2008 in Sport

[Jamee999]

Well, the year's coming to a close, so I thought I'd start a sports review thread.

Basically the idea is that you post about what you'll remember from 2008 in sport, it doesn't have to be the biggest, most famous things, but the ones that you'll remember. A good idea might be the 5 people you'll remember specifically...

I'm gonna use pictures, but you can write about them too...

Chase Utley

Ryan Howard

Cole Hamels

Adrian Mutu

Usain Bolt

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Of those people, I've only heard of Adrian Mutu. And that's only because he got the boot from some ****ty club for taking non-prescription drugs. A sad year for sport if a convicted drugs abuser provides a highlight of the year. In many sports, he would have been banned for life.

 

[Burgey]

One of the poorer years for Australian sport for a while, was 2008.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Richard Logan

Rob Edwards

Mark Cavendish

Usain Bolt

Nick Evans

Lewis Hamilton

 

[Simon]

Todd Carney - Probably for the wrong reasons, so much wasted talent.

Roger Federer - Winning the U.S open when everyone said he was a spent force.

Jason Krejza - May be pretty ordinary in general but 12 wickets on test debut is reasonable for mine.

Israel Folau - Signing for the Broncos, he'd want to be good considering what hes getting.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Bolt

 

[chaminda_00]

Ajantha Mendis - The greatest thing since slice bread or more commonlu known as Muttiah Muralitharan

Manly win NRL Grand Final (Y)

Manchester United win the double

FC United win the playoff

NSW win the Pura Cup

Good year all round for my teams (Y)

 

[Jamee999]

No Angelo?

 

[chaminda_00]

Waiting until he plays against a proper side first. Zimbabwe doesn't count.

 

[biased indian]

usain bolt

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

The Prince

Watto

Jimmy

Robinho

 

[GIMH]

Jennison Myrie-Williams

Ian Moore

James Anderson

Ryan Sidebottom

Last, but not least, Tony 'you can't see me' Kay

 

[James90]

Sonny Bill Williams

David Williams

Usain Bolt

Shane Crawford

Simon Katich

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Iain O'Brien

WOOP WOOP!

 

[Jono]

 

[ripper868]

Bolt

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Not sure how I forgot Crawf.

 

[Langeveldt]

Smith - Emerging into quite a human being

2008 was not the year of the Bull

Don't really get excited about F1, but it's nice that there is a British champion in some amazing circumstances

 

[Uppercut]

KP dancing down the pitch to Paul Harris

Munster

John Terry

 

[BoyBrumby]

Chris Hoy, the big fella. GB's first ever triple gold medallist in a single Olympiad and has remained seemingly unaffected by it all. When invited by a journalist to tell us "What does Chris Hoy think of Chris Hoy?" he replied, "Chris Hoy thinks that the day Chris Hoy refers to Chris Hoy in the third person is the day that Chris Hoy disappears up his own arse." Legend.

John Terry's priceless penalty miss. The margin between success and failure is sometimes just a proper ****ing set of studs.

Theo Walcott. A hat-trick in Zagreb, thank you very much, 18 months of tiresome Croatian triumphalism rings that little bit more hollow AND...

..as Fabio Capello himself shows it was a big "**** you" to Mr Bilic, the shiny-suited, earring wearing ponce.

Not a classic year for English rugby, but Richard Wigglesworth's try ensured we did turn over Johnny Frenchy at his own place for the first time since 2000.