QUESTION - Your Top 5 Favorite UPSETS in Sports ?
Mar 21, 2018 4:43:03 GMT
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Mar 21, 2018 4:43:03 GMT
1, Australia II wins the America's Cup in 1983
2. Newcastle have won the Grand Final. 1997
3. Adelaide Crows win on the road in a sudden death game for the 5th week in a row, overcoming a 24 point half time deficit to win the 1998 AFL premiership.
4. Liecester City winning the EPL. People who downplay this are just plain stupid. You have to play 38 games, home and away, against every other team in the league. They didn't do enough to scratch into the playoffs and then got hot. They didn't win 1 game they were unlikely to. They had to perform better than the 19 other teams over the course of an entire season.
5. Sri Lanka winning the 1996 cricket WC. Another one people play down. The bottom line is Sri Lanka won more games in that tournament than in the first 5 WCs combined. Anyone who claims that it was just a mild surprise is full of crap.
Honourable mention: India winning the 1983 WC. Another one people down play because "India beat West Indies earlier in the tournament." Yep, way earlier in the very first game. They then steamrolled through their next 6 games, including India in the return match while India lost to a poor Australian team and twice struggled agaibst Zimbabwe. By the time the final rolled around India's win against the Windies was seen as a random WTF moment, not a pointer to how the final might go.
2. Newcastle have won the Grand Final. 1997
3. Adelaide Crows win on the road in a sudden death game for the 5th week in a row, overcoming a 24 point half time deficit to win the 1998 AFL premiership.
4. Liecester City winning the EPL. People who downplay this are just plain stupid. You have to play 38 games, home and away, against every other team in the league. They didn't do enough to scratch into the playoffs and then got hot. They didn't win 1 game they were unlikely to. They had to perform better than the 19 other teams over the course of an entire season.
5. Sri Lanka winning the 1996 cricket WC. Another one people play down. The bottom line is Sri Lanka won more games in that tournament than in the first 5 WCs combined. Anyone who claims that it was just a mild surprise is full of crap.
Honourable mention: India winning the 1983 WC. Another one people down play because "India beat West Indies earlier in the tournament." Yep, way earlier in the very first game. They then steamrolled through their next 6 games, including India in the return match while India lost to a poor Australian team and twice struggled agaibst Zimbabwe. By the time the final rolled around India's win against the Windies was seen as a random WTF moment, not a pointer to how the final might go.