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.

Besiktas were robbed. Galatasaray should never have had that penalty

'99 Champions League final. No doubt.

'That' penalty shoot-out in the '08 was brilliant, going from seconds away from loosing it to win it was fantastic, but I think the '99 was just special!

Last day/morning of the Edgbaston test of the 2005 Ashes. Absolute despair and head in hands turned into a moment I'll never forget.

On the flip side, I was at the MCG on Boxing Day 2006 when Warne got his 700th test wicket in front of his home state fans. The bugger. Great moment though.

Probably won't be on anyone else's radar unless you were there but the game where Barnsley clinched promotion to the Premiership by beating Bradford City was pretty special. We lost the match and despite us being perilously close to being relegated our fans stayed on to celebrate with the Barnsley supporters. Chants of 'Yorkshire,Yorkshire' from all sides of the ground. I remember forum posts from Barnsley supporters at the time saying they had tears in their eyes when they saw the away fans celebrating with them. In turn the Barnsley fans applauded us as our coaches left the ground. You wouldn't see that in Rugby League!

It was more in response to the 'could there be a more thrilling last 3 mins' quote...plus i never saw either of the games above (tho i wasn't born for the nal one tbf) did you watch the re-run of it on...i think eurosports the other day?

Mate I was on a countdown until you mentioned that one . On a seperate note ESPN Classic have been running the York v Arsenal tie all week, now that was proper FA Cup football. A full house, snow on the pitch & late drama. You won't see the like of that again these days.