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  1. Commachio

    Commachio Rambo 2021

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    Leicester winning the prem is gonna rock the apple cart and has got feature highly in major sporting upsets/suprises.

    SAFC winning the in 73, as we were supposed to get a battering.

    Greece winning the Euros (nee idea what year)

    Tyson getting pummeled by that Buster Douglas fella.


    Any more?
     
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  2. Blunham Mackem

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    Tiny little village, no bigger than mine, winning the Italian League back on the 80's or 90's.

    I think it was called Chievo(?)
     
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  3. Gordon Armstrong

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    Bournemouth 2 - 0 'United (F.A. Cup 1984, when Dodgy Harry managed the Cherries, in the Third Division) :emoticon-0100-smile

    Hereford 2 - 1 Skunks (F.A. Cup 1972) :emoticon-0100-smile

    'Forest 1 - 0 Hamburg (European Cup 1980) :emoticon-0100-smile
     
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  4. Commachio

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    Didnt safc once get beat of Yeovil or someone?
     
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  5. Gordon Armstrong

    Gordon Armstrong Just another S.A.F.C. fan
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    Aye, we did, in 1949 . . . . Coco would have been in his 30s then, and he would have been upset :emoticon-0101-sadsm
     
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    He'll have you for that.
     
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  7. The Norton Cat

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    Chievo have never won Serie A. I think you're thinking of Hellas Verona who won it in 1984-85. Chievo, which is technically a suburb of Verona, play in the same colours as Hellas and share the Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi with them. Hellas have always been the bigger club and when they won Serie A had some world class players, like Preben Elkjaer Larsen, one of my all time favourites <ok>
     
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    Bad guess on the name then Norton.

    There was a team won it 20-30 years ago where the town just has 3,000 residents though. I'd put my mortgage on it!
     
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    Hellas are the smallest club to win it in the last 40 years. I reckon you're thinking of Castel di Sangro (pop. 5000) who became the smallest club ever to get in to Serie B in 1996.
     
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    MK Dons 4, Utd 0. League Cup last season.
     
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    Looks like I might have imagined it mate <laugh>
     
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    You haven't!! Its Castel di Sangro, it was a massive deal and a huge surprise/upset. Just wasn't the top division. ......and I'm a bit anoraky about Italian football!! :emoticon-0126-nerd:
     
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    I honestly don't think anything can beat what Leicester have done. This isn't a one off result or achievement over 90 minutes, this is a relegation tipped club with an unfancied manager winning the Premier League whilst losing only 3 games thus far. I cant see anything like this happening again in my lifetime. Well done them....jealous as ****!
     
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    Tow Law winning the World Cup 19xx blank?
     
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  15. The Norton Cat

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    I hate this thread; I'm coming across as a right pedantic twat! It was West Auckland 1909 and 1911 <sorry>
     
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    Definitely West Aukland...I'm sure Tim Healy played a role in the TV production about this..
     
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    I knew there had been a film or something made but I've never seen it. Was it any good?
     
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  18. Sidthemackem

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    It was OK. Had Dennis Waterman as the lead geordie though :)
     
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    West Aukland?
     
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  20. Gordon Armstrong

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    The idiots 'down south' think that anyone north of Leeds are either Georgies or Jocks, though, Whitey, and Tim Healy will have told the TV people that West Auckland was a part of the Georgie Nation, 'cos he's a twat <doh>

    I like his part in 'Benidorm' though :emoticon-0105-wink:
     
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