Manchester United in the 2009 FA Cup semi-final.
:: Everton beating Watford in the 1984 FA Cup final. I was seven years old at the time and I still remember my dad comforting two Watford fans in front of us who were crying. "It's OK - you'll win something soon." He was a lying bástard.
:: Everton winning the league in 1985 by beating QPR 2-0. If only I'd known back then that my team wasn't going to win a trophy almost every season!
:: Albertas Run winning the Ryanair Chase at Cheltenham in 2010. I had unbelievably bad luck in my first few visits to a horse racing track - I didn't back a winner in any of my first four meetings - so when Albertas Run went up that hill and my 14/1 bet copped, I felt amazing. Goosebump-tastic.
:: Burnham 2 Canvey Island 1 - FA Cup fourth qualifying round replay, November 2005. Burnham were three divisions below Conference club Canvey, but they got a 1-1 draw there. In the replay, Burnham came from behind to be level at 1-1 at half time, then they got a man sent off for a second yellow 20 seconds into the second half. Burnham, amazingly, held their own and launched an attack in the 90th minute. They got into the Canvey box, their centre-back dived in, the Burnham striker was clattered, penalty given, penalty deposited into the top corner, final whistle, celebrations. The first time Burnham had got to the FA Cup first round. A special moment.

September 12 2005, happy days.  I didnt need to loom up the date either.

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Slippy,I was at the same game and our away support that night was fantastic (as it always is).The highlight though has to be the 4-3 revenge 7 months later at Villa park.As a lifelong Palace fan you wait so long for something like that and then you can't beleive that it actually happens.Villa Park was rocking that day.2-1 up and then within a space of a few mintes 3-2 down.Andy Gray equaliser and the rest is history..Unbelievable day out that will take some beating.

Aside from watching my daughters win World U-23 and Paralympic Gold medals, actually being there live would be 'did I just see that' moments like Masterminded's first Champion Chase win or emotionally draining events such as One Man's Champion Chase win or Perian Punch's win in the 2003 Jockey Club stakes. Real boys own stuff.

On TV it would be the Spurs vs Arsenal Cup Semi in 1991, not just because we won playing the best football I've ever seen us play, but because we were going out of business or Maxwell was going to take us over and Arsenal were going for the Double again and were red hot favourites.

Excellent thread. Made me think back over the years and so (on a slightly lower level than a lot on here):

Live - West Ham 1 Aston Villa 0, FA Cup 1/4 final, Upton Park, March 1980. Second division West Ham against First Division Villa dominated but just coudn't score. However, with no more than a few minutes left, Ray Stewart bangs home a penalty after an obvious handball in the Villa box. As well as the massive excitement, it was the last game I ever saw at Upton Park with my dear old dad...and I'd had £10 on Hammers at 13/8 in 90 minutes!!

(BTW, for those that don't realise it, West Ham still remain the last side playing outside of the top flight of English football to win the FA Cup - 33 years ago!)

TV - So many, but an an 8 year old sitting up late and watching on our black and white TV Bob Beaman's long jump world record in Mexico 1968 sticks in the mind. Christ, he broke the old record by so far it was almost spooky and it was presented on TV that way as well!

I suppose that would have to be football or tennis.

Andy Murray destroying Federer to win Gold at Wimbledon or his US Slam win. Both were brilliant moments, just to shut the haters up.

Or, in football, probably the greatest moment was when Germany beat England 4-2, with Lampard´s goal being chalked off to right a wrong from yesteryear...sweet.

What nationality are you TiptheOdds?

swedish.

Coward as well as small-minded then.

Bit harsh rog - Some of the worlds most inspired perverts are Swedes

Great stuff eaglewardy, good to know a fellow Betfair man was at Anfield that unforgettable night. I wasn't at Villa Park but that was an incredible game and like you say we got our revenge in no uncertain manner. Ian Wright started out playing for my local club Dulwich Hamlet by the way, what a find he turned out to be

I was at the S.C.G. when Brian Lara scored his 277, I have never seen a better batting performance like it in all my years and one of the best test series I've ever seen. Curtley Ambrose won player of the series, he was absolutely magnificent as well.

lighten up rog.

Hey, go with whatever floats your boat, my Scandinavian Celt

WATCHING GEORGE BEST GO ON A RUN WITH THE BALL AT HIS FEET ,EVERY SECOND A MAGIC MOMENT

Agree Do Wah, he was a sight to behold

Slippy,our paths may have crossed many times then if you went to see a lot of games.After I left school in 86 I went all over watching the Palace til I moved abroad in 98.Was totally hooked from the first game my old man took me to in 79.Usual fortnightly routine was the palace home game then off to catford dogs,those were the days.