The Top 5 Biggest Let-Downs in Sport
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Sport is a funny old drug. You keep coming back despite the knocks, knowing that one day, just one day, you'll get that Cup final victory - you might be 50 by the time it happens, but you'll be there, enjoying it more for the fact that you've been through 49 semi-final defeats and 490 heart-breaking moments. Here are my Top 5 so far...
5. Everton lose the FA Cup final in 1989: Ian Rush. Always Ian Rush. It was a baking hot day, and fitting that Everton and Liverpool should meet after Hillsborough. Stuart McCall had just scored the most amazing last-minute equaliser, and equalised again after Rush had put Liverpool ahead in extra time. But another Rush goal meant that the Cup was Liverpool's, and I felt sick as a pig. I couldn't speak for days after this Cup final defeat - just dreaming of what could, and maybe should have been. From 1989 onwards, Everton hit the skids, and are only just recovering.
4. The Aussies hold out at Old Trafford in 2005. I remember this one as I was travelling back to Paris in the evening, and had to catch the final day in glimpses which made it even more dramatic. I eventually saw the final over having gone through security at John Lennon airport, but it was the unfolding drama that made this one of the most heart-breaking, deflating moments in cricket - seeing Ponting go and then, as the minutes and hours ticked by, wicket after wicket - but not quite enough from England's tired bowlers.
3. Jimmy White throws it all away in 1994: The previous year, Jimmy White had led by 14-8 over Stephen Hendry, and managed to throw it away horribly. This time, with the scores tied at 17-17, he had a chance to seal it and blundered badly. Hendry got up and polished him off professionally, but watching Jimmy White sit there watching Stephen Hendry was heart-breaking. The Whirlwind would never win the world title, and never will - and 1994 was the final nail in that coffin.
2. Red Rum catches Crisp: Now this was before I was born, but I've seen it so many times and it still moves me. The Australian horse Crisp was a mile ahead in the Grand National and coasting - nothing and no one could possibly have caught it. But as the jockey looked around, one horse was gradually catching him - Red Rum. It was the greatest horse race I've ever seen - Red Rum continually catching Crisp, inch by inch, yard by yard - getting closer and closer until he finally caught him. Watching Crisp agonisingly accept his fate gets harder every time I watch this amazing race.
1. Italia 90. Perhaps the last great World Cup finals - Italia 90 really should have been England's. If you think about it, this was the tournament that kicked football off in England - after that, it was all Sky, spondoolicks and mega-bucks deals. And we came so close. But as always, it was the Germans who stopped us - on penalties (as always). We'll always remember Butcher, bloodied but victorious, and Lineker scoring against Cameroon - but we'll never forget those penalties that night, and the fact that we could have won the World Cup but for one kick.
That's my top 5 'agony' moments in Sport. What are yours?
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