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#1 User is offline   Johnnyspireite7 

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Posted 03 May 2016 - 09:18 AM

5 Joe Johnson winning the Snooker World Championships in 1986
The year before Dennis Taylor won the greatest ever World Championship final but who had heard of Joe Johnson when he won it. He came from Bradford and had the same glasses like Taylor but had never even won a match at the Crucible before beating the era's greatest player to win the title, the fact he got back to the final the following year to try and defend it was remarkable as well.

4. Ryder Cup 2012
The European team were on their knees, getting caned by the Yanks but with the spirit of Seve over them and Ian Poulter's sheer determination they pulled back a seemingly un-winnable position to leave the Yanks shell-shocked.

3. Denmark winning the European Championship in 1992
They hadn't even qualified for the tournament, but due to some 'local difficulty' in the former Yugoslavia they got in when the Slavs were thrown out of the event. They then produced a display of steady football to make fools of the Germans in the final and made some players household names. Who had heard of John Jensen before the tournament? (Arsene Wenger wishes he hadn't!!!)

2. Jensen Button and Brawn winning everything in 2009
Rising from the ashes of a dreadful season as Honda and basically being out of work Ross Brawn pulled in all his knowledge and contacts within the sport to manufacture one of the greatest Lazarus type comebacks of all time in Formula 1.

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1 Leicester City 2016 Premier League Champions
A team that the previous season scrapped and clawed their way to survive from dead last in the Premier League to produce what they have done is remarkable. A manager who everyone said at the start of the season would be the first to be sacked, players who have been rejected at other teams or coming from non-league or foreign lower league teams, built on a fraction of what the 'big' teams have been, just proves that if you build a squad who play like a family anything is achievable.
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Posted 03 May 2016 - 09:20 AM

Wouldn't argue with any of those - apart from the Snooker as it was before my time - but as was Denmark but I know more about that. Throw Greece in for the euros in 2004 too.
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Posted 03 May 2016 - 09:48 AM

I'm gonna throw accy and Burton into this. Not the same odds as Leicester but the same size difference from top to bottom of the leagues. Amazing achievements which we may not see for a long time
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Posted 03 May 2016 - 10:11 AM

The 1981 Test Match v Australia at Headingly - England, at 135-7 in the second innings, still 92 runs behind Australia with their second inning to follow.
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Posted 03 May 2016 - 10:18 AM

View Post60s 70s Spireite, on 03 May 2016 - 10:11 AM, said:

The 1981 Test Match v Australia at Headingly - England, at 135-7 in the second innings, still 92 runs behind Australia with their second inning to follow.


Buster douglas beating Tyson and Matt Serra beating Georges St Pierre!
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Posted 03 May 2016 - 10:49 AM

:unsure: 1997 Chesterfield FC reaching the FA Cup Semi Final only to be Ellerayed out of a Cup Final against Chelsea. :angry:Which we surely would have won.Not a win I know but it's a fairytale for us. :closedeyes:

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Posted 03 May 2016 - 10:59 AM

Was gonna mention this too
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Posted 03 May 2016 - 11:21 AM

View PostBlueRover52, on 03 May 2016 - 10:49 AM, said:

:unsure: 1997 Chesterfield FC reaching the FA Cup Semi Final only to be Ellerayed out of a Cup Final against Chelsea. :angry:Which we surely would have won.Not a win I know but it's a fairytale for us. :closedeyes:

Purely because we didn't get all the way I couldn't include it, had we have performed a miracle then this would have surpassed what Leicester have done.
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Posted 03 May 2016 - 11:33 AM

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View PostJohnnyspireite7, on 03 May 2016 - 09:18 AM, said:

5 Joe Johnson winning the Snooker World Championships in 1986
The year before Dennis Taylor won the greatest ever World Championship final but who had heard of Joe Johnson when he won it. He came from Bradford and had the same glasses like Taylor but had never even won a match at the Crucible before beating the era's greatest player to win the title, the fact he got back to the final the following year to try and defend it was remarkable as well.

4. Ryder Cup 2012
The European team were on their knees, getting caned by the Yanks but with the spirit of Seve over them and Ian Poulter's sheer determination they pulled back a seemingly un-winnable position to leave the Yanks shell-shocked.

3. Denmark winning the European Championship in 1992
They hadn't even qualified for the tournament, but due to some 'local difficulty' in the former Yugoslavia they got in when the Slavs were thrown out of the event. They then produced a display of steady football to make fools of the Germans in the final and made some players household names. Who had heard of John Jensen before the tournament? (Arsene Wenger wishes he hadn't!!!)

2. Jensen Button and Brawn winning everything in 2009
Rising from the ashes of a dreadful season as Honda and basically being out of work Ross Brawn pulled in all his knowledge and contacts within the sport to manufacture one of the greatest Lazarus type comebacks of all time in Formula 1.









and Finally

1 Leicester City 2016 Premier League Champions
A team that the previous season scrapped and clawed their way to survive from dead last in the Premier League to produce what they have done is remarkable. A manager who everyone said at the start of the season would be the first to be sacked, players who have been rejected at other teams or coming from non-league or foreign lower league teams, built on a fraction of what the 'big' teams have been, just proves that if you build a squad who play like a family anything is achievable.

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This post has been edited by Dave In Footie Heaven: 03 May 2016 - 11:34 AM

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Posted 03 May 2016 - 11:49 AM

Boris Beckers first Wimbledon title must be up there, too
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Posted 03 May 2016 - 12:57 PM

View PostJohnnyspireite7, on 03 May 2016 - 09:18 AM, said:

5 Joe Johnson winning the Snooker World Championships in 1986
The year before Dennis Taylor won the greatest ever World Championship final but who had heard of Joe Johnson when he won it. He came from Bradford and had the same glasses like Taylor but had never even won a match at the Crucible before beating the era's greatest player to win the title, the fact he got back to the final the following year to try and defend it was remarkable as well.

4. Ryder Cup 2012
The European team were on their knees, getting caned by the Yanks but with the spirit of Seve over them and Ian Poulter's sheer determination they pulled back a seemingly un-winnable position to leave the Yanks shell-shocked.

3. Denmark winning the European Championship in 1992
They hadn't even qualified for the tournament, but due to some 'local difficulty' in the former Yugoslavia they got in when the Slavs were thrown out of the event. They then produced a display of steady football to make fools of the Germans in the final and made some players household names. Who had heard of John Jensen before the tournament? (Arsene Wenger wishes he hadn't!!!)

2. Jensen Button and Brawn winning everything in 2009
Rising from the ashes of a dreadful season as Honda and basically being out of work Ross Brawn pulled in all his knowledge and contacts within the sport to manufacture one of the greatest Lazarus type comebacks of all time in Formula 1.

and Finally

1 Leicester City 2016 Premier League Champions
A team that the previous season scrapped and clawed their way to survive from dead last in the Premier League to produce what they have done is remarkable. A manager who everyone said at the start of the season would be the first to be sacked, players who have been rejected at other teams or coming from non-league or foreign lower league teams, built on a fraction of what the 'big' teams have been, just proves that if you build a squad who play like a family anything is achievable.



I'm not even a horse racing fan but what about Aldaniti winning the grand national in 1981. Jockey Bob Champion recovered from cancer while Aldaniti himself had recovered after suffering a career threatening injury
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Posted 03 May 2016 - 12:58 PM

View Postsemi130497, on 03 May 2016 - 12:57 PM, said:

I'm not even a horse racing fan but what about Aldaniti winning the grand national in 1981. Jockey Bob Champion recovered from cancer while Aldaniti himself had recovered after suffering a career threatening injury

If it'd have been a top 10 that would've been in there.
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Posted 03 May 2016 - 04:02 PM

View PostSammy Spireite, on 03 May 2016 - 11:49 AM, said:

Boris Beckers first Wimbledon title must be up there, too

:unsure: Then there was that wild card winner Ivan Ivanivavich,Spell it? Can't even pronounce it! :blush: Then there was Ben Curtis who was a rank outsider for the British Open. :wacko:
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Posted 03 May 2016 - 04:29 PM

View PostBlueRover52, on 03 May 2016 - 04:02 PM, said:

:unsure: Then there was that wild card winner Ivan Ivanivavich,Spell it? Can't even pronounce it! :blush: Then there was Ben Curtis who was a rank outsider for the British Open. :wacko:


Was his first name Goran and not Ivan ?
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Posted 03 May 2016 - 04:56 PM

View PostBlueRover52, on 03 May 2016 - 04:02 PM, said:

:unsure: Then there was that wild card winner Ivan Ivanivavich,Spell it? Can't even pronounce it! :blush: Then there was Ben Curtis who was a rank outsider for the British Open. :wacko:

Goran Ivanisevic but he hadn't exactly come out of the blue, he'd been on the tour for years and won 21 tour titles before winning Wimbledon.

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Posted 03 May 2016 - 04:58 PM

Casus Clay beating Sonny Liston
Virginia Wade 1977 Wimbledon winner and in the Queens silver jubilee year

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Posted 03 May 2016 - 06:20 PM

Forest being promoted from division two in 1977

1978, division one champions, league cup winners, charity shield winners
1979, European cups winners, European super cup winners, league cup winners, division one runners-up
1980, European cup winners, league cup runners up,

All done with no money against Bob paisley's might of Liverpool and all done with 16 players in 1978.
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Posted 03 May 2016 - 06:36 PM

I know bookies odds aren't the only measure of sporting miracles but Fred Done reckoned back then Forest were been no more than 50s pre-season with the Clough factor strongly in evidence.
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Posted 03 May 2016 - 06:38 PM

View PostTylerdurdencfc, on 03 May 2016 - 06:20 PM, said:

Forest being promoted from division two in 1977

1978, division one champions, league cup winners, charity shield winners
1979, European cups winners, European super cup winners, league cup winners, division one runners-up
1980, European cup winners, league cup runners up,

All done with no money against Bob paisley's might of Liverpool and all done with 16 players in 1978.


Leicester's achievement is miraculous and I was as thrilled as if Town had scored when Chelsea's second went in last night. Does it really cap what Forest did consistently though, from perhaps an even more humble starting point ?

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Posted 03 May 2016 - 06:42 PM

5000/1 are massive odds and not really reflective of the actual chance Leicester had of winning the league

More like bookies trying to entice some cash off of Leicester fans for something very unlikely

To put it into perspective you can get 5000/1 on Aliens landing or Elvis being alive!

100/1 would have been fairer as an actual probability as once every 100 seasons you may get this type of league winner

Bookies will be laughing, a few big sums paid out from small stakes yes, but think of the 1000s of bets taken on United, City, Chelsea and even on Liverpool from deluded it's our year types! Also most people's pick the winner of every division accas have gone down - this will dwarf the sums paid out on Leicester

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