Great Sporting Comebacks

Great Sporting Comebacks

MK Dons didnt do too badly either today!
 

Great Sporting Comebacks

I am sure Gills will want to remind us of being 1-3 down with not long to go in the cup. The final score is too painful to post
 

Great Sporting Comebacks

GlasgowBee said:
I am sure Gills will want to remind us of being 1-3 down with not long to go in the cup. The final score is too painful to post
Click to expand...

3-1 up with 9 minutes left i believe it was. then disaster and we lose 5-3. what a day that was. then we got chased around gillingham near the station, great!
 

Great Sporting Comebacks

Manchester City in the FA Cup a few years ago at White Hart lane. Three-nil down at half time, came back to win four-three. I may be wrong, but I think they were also down to ten men!?
 

Great Sporting Comebacks

3 - 0 down, 4 - 3 up, Dougie Rougvie ****ed it up, la la la la la la.

Great game. :sorted:
 

Great Sporting Comebacks

Les Beeavinu said:
3 - 0 down, 4 - 3 up, Dougie Rougvie ****ed it up, la la la la la la.

Great game. :sorted:
Click to expand...

Great game indeed. I also remember Chelsea being 0-3 at home to Bolton many years ago and bringing on a very young Clive Walker (with about 20 minuites to go), who turned the game on it's head and Chelsea won 4-3.

:cool:
 

Great Sporting Comebacks

Another comeback at White Hart Lane. 2001, Spurs 3-0 up at half time against United. United ended up winning 3-5!
 

Great Sporting Comebacks

Queens Park Rangers did alright 4-0 down at half time to Port Vale I think...

Also another one with Queens Park Rangers against Newcastle United in 1984 which was 5-5. I remember seeing it on one of those football videos. Can't remember who was leading though.
 

Great Sporting Comebacks

Tranmere Vs Saints in the cup was good, but I cannot remember the exact details, 3-0 to 4-3 maybe??
 

Great Sporting Comebacks

Blackpool vs Bolton Wanderers in the 1953 FA Cup Final. Blackpool trailed 3-1 and Blackpool's right wing, Sir Stanley Matthews, put on a show leading to a 4-3 Blackpool victory including a Stan Mortensen hat-trick. Magical!
 

Great Sporting Comebacks

England v Australia at Leeds, Botham's big hundred in the 2nd innings and Bob Willis then bowling us to unexpected victory - what were the odds, 500-1 at one stage? :sorted:
 

Great Sporting Comebacks

Gillingham were 3-1 down once with 9 minuites to go and ended up winning 5-3.

:cry: :mad1: :cry: :mad1: :cry: :mad1:
 

Great Sporting Comebacks

Personally I think the greatest comeback of all time, and just imagine if you were a Manchester City fan, was when they played at Tottenham Hotspur about three years ago. They went into the changing rooms at half time trailing three-nil and down to ten men. They then scored four goals without reply in the second half and won four-three. Astonishing! Tottenham Hotspur totally went to pieces.
 

Great Sporting Comebacks

In the 1953 Ashes series Willie Watson and Trevor Bailey performed a phenomenal "Lazarus" trick at Lord's to save England from almost certain defeat which would have cost us the Ashes we regained that year.

"On the fourth evening, when England were set 343 to win, England collapsed to 20-3 against Ray Lindwall. They had to bat out the final day, or else.

At 12.40pm Denis Compton was dismissed and Watson was joined by Bailey. They did not go for the runs. Besides Lindwall and Keith Miller, Australia had spinners bowling into the rough outside Watson's off stump. The crowd, small and pessimistic at the start, grew until they lined the boundaries in rows of hope. Almost throughout the day, for 346 minutes, Watson batted to score 109, while Bailey lasted 257 minutes for his 71, and their stand of 163 lasted until 5.50pm, 40 minutes before stumps were drawn at 282-7."
 

Great Sporting Comebacks

what about the 2005 champions lge final?
 

Great Sporting Comebacks

My "other" spanish team San Isidro from south Tenerife won their play-off final for promotion to segunda b having needed to score three goals after 95 minutes of their second leg. It helps if the referee adds on 12 minutes injury time of course.
 

Great Sporting Comebacks

That boxer Rocky Balboa always seemed to stage some unbelievable comebacks ! :)


:sneakoff:
 

Great Sporting Comebacks

Great Sporting Comebacks

NHL 2000
St Louis 0 Toronto 5 - 3rd period, 15:09 left
St Louis 6 Toronto 5 OT

also
NHL 1987
Calgary 0 Toronto 5 - 3rd period
Calgary 6 Toronto 5 OT


Toronto :laugh:
 

Great Sporting Comebacks

wibs said:
Personally I think the greatest comeback of all time, and just imagine if you were a Manchester City fan, was when they played at Tottenham Hotspur about three years ago. They went into the changing rooms at half time trailing three-nil and down to ten men. They then scored four goals without reply in the second half and won four-three. Astonishing! Tottenham Hotspur totally went to pieces.
Click to expand...

Post #7 had it this way re that FA Cup tie on Feb 4th 2004:
datchetbee said:
Manchester City in the FA Cup a few years ago at White Hart lane. Three-nil down at half time, came back to win four-three. I may be wrong, but I think they were also down to ten men!?
Click to expand...
 

Great Sporting Comebacks

SCBee said:
England v Australia at Leeds, Botham's big hundred in the 2nd innings and Bob Willis then bowling us to unexpected victory - what were the odds, 500-1 at one stage? :sorted:
Click to expand...



If that is the 111 all out for Australia then it was the greatest sporting comeback I have ever seen.
 

Great Sporting Comebacks

The H said:
NHL 2000
St Louis 0 Toronto 5 - 3rd period, 15:09 left
St Louis 6 Toronto 5 OT

also
NHL 1987
Calgary 0 Toronto 5 - 3rd period
Calgary 6 Toronto 5 OT


Toronto :laugh:
Click to expand...

Is that why they changed their name to "The Toronto 75%ers" ? :shrug:
 

Great Sporting Comebacks

Man City V Gillingham play off final from about 8 years ago or so
 

Great Sporting Comebacks

interesting no one has posted it... 1999 champions league final. not one for a great amount of goals, but it has to be up there for edge-of-the-seat-last-minute action
 

Great Sporting Comebacks

SCBee said:
England v Australia at Leeds, Botham's big hundred in the 2nd innings and Bob Willis then bowling us to unexpected victory - what were the odds, 500-1 at one stage? :sorted:
Click to expand...
Yes, and Dennis Lillee and Rodney Marsh took advantage of those odds and cleaned up. They were two of the hardest Australians to winkle out in the second innings, so there was never a suggestion that they threw their wickets to win the gamble.

We were still behind in our second innings when the seventh wicket went down.
 

Great Sporting Comebacks

Banana said:
walkerbee said:
interesting no one has posted it... 1999 champions league final. not one for a great amount of goals, but it has to be up there for edge-of-the-seat-last-minute action
Click to expand...

Post #19
Click to expand...
That's the 2005 final, where Liverpool came back from 3-0 down at half time to win on penalties. Not the 1999 final when Manyoo were losing until the 89th minute.
 

Great Sporting Comebacks

Charlton, 5-1 down with only ten men with just twenty-eight minutes left at The Valley, won 7-6 against Huddersfield in 1957.
 

Great Sporting Comebacks

markbfc said:
Charlton, 5-1 down with only ten men with just twenty-eight minutes left at The Valley, won 7-6 against Huddersfield in 1957.
Click to expand...

The 4th was definitely offside though.
 

Great Sporting Comebacks

Two Boxing ones I can think of.

1) George Foreman KO 10 Michael Moorer

Moorer easily outboxed Foreman for 9 rounds with the later unable to connect with anything meaningful. Well behind on all the scorecards, Forman finally finds Moorers chin in the 10th, dropping him for the full count and winning the WBA and IBF Hewvyweight titles, aged 45.

2) Julian Jackson KO 4 Herol Graham

For three rounds Graham completely outboxed Jackson and had him hurt. Jackson (who was returning from retina Surgery) was slumped in his corner with his eyes fast swelling shut. The referee informed Jackson's corner that he would have to stop the fight at the end of the following round. The Fourth round continues much like the previous three, until http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhVi7cH-LaQ
 

Great Sporting Comebacks

Deathstroke said:
Two Boxing ones I can think of.

1) George Foreman KO 10 Michael Moorer

Moorer easily outboxed Foreman for 9 rounds with the later unable to connect with anything meaningful. Well behind on all the scorecards, Forman finally finds Moorers chin in the 10th, dropping him for the full count and winning the WBA and IBF Hewvyweight titles, aged 45.

2) Julian Jackson KO 4 Herol Graham

For three rounds Graham completely outboxed Jackson and had him hurt. Jackson (who was returning from retina Surgery) was slumped in his corner with his eyes fast swelling shut. The referee informed Jackson's corner that he would have to stop the fight at the end of the following round. The Fourth round continues much like the previous three, until http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhVi7cH-LaQ
Click to expand...


good shout on that second one. I re,member it so clearly, it was a masterclass in boxing until that. THE punch effectively ended bombers career
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Share this page

Back
Top Bottom