From five-1 right down to triumphing 7-6 in 20 mins: is there a higher comeback?
From five-1 right down to triumphing 7-6 in 20 mins: is there a higher comeback?
"In the 1950s, my father turned into a photographer at the Sunday Express. He took me to 1 game in 1956, Charlton v Huddersfield. With 20 mins to go, Charlton have been 5-1 down. The sport ended with Charlton prevailing 7-6. Has there ever been every other occasion while a group became losing so heavily, but ended up triumphing in this type of brief space of time?" requested Mitch Mitchell.
"The 'Wunder von der Grotenburg' on 19 March 1986 is in all likelihood the closest in latest reminiscence," notes Darren Beach. "With simply over 1/2 an hour left inside the second leg in their Cup Winners' Cup area-very last, East German powerhouse Dynamo Dresden led 3-1 at the home of unheralded West Germans Bayer Uerdingen, and greater importantly led 5-1 on combination.
"A penalty for the house side after 58 mins pulled one lower back, before some other short strike put Uerdingen beforehand at the night time after 65 mins. Dresden, who had the away goals gain too, managed to stem the go with the flow for a while earlier than dreams inside the 78th and 79th mins positioned the home facet 6-three in the front and gave them an combination lead for the primary time in the tie. A 7th purpose 4 minutes from time – their 6th in 28 minutes – sealed an outstanding 7-3 win for Uerdingen and passage to the semi-finals (in which they misplaced to Atlético Madrid).
"An thrilling coda to the tale is that Dresden striker Frank Lipmann, who scored in each legs of the tie, went awol from the crew inn and defected to the West straight away after the in shape. After a 12 months's Fifa suspension he restarted his career in the Bundesliga with FC Nürnberg."
Paul Carver directs us to the K-League: "Last season, Pohang Steelers were leading Gangwon FC four-0 away after 70 mins. However, Gangwon scored in the 71st, 79th, 92nd, 94th and 96th mins to grab the win with the remaining kick of the game."
Finally, Stig Wallerman brings us complete circle. "Sweden's AIK played a friendly against an English membership on 7 June 1946. AIK have been 7-1 down with half of an hour to move, however controlled to attain six to make it even. The English group become – you've guessed it – Charlton Athletic."
Teams playing at their education grounds
Teams playing at their education grounds
"Real Madrid's La Liga healthy towards Eibar occurred at their education complicated due to paintings being finished at the Bernabéu. Have some other aggressive fits between expert golf equipment been performed at training grounds?" asked Gregg Bakowski.
We're off to Scandinavia for a wonderful solution to this one. "The Swedish Cup has a group degree in February and March which acts as a useful prelude to the begin of the league season," writes David Ekstrand. "Due to the weather, clubs are required to play their Cup games on synthetic turf. In a few instances, clubs have needed to use their schooling grounds: two pinnacle-flight examples are IK Sirius and Kalmar FF."
Fraser Thom has an example from america. "Seattle Sounders have played a number of their early round US Open Cup video games at their training floor. Most of these have come in opposition to decrease-league competition however there had been some all-MLS clashes held there, along with towards competitors Portland, a sport that may easily sell out Seattle's normal stadium several instances over."
Dreadful debuts (element )
Dreadful debuts (element )
Following on from final week's Knowledge, here a pair more preference examples. "Poor antique Michael Theoklitos made his debut in aim for Norwich against Colchester on eight August 2009, in our first sport when you consider that being relegated to League One," writes Will Tucker. "He permit in seven dreams in a 7-1 defeat, supervisor Bryan Gunn became sacked and Paul Lambert, who masterminded Colchester's victory, took over as manager. Theoklitos never played for the club once more."
"I notion it was well worth bringing up Nigel Pepper when discussing disastrous debuts," starts Kirk Burton. "After approaching as a sub on his debut for Aberdeen, Pepper was despatched off after six mins. In Pepper's first recreation after suspension he changed into sent off once more after 17 seconds. Aberdeen band Depeche Choad have a song named in tribute to his second quick appearance, the track is just as short."
Knowledge archive
Knowledge archive
"Here in Italy, there are several managers who may be visible smoking in the dugout or on the sidelines for the duration of the games (Ancelotti, Lippi, Cosmi and Trappatoni, to call however 4)," wrote James Elliott in June 2004. "Do any of the current Premier League or Nationwide [Football League] managers like to light up for the duration of a game?"
Indeed they do, James. "I can gleefully factor out my liked Swindon Town's Arthur Daley-esque gaffer, Andy King," factors out Nick Hide. "As any viewer of Sky's coverage of our play-off loss to Brighton will inform you, King spent the entire in shape - and mainly the penalty shoot-out - puffing away on those terrible little cigars you get in newsagents. The rogue."
And he's not the only one. "Both Gianluca Vialli at Chelsea and Stan Ternent at Burnley enjoyed sparking up while the sport was getting a bit too frenetic," says Tim Postins. "I constantly notion that smoking in the dugout in the UK was banned by means of the various FAs - therefore all of the gum-chewing and lollipop-sucking."
And cheeky tokes aren't just confined to off the field. "Roy Vernon, Everton's Welsh international of the Fifties, used to smoke in the course of the kick-in earlier than the sport," says Pat Kevin.
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