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

dickie davies said:
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
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Glenn Keeley signed on loan by Everton from Blackburn where his stock was starting to rise.
Thrown straight into the Merseyside Derby against the best team in the country, to be sent off within 15 minutes after being run ragged by Rush and co.
Salt in the wounds that the dippers won 5-0 with Rush bagging 4.
 
AliBobbyJ said:
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?
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Always felt a bit sorry for Buckner ( him and his family took a lot of shit, and that was pre social media )
I blame Bostons shit bullpen and in game 7 love them Mets bats ;-)
 
Bobby the blue said:
Incidentally although I did ok playing football I still get remembered by my mates as the 6ft 5 keeper who got lobbed in year 10 in a county football game. Still hurts to be honest.
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I can beat that, I still get reminded of the time I was lobbed playing goalkeeper in a 5 aside competition about 35 years ago
 
Joe Corrigan early career.

Shot through legs as he bent to gather it.

Close thread.
 
Tarzan41 said:
Andres Escobar
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That is a great shout, as his error resulted in his murder. Over the years there have been plenty of times I could metaphorically killed one of ours for missing or giving away goals (Nunes after the derby), but in Escobar’s case, somebody actually killed him for it.
 
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