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

Spook_ie

I'm voting against drugs so

Zidane for me

Green&Red

Next goal wins!

Barney92

Zidane for me too. Absolute magic.

Green&Red

Thats an absolute disgrace, Zidane through

Green&Red

BODs hat-trick in Paris

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Roger Milla and Co from Italia 90

Green&Red

Cameroon for me, made that world cup so much more special

Collie D

Cameroon - must have been everybody's second team at that World Cup.

Necro

Cameroon here though neither really deserve to go further tbh.

ArnoldJRimmer

Cameroon, first African team to get to the quarter finals, and absolutely lit up that World Cup

Omackeral

Football on the world stage dwarfs anything else.

Milla and Cameroon to advance.

Spook_ie

Likewise Cameroon, entertainment value alone

Green&Red

Which they do 6-0

Green&Red

Next up two fairly niche entries

Japan beat South Africa at the 2015 WC

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Ireland's victory over England at the 2011 cricket WC

Green&Red

Cricket for me but TBH two of the poorer choices in R2

We'll try and wrap up R2 this evening

Omackeral

Japan vs SA. Especially considering how they went on to host the tournament directly after it. Was a great advert for their public.

Cricket over here is super niche and only ever will be.

Necro

Japan beating South Africa was just epic.

Minnows in a sport beating an all time great nation.

Then again the same could be said for the cricket tbh.


Hmmmmm


Japan for me, just.

More of a global thing than a test match tbh.

Zaph

Cricket for me. It was great fun jumping on a very unexpected bandwagon for a bit.

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I'm going to go with the Irish Cricket victory but really, neither was in the incredible category if you ask me.

Zaph

Necro wrote: »

More of a global thing than a test match tbh.

That wasn't a test match, it was the cricket world cup.

Barney92

Necro wrote: »

More of a global thing than a test match tbh.

A test match Necro??? It was in a one day game in a World Cup, with the 'minnows' beating the inventors. I will admit the Japanese victory was epic but I'm voting for Ireland against England. Largest chase in a World Cup and done after they were almost down and out.

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Barney92 wrote: »

A test match Necro??? It was in a one day game in a World Cup, with the 'minnows' beating the inventors. I will admit the Japanese victory was epic but I'm voting for Ireland against England. Largest chase in a World Cup and done after they were almost down and out.

It was pretty much inconsequential though, even in terms of that competition. Was a group match in a group with 7 teams. Ireland lost 4, England won 2 and progressed.
I say that having voted for it...

ArnoldJRimmer

The cricket for me. Was a huge shock in the sport, not just a great win for Ireland

I actually lived in Bangalore at the time, there was an incredible atmosphere around that world cup where they are cricket mad. And a lot of the locals got behind Ireland

And as for a global sport, I'd guess that cricket has many more multiples watching it than rugby

Rikand

The cricket for me.

Ireland beating Pakistan was incredible too especially watching it with a few Pakistani lads lol. Great craic altogether.

Barney92

Tell me how wrote: »

It was pretty much inconsequential though, even in terms of that competition. Was a group match in a group with 7 teams. Ireland lost 4, England won 2 and progressed.
I say that having voted for it...

Inconsequential in terms of the tournament perhaps but pretty massive in terms of the sport here. The same could be said for many famous Irish sporting team wins - Ireland against Italy in 94, Romania in 90 etc. They didn't mean anything for the tournament, at least in terms of who won it. England won 3 and drew 1 to qualify in that group by the way.

gimli2112

Anything with the headline England shock defeat by Ireland gets my vote

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Barney92 wrote: »

Inconsequential in terms of the tournament perhaps but pretty massive in terms of the sport here. The same could be said for many famous Irish sporting team wins - Ireland against Italy in 94, Romania in 90 etc. They didn't mean anything for the tournament, at least in terms of who won it. England won 3 and drew 1 to qualify in that group by the way.

Ireland progressed as a consequence of those victories.

Shanotheslayer

Japan

Barney92

Tell me how wrote: »

Ireland progressed as a consequence of those victories.

I meant, ultimately in terms of the whole tournament they were pretty much as inconsequential as the cricket match. Ireland didn't win their next games so didn't get to the final.

Green&Red

Ireland go through

Green&Red

Daley Thompson takes gold at the '84 Olympics

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Katie Taylor punches here way to gold at London 2010

Green&Red

Katie for me, it was a big deal to have woman’s boxing at the olympics and she was instrumental. I was there for the fight against the English lady, some atmosphere

Necro

Zaph wrote: »

That wasn't a test match, it was the cricket world cup.

Barney92 wrote: »

A test match Necro??? It was in a one day game in a World Cup, with the 'minnows' beating the inventors. I will admit the Japanese victory was epic but I'm voting for Ireland against England. Largest chase in a World Cup and done after they were almost down and out.

Necro

Katie 100%

ArnoldJRimmer

Definitely Katie, she's been a great ambassador for both Ireland and womens boxing in general. this was a big achievement

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Katie.

Will be viewed as one of the trailblazers in womens boxing worldwide in years to come, if not already.

Delighted she got her medal as so many move out of amateur having lost their chance or had it robbed from them.

Barney92

I'm also going to go for Katie

gimli2112

Katie

Green&Red

Knockout blow from Katie

Green&Red

Goran Ivanisavic wins wimbledon in 2001

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Aguerooooooooooooooooooooooo

quickbeam

Goran. Very memorable match.

Green&Red

I loved Ivanisevic, brilliant wins at Wimbledon

But the Aguero moment is THE moment of the premiership era and it was sticking it to whiskey nose, gets my vote

Collie D

Aguero...again with just one O.

Necro

Vote for Agueeeeeeerrrrrrrooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo here.

As someone said in the last round probably one of the most iconic moments of the PL era

MrKingsley

Goran for me.

Zaph

Aguero. Hard to get excited over tennis.

ArnoldJRimmer

Goran, probably my favourite tennis moment of all time. He'd slogged for so many years and it looked like he'd never win a Wimbledon. To do it in such dramatic fashion was just incredible.

Green&Red

4-3 to Sergio

OAOB

Goran for me. After so many close losses he seemed too old to ever win Wimbledon but he did it in a fantastic final. Great sport

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Aguero.

As someone else said, pinnacle moment in terms of drama of PL so far.

Green&Red

OAOB wrote: »

Goran for me. After so many close losses he seemed too old to ever win Wimbledon but he did it in a fantastic final. Great sport

I thought he won it in 1994 but he lost the final