Your finest Sporting hour?

Bowling the final over for the school fourth year in the final, the Belfast school needed five to win with three wickets in hand, but the nerve held and we won by two runs.
Opening the Batting and bowling for the battalion when we won the Northern Ireland region of the infantry cup
scoring 94 against the best bowling side in senior league section 4 a "few" years ago
Scoring the only try for the school second fifteen in the only game we won in the two years i was at the school
Scoring the equaliser in the semi final of the fourth year hockey cup with two minutes to go (we lost the replay in controversial circumstances)
Club second 11 player of the year the last two years

earlier this year had a shoulder problem for one game so kept wicket for the second time in my life, 3 stumpings made me think about doing it more regularly, the legs the next day ensured I was back to bowling the next week
 
Being officially signed on as a player for City when I was one day old, still got the form now.

Scoring two in the semi and the winning goal in a cup final (won 1-0) after being out for 18 months with a cruciate ligament injury.
 
Scored 101* for the second XI on my 18th birthday. My only ton. We went on to lose.

Scored the winner in the final of a tournament for my sunday league team directly from a corner. It was the only corner I'd ever taken during my illustrious footballing career.
 
I actually almost signed up for the curling club when I first moved to Canada because they promised that everyone that did would recieve a trophy. I couldn't be arsed.
 
Doing 39:36 at Dewsbury 10k in march this year which was the first time going under 40 minutes felt the best, although I knocked 30 seconds off it two weeks later at Trafford.

As manager of the school football team last year winning every game - so won the league and cup.
 
Bibinho said:
Did anyone ever play football in the umbro tournament in sale? Been going for years was a good tourney teams all over the world came to play in it. It was a 4 day event, dunno if its still going now though
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Played and won it in about 99 i think it was for Manchester fa side, beat a Canadian select in the final. Also played bellemena (sp), a Californian team and a few others
 
Scored two goals from practically the halfway line in a minute playing Sunday league.
The first one played a one two at the half and just leathered the ball and it went into the top corner.
Straight from the kick off, opposing forward passed the ball to a teammate that wasn't in the circle yet as I sprinted in and got a toe on it, it flew into the opposite top corner.
I was chuffed to say the least and later on completed the hat trick.
BTW, not a forward, I was the player manager and only put myself up front because I was the only sub and one of our forwards had to be subbed with a broken toe early on in the game.
 
Another time, my team was playing in the final of the illustrious Santa Barbara tournament.
It was tied on penalty kicks after extra time and I was the last one to take ours. As I was about the walk up to take it the linesman in the centre circle said to me "If you score this, you've won the cup"
I walked up and slotted it away and ran about like Nicky Weaver after the play offs. The ref looked at me weirdly and said "What are you doing?"
"We've won haven't we?"
"No", he replied "this guy has still got to take his"

I ran back to the halfway line sheepishly and bollocked the blushing linesman.

Luckily our keeper saved the last one, our players ran down to the goal to celebrate with him while I apologised to the opposition for making a cnut of myself.
Still scored the winner in the cup final though.
Everyone took the piss that night.
 
Hole in one on the first hole, went on to win the competition which was a club major. Finished with an eagle too.
 
Got a hole in one on the 7th at Bradley Park in Huddersfield in about 1992. It's a 293 yard par 4 normally but it was off the winter tees, although normal summer green, so was actually about 250 yards.

But still, I hit my 3 wood sweetly and it bounced once on the green and went straight in! The hole is the one played down the valley towards the M62 junction for Mirfield and Brighouse, so from the tee we had a great view of it... One of the lads had just seen his wife give birth the week before and he shouted "Fucking hell, that was better than seeing the baby come out!"

It was awesome.
 
Still got the broken hooter from a rugby match when Paul Moriarty smashed me in the mush years ago. He'd come back from rugby league, I think at Widnes, to play union again at the end of his career. I stood on his foot in a line out to stop him jumping. At the next one the ball went after being caught at the front of the line and I saw stars. In an epic fail of a finest sporting hour, it registers as a moment. Albeit painful.
 
JD Sports 5 a side final. 2010.

128 stores compete over 1 month.

I've never worked for JD Sports.


Playing the usual Thursday night footie with the lads at SD a couple of years ago. Finished match and was heading back to car when I heard some guy having a mental breakdown on the phone because he didn't have enough players. Came off phone and got chatting to him. Turned out he was the store manager of JD in Sale and his team were due to play the semis and final of some shit cup but half their team was ill.

5 minutes later I'm kitted up to the nines in full kit and my birth name has now changed to Mike.

Get on pitch and realise these fuckers are super fit and pretty handy with a football. I was neither.

Anyway I end up as an unused sub in the Semi and the first half of the final. Guy goes down, doesn't get up. Brought on for second half with them 2-1 down.

First couple of mins I realise I'm absolutely out of my depth until the ball drops to me about halfway. Controlled, went forward past 1, past 2, megged keeper 2-2. Game on. We then got absolutely battered from all angles for the next 5 minutes and I can honestly say I've never ran so much in my life until the Dickov moment.

Ball broke to me,about 30 seconds left ran the length of Soccerdomes number 5 pitch and put he ball hard under the keeper. We win 3-2 and apparently JD Sale have just won the ''prestigious'' inter branch 5 a side.

Absolutely fucking ace, got my stuff said my goodbyes and headed for the door. Got shouted back for trophy presentation. Won a nice shiny medal and 100 quid in store vouchers, not to mention 2 of the bestest mates ever. Including the only Blue I've met bigger than me.

Magical night knew I had to share when saw this topic :-)
 
Scored a cracker in Hyde and district 3rd Div cup semi final in last minute of extra time to make it 3-3 then capped that by hitting the crossbar in the penalty shoot out (we lost 5-4) blamed the shit goalkeeper we had.
 
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