Your greatest (and lowest) sporting moment?
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Your greatest (and lowest) sporting moment?
Right then, since we've been talking about the occasions when people better and more famous than you ran rings around ye, how about the moments when you were, as they say, atop of the world in the sporting sense?
For me, would have to be the Great Britain v NZ Rugby League test match at the Reebok in 1999 ( I think). I was in one of the teams that was in the 'curtain raiser game'. Was feckin mint walking into the players bit, bumping into Andy Farrell, walking out the tunnel actually ready to play . During the game, I managed to injure one of their players with an instinctive high tackle, as well as make a try saving one in the last minute to win the game. It didn't matter that the stadium was less than half full and I was only 11, but we won!
Lowest, probably scoring the golden own goal that knocked Plodder Lane CP out of the schools cup in extra time the same year. Not nice
For me, would have to be the Great Britain v NZ Rugby League test match at the Reebok in 1999 ( I think). I was in one of the teams that was in the 'curtain raiser game'. Was feckin mint walking into the players bit, bumping into Andy Farrell, walking out the tunnel actually ready to play . During the game, I managed to injure one of their players with an instinctive high tackle, as well as make a try saving one in the last minute to win the game. It didn't matter that the stadium was less than half full and I was only 11, but we won!
Lowest, probably scoring the golden own goal that knocked Plodder Lane CP out of the schools cup in extra time the same year. Not nice
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Played against the Thai national u18's in the umbro tournament when I was 15, we won 4-3 and I bagged the 2nd, 3rd and 4th from midfield. One of the best games I ever hadVerbal wrote:Right then, since we've been talking about the occasions when people better and more famous than you ran rings around ye, how about the moments when you were, as they say, atop of the world in the sporting sense?
For me, would have to be the Great Britain v NZ Rugby League test match at the Reebok in 1999 ( I think). I was in one of the teams that was in the 'curtain raiser game'. Was feckin mint walking into the players bit, bumping into Andy Farrell, walking out the tunnel actually ready to play . During the game, I managed to injure one of their players with an instinctive high tackle, as well as make a try saving one in the last minute to win the game. It didn't matter that the stadium was less than half full and I was only 11, but we won!
Lowest, probably scoring the golden own goal that knocked Plodder Lane CP out of the schools cup in extra time the same year. Not nice
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Best: None. I'm rubbish at actually playing sport.
Worst: I once scored two own goals in a single game in Games at school. I also never scored for my team in five years of Games lessons .
Worst: I once scored two own goals in a single game in Games at school. I also never scored for my team in five years of Games lessons .
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I was part of the school badminton(hardcore ) team, won the schools league a couple years in a row.
Worst was dropping a catch against our arch rivals during the innings and they went on to win with 1 wicket. IIRC they got to the national finals that year in another competition.
Worst was dropping a catch against our arch rivals during the innings and they went on to win with 1 wicket. IIRC they got to the national finals that year in another competition.
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I broke the 100m hurdles school record whilst in the 3rd year at Joseph Easthams. The record still stands, from 1979!!
Playing in a schools cup semi final, the ball was curled over from the right wing as I ran 30 yards, dropped a shoulder and launched a screaming left footed volley into the top corner. " Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I screamed, "Jesus Christ, what a goal" screamed my old fella. "Offside" shouted the referee. Bastard.
Playing in a schools cup semi final, the ball was curled over from the right wing as I ran 30 yards, dropped a shoulder and launched a screaming left footed volley into the top corner. " Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I screamed, "Jesus Christ, what a goal" screamed my old fella. "Offside" shouted the referee. Bastard.
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My old man went to Joey's just merged with Hulton High to become 'Harrop Fold' still shit!Bijou Bob wrote:I broke the 100m hurdles school record whilst in the 3rd year at Joseph Easthams. The record still stands, from 1979!!
Playing in a schools cup semi final, the ball was curled over from the right wing as I ran 30 yards, dropped a shoulder and launched a screaming left footed volley into the top corner. " Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I screamed, "Jesus Christ, what a goal" screamed my old fella. "Offside" shouted the referee. Bastard.
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Best - a tie between scoring from the halfway line with my weaker left foot against Stretford Vics in the Under 11's, and making a late try-saving tackle to win the Wigan Schools RL Cup for the fourth year in succession in fourth year High School.
Worst - playing in a half-time penalty shoot out at Craven Cottage at the Fulham-Leigh RMI FA Cup tie and 'doing a Waddle'
Worst - playing in a half-time penalty shoot out at Craven Cottage at the Fulham-Leigh RMI FA Cup tie and 'doing a Waddle'
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Badminton's changed since I last played it!Dr.Karl wrote:I was part of the school badminton(hardcore ) team, won the schools league a couple years in a row.
Worst was dropping a catch against our arch rivals during the innings and they went on to win with 1 wicket. IIRC they got to the national finals that year in another competition.
Best: The goal I scored at the old Wembley didn't count as it was an illegal game. So I'll nominate playing at the Emirates recently, although there were no individual moments to savour from a Pedersen-style enforced left-back
Worst: Playing for Walmersley Wanderers at 14, getting beaten 35-0. A fortnight later we played the same team and they beat us 37-0, but by that point I'd reassessed our goals... by the end of the season we managed to draw a game 3-3!
Best: Our ladies darts team winning the league and every trophy competition we entered last season - Top Arrows. We got verrrrry drunk that presentation night.
Worst: Losing every game we played in a netball tournament last year in Swindon but the whole weekend was just sooooo good that we didn't care a bit.
Worst: Losing every game we played in a netball tournament last year in Swindon but the whole weekend was just sooooo good that we didn't care a bit.
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Best moment: having just turned 17, captaining my college basketball side in the U19 Welsh National Championships (went college in wales ). We came within 1 minute of being national champs against a significantly bigger team full of international players. We won every match to the final bar 1.
Worst: Fracturing my 5th metatarsal and buggering up the ligaments in my ankle completing a home run in a softball tournament. Wasn't all bad though, was told to stay at home by work and it was just in time for the final ashes test (the one we won )
Worst: Fracturing my 5th metatarsal and buggering up the ligaments in my ankle completing a home run in a softball tournament. Wasn't all bad though, was told to stay at home by work and it was just in time for the final ashes test (the one we won )
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Bowling out the Lancashire Boys captain first ball, in a house match at Bolton Tech, then going on to dismiss the whole side bar one in two overs for seven runs. I went into bat and knocked two fours to win the match and be the hero of the hour.
Worst. TW Open 2006. I'm still smarting from how much crap I played. Twill be a little different this time methinks.
Bowling out the Lancashire Boys captain first ball, in a house match at Bolton Tech, then going on to dismiss the whole side bar one in two overs for seven runs. I went into bat and knocked two fours to win the match and be the hero of the hour.
Worst. TW Open 2006. I'm still smarting from how much crap I played. Twill be a little different this time methinks.
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I'd blame the wooden clubs you persist on using because 'they served you well in the day'TANGODANCER wrote:Best.
Bowling out the Lancashire Boys captain first ball, in a house match at Bolton Tech, then going on to dismiss the whole side bar one in two overs for seven runs. I went into bat and knocked two fours to win the match and be the hero of the hour.
Worst. TW Open 2006. I'm still smarting from how much crap I played. Twill be a little different this time methinks.
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Wish I could. The woods are actually McGregor metals. Bit on the small side though, alongside Commie's, which look like cycle helmets on sticks. There should be a law against em.boltonboris wrote:I'd blame the wooden clubs you persist on using because 'they served you well in the day'TANGODANCER wrote:Best.
Bowling out the Lancashire Boys captain first ball, in a house match at Bolton Tech, then going on to dismiss the whole side bar one in two overs for seven runs. I went into bat and knocked two fours to win the match and be the hero of the hour.
Worst. TW Open 2006. I'm still smarting from how much crap I played. Twill be a little different this time methinks.
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worst: air kicking when i had the opportunity to turn a draw into a victory that would of won us the league...we didnt win the league
worst: air kicking when i had the opportunity to turn a draw into a victory that would of won us the league...we didnt win the league
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Best: Well that's a dead heat between scoring a late winner in the 1977 BEN Cup semi-final for High Lawn against Brandwood St, and chipping straight in from around 30 metres on the the 3rd at Gleneagles.
Worst: Springing a collarbone after a mid-air collision going up for a header away at Euxton about 10 years ago. I didn't know that such pain existed!
Worst: Springing a collarbone after a mid-air collision going up for a header away at Euxton about 10 years ago. I didn't know that such pain existed!
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