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Keep the bandwagon rolling? me? :D This should be fun, what are the worst sporting memories you have? you don't have to have been at the game / event, so it should open up more room for PAIN:evil4:

1 Scottish League Cup Final 1994 The mighty Raith Rovers beat Celtic on penalties at Death Star. Luckily enough I wasnae at this, as I wasnae drawn from the ballot at our CSC. Never been so embarassed in my life! And the stick I took at work and in the pub was just unbelievable! I made sure I wore the Celtic top on my first day of work after this debacle - otherwise the stick handed out would have been worse (if that is possible)

2 1990 World Cup Finals Scotland 0 Costa Rica 1 What can you say? We were absolute shite. We were beaten by a bunch of amateur league players, no-one gave Costa Rica a prayer, but then again with Scotland we should have known better, who can forget Zaire and Iran and Peru:nonono: I know that Maurice "Judas" Johnstone was up front, and I'm guessing he was joined by "Super" Ally, I give up how many chances were wasted by these two half wits! And if I remember correctly Stevie Nicol came closest to getting a Scotland goal....and lets just say you'd put more money on Jim Leighton scoring than Stevie Nicol:D

3 Celtic v Rangers 1994-1997 These should have been the happiest times in my life:cry: I think the huns had already done 5 in a row, which was bad enough, but for nearly 3 years we couldn't beat our fiercest enemies. They were the most boring bastards in the world, constantly Celtic would have 65% of the possession, but we just couldnae get past that fat cross dresser in goal (Andy Goram) and to make matters worse, they would run up the pitch at the end of the game and put a couple past us:nonono: The football Celtic played during these days was superb, but not being able to beat Rangers was hard, espescially when we had players up front such as Di Canio, Jorge Cadete & Pierre Van Hooijdonk. I think their run of wins started late 1994 and lasted for 13 games, that was until Paul Lambert and Di Canio scored for a 2-0 and long awaited win. Would I mention the amount of perfectly good goals we had disallowed for no good reason, very suspect off side flags, dodgy penalties constantly given against us or the fact we often were reduced to 10 men?......fcuking right I will! ;)

4 Nigel Benn v Chris Eubank I & II November 1990 & Aug 1993 I couldn't stand Eubank, I loved Benn and the fact he used to knock out everyone in the first couple of rounds. The first fight Eubank deserved, but how the second fight could be ruled a draw was beyond belief! I have both of these fights in the house and it still annoys me that Benn was never given proper credit for his performance in the second fight. The funniest memory I have is when Benn's team threatened the DJ to stop playing Simply The Best just as Eubank came out for the fight, Eubank was in such a rage that he nearly threatened to pull out of the fight. Class.

5 The Whirlwind As much as I loved Stephen Hendry (even though he's a blue nose) I always wanted to see Jimmy White win one of those World Finals, I think he was in 6 altogether, unfortunately for him he faced Hendry in 4 of them. He was/is definitley the best player never to have won the World title, and if it wasn't for players like Alex Hurricane Higgins and Jimmy White no-one would have ever watched snooker.

The UEFA Cup final from last year is still too painful to mention, as is losing the league to the Huns on the last day of the season.

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1 Michael Thomas 89 2 The white suits final 3 Wimbledon final

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  1. West Ham v Man Utd., last day of 1994/95. If any of those football years programmes feature that season I still can't watch it.
  2. The same fixture near the end of 1991/92. Midweek game, listened to it on the radio. The final whistle that night resulted in me booting a chair across the room, and wrecking a perfectly good table lamp. I think it was around then I REALLY got to hate the phrase "It's Only A Game".
  3. Man Utd v Newcastle, April 1998. United only managed a 1-1 draw while Arsenal had one hand on the trophy (& bubbly in the other) by demolishing Wimbledon (5-0 I think). Game was memorable though for Solskjaer's last ditch tackle on Lee, who was through on goal. It was a case of take him out or he scores. An instant red card, and a standing ovation from 50-odd thousand.
  4. 1995 Fa Cup Final wasn't exactly a barrel of laughs.
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1- The Cheating Argentines knocking England out of the World Cup in 1998. Diving (simeone), Cheating (of the course, the argentine player didnt handball, and didnt have his hand in air. Dangerous Play anyone), Atrocious refereeeing.

2- The Whole of the 2001 Lions tour. Apart from the first test. Never seen such a badly managed rugby team.

3- Stockport County appointing Carlton Palmer as manager. Were things that bad? I think not. They are now. Wee Sammy has his work cut out.

Thats 3 for now. More later. I have have to think of specific cricket incidents, instead of just putting the last 20 years down...

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  1. 1983 FA Cup Final. mutter mutter Gary Bailey mumble groan Gordon arsebiscuits Smith.

  2. San Marino GP 1994. Senna and Ratzenberger die. Barrichello nearly dies. Michele Alboreto runs a mechanic over in the pit lane. Members of the crowd are injured by flying debris. And all on live television.

  3. The hand of god.

  4. Chris Waddle at Italia 90. And no, I don't mean his mullet.

  5. Tim Henman.

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Originally posted by Liam Core 1- The Cheating Argentines knocking England out of the World Cup in 1998. Diving (simeone), Cheating (of the course, the argentine player didnt handball, and didnt have his hand in air. Dangerous Play anyone), Atrocious refereeeing.

cheating argentines? :scratch: i thought the headlines blamed the "stupid boy"... anyway, blame it on the referee but not on us. if there´s someone that should decide what´s good and bad on the pitch is the referee. go cry on the church! :wink:

my bad moments:

  1. Gilles Villeneuve dying. he was my idol and i was too young to understand why he left. i was watching live that day...
  2. 30th June, 1994. Maradona found guilty of drug abuse during the US Wourld Cup. it was devastating not because of the WC but because we thought he was better from his addiction.
  3. loosing the 90 final against Germany. we loose well because they were the best team by far. but that penalty... :nonono:
  4. San Marino 1994. Senna/Ratzembeger/Barrichello/Alboreto incidents. i still remember the look on Ayrton´s face the day before: he didn´t want to race, he knew something was wrong... :nonono:
    1. Ferrocarril Oeste going from first division to second, and the next year, going to third. it was really hard to understand what was going on.
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1975 - Boston Red Sox lost to the Reds in the seventh game of the World Series.

1978 - Boston Red Sox lost to the Yankees during the special tiebreaker game.

1986 - Boston Red Sox lost to the Mets in the seventh game of the World Series.

Note: This year's lost did not bother me because I am use to the Red Sox letting me down. :D

2003 - The Gurkhas lost to Ryoosoo, ruining their perfect season in the Power Corruption & Lies Fantasy Football League :(

GO GURKHAS!

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SHUGZV...just got another for you to add to your list!:laugh:

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  1. 1999 Cricket World Cup semis - SA draws with Aus to send Aus to the final, Allan Donald run out in last over
  2. SA rugby since 1990 - unprofessional, racist, pig-headed - so much amazing talent going to waste through bad management
  3. 2002 Soccer World Cup - SA not getting one more goal against Spain to qualify for the knockout round
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in addition to those mentioned;

travelling to sale to see bristol lose 76-0 was not much fun. losing the lions series in australia was sad too. losing the last match in the six nations all those years in a row, to scotland, wales, ireland etc

foot in mouth causing the cancellation of the six nations was upsetting in another way to me as i was leading the fantasy competition sky sports had run which was then cancelled - i was on to win a cool £5k!

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Losing to Coventry (Coventry, i ask you) in the fa cup semi

Losing to Villa in the final of the League Cup

Getting absolutely stuffed by Wigan in the Grand Final

Losing to Charlton in the play-off play-off

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Most Worcester City games.

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LOsing snakes and ladders to my dad about 35 years ago.

What the ruling on cocked dice, in a snakes and ladders final?

I slid from square 99 down the sanke to square 3.

Game was over after that

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OFI Krete - Iraklis Thessalonki 1-1 (greek cup final 1987) . Iraklis losses on penalties :cry: . I remember i couldnt sleep all night, i was THAT upset... Never made it to the final ever since :( but i ll be waiting all my life for the time we do, we win and erase all that bitterness from that night ;) .

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I almost forgot (counselling didn't work then!), the Manchester derby at Maine Road, September(?) 1989. :nonono:

*shudder*

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Originally posted by Liam Core 1- The Cheating Argentines knocking England out of the World Cup in 1998. Diving (simeone), Cheating (of the course, the argentine player didnt handball, and didnt have his hand in air. Dangerous Play anyone), Atrocious refereeeing.

hear, hear.

i thought i was going to throw up during the penalties i was so nervous. my friend was curled up in a ball next to me with an expression on his face not unlike the girl in the closet in 'the ring,' and the beer wasn't doing it's job. (well, i suppose it was, as alcohol is a depressant.)

that was the day i developed a pavlovian growling response every time i see the face of gabriel batistuta....

oh, and the first time i saw the broncos lose the super bowl (1988) i cried. and i don't even like american football...unless the broncos are playing, that is.

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San Marino 1994.

Melbourne Albert Park 2001.

Monza 2001.

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  1. The "Hand of God" Mexico '86. Cheating b*****d.

  2. England v. Germany Italia '90. Out on penalties again.

  3. England v. Wales at Wembley in '99, the Scott Gibbs try:cry:

  4. Lions v. Australia 2001, 2nd test, Richard Hill cynically taken out for the rest of the series.

  5. Raiders v. Bucs Superbowl XXXVII. Best offense in the NFL cut down by their previous coach, Mr. John Gruden.

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Sporting Low's

Istabrak in the Cheltenham Champion hurdle, last time he ran, did my bollocks on it.

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