Doed this thread mean ones that you were at?

Christ.

Seen live
Istanbul.
The home semi against Chelsea to get there.
Wide to West....for pure sporting theatre.


Wish I'd seen live
Winning the Ashes in 2005

TV - Healy's goal for OWC against England... Was in Malta at the time.

PM Chris Dalton ans ask, assuming he hasn't exploded after last night

Mansell v Piquet at Silverstone in '87.

Mansell made up 29 seconds in 28 laps to catch and overtake Piquet with one of the best overtakes seen in F1 (a dummy to go outside at the end of Hangar and diving down the inside)

Hillsborough '89

England v Aussies in '82 at Twickenham, otherwise known as the Erica Roe game.

the cricketers pub across the road despite looking like an estate pub did a decent pint of ale and was friendly though i understand it is closed now and may be demolished

meant the thread to be events you witnessed live - and i meant it to be truly great events or notorious ones, but i guess its open to interpretation

that is still the greatest grand prix i have ever seen - was that the one when the fans invaded the circuit afterwards? mansell was a proper sporting hero

yep, that's the one and a red hot day as well. Following year it did nowt but throw it down.

Best Mate's 3rd Gold Cup.

Katchit winning the Champion Hurdle last season.

Us beating Barca 3-2 at St James' Park will always be up there too.

Remember watching that, Asprilla was in the air for about 45 seconds.

And he was...

Hangtime.



Cant remember who was the commentator that night on ITV, but he made the game too, awesome commentary.

England v Australia in the first ever T20 international in this country at Southampton - the first fixture in the 2005 Ashes summer. England batted first and made a decent but not invincible score of 179 from 20 overs. The ground was packed with a capacity crowd of around 12,000 on a blazing hot June evening. A warm up match between two all-stars/veterans type teams had taken place with the apparent aim of getting plenty of people into the ground early and not having everyone arrive at once, but instead of people going straight from work for the main event it appeared most had just taken the whole day off work for an all-day drinking session!

There was a real party atmosphere that reached fever pitch as Australia's innings totally disintegrated. A bloke sitting just in front of me went to the beer tent with their score at 20/0 and by the time he returned they were 21/4 ! shortly afterwards they were 28/7 and it was all over. (They eventually finished 79 all out giving England victory by precisely 100 runs.)

This match really set the tone for the whole summer and I think it was the day that made the England team really believed they could regain the big prize for the first time in almost twenty years.

A few of the cameo moments I recall were as follows: Brett Lee bowling breathtakingly fast in the early overs. Geraint Jones, opening the batting, hitting Lee straight back for a four that nearly took the bowler's head off - to say it virtually parted his hair is not an exaggeration. Andrew Strauss frustrating the Aussie bowlers by stepping right across his stumps to flip balls from outside off stump over the top of the bails to the fine leg boundary. Kevin Pietersen dropping several straightforward catches! Jon Lewis doing the bulk of the damage to the Aussie innings with four wickets on what I think may have been his first international in any format, although I'm not certain of that. And one of the Aussie fielders (I think it was Michael Clarke) making a series of blunders as he was moved around the boundary from one position to another and the ball just kept "following" him! Of course he got a fully sympathetic and understanding rsponse from the home crowd!

Istanbul 2005 and Widnes' first game in SL.