If you could change one sporting outcome

Liverpool in 2014

Actually wanted them to win it that year as I started to dislike the money bags of City

Wayward Lad winning the Gold Cup in  86  or
Crisp winning the Grand National in 73 or
Tom Watson rolling the putt in to win the Open at age 59

When Wales beat England at Wembley in 1999, the fattest centre in the history of rugby union, Scott Gibbs, scored a last gasp try and Neil Jenkins nailed the conversion in the last few seconds of extra time. England 31 Wales 32. I won't say how much but in 40 odd years of punting it was my biggest loss by some distance.

626, I remember that Open so well, absolutely heartbreaking that Tom Watson didn't win that year.

Italy 1990 s/finals v Germany....poxy penaltys

Erica Roe getting caught

Crisp Winning The Grand National even though Red Rum is my favourite horse of all time.

I'm with 626
Crisp holding on from Red Rum who was riding over a stone lighter.

Missed your post acey.
Funnily enough I've never liked Red Rum because of it.

Red Rum trained buy a second hand car dealer you couldn't make it up ffs.

Gazza's sliding miss against Germany Euro 96, agony

Some good shout outs - Watson would indeed have been superb, and darren, I have watched that a few times - I keep thinking he is going to get on the end of it

Trained by even.

Apr 23, 2019 -- 9:26PM, darren_discombobulates_sports wrote:

Gazza's sliding miss against Germany Euro 96, agony

Forgot about that one

He just needed an extra inch, to this day I still jump up when the ball goes across the goal

Mine would have been a NH flat race at Chepstow in Oct 2017. The Russian Doyen came 2nd at about 12-1, if it had won I would have copped £150k, I had to settle for £11k

The 1973 FA Cup Final  : Leeds v Sunderland

Leeds lost 1:0

My Dad's a Sunderland supporter....me Leeds

I would prefer Leeds to have won.

Not sure about changing the outcome, would like to have changed the ref in the '75 European Cup final

Over a stone is technically right but Crisp was actually conceding Red Rum 23lbs to be precise.

Devon Loch avoiding doing the splits on the run in and winning the Grand National.

Doug Saunders holing that easy putt on the 18th at St Andrews to win the 1970 Open.

from a personal point of view jesper parnevik to win 1994 open golf

would have loved to see jimmy white win a world championship, tom watson
to win open at 59, crisp win grand national, ref to see maradona hand ball,
mike ashley to have sold newcastle to the bloke that bought citeh instead
of pishing around

West Ham's bid for the Olympic Stadium to have been rejected

Don Bradman would hit one more 4 to attain to a Test average of 100.

Even worse Mac. Your answer btw from other thread - Was the first final not involving either Real or Benfica.

How did I not get that? Great quiz question btw.

Gordon Banks not having a stomach problem in 1970.

1991 Rugby World Cup Final   England v Australia  Cheating Campese should have been sent off.

Crisp. Every time I watch the replay, I'm still willing him to hold on, just this one time.

Re Italia '90, I had £100 at 8/1 Germany to win the tournament, so personally I wouldn't change the outcome of the semi-final shootout. Particularly as I was still recovering from the consequences of the 1985 Grand National at that point...

If Dunwoody had allowed West Tip to jump second Becher's in the middle of the fence, rather than pointlessly sticking to the inner with its severe drop, my life would have turned out very differently. The horse was cruising in the lead and there was no need to take the risk. It won the race the next year, carrying something like a stone more, just to prove the point. But for the 1985 race I'd backed the horse to win £30,000 at 33/1 downwards, and made all sorts of financial and personal commitments on the back of what I'd come to see as its inevitable victory.

Messy ...

Tough one this.

Split between

Coe to win the Moscow 800m Final
Federer to have beaten Nadal in the 2008 Wimbledon Final
Bula to have won the 1975 Cheltenham Gold Cup

Hey Slippy, I was at Wembley for that 1999 epic Wales win. England even had time to try and kick a drop goal winner a few minutes later.

One Man not dying at Aintree and going on to complete a hat trick of victories in the Champion Chase

Coe to win the Moscow 800m Final

I would have had Ovett to win Moscow 1500m final

In terms of football , one result still makes me miserable 37 years on.
Brazil to beat Italy at World Cup 82

The Crisp one's easy to change. Just stop the recording after he jumps the last (just like I always do) & remember him for his magnificent round of jumping.

Screaming,
I backed Long Run at big prices for the GN.
They pull it out and it wins the Gold Cup.

Ayrton Senna, May 1st 1994, Imola.

Not much else to say really.

Hantuchova losing the 2008 Australian Open semi final from 6-0, 2-0 up.
Too important a player to have ended her career without making a slam singles final.

Would have been good if Murray could have won his French final also.

Dancing brave to peg back sharastani please.cost me nearly 40k,life changing money in those days & my situation at the time.

1981 Cheltenham Gold Cup. Silver Buck 3rd to Little Owl and Night Nurse. Silver Buck broke a blood vessel, the only time
Night Nurse finished in front of him..would have won me a substantial sum


1982 Cheltenham Gold Cup he won, I did not have a penny on..

Dancing brave to peg back sharastani please.cost me nearly 40k,life changing money in those days & my situation at the time.

u/l Barrowboy, I think Grevill Starkey let Dancing Brave get too far behind early


Dancing Brave reversed that form with Sharastani in the King George and Queen Elizabeth, no help to you there Barrowman

Just watched Crisp and Red Rum again.  Sent tingles down my spine.

I'd have been 12 when I saw it live.  My pocket money was on Crisp.  Should have paid attention to that early lesson about gambling!

Personally I'd keep Italy vs Brazil 1982 the same. I happened to be having a haircut in Marino's barber shop in Slough at the time the match took place. Words couldn't describe the atmosphere that afternoon.

sport wouldn't be what it is if we didn't have the highs & lows, the drama, ecstasy or sadness

true elise

I could do with more ecstasy and less sadness though...I need to eat

i know what you mean

I agree with England in the semi's at Italia 90

Funnily enough though, no desire to change the semi-final result from last year, and I see no-one else has mentioned it either despite the freshness of it in the memory. Probably cuz no complaints about the score, Croatia got in their faces and England couldn't handle it.

Bobby Charlton substitution 1970 World Cup vs West Germany

Willie The Shoe getting beat on Hawaiian Sound in the 1978 Derby letting Shirley Heights get the run on the rails ridden by Greville Starkey to win by a head. With Lester on board he would have won no question about that. Shoemaker didn't know how to ride Epsom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqNuk3nxCao

Don Fox to kick the goal in 1968,marvellous player and should have never come to that as the referee murdered Wakefield all game.

I was at that game in the Wakefield end and it was unbelievable when he's missed it as he was such a reliable kicker.

I was there too. I have met people who worked down the pit with him afterwards, humour was hard and relentless down there. Died in a mental hospital after a series of unsupervised falls.

Dayjur not jumping the shadow and beating the yanks on dirt
Zenyatta catching Blame in the Classic.
Hagler getting the points verdict over Leonard
Mark Hughes ballooning one over the bar in final seconds of 94 FA Cup semi

Gordon Smith putting that chance away for Brighton in the last minute against Manchester United in the cup final.

About the only good thing about being at Wembley that day was not having to hear Peter Jones apparently yelling "And Smith must score!"