Alan_R Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 The scotland game the morn got me thinking about unexpected victories. Anyone got any suggestions for football's greatest underdog story? There has bound to have been a non-league team beat a top division team in a cup or even a small club thats went all the way in a big competition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craigieboy Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Wimbledon springs to mind. The thing you have to remember when supporting the smaller clubs is that any result, no matter what happens after, is a superb occasion. Of course, we have 1998 to look to as an example. But we have had a good few days out during the various seasons. As a Hearts fan, I can't complain about my lot. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Winstone Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Escape to Victory. End of thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eckauskas Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 IIRC, Calais got to the French Cup final a few years back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romulus Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Kaunas pumping the hun was delightful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Roberts Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 hibs beating hearts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Winstone Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 hibs beating hearts Hibs taught Brazil how to play football. Fact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john brownlee Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 artmedia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali-1874 Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 For Hearts, Basle and Bordeaux spring to mind for me. Both away from home and unexpected victories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john brownlee Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 berwick rak***s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiltedjedi Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 The scotland game the morn got me thinking about unexpected victories. Anyone got any suggestions for football's greatest underdog story? There has bound to have been a non-league team beat a top division team in a cup or even a small club thats went all the way in a big competition. Hereford beating Newcastle Sunderland winning the English cup Berwick Rangers knocking out their weegie namesakes Clyde knocking celtic out in 06 Scotland beating France in France Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john brownlee Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Hibs taught Brazil how to play football. Fact. was that allen or the other one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Winstone Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 was that allen or the other one It was Pele - apparently he attributed all his skills and the greatness of all the Brazilian teams over the years to Hibs and their flair manuals. Not even close to joking. Hibs = Brazil. Fact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djf Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Two more recent ones - Exeter drawing 0-0 with Man Utd. A team that had over 100 million pounds worth of talent. Greece winning the European Championships. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Pupkin Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Gretna almost winning the big cup!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan_R Posted March 27, 2009 Author Share Posted March 27, 2009 Two more recent ones - Exeter drawing 0-0 with Man Utd. A team that had over 100 million pounds worth of talent. Greece winning the European Championships. Beat me too it, this just came to mind. Someone else mentioned calais too, they did cross my mind aswell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romulus Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Just ask Brian Clough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romulus Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Add to that Mourinho's Champs league win with Porto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamboJen Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 IIRC, Calais got to the French Cup final a few years back. I was going to post a very vague reply along the lines of "didn't some wee third divisionFrench side get to the Cup Final and only lost out on some dodgy decision." Thankfully you're here to prevent nonesense like that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougiea Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Airdrie v Hearts in Cups (ad nauseum) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tott Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Airdrie v Hearts in Cups (ad nauseum) Forfar beating us at Tynecastle in the cup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandt Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Didnt North Korea cause a few massive upsets in a world cup years and years ago? Got to the quarters or something, dunno. [edit] Just done my homework which took approx 1 minute, they beat Italy on the way to the quarters in the 66 world cup. First Asain team to reach the semis. Pretty good feat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broxburn_Jambo Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 The Faroe Islands beating Austria 1-0 and Scotland beating the Netherlands by the same score at Hampden under Berti. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaun.lawson Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 - Uruguay, a country the size of Wales, winning the World Cup not once, but twice; the second time in front of 200,000 screaming Brazilians when their opponents only needed a draw. - Denmark coming off the beach to beat the cream of Europe and win Euro 92 despite not even having qualified. - Greece winning Euro 2004 despite being one of the two most unfancied sides in the whole event, and clear underdogs in every one of their games. - Nottingham Forest going 42 league games unbeaten, winning the First Division in their first year up under Brian Clough, then winning back-to-back European titles. - Sunderland, Southampton and West Ham United all winning the FA Cup from the Second Division. - Third Division Swindon Town beating Arsenal to win the 1969 League Cup. - Wales and Northern Ireland both getting to the 1958 World Cup quarter-finals, while England and Scotland were eliminated in the first round. The Northern Irish played exhilarating football, were the first side in history to come up with the idea of fielding a wall at free kicks, knocked out Italy in the qualifiers, then somehow came through a group containing West Germany, Czechoslovakia and Argentina. Wales, meanwhile, ended once and for all the myth of Hungarian supremacy, then gave Brazil an astonishingly tough test in the last eight, despite being without their one true star, John Charles. Il Gigante Bueno, surely the finest British footballer ever to play overseas, had been kicked to pieces by the less-than-Magic Magyars just two days earlier - but Pele has often described the goal he scored to win the match as the most important he ever notched. - Despite a footballing history amounting to nothing whatsoever in terms of major tournaments, the Republic of Ireland reaching the quarter-finals of their first World Cup, then pushing Italy hard in the last eight. - Cameroon beating holders Argentina in the opening game of the 1990 World Cup before losing out only in extra time to England in the quarters. Senegal beating holders France in the opening game of the 2002 World Cup before losing out only in extra time to Turkey in the quarters. - Norwich City, of the Third Division South, thrashing Matt Busby's Manchester United 3-0, before going on to beat Tottenham and Sheffield United, also of the top flight, in a run to the 1959 FA Cup semi-finals, losing out only after a replay. No associate member of the Football League has ever come closer to the final; although Chesterfield in 1997 had a genuine hard luck story, and were denied only by David Elleray's errant failure to allow a goal which had clearly crossed the line to stand against a hugely relieved Middlesbrough. - FA Cup giantkillers: Yeovil Town 2-1 Sunderland (1949); Colchester United 3-2 Leeds United (1971), Hereford United 2-1 Newcastle United (1972), Sutton United 2-1 Coventry City (1989), Wrexham 2-1 Arsenal (1992) - 1971 Scottish League Cup Final: Partick Thistle 4-1 Celtic - Aberdeen and Dundee United smashing the dominance of the OF and winning the Scottish title, and both embarking on sustained European runs, with the Dons beating Bayern Munich and Real Madrid to win the 1983 Cup Winners' Cup, and the Terrors eliminating Barcelona en route to the 1987 UEFA Cup Final. - Scottish Cup giantkillers: Berwick Rangers 1-0 Rangers (1967); Rangers 0-1 Hamilton Academical (1987); Celtic 1-3 Inverness Caledonian Thistle (2000), Clyde 2-1 Celtic (2006) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superjack Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 raith winning the league cup. scotland beating holland in argentina hearts beating austria vienna , in austria.then 2 rounds we beat bayern munich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandt Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 Beating France in the Euro's was quite an accomplishment. Forfar beating Rangers. Clyde beating Roy Keanes Celtic was good. Well for clyde. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie-Brown Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 Raith Rovers & Livingston winning the League Cup beating Celtic & Hibs in the finals - great eh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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