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

Necro · 18-10-2019 6:45pm

Will send a few on in about 15 mins GnR when I'm on lunch

Electric Nitwit · 18-10-2019 6:57pm

Just sent some more on

Zaph · 18-10-2019 7:06pm

Forgot to enter this, will get some in very shortly

daheff · 18-10-2019 8:06pm

Liverpool comeback in Istanbul 2005
Liverpool comeback vs Barcelona 2019
Houghton vs England 88
Houghton vs Italy 94
Stephen Roche 1987
Ireland beating NZ Nov 18
Ireland beating England in Croke Park 2007
Germany 7-1 Brazil 2014
Japan beating South Africa 2015 rugby wc
Roger Bannister sub 4 min mile
100m Seoul olympics....7 of 8 tested positive for drugs
Daley Thompson 1984 olympics (prob beeb hype, but great at the time)

daheff · 18-10-2019 8:12pm

Denmark winning Euro 92
Greece winning Euro 2004
Barry McGuigan winning world title fight
Mike Tyson in the 80s
Jamaican Bobsleigh 1988
Tiger woods winning the Masters 2008- that ball stopping showing Nike symbol & dropping in the hole

Regan WW · 20-10-2019 10:42am

5 sent in

Bounty Hunter · 20-10-2019 2:32pm

Regan WW wrote: »

5 sent in

Didn't know WW accounts had access to here!

Invisibleman · 20-10-2019 2:43pm

The tiger woods chip in on 17 at Augusta in the final round, time seemed to stand still

Green&Red · 20-10-2019 4:07pm

We’ll get going tomorrow

Green&Red · 23-10-2019 1:51pm

Guys sorry for the delay in this, a very pressing game of WW had to go ahead and distracted me

Necro · 23-10-2019 1:53pm

Green&Red wrote:

Guys sorry for the delay in this, a very pressing game of WW had to go ahead and distracted me

Oops :P

Green&Red · 23-10-2019 1:56pm

So first to 7 votes, I'll try and get through as many as I can in the next hour

Reason to go with vote please

Green&Red · 23-10-2019 1:58pm

Wimbledon 1998 Jana Novotna v Nathalie Tauziat

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Sonia O'Sullivan Sydney Olympics

No contest for me here, Sonia finally fulfilling her Olympic dream, probably the second greatest sports person of all time from Ireland

Necro · 23-10-2019 2:26pm

Sonia for me too. I'm too young to remember the Wimbledon above tbh but for me Sonia at the Olympics trumps it anyways. I remember precisely where I was watching it to this day.

Zaph · 23-10-2019 2:33pm

Sonia, tennis barely registers with me when it comes to sport so I wouldn't know a good tennis match from a bad one.

quickbeam · 23-10-2019 2:34pm

Zaph wrote: »

Sonia, tennis barely registers with me when it comes to sport so I wouldn't know a good tennis match from a bad one.

You're gonna love my submissions so :P

Necro · 23-10-2019 2:35pm

Zaph wrote: »

Sonia, tennis barely registers with me when it comes to sport so I wouldn't know a good tennis match from a bad one.

When it comes to tennis probably the only thing I'd vote for is the final between Nadal and Federer tbh. Fantastic match

Green&Red · 23-10-2019 2:43pm

Sonia, a magnificent athlete, robbed by the chinese at her pomp, delighted to see her finally get a medal
Zabo always looked like a clean athlete too

Zaph · 23-10-2019 6:59pm

quickbeam wrote: »

You're gonna love my submissions so :P

Will I just register my vote against them all now to save time?

Barney92 · 23-10-2019 7:00pm

I too am going to go for Sonia. I know she didn't win but I wouldn't have Novotná's win anywhere near one of my top moments in tennis let alone all of sport.

quickbeam · 23-10-2019 7:08pm

Zaph wrote: »

Will I just register my vote against them all now to save time?

You may. I don’t expect any of them to go through to the next round.

MrKingsley · 24-10-2019 4:05pm

Sonia for me. Agree with Barney that there would be plenty of wimbledon (let alone tennis moments ahead of Novotna for me). I remember watching the O'Sullivan race in the library in school. That memory will stay with me forever.

Collie D · 24-10-2019 6:41pm

Sonia - Absolute no-brainer. It's insulting a reason even needs to be given but one of our finest ever sportspeople finally gaining an Olympic medal can't go out in first round

Electric Nitwit · 24-10-2019 8:55pm

Oh, missed this starting...!

Sorry to whoever nominated it but I don't remember anything particularly remarkable about Novotna's win, and I do like the tennis. So Sonia for me too

quickbeam · 24-10-2019 9:02pm

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Oh, missed this starting...!

Sorry to whoever nominated it but I don't remember anything particularly remarkable about Novotna's win, and I do like the tennis. So Sonia for me too

It was special because she'd lost several finals before, and got so close each time and then became emotional when interviewed on court afterwards. Having her finally win was lovely. And she died last year which I thought very sad. It was memorable to me because she was a nice, sweet player who got the win she deserved at last.

Green&Red · 25-10-2019 2:19pm

Sorry guys, missed that we had hit 7-1

So Sonia is through to round 2

Hopefully the rest don't take as long

Green&Red · 25-10-2019 2:21pm

Next up is two tennis matches

Boris Becker's first Wimbledon win

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ivanisevic winning Wimbledon 2001, one of the great underdog stories

Necro · 25-10-2019 2:23pm

Abstaining here.

Neither are particularly memorable to me tbh

Green&Red · 25-10-2019 2:25pm

Two choices that would beat a lot for me, I was a massive Becker fan as a kid while my brother liked Edberg, loved his style of play

I remember the Ivanisevic final, he was a great champion, he gets my vote

irishejit · 25-10-2019 2:45pm

Sorry guys just noticed this had commenced as well. Of the two Becker's is the only one I can remember at all so would have to go for it.

quickbeam · 25-10-2019 2:57pm

Yay, so at least one of my options will be getting in to the next round after all. I'm going for the Goran win, as more memorable to me.

Zaph · 25-10-2019 3:24pm

Also abstaining, didn't see either

MrKingsley · 25-10-2019 3:56pm

Oh it is Ivanisevic for me comfortably. One of my nominations.

3 times a losing finalist. Only got a wild card entry because they were doing a celebration that same year of all the winners and multiple losers in finals.

Final played over two days. Finished on the monday. Lost numerous match points.

I get goosebumps when I see that back.

A more popular winner at that time (other than henman) would have been tough to find.

quickbeam · 25-10-2019 3:58pm

MrKingsley wrote: »

Oh it is Ivanisevic for me comfortably. One of my nominations.

3 times a losing finalist. Only got a wild card entry because they were doing a celebration that same year of all the winners and multiple losers in finals.

Final played over two days. Finished on the monday. Lost numerous match points.

I get goosebumps when I see that back.

A more popular winner at that time (other than henman) would have been tough to find.

Not the only one to nominate it then? Cool! Yeah. I was happy for Goran, but I was also gutted for Rafter. I'd have been delighted with either of them winning actually, but it was a superb game and I was tenterhooks right to the end.

MrKingsley · 25-10-2019 4:04pm

Im actually welling up watching those last couple of games.

I had nothing against rafter but I loved Goran so much when I started really following tennis in the mid 90s

Barney92 · 25-10-2019 5:43pm

Another vote for Goran please. I nominated him too. Was so happy when he won, a cracking underdog tale.

Collie D · 27-10-2019 10:09pm

Ivanisevic for me. I remember watching on the Sunday and then following on radio in work the next day. Marathon final. Too young for the other one.

Green&Red · 28-10-2019 12:20am

5-1

Anything we can do to get this going

Electric Nitwit · 28-10-2019 9:27am

Green&Red wrote: »

5-1

Anything we can do to get this going

I vote Ivanisevic

I'd been holding back as I don't remember Becker's win, and I know it was massive, but I remember loving Goran winning (even though the tennis itself was a little one dimensional)

Necro · 28-10-2019 9:53am

*Shrugs*

Changing from abstaining to Ivanisevic just to progress this to the next match.

Green&Red · 29-10-2019 10:28am

So Goran finally goes through, his actual match took less time

Lets try and blitz through Round 1 today
I'm off to Colombia on Sunday

Green&Red · 29-10-2019 10:30am

Two more entries that won't exactly get the juices flowing I'd guess

Daley Thompson wins gold in 1984 at the decathlon

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The soccer match on Christmas Day 1914
Surprisingly enough no actual footage of this is available, so heres a cute ad that ignores the misery of the front line.

Green&Red · 29-10-2019 10:31am

Anybody interested in the WW1 should have a listen to Dan Carlin's hardcore history, one of the best pieces of audio you'll ever hear

irishejit · 29-10-2019 10:58am

Daley Thompson for me....it was the first Olympics I ever watched and i remember cheering Daley on...all 6 years old of me!!

Whilst I understand the poignancy of the WWI match I couldn't define it as a 'sporting' moment

quickbeam · 29-10-2019 12:12pm

Ach, never would have considered submitting it, but well done to whoever did. WW1 for me. I've only seen it depicted in Joyeux Noel but it's a very powerful statement.

Now I'm hoping the match between prisoners and guards in WW2 (Kiev, I think?) was also submitted.

sKeith · 29-10-2019 12:12pm

Has to be the ww1 footy game, that sainsbury ad brought a tear to my eye

MrKingsley · 29-10-2019 12:13pm

Thompson for me aswel.

Agree with above re the football match

quickbeam · 29-10-2019 12:13pm

irishejit wrote: »

Daley Thompson for me....it was the first Olympics I ever watched and i remember cheering Daley on...all 6 years old of me!!

You're younger than me, but I don't remember anything until Seoul.

Necro · 29-10-2019 12:16pm

Daley Thompson for me.

WW1 match sounds like an amazing moment but it was at the end of the day a kickabout.

Thompson winning a gold medal for me is a much better definition of a sporting moment (and I wasnt even bloody born when either occurred :pac: )

Green&Red · 29-10-2019 12:17pm

I'll go for Thompson too, the other wasn't a sporting moment IMO

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

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