Tottenham 3-4 Manchester City Ten-man Manchester City pulled off an amazing FA Cup comeback to earn a fifth round tie at Manchester United back in 2004. Tottenham led 3-0 at half-time after Ledley King , Robbie Keane, and Christian Ziege all scored in the first 45 minutes. City’s Joey Barton was sent off for a second booking when the score was 3-0 but Sylvain Distin, Paul Bosvelt, and Shaun Wright-Phillips leveled the tie before Jonathan Macken headed a late winner.Kevin Keegan said: “They’ll talk about this game long after we’ve all gone”. We are still talking about it now, Kev. Partizan Belgrade - Queens Park Rangers 2-6 and 4-0 (1984) UEFA Cup second round. In London, it was a cat and mouse game. QPR pushed the Partizans into the box and kicked them into the net together with the ball. Six times. Only once before had a team come back from four goals down in Europe and that was in the early sixties. QPR was very vulnerable away from home and Partizan knew it. Mance, Kalicanin, Jesic and Zivkovic created a miracle before 55,000 fans who never stopped believing. Tottenham 3-5 Manchester United United staged a magnificent comeback to overwhelm Tottenham at White Hart Lane. Spurs had been 3-0 up at half time after outplaying their opponents. Debutant Dean Richards, Les Ferdinand, and Christian Ziege scored in the first half but goals from Andy Cole, Laurent Blanc, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Juan Sebastian Veron, and David Beckham in the last 45 minutes sealed what looked like an unlikely victory at half time. AC Milan 3-3 Liverpool (Liverpool 3-2 on penalties) This is perhaps the most famous of second half comebacks as Liverpool came from three goals down in the 2005 Champions League final to win their fifth European Cup. Paolo Maldini and a double from Hernan Crespo had given the team from Italy the advantage at half time but a Steven Gerrard inspired Liverpool scored three goals in seven minutes to bring the tie level. The Reds went on to win the penalty shootout with Andriy Shevchenko missing the crucial kick. Steven Gerrard called the game “the best feeling ever,” but at half time that feeling looked lost to say the least. Peterborough 4 - 4 Cardiff A stunning second half from Peterborough grabbed a share of the points as Cardiff surrendered a 4-0 half time lead to draw 4-4. Joe Ledley, twice, Jay Bothroyd, and Peter Whittingham had looked to have sealed the points for the team from Wales by half time. But substitute Josh Simpson, Charlie Lee, and George Boyd’s late goal were followed by Simpson’s 92nd-minute leveler. Peterborough boss Mark Cooper said, “Our first-half performance was completely unacceptable.” Must have been your words that turned it around, eh Mark! Charlton 7-6 Huddersfield The comeback to end all football comebacks took place in December 1967. Huddersfield were 5-1 up and down to 10 men after more than an hour’s play before Johnny Summers hits an astonishing five goals to make it 6-5 to Charlton. John Hewie’s own goal leveled the scores before John Ryan grabbed the winner in the dying seconds. Simply amazing! Will these comeback’s ever be beaten? Who knows – but it does prove that even if you are down in the first half, there’s still 45 minutes left to get something out of the match! QPR 5 Newcastle 5, 1984 Both sides had conceded five goals in the weeks prior to this match so Jack Charlton must have been delighted to watch his Newcastle side go 4-0 up at Lotus Road Rangers before half-time in September 1984. But Gary Bannister, John Gregory and an own goal pulled the home side back into it only for Kenny Wharton to restore the visitor's two-goal lead with six minutes left. However, the game wasn’t done there as Steve Wicks and Gary Micklewhite made it five-all with two goals right at the death to share the spoils. : Newcastle 4 Arsenal 4 BAD boy Joey Barton was blasted by Arsene Wenger after he orchestrated a stunning fightback by brave Newcastle who fired FOUR goals in 19 unbelievable minutes. The Toon trailed 4-0 at half-time and looked dead and buried until the 68th minute when Barton blasted the first of his two penalty goals. Raging Wenger insisted the Toon's colourful midfielder should have been red carded long before he had a chance to make an impact. And what made it worse for the Arsenal gaffer was that his player, Abou Diaby, was sent off for retaliating to a ferocious Barton challenge three minutes after the restart. That gave Newcastle new heart and Leon Best got on the scoresheet before Cheik Tiote's stunning 87th-minute equaliser sealed one of the Premier League's greatest ever escapes. Newcastle looked dead and buried after being taken apart in the opening 10 minutes. It took Theo Walcott just 42 seconds to give the visitors the lead, Johan Djourou added a second goal barely two minutes later and Robin van Persie's double left the Magpies shellshocked after just 26 minutes of play. Diaby's senseless 48th-minute dismissal sparked Newcastle into life. Arsenal were crumbling and with three minutes left Tiote smashed a volley into Wojciech Szczesny's bottom corner for a point.
Read this thread and thought....hmmmm this sounds a bit familiar to me!! That'll be because I write this (from the start until the Charlton/Huddersfield game) on Premiership Talk last year! http://www.premiershiptalk.com/2010/03/08/five-of-the-greatest-english-comebacks/ I'll have my copyright money now please!! (Only joking...and if I could edit my Premiership Talk page I'd add the Toon game in a THE best comeback!)
The Mags result yesterday had little to do with a great come back and everything to do with a come back that was constructed by the officials.... Shocking refereeing decisions which warrants an inquest...
Quite right sir, we should have had 5 had Leon Best's effort not been chalked off, despite being onside. How nice of you to concede that to us
Goal 1 - Clear tug on Best = Penalty = Legit goal Goal 2 - Nice touch by Best and good finish = Legit goal Goal 3 - Willo blocked off by 2 defenders and pushed by one of them = Penalty = Legit goal Goal 4 - Tiote...25 yards...left foot...class = Legit goal Oh and I'm not even gonna mention the goal Best scored from an onside position But we did have a 2 man advantage. 1 man from the red card for Diaby and the extra man being the 50,000 Toon fans who never gave up! Now you go back to your 38,000 crowd and come back when you fill it for a game overthan when we come to play!
