10 Favourite Sporting Moments This Century
You may recall I did something like this a few years ago. This time, mercifully, I'll be much briefer. These will my personal favourites, and I'll try not to write more than a short paragraph or three on each. I'll also mention a couple of my least favourite sporting moments, because when a sport, or a sporting figure, brings you close enough to the action that you really care, the worst feeling is a hair's width from the best. I'll also ramble a bit at the end about how sport is bad, like the world. I'll start with something that was surely the ultimate feelgood story. John Terry slipping and missing his penalty in the 2008 Champions League Final The reality is that, for most of us, as relatively nuanced and empathetic people, bad things happening to bad people are rarely, it turns out, as wholly satisfactory as good things happening to good people. Especially in the world of sport where "bad people vs good people" is, rarely, when examined, a wholl...