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Boardsies decide: Best sporting moments (nominations closed, knockout ongoing)

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    #182
    irishejit
    Registered Users Posts: 657 ✭✭✭irishejit


    Green&Red wrote: »
    Fancy sticking in a vote for the Eamon Coughlan V Barry McGuigan tie

    Already have G&R, the post before this tie was put up


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    #183
    Necro
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,183 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Sorry United fans, its Bolt for me.

    I remember exactly where I was for that run, can't say the same for the CL Final despite knowing I did watch it.

    Doesnt have the same meaning for me either I think as it's more personal to fans of the club I think.


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    #184
    Green&Red
    Registered Users Posts: 11,387 ✭✭✭✭Green&Red


    So Usain sprints into round 2


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    #185
    Green&Red
    Registered Users Posts: 11,387 ✭✭✭✭Green&Red


    Brazil suffered a humiliating defeat at home in the 2014 world cup, 7-1 to the Germans



    Or

    Nadia Comaneci's perfect 10 in Montreal 1976



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    #186
    Green&Red
    Registered Users Posts: 11,387 ✭✭✭✭Green&Red


    I think the 7-1 is more about embarrassment so my vote is for Comaneci


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    #187
    irishejit
    Registered Users Posts: 657 ✭✭✭irishejit


    Comaneci for me....her achievement as the first 10 will always be remembered, I'd forgotten about that drubbing until the post came up so that should say everything


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    #188
    Collie D
    Registered Users Posts: 11,319 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Germany. Too young for Comaneci. The game itself was a spectacle as hammerings like that just shouldn't happen in a World Cup semi. Also a huge amount of schadenfreude in that I'd been in the Aviva two years previously when Germany beat us 1-6 so nice to see a top level country be at the end of an even worse hiding.


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    #189
    Kolido
    Registered Users Posts: 13,361 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    Comaneci for me. Never heard of her but just had a quick read. A team trashing another team take a lot of luck in that the other implodes. Taking nothing away from the achievement, though that individual performance just seems like a lot more preparation went into it.


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    #190
    sKeith
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,404 ✭✭✭✭sKeith


    Green&Red wrote: »
    I think the 7-1 is more about embarrassment so my vote is for Comaneci

    So, the germans didn't play great to get 7-1 against brazil?


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    #191
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Nadia was before my time but obviously she's still iconic. However to drub the greatest nation on earth when it comes to soccer, at their own world cup, in a semi final was surreal. Some of the imagery from it summed it up. Transcended age, race, gender. Just an absolute one off.

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    Germany v Brazil for me.


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    #192
    Green&Red
    Registered Users Posts: 11,387 ✭✭✭✭Green&Red


    sKeith wrote: »
    So, the germans didn't play great to get 7-1 against brazil?

    I mean more it’s memorable because it was in Brazil and they got embarrassed.
    Plus some of the Brazil lads lied down, David Luiz I’m looking at you


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    #193
    MrKingsley
    Registered Users Posts: 2,428 ✭✭✭MrKingsley


    Comaneci for me. Ground breaking performance. Whilst the 7-1 was a crazy event it was almost one of those fluke performances in the first half where every shot went in


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    #194
    Guill
    Registered Users Posts: 3,331 ✭✭✭Guill


    Comaneci - Hers was about achievement and perfection. Brazil was the exact opposite. Anyone can be beaten.


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    #195
    Green&Red
    Registered Users Posts: 11,387 ✭✭✭✭Green&Red


    5-2, closer than the soccer match


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    #196
    gimli2112
    Registered Users Posts: 13,407 ✭✭✭✭gimli2112


    Nadia, it's an iconic moment in Sport. The humiliation of Brazil doesn't create warm happy feelings for me despite fuzzy hair's tears


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    #197
    Green&Red
    Registered Users Posts: 11,387 ✭✭✭✭Green&Red


    I'm going to allow Nadia to advance at 6-2


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    #198
    Green&Red
    Registered Users Posts: 11,387 ✭✭✭✭Green&Red


    They invented the game but it didn't stop Ireland beating them at the 2011 Cricket world cup, everyone loves a good win over England



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    The first Liverpool entry, the Gerrard final



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    #199
    duffman13
    Registered Users Posts: 8,946 ✭✭✭duffman13


    The cricket, what a day, watched cricket for years and Irish cricket, that was amazing. That team really made a name on the international scene


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    #200
    gimli2112
    Registered Users Posts: 13,407 ✭✭✭✭gimli2112


    As a Liverpool fan, Ireland's win. It's only the FA Cup and was great at the time but it was only the FA Cup.


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    #201
    Green&Red
    Registered Users Posts: 11,387 ✭✭✭✭Green&Red


    Liverpool fan here too, that’s not even the best Liverpool FA cup final win, the ’89 final with Aldridge and Rush was absolutely fantastic.

    Ireland beating England was huge and gets my vote


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    #202
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    The cricket I guess. Sure it was a novelty and a bandwagon but I don't even know what the other option is referring to without clicking in. Having hovered over it, it's just an English team winning an English cup final against a considerably lower ranked English team.


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    #203
    Necro
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,183 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Cricket for sure.


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    #204
    Electric Nitwit
    Registered Users Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Liverpool fan, no interest in cricket

    Vote cricket
    I mean, it was monumental. Even I cared!


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    #205
    Green&Red
    Registered Users Posts: 11,387 ✭✭✭✭Green&Red


    The cricketers hit Gerrard for six and advance


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    #206
    Green&Red
    Registered Users Posts: 11,387 ✭✭✭✭Green&Red


    Love him or hate him the 13 second KO from McGregor on Aldo was impressive



    Or

    Our first gold medal for 16 years, Katie Taylor was instrumental in getting woman's boxing included in the Olympics and backed up her status as the greatest



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    #207
    Green&Red
    Registered Users Posts: 11,387 ✭✭✭✭Green&Red


    I think McGregor is a knacker so wouldn’t vote for him anyway but saw Taylor at the London Olympics, the place was hopping, one of the best atmospheres I’ll ever see

    Katie for me


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    #208
    Electric Nitwit
    Registered Users Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Green&Red wrote: »
    I think McGregor is a knacker so wouldn’t vote for him anyway but saw Taylor at the London Olympics, the place was hopping, one of the best atmospheres I’ll ever see

    Katie for me

    Jealous!

    I was on the tube full of fans, it was awesome. Missed it live as I was at another event but it looked incredible on TV

    Katie for me


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    #209
    smallgarden
    Registered Users Posts: 1,610 ✭✭✭smallgarden


    Italia 90. Not a specific moment, the whole thing. Other sporting moments haven't even come close to the countrywide euphoria. You had awesome moments of Irish sport with a great soundtrack to go with it. The medley is still played


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    #210
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    smallgarden wrote: »
    Italia 90. Not a specific moment, the whole thing. Other sporting moments haven't even come close to the countrywide euphoria. You had awesome moments of Irish sport with a great soundtrack to go with it. The medley is still played

    Do you not get the concept of what's going on here?


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    #211
    Tell me how
    Registered Users Posts: 21,521 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Katie.

    Real talent.
    Real role model.


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