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Staying up late at 9 years old to watch The Miracle of Istanbul…
 
 
Outside of football, I remember watching GB beating the Americans in the 2004 4x100m final felt very special when it happened.

My step-dad still has a signed photo of Martin Johnson holding the trophy in the living room!

1999 champs final, Man Utd vs Bayern or England vs Australia 2003, when Wilko won it with that drop kick.
 
Either of them for me, hard to pick one tbh. They’ll only get beaten if England ever win anything at footie.

Yes! The Holland 4-1 and Germany 5-1 destructions were incredible days for me too. I actually would add England 3-2 Argentina, which was a friendly but dictated who would be the higher seed at the World Cup and it was far from a friendly! I have both 5-1 Germany and 3-2 Argentina on DVD still as those games were that good.

These two live 


 
Along with this

 
Block 134 at Wembley is really lucky for me😎
 
Also on TV England 4-1 v Holland in Euro 96 was absolutely incredible back then but this was the shit

Big Daddy v Giant Haystacks
 
Butlins Minehead 1987

Apologies for the video quality but it was quite a while ago.
St Etienne had a certain Mr Platini playing for them. This was my first "European Tour" and it was almost a bucket list destination. That was after hearing the "Green Roar" against Liverpool FC on a tinny tranny in the '70's. The green roar was quite muted as the game went on and the home support melted away as the fourth goal went in 
 
IIRC the away support for that match was about 400. The coach trip was 18 hours each way with two drivers hot shopping. Despite all the fan problems of the time, there wasn't a single arrest at any of our EUFA Cup away games.

Never seen so many pints thrown in the air 😂

Football? Oh go on then. There's so many, probably why we love the game so much.
 
But this following 2 minute montage just reminded how much I was so behind the England team in 2021. That was a magical day. A time where everyone doesn't believe we can beat big teams. That Southgate can't do it. That Kane can't do it.
 
What a day that was. I'm literally tearing up watching it all over again. And again. And again. This is what we live for. ❤️
 
 

Hmm, that is hard.
 
Weirdly, one that sticks out is the Cricket World Cup final England vs New Zealand. Insane game. Scores level and tied at the very end, which is rare in itself but then the Super Over was effectively ending level too but England winning on countback for Wickets.
 
So many random things happened. Bear in mind our captain Stokes is a broken injured man through it all, and to top it all off, England actually ended up as the winner. I accidentally punched my ceiling jumping up in celebration 🤣
 
From just under 5 minutes, it is absolute carnage.
 
 

Champions League semifinal Spurs vs Ajax second leg.

100% engagement. I am still in FG.
 
Probably Phil Babb slide tackling the goalpost whilst playing against Chelsea.
 
That or Liverpools miracle 4-0 against Barcelona that time back then.
 
I love you, Tom ❤️

Just simple question what is the best sporting spectacle you have seen live, can’t be after it has happened, has to be as it happened at the time. On TV or in person 
 
Mine is the 2008 Wimbledon final. Was actually the first Wimbledon I ever watch properly and the Nadal Federer final for me is the best sporting event ever, so glad I saw it as it happened

Can't see it being dropped. We can't be the only league without it when you go to Europe and big international tournaments it will be on I would suspect.
 
Let the teams have 2-3 calls for VAR through the game that can pause the game up to 3 minutes at a time. Works in other sports but doesn't take the responsibility away from the man in the middle that everyone has to accept their decisions.

Not this shit again. We already had the phantom 39th game proposal for years and I don't want to see this shit materialise again. It's bad enough with all these retarded friendlies. 

Premier League voting whether to keep VAR will be interesting...

Also this. Money men wankers will destroy football as we know it.
 
Fifa exploring impact of playing domestic matches abroad
WWW.BBC.CO.UK Fifa are examining the impact of moving domestic competitive matches abroad.  

Tennis and Cricket have always had it pretty spot on.

Bayer 04 Leverkusen are Bundesliga champions with 0 defeats. Unbelievable achievement.

Bolton 0-2 Oxford - what a day!
 

Dead Space 2 (2011)

More closures expected in the coming weeks but whether they get announced before or after the June showcase remains to be seen. This situation proves that a cull can happen whether you are working on an existing project, and regardless of how successful your previous games are. 
 
Everyone kinda knew that the Activision takeover would be the most pointless and damaging in gaming history especially after the Bethesda disaster but I don't think many foresaw how it would ruin so many smaller developers with MS obliterating all their ethics. 

Nothing to see here, just capitalism doing its thing 🫡
 
 
 

Microsoft are the new EA; buy loads of studios and when they don't make billions just close them down.
After they shut them down one of the MS execs came out and said they want to focus on smaller games. The type of game that Tango had just made with Hifi Rush 🤦‍♂️
Game Pass just isn't sustainable and MS seem unable to work out what to do to fix it, apart from putting the price up.

A lot of articles catalogued and talked about in this video regarding this situation
 
Studio closures to cut costs, failing game pass and Phil Spencer going against everything he stood for. Sounds like an absolute shambles.  The fact Bobby Kotick got a near $400m payoff is absolutely nuts. I did predict that all this would happen in the Microsoft/Activision takeover thread and how it would be a catastrophe for gamers and developers. Funnily enough, not even the shareholders are seeing a benefit of it yet! 
 
Phil Spencer should probably stand down.