Your best moment as a Sports fan

[Great Birtannia]

As an Australian cricket follower, of my generation anyway, we have been spoilt and grown accustomed to winning, which in a way desensitizes the victories. The 99 world cup win and the two games against South Africa would be the pick from a cricketing perspective.

My AFL team has lost more grand finals than the socceroos have had ill fated world cup qualifying campaigns, so highlights (team wise, not forgetting the great man individually!) have been few and far between following Geelong. Billy Brownless kicking the goal after the siren to win the qualifying final against Footscray is as good as it gets.

The match against Japan at the world cup is right up there but for me the penalty shootout in the qualifier against Uruguay was better for raw emotion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ5u3OY4nsc&NR

Switch the volume to full blast and suck it in. It was a great call by Craig Foster, SBS’s impartiality went out the window in style

 

[BoyBrumby]

Switch the volume to full blast and suck it in. It was a great call by Craig Foster, SBS’s impartiality went out the window in style

That's why I love penalty shoot-outs (& as an English Arsenal fan I've suffered more than most at their hands); all the drama of Football condensed into one handy bite-sized package. Yeah, they're contrived & usually make victims of innocent players, but no-one can say it's not the best feeling in the world when you win one!

Yer man there sounded well chuffed!

 

[Jamee999]

I agree with Scaly (not about the Arsenal loss bit, though)

 

[Langeveldt]

Best - Mick Lewis
Worst - Run Donald Run

 

[GIMH]

Don't tell my missus, but I'm not sure if for a single moment of ectasy, anything will ever, ever, ever, ever, ever top this

 

[open365]

Can't choose between the drop goal against the 16 man Australia side in the Rugby World Cup and Kasprowicz c Jones b Harmison.

Me to, though tbf to the ref he said after the game he would have gave us an offside penalty if Johny had missed.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Me to, though tbf to the ref he said after the game he would have gave us an offside penalty if Johny had missed.

Ref had an absolute effing shocker second half. Why would a dominant pack collapse the scrum?!?!

Anyhoo, here's the moment itself but I do not see a signal for a pen & at least three Aussies are offside at the ruck:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGNttA3XwTA&mode=related&search=

 

[GIMH]

I'm not a mssive Rugger fan as I've documented elsewhere, but what a moment.

 

[Goughy]

Im sure Ill miss some but if they dont pop into my head now then they cant be that special, right?

I guess it is a variety across a few sports.

- Winning the Ashes, obviously

- Liverpool winning the Champions League with their incredible "Roy of the Rovers" style come back

- Best night out ever after watching any sporting event on TV was after England v Spain, Euro 96

- Eubank - Benn

- Seb Coe's "I Told You So" win in LA, 1500m at 1984 Olympics

- Super Bowl XXXVI, with Adam Vinatieri's last second winning kick (closely followed by what he did against Oakland earlier in the playoffs)

 

[aussie]

No question:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQjbRG0DloA

damn straight, Man U at their awesome best..

 

[grecian]

damn straight, Man U at their awesome best..

What, outclassed for 89 minutes,then fluking a win?

 

[Smudge]

Being at Carisbrook on a awful Dunedin day to watch Otago beat the Springboks 19-10 in 1994.

 

[Tom Halsey]

What, outclassed for 89 minutes,then fluking a win?

That's not quite true. In the last 20 we were creating chances for fun, which is partially why it was so dramatic - with missing so many chances, everyone was beginnign to feel it wasn't our day.

The previous 70 Bayern definitely had by far the better of, and Schmeichel and the woodwork both take massive credit for keeping us in it... but we dominated for 20 minutes and created just as many chances in those 20 than Bayern did in 70.

Also, it wasn't a fluke.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Schmeichel was pathetic for Bayern's goal tho. Takes a step to his right as the free kick is struck so he can't see squat, free kick is passed into the part of the goal Schmeichel should be covering.

 

[Tom Halsey]

Schmeichel was pathetic for Bayern's goal tho. Takes a step to his right as the free kick is struck so he can't see squat, free kick is passed into the part of the goal Schmeichel should be covering.

That's debatable - while it was undoubtedly a soft goal, I lay the blame at the wall for allowing the Bayern player (might have been Scholl, can't remember) to run infront and then peel off, meaning Schmeichel saw it late.

Either way, he made up for it later.

 

[Scaly piscine]

But it's far easier to simply pass the ball into the corner than get it over the wall and under the bar. Even if Schmeichel sees it earlier he's wrong-footed/off-balance and still doesn't save it in my opinion. By moving behind the wall he's not any more likely to see the ball early and it puts him in a bad position, he's basically committing himself in the hope that the free kick ends up going to Schmeichel's right or that part of the goal.

Anyway always been one of my pet hates in football, a keeper standing in the middle of the goal when he has a wall and then gets beaten by a shot on the side he should be covering - it's like why bother with a wall in the first place? David James does it in particular I think. If it was an American sport in America it'd never happen, they squeeze every last percentage point out of every situation - be it pulling the goaltender in the last minute, bringing in a hitter that is suited against a certain style of pitcher, getting as much of a jump as a baserunner as possible etc.

 

[roseboy64]

I'd have to say West Indies winning the Champions Trophy. Didn't get to see the 1999 CL Final but that's up there for me.

 

[Johnners]

Can't choose between the drop goal against the 16 man Australia side in the Rugby World Cup and Kasprowicz c Jones b Harmison.

please elaborate ?

 

[steds]

please elaborate ?

He's saying the ref was biased.

 

[Matteh]

Aus v Japan