Sportsmen whose careers are mainly remembered for 1 moment of failure

Bodin Assara
Duncan Ferguson

Peter Francisco
Quentin Haan

Hanse Cronje

ive heard that cricket thing before, but never remember his name. andy lloyd huh?

thats probably why he never played again, the selectors couldnt remember his name.
i bet he'd have got selected more often if he was called cuthburt umbongo-drake the third.

tony meo is best known for the song snooker loopy.

does that count as a failure?

Perhaps my favourite... Angel Valodia Matos

Andres Escobar

ah forget this one...

Lindsay Jacob Ellis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quQODOvrWMs

that was for Olympic Gold

Aug 4, 2013 -- 8:16PM, CLYDEBANK29 wrote:

ah forget this one...Lindsay Jacob Ellishttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quQODOvrWMs

oh dear, thats a good one

http://www.foxsports.com.au/olympic-games/video-news-limited-journalist-paul-kent-reflects-on-the-infamous-lay-down-sally-incident-in-athens/story-fn5k3iok-1226442397943#.Uf6rBhG9KSM

Aussie choker lay down sally.

anyone remember glenn moody

''Although never likely to win the tournament, Moody was still a surprise hit with the Lakeside fans. Entering the stage to the strains of Bronski Beat's camp disco song 'Hit That Perfect Beat' whilst wobbling his skinny legs. Moody caused an instant reaction. His skinny frame, crooked teeth and permanent grin, provided one of the most surreal and entertaining moments in sport.''

he liked a little drinkypoohs before he did battle

he won me a nice few quid   His opponent De Ruiter was suffering from vertigo.  Was my biggest ever darts bet and I only realised what he was like when he took to the stage.  Managed to pick the only possible opponent capable of losing De Ruiter

he took a set off webster in the next round,webster couldn't quite grasp how bad he was

De Ruiter hadn't won a match for 6 months beforehand

JUST WATCHED THAT LINDSAY JACOB ELLIS..........SHE SHOULD HOOK UP WITH JEAN VAN DE VELDE........THATS A SHOCKER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRDzUQVhCkc

Now the curse has been lifted, Red Sox Nation has more or less forgiven him, but he still deserves to be high on this list. Bill Buckner.

Across the pond, look up the story of the Stanford Band

Barely remembered compared to Doug Sanders, but Hale Irwin air-putted an inch tap-in at the Open and
I think only just lost eventually, Can't remember much else about it

and love the rivetting ESPN doct. on the spectator guy, who caught the baseball, above the fielder

I saw the thread title and thought two things - both already mentioned. Van Der Velde and Starkey. Even if you think Starkey is unduly tarnished, it's undeniably what he's most famous for.

Fenway 04 Aug 13 20:58 
Now the curse has been lifted, Red Sox Nation has more or less forgiven him, but he still deserves to be high on this list. Bill Buckner.

Definitely worth a mention but I think it's the Sox of a different hue who claim the title of baseball's most famous losers.


Poppydog. 04 Aug 13 21:10 
and love the rivetting ESPN doct. on the spectator guy, who caught the baseball, above the fielder


That is a cracking documentary. Steve Bartman was the guy's name. The other Chicago team may have more notoriety than the Cubs, but few can match their historical losingness - 1908 and counting!

I assume you refer to the 1919 World Series, so I see your point Mikael D'Haguenet, but I was concentrating on the point of the thread, people who are principally remembered for one moment of failure. Buckner let what would have been the final out through his legs, and the rest is history. The Scandal involved not so much failure, but connivence to lose by a group of players.

The bloke from Zaire who thought Brazil's free kick needed to go back a yard ....or 80.

Boris Onishchenko

Tommy Toes 04 Aug 13 18:10

Ilunga Mwepu

The daddy of them all!

Anthony Fleet

Kendo Nagasaki

gonna be controversial and throw in Steve Harmison

Nathan Graham - cost Bradford Bulls the Challenge Cup in 1996

'Catching Hell' for anyone interested. Bartman AND Buckner!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPRdb-1fDdk

Allan Donald
Lance Klusener
Herschelle Gibbs

amazingly in the same game of cricket

^ actually no it wasn't

Just looking at that Bartman thing , but need someone to explain what a 'foul ball' is to comprehend the significance 

Ordinarily, it's just a strike against the batter, Tobes, unless it's caught. Bartman did nothing wrong.

The fielder is allowed to legitimately catch the ball, even if he goes into the crowd to do so. It's not like a cricketer catching a ball over the boundary. So had Moises Alou, the fielder who was thwarted, had a free go at the ball, he would have caught it easily and the Cubs would have been four 'outs' away from the World Series. Bartman's interference led to the Marlins getting another chance, which they took as it became a massive inning (I think that there were 8 runs). The Cubs lost the game and the decider the next day. They have not been close to the playoffs since and their last World Series win remains 105 years ago.

Must be 10 years ago now. Crikey.

I see, thanks guys.

Looking up Bartman seems he has turned down six figure sums to appear in Ads etc and never talks about it all

Fen explained it better! When I say he did nothing wrong, I just mean he tried to catch a ball headed for the stands, same as virtually everybody seated around him. The Cubs were still winning 3-0, still only needed five outs, and still only have themselves to blame for giving up the 8 runs Fen mentions!

Trevor Chappell, the under armed bowl against New Zealand.

718
04 Aug 13 18:54 
Would Greville Starkey's career be mainly remembered for giving Dancing Brave - incredible though he was - a tad too much to do?

He gets mentioned a lot more in the land of the cockneys, fack all to do with Dancing Brave

the entire Man City team from about a decade ago who in the last five minutes of the season at 2-2 played the ball into the corners in the mistaken belief they needed a draw to avoid relegation.

Also, Chris Waddle

Forgive me if this has already been mentioned and I have missed it but the guy who missed the penalty kick right in front of the posts in a 1960's Rugby League Challenge Cup Final. Don't know his name but I'd bet that missed kick is almost all of us have ever seen of him...

Yes Don Fox, was mentioned , unbelievable.

Couldn't have Waddle , had a great career, would be remembered anyway.

Quite a few of the people mentioned do not fit into the theme. Failure though it undoubtedly was, I suspect the reputation of Sir Donald Bradman has survived the second ball duck in his final Test.

WE have different understandings of the thread title then, I'm sure if 100 people were asked to to associate one word with Chris Waddle quite a few would say 'penalty'.

For the record I think he was one of the best players we've produced in the last 25 years.

'pelanty' shirley?

scott hoch, possibly the shortest missed putt ever to win a major something like 18 inches

MC560 , yes , true , it's probably the 1st thing people would associate him with.

But, if that had never happened he would be just as recognisable to any football fan aged 30+ 

People like Van De Velde ,Don Fox ,Southgate would be remembered by about 3% of the people who do remember them if they hadn't fkd up

Van Vossen miss  for Rangers v Celtic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DEkKs_dj2I

Dorando Pietro is a good shout in endurance circles but possibly even a better one was Julie Moss in the 82 Iron Man at Kona. At that time it was a very new niche event and her efforts in finishing the race on her hands and knees despite being passed for first place yards from the end inspired a generation of ultra competitors:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ef5AvYKOo8

Doug Sanders
Tom Mckean
Mike Gregory
Jana Novotna
Derek Redmond

Ronny Rosenthal?

Liverpool or Spurs - I forget. Missed when it would have been much easier to score.

david nash,the bowler gary sobers hit 6 sixies off in one over in 1968, but fair play,he was stupid enough to try to bowl straight

Malcolm Nash

see half forgotten even by me

Ayrton Senna

J R Hildebrand

http://youtu.be/gZc_u2lfOeo

gary evans,ar$e went when he thought he might possible win "THE OPEN"

Van de Velde, I suppose.

Eddie the Eagle the best one here. Most of these at least can point to something resembling an achievement, but ETE was just shoite and made plenty out of being a failure. His best moment was  being revealed as the plasterer on one of Nick Knowles house do up shows. That, for an Olympic Athlete is not great

Ayrton Senna

polybot spouting $hit again, as usual

Clarky - Horse Tipping services

thanks to whoever recommended teh Steve Bartman documentary, really interesting. Impressive reclusiveness too!

Steve redgrave for his bronze in 1988

I watched that Baseball documentary also . Never seen anyone look so mortified as Bartman ,just excruciating to see him sitting there so meekly as the game continued The programme was sympathetic to him but i think making it just makes an ever bigger deal of the thing so probably not gonna help him out . Quite striking how Americans mythologize their Sporting events so there has to be a hero , a villain and a precise moment of fate/destiny that decided the whole thing on it's own.

Buckner certainly qualifies for the thread criteria .Felt sorry for him too

Mr Badger wallowing and seething in resentment and tautology.

...and stop rummaging through my bins you do realize I spit my coconut oil mouth pulling remnants in them don't you?

Billy 'Jango' Williams

Scott Boswell who bowled the worst over ever in a Lord's one-day final, seen here:
.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZtLJbC42e4

that sliding horse at the grand national and Jean Van de Velde at the open

Miles Byrne,Woosies  caddie
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-61888/Woosnam-pays-price-caddies-error.html

Tim Henman

Kevin Keegan's managerial career - "I would love it.....!" etc

Crisp

Pringle

David flapper Seaman is a shocking omission.

A barely competent keeper chiefly remembered for the look of anguished puzzlement on his face just after Nayim (from the halfway line) had done him.

Glenn Hoddle really should count for the whole Eileen Drewery thing, but then of course he's also renown for his comments about the disabled, dropping Gazza, not picking Le Tiss and generally being one of the biggest ****s on the planet.

jed.davison 07 Aug 13 12:23 
David flapper Seaman is a shocking omission.

A barely competent keeper chiefly remembered for the look of anguished puzzlement on his face just after Nayim (from the halfway line) had done him.

Shocking.

s.kenbo 04 Aug 13 19:37 
David Seaman, and THAT goal.

Mikael D'Haguenet 04 Aug 13 19:39 
Nayim or Ronaldinho?

s.kenbo 04 Aug 13 19:41 
I forgot about Nayim LaughLaugh

haye v klitchko wen he promised hed knock him out only to dance round him

My apologies, mikael. Always worth another mention though.

Poor call imo to blame Fallon for getting Bosra Sham beaten in The Eclipse.

Ffs, she got beaten by about a half a stone better horse anyway in Pilsudski

Stoute then repeated the feat by getting her beaten in The Juddmonte by Singspiel

Thinking about it now, all misty eyed, was probably the last bleedin' winner I backed.

Football fans will remember him otherwise but to the vast majority of people Zinedine Zidane will just be the guy who did the headbutt in the World Cup final.

BTW, thanks for the baseball doco recommendation.  Bill Buckner was my first thought and the Curb Your Enthusiasm episode with him is well worth checking out also.

Pepe Guardiola´s Brother and his CR@PPY release clauses

Stan Bowles shooting the table in Superstars...

The baseball doct. is brilliant and probably much more enjoyable if you know nothing about the story, or baseball even.

I sat down to watch it and got moaned at.
What you watching this for... you never watch baseball

By the end of it, all the family were more gripped than me.

utc, the only failure about Zidane headbutting Materazzi was that he didn't do it properly

Ballinger Ridge....how much did he make for that???? Not really failure.

Ray Finkle kicker for the miami dolphins Superbowl 1984

Devon Malcolm's 9-57 at The Oval against S.A.

Hard to see Karius being remembered for anything else now

or jo hart

bloke that missed an easy conversion in front of the posts to win the rugby league challenge cup for wakefield v leeds in 1968 was don fox. well worth a look on youtube imo.

also chris lewis who lost 1983 Wimbledon final to McEnroe.

Greg Norman

Jim Peters marathon runner who fell over and collapsed a few times before losing the race due to dehydration.

Jim Laker  19/90 in 1956 test against Australia at Old Trafford

Lance Klusener

scott norwood missed field goal from 40 yards to win a superbowl for buffalo as time expired. they went on to lose the next 3 as well