[Other Sport] Greatest English/British sporting moments ever

[Sussex Nomad]

I didn’t mean that was a moment, just part of that amazing England team.

Simon Jones was my absolute favourite player in that Ashes series.

 

[dangull]

The last time England won in Australia? We normally get thrashed when we visit there.

 

[Perfidious Albion]

England's World Cup victory in 1966..... nothing compares or comes close.
Bobby Moore....

Nb I think that Torville and should be in the list. It was in the Olympics which makes it officially a sport . There scores were absolutely perfect too

 

[Weststander]

Simon Jones was my absolute favourite player in that Ashes series.

Same here. Gutted at the time that an injury ended his career so young.

 

[Eeyore]

Mo Farah. 5000m and 10000m gold medal runs on home ground.

 

[Eeyore]

The last time England won in Australia? We normally get thrashed when we visit there.

2010/11 All three victories by an innings.

 

[Seasider78]

Linford Christie Olympic 100m gold has to be on the list

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Linford Christie Olympic 100m gold has to be on the list

Bit controversial though, perhaps that makes it a great sporting moment. And his toys out of the pram for being called lunchbox.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Nb I think that Torville and should be in the list. It was in the Olympics which makes it officially a sport . There scores were absolutely perfect too

I just can't, personally.

 

[Weststander]

Mo Farah’s cool destruction of everyone at Olympics and World Championships.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Mo Farah’s cool destruction of everyone at Olympics and World Championships.

Wasn't that part of Super Saturday?

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Bob Willis saying it was a greater innings than Botham's 1981 149* ... I'll take his judgement.

 

[Weststander]

Wasn't that part of Super Saturday?

Also in several other Olympic and WC finals, hairs on the back of the neck jobs every time, as the Kenyans and Ethiopians faltered one by one.

 

[Stat Brother]

My favourite outlier in such conversations is:-

Men 4 x400 Relay win - Tokyo World Championships 1991.

 

[Eeyore]

Wasn't that part of Super Saturday?

One of them was.

 

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

1966 World Cup final for me. The trouble is that when you get this at the age of 11, how can you follow it?

 

[Sussex Nomad]

1966 World Cup final for me. The trouble is that when you get this at the age of 11, how can you follow it?

I was 2... but I can say 'I was there'... alive

 

[Half Time Pies]

Lennox Lewis effectively beating Holyfield twice in 1999 to win the undisputed heavyweight championship, or his 2002 demolition of Mike Tyson which cemented his place as the best fighter of that era and one of the all time greats.

 

[maffew]

1954 - Roger Bannisters 3 minute mile

Um, has no one else picked up on this?

Edit Yes. Yes they did

 

[GT49er]

Fully agree that it was one of the greatest English / British sporting moments ever. Just a shame it wasn't available on terrestial TV. I heard the final few overs on the radio as I happened to be in the car on my own and it was gripping stuff. My sports-mad kids, however, don't even know it happened and most likely never will, or will only have a passing interest measured in nano-seconds.

Non-terrestial TV coverage will strangle cricket in this country all the while heroics like today are not freely available for all to watch and marvel in. Shame.

You're lucky to have it in the car - on most car radios it isn't available!