Sport is emotion and occasion - hard to relive games and moments years later when these have passed …
But I remember watching this game - a do or die match between Barcelona and Valencia - Valencia only needed a draw to get into the CL, Barca had to win… Teams drawing 2-2 coming up to the 90th minute …
Step forward Rivaldo.
I think Ali deserved what he got. He called Fraser a gorilla, he even had a toy one with him when he was on the TV and at press conferences.
A white man saying that, bad enough. But one black man to another. Unforgivable.
That is a tremendous call.
It’s why we watch sport … you could sit through 10/20 games of dross just to watch moments like that happen…You cant really describe them when they do happen and fuck all else in the world matters for those few minutes… it’s literally magic.
Germany went out in the next game anyway but this was a fantastic goal and a great bit of bottle shown by Toni Kroos with time just up
The real greats find a way. It’s in their make up.
Antonín Panenka
The first dinked penalty, the decider in the European Championship final shoot out. Now known as the ‘panenka kick’.
At the end.
PTG inspiring 13 man Tyrone to beat Derry in 95.
Keith Deller.
Bristow says ‘Go and take out 138 for the title if you think you’re hard enough’.
And he did.
Taking on the establishment in its own back yard and winning. The Wimbledon crowd done everything to beat Rafa. They couldn’t.
Irelands highest goalscorer and subject of a recent tfk poll Robbie Keane showed admirable bottle to slot a penalty away against Spain in 02. We weee out had he missed and Ireland, through regular penalty taker Ian Harte, had already missed one.
In terms of physical toughness, it’s hard to match boxing. Evander Holyfield in the first Tyson fight took some absolute bombs before wearing Tyson down.
Phil Babb and his heroic (failed) attempt to stop a Chelsea goal with no regard for his personal safety.
Add to it his improbable finish in the last minute v Germany which got us out of the group. It was a magnificent instinctive finishers run to get onto the flick on by Quinn and composure to bury it
Maurice Fitzgerald equalises for Kerry versus Dublin with an impossible sideline ball with gobshite Tommy Carr in his ear.
