Good players remembered for one overwhelmingly bad f***-up.

[AliBobbyJ]

Which players had a lot of talent and pretty successful careers but are remembered most for one awful, jaw-dropping mistake, since replayed many times on video? There was Gary Sprake of Leeds slipping and throwing the ball into his own net in front of the baying Kop but who else is in that category? Sports other than football come to mind. In rugby league Don Fox missed an easy last-minute conversion from in front of the posts that would have won the Challenge Cup for Wakefield (?) instead of losing it and all he got was "poor lad!" from Eddie Waring. More memorably, because I was there, in baseball's World Series the veteran Bill Buckner of the Boston Red Sox let Mookie Wilson's eminently fieldable hit flash through his aged legs at first base to give the Mets victory out of the jaws of defeat and set up their (our) World Series win in the next game. These were a long tine ago, any similar and more recent horrors from football or other sports?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

 

[beast]

Love that shit.

 

[jimharri]

Balotelli; remembered by non City fans for his fuck up in that pre season friendly in the states. Mancini must have been close to laying him out on the touchline. And Dzeko's reaction was like WTF? We have happier memories of him!

 

[manclad]

Robbie Fowler and his penalty miss vs Boro in 2005, that meant we didn't get into the UEFA Cup the next season rankles with me even now.

 

[AliBobbyJ]

And the song that went with it! Started the same evening by City fans at Crystal Palace I believe.

 

[N1985]

First time I ever saw us beat the cunts as well.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Gordon Smith should definitely be in there. Daft **** should just have put his fucking boot through it.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

I'm thinking of Ronnie Rosenthal but I'm guessing I'm too late as 90% of the previous posts must have mentioned him.

 

[dickie davies]

Jeff Astle
213 career goals
1st division top scorer 1969/70 with 25 goals
Called up to the England squad for the world cup

Will always be remembered for missing a sitter vs Brazil that any other footballer would have tapped in with their cock

 

[Semper aggressus]

Roberto Baggio’s penalty miss at the 1994 World Cup.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

For all the good he did, this will always be one of Raz’s most memorable moments, sadly.

 

[Georgian Maestro]

Robbie Fowler and his penalty miss vs Boro in 2008, that meant we didn't get into the UEFA Cup the next season rankles with me even now.

2005

 

[Thaksins Love Child]

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For all the good he did, this will always be one of Raz’s most memorable moments, sadly.

His ability to miss the simplest of chances was staggering. Burnley away prob the worst.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

His ability to miss the simplest of chances was staggering. Burnley away prob the worst.

I can still hear his scream.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Jeff Astle
213 career goals
1st division top scorer 1969/70 with 25 goals
Called up to the England squad for the world cup

Will always be remembered for missing a sitter vs Brazil that any other footballer would have tapped in with their cock

I reckon Wayne Rooney’s cock is so small as to exclude him from tapping a subuteo ball in.

 

[manclad]

2005

So 20 years ago now.
Tempus Fugit .

 

[IrishBlueSince92]

Jamie Pollock, oh wait you said good player

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Geoff Thomas playing for England. Would have mostly been forgotten apart from Fantasy Football picking it up.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Anthony’s “double pirouette” with no opponent around him, he then plays the ball out for a goal kick!