My Top 5 How Did You Win That? Sporting Fairy Tales
#1
Posted 03 May 2016 - 09:18 AM
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.
#2
Posted 03 May 2016 - 09:20 AM
#3
Posted 03 May 2016 - 09:48 AM
#4
Posted 03 May 2016 - 10:11 AM
#6
Posted 03 May 2016 - 10:49 AM
This post has been edited by BlueRover52: 03 May 2016 - 10:50 AM
#8
Posted 03 May 2016 - 11:21 AM
BlueRover52, on 03 May 2016 - 10:49 AM, said:
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.
#9
Posted 03 May 2016 - 11:33 AM
Johnnyspireite7, on 03 May 2016 - 09:18 AM, said:
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
#11
Posted 03 May 2016 - 12:57 PM
Johnnyspireite7, on 03 May 2016 - 09:18 AM, said:
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
#12
Posted 03 May 2016 - 12:58 PM
semi130497, on 03 May 2016 - 12:57 PM, said:
If it'd have been a top 10 that would've been in there.
#13
Posted 03 May 2016 - 04:02 PM
Sammy Spireite, on 03 May 2016 - 11:49 AM, said:
Then there was that wild card winner Ivan Ivanivavich,Spell it? Can't even pronounce it! Then there was Ben Curtis who was a rank outsider for the British Open.
#14
Posted 03 May 2016 - 04:29 PM
BlueRover52, on 03 May 2016 - 04:02 PM, said:
Was his first name Goran and not Ivan ?
#15
Posted 03 May 2016 - 04:56 PM
BlueRover52, on 03 May 2016 - 04:02 PM, said:
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.
This post has been edited by Johnnyspireite7: 03 May 2016 - 04:58 PM
#16
Posted 03 May 2016 - 04:58 PM
Virginia Wade 1977 Wimbledon winner and in the Queens silver jubilee year
This post has been edited by fishini: 03 May 2016 - 05:03 PM
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#17
Posted 03 May 2016 - 06:20 PM
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.
#18
Posted 03 May 2016 - 06:36 PM
#19
Posted 03 May 2016 - 06:38 PM
Tylerdurdencfc, on 03 May 2016 - 06:20 PM, said:
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 ?
This post has been edited by boot: 03 May 2016 - 06:39 PM
#20
Posted 03 May 2016 - 06:42 PM
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
This post has been edited by Cartman: 03 May 2016 - 06:43 PM