The Greatest Non GAA Sporting Moment, EVER!

[Kerry Mike]

Ray Houghton v England - 1988 (Cant find a pic but what a moment)
Only recently topped by Munster lifting the H-Cup in 06

My other Irish sporting favourites:
Dawn Run - gold Cup
Dennis Taylor - winning the snooker
Barry McGuigan v Pedroza
Collins v Eubank in Millstreet
Eamon Coughlan - World Championship Gold
Sonia O'Sullivan in Sydney
Marcus O'Sullivan and his Mannamaker indoor miles
Michelle Smith's Gold's in Atlanta (until we found out the real story)
John Tracy Winning the World cross Country Championship in the mud in Limerick and his silver in the marathon in LA in 84.
Stephen Roche in 87 (when he collasped on the mountain top in the Tour de France, stirring stuff and then going on to win the Tour)
Sean Kelly on the cobbles on a wet day in the Paris-Roubais and his help to Roche to secure the treble
Ginger McLoughlin try and winning the triple crown in 82
Michael Kiernans drop goal to win in 85
Shane Horgan try to secure the triple crown last year.

Other International sporting moments:
Muhammad Ali Lighting the Olympic Flame in Atlanta was a special moment
Jesso Owens - 4 Golds
Carl Lewis - 4 Golds
Cantona's kick to the crowd
United's European Cup in 99
Liverpools European Cup in 05
South Africa winning the Rugby world cup.
Jonny Wilkinson's drop goal to win it for England in 03 was a pressure kick.

[maddog]

Ray Houghton v England - 1988 (Cant find a pic but what a moment)
Only recently topped by Munster lifting the H-Cup in 06

My other Irish sporting favourites:
Dawn Run - gold Cup
Dennis Taylor - winning the snooker
Barry McGuigan v Pedroza
Collins v Eubank in Millstreet
Eamon Coughlan - World Championship Gold
Sonia O'Sullivan in Sydney
Marcus O'Sullivan and his Mannamaker indoor miles
Michelle Smith's Gold's in Atlanta (until we found out the real story)
John Tracy Winning the World cross Country Championship in the mud in Limerick and his silver in the marathon in LA in 84.
Stephen Roche in 87 (when he collasped on the mountain top in the Tour de France, stirring stuff and then going on to win the Tour)
Sean Kelly on the cobbles on a wet day in the Paris-Roubais and his help to Roche to secure the treble
Ginger McLoughlin try and winning the triple crown in 82
Michael Kiernans drop goal to win in 85
Shane Horgan try to secure the triple crown last year.

Other International sporting moments:
Muhammad Ali Lighting the Olympic Flame in Atlanta was a special moment
Jesso Owens - 4 Golds
Carl Lewis - 4 Golds
Cantona's kick to the crowd
United's European Cup in 99
Liverpools European Cup in 05
South Africa winning the Rugby world cup.
Jonny Wilkinson's drop goal to win it for England in 03 was a pressure kick.

When you mention Kelly's helping of Roche Mike it wasnt the case. Roche slogged his guts out that day for Kelly to win the worlds, it was only about 5k from home the front group split. Kelly and Argentin were marking each other out of it and Kelly found himself in the second group. Roche being no sprinter took a chance inside the last kilometre as he knew Kelly couldnt get across the gap without knackering himself so he went for it, up the inside of Rolf Sorensen from Denmark and the others for split second hesitated in chasing Roche, and the rest is history. Still a great moment though

[Mayo4Sam]

Stephen Roche in 87 (when he collasped on the mountain top in the Tour de France, stirring stuff and then going on to win the Tour)

Remind you or anybody recently?

IMHO cycling and all achievements belonging to it are tainted

[maddog]

Stephen Roche in 87 (when he collasped on the mountain top in the Tour de France, stirring stuff and then going on to win the Tour)

Remind you or anybody recently?

IMHO cycling and all achievements belonging to it are tainted

Must throw the throphies in the skip so.

[MW]

Check out the reactions of Pele, Tostao and the crowd behind the nets!   

Not taking away from Pele, but Tony Cascarino was regularly knocking them in from a few yards out for Millwall in the 80s . . .

Good God, your knowledge of World Cup folklore merits a Grade F.

Those aren't pictures of a goal, those are the iconic images of a save from Gordon Banks that is often called 'the greatest save of all time'.

[Farrandeelin]

United's treble win in 99 is my favourite non GAA sporting event.

[Lone Shark]

The only Irish sports star to remain unsurpassed to this day going on to secure immortality ....

[turk]

Check out the reactions of Pele, Tostao and the crowd behind the nets!   

Not taking away from Pele, but Tony Cascarino was regularly knocking them in from a few yards out for Millwall in the 80s . . .

Good God, your knowledge of World Cup folklore merits a Grade F.

Those aren't pictures of a goal, those are the iconic images of a save from Gordon Banks that is often called 'the greatest save of all time'.

Hi MW

I'm aware it wasn't a goal.

We can only take this world cup moment based on the footage we have of it. Banks made a superb save - no one will argue that, but my opinion (and i'm happy to give my opinion on this, and not just eat what's spoonfed to me) is that it was a poor finish by Pele. He should have scored from there and not headered it down so much.

Incidentally this save (great save) and Bobby Moore's tackle on Pele in the same match are often cited as the reasons that this was the best soccer match of all time. The match was reshown on BBC1 when Brazil and England met in 2002 world cup - just like some of the All ireland gold matches, it hasn't aged well! It makes for fairly lame fare watching it now.

cheers

[ONeill]

[muppet]

 O'Neill is that John Hayes?

[ONeill]

It's Galvin honing his pre-All-Ireland aquatic skills.

[Rufus T Firefly]

Check out the reactions of Pele, Tostao and the crowd behind the nets!   

Not taking away from Pele, but Tony Cascarino was regularly knocking them in from a few yards out for Millwall in the 80s . . .

Good God, your knowledge of World Cup folklore merits a Grade F.

Those aren't pictures of a goal, those are the iconic images of a save from Gordon Banks that is often called 'the greatest save of all time'.

Hi MW

I'm aware it wasn't a goal.

We can only take this world cup moment based on the footage we have of it. Banks made a superb save - no one will argue that, but my opinion (and i'm happy to give my opinion on this, and not just eat what's spoonfed to me) is that it was a poor finish by Pele. He should have scored from there and not headered it down so much.

Incidentally this save (great save) and Bobby Moore's tackle on Pele in the same match are often cited as the reasons that this was the best soccer match of all time. The match was reshown on BBC1 when Brazil and England met in 2002 world cup - just like some of the All ireland gold matches, it hasn't aged well! It makes for fairly lame fare watching it now.

cheers

The save was just unbelievable and my favourite non GAA sporting moment of all time. It was not just the save though. That move started, if memory serves me correctly, with a shot/cross from Francis Lee on the England right that Felix gathered well. He rolled the ball to Carlos Alberto who advanced towards half way and hit the most brilliant pass, with the outside of his right boot, over 50 or so yards, inside Terry Cooper and into the path of Jairzinho. His first touch was too heavy and he sent the ball, bouncing on a rock hard surface, hurtling towards the end line. He sprinted after it and somehow got his foot around it to send over the perfect cross. The rest is history! 

By the way Turk - agree about watching the match again, though I would suggest that no matter what match you watch in it's entirety, you will always fast forward some bits. That game though was a marvellous occasion, between the first and second best teams in the world, with great players on both sides! Tremendous!

[turk]

was Franny Lee playing for England in that match Rufus?? Merciful hour!!

By the way, Bobby Moore never took that necklace - he was sound

cheers

[Rufus T Firefly]

I know I started this thread many moons ago with Banks' save from Pele - but was reading the Guardian a week or two back and they pointed me to this beauty on youtube. I'd always wanted to see The Try From The End Of The World , but only managed to for the first time last week.

It's the second try in the clip below, and given the circumstances (wrapping up an away series win by any team in New Zealand for the first time in about 600 years, in the last minute of the second and last test) this has to beat any try scored anywhere.

By the way - the first try ain't bad either! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_yL2gnof2g&mode=related&search=

[Turlough O Carolan]

Not a sport I care for but hard to beat the final 3 seconds of the 1972 Olympic basketball final for drama.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5sMX65Y3wPc