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The Super-bowl last night had it all

A huge lead, a fantastic comeback

elements of a choke too from the side leading, and an all time great catch from Edelman to give them a shot....

It had everything.

which got me thinking, what were the greatest sporting comebacks i could think of

single event comebacks

my mind went to Taylor v Davis 1985 but Davis only led 17-15. He did miss match ball in the final frame though

I am sure i am missing loads

help me out.

Great superbowl but it was hardly in the top 10 greatest ever sporting comebacks like some people have been talking about.  They didn't even touch 1.02 on betfair never mind 1.01 or 1000/1.  In major events Liverpool v Milan was much bigger comeback relatively speaking in 2005 Champions league final surely?

Sure there was a match at the Crucible years ago when someone went 9-0 up and lost 10-9 or something like that?

My biggest ever losing 1.01 bet was on the Bulls v Nets game 4 in the NBA play offs in 2013.  £200 was matched at 1000/1 on the bulls with 3 minutes to go and big 6 figures at 1.01 matched on the Nets.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/pbp/201304270CHI.html

3 minutes left in the game the Nets are up 14 points at home and miss a wide open dunk to go up 16.  They then miss 4 free throws in a row and 3 more lay ups in the final 3 minutes and little pocket rocket Nate Robinson just goes mental in the final 3 minutes for the Bulls and takes the game to OT somehow in the most incredible donk off i have had in 16 years in the game.  Just to make matters worse the game went to triple OT so i had to sweat an effective flip for over an hour before i knew my fate.

Ashes test in 1981 i think when England were done at 500/1 reportedly (pre betfair obviously) and came back and won is another huge comeback.

I wasn't aware of this, but Americas Cup 2013 was pointed out to me by a mate.

I like Tony Mccoy winning on Family Business, after he had fallen with still a circuit to go and 5 runners left .

1966 FA Cup Final

Everton went 0-2 down to Sheffield Wednesday in the 57th minute. Everton's 3rd goal was scored in the 74th minute, and they hung on to win the game 3-2 with no need for extra time. Winning an FA Cup Final from a 2 goal deficit in regulation time has not been achieved since (I believe), and it only happened once before when Blackpool beat Bolton in the 1953 final - but Bolton had been reduced to 9 men due to injury for a chunk of the game. These were the days when no substitutions were permitted.

As a small child at the time, I'd been told to support "the Lancashire team". At 0-1 and 0-2 I had requested permission to change my allegiance. Permission was denied. I then learnt a lesson in loyalty and perseverance.

Europe's win against the USA at the 2012 ryder cup is the one that always stands our for me. 10-6 down going into singles Sunday and there were some huge swings to pull the result back for Europe. I seem to remember Justin rose being 1 down to Mickelson on the 16th and ended up mashing a monster putt on the 17th green to tie things up and then beating him on the last.

Thought John Travolta in Pulp Fiction was a pretty big one

City at Spurs in the cup maybe 12 years ago? 3 down at half time, Barton sent off and Anelka had gone off injured. And we were shite at the time.

So obv we won 4-3 with Macken netting a last minute winner.

Chelsea vs Bradford FA Cup. 

Chelsea were unbeaten at home for ages; Bradford were 33-1 pre match and that wasn't generous and they went behind 2-0.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/30860394 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/30860394)

Miracle of Medinha

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/africa/8450491.stm

I remember hearing a student lost his entire £4400 loan during that game to try and win £44 when Angola were 4-0 up.

Very little I remember about football, but Liverpools come back to win the European cup I do remember.....

Also didn't Manure scab a couple of very late goals to win theirs? Skolshaer or whatever his name was?.......

Reading being up 4-1 at half-time against Arsenal, scoring again and still losing by 2 was pretty special.

Martin Samuel  has gone with these 2 in the Mail.
I agree with the Liverpool one because it was a a comeback in the literal sense coming back from 0-3 and in a major event.
The United one was different. Whilst a magical ending for them, the "comeback" was really just 1 last minute equalising goal which has been done a million times. If they hadn't got the 2nd it would simply have gone to extra time.

Newcastle 4 - 4 Arsenal.

Not a bad come back for the Toon.

Davis was leading 8-0 tho and it should have been 9-0 but he broke down on the colours to let Dennis in. Think the match lasted about 15 hours and Dennis got up on the line to beat a guy that was dominating snooker at the time after giving him an 8 frame start. Personally I would say this is a bigger comeback than the SB as Davis was a good favourite to win every frame they played. And got to list that final black miss by Davis as a huge choke too.

Steve Hendry beat Mike Hallett in a Masters final from 7-0 and 8-2 down too.

In fact if we are using odds to determine the comebacks Seattle's comeback v Green Bay in the Conference championship game a few years ago was a bigger comeback than the SB. Pats were down by 25 with a lot of time left,Seattle down by less points but much less time left and Green Bay had the ball. Think Atlanta were 1/50 to win on Sunday and Seattle were done over 100/1 in that game.

Didnt someone win a play off game from 30 behind in the early 90's too so in truth the SB wasn't even the biggest comeback in its own sport. Deffo one of the greatest comebacks but probably not the biggest. Still well behind the 1985 snooker final for me.

Found this one whilst googling:

Charlton 7 Huddersfield 6 Divison 2 1957

Charlton were losing 5-1 with less than 30 minutes to go!

This one is best for me simply because they had 10 men and were underdogs pre match.  Watford had one win from 3-0 down against Bolton with about 20 minutes left as well.

The almost greatest comeback 4 -0 down in 35 minutes, ended up losing 5-4 though so close but no cigar :)

http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/football/football-news/flashback-coventry-citys-famous-5-4-8194722

Barcelona vs PSG

Lazarus

I will see your Lazarus and raise you.....

Jesus. Or even Bobby Ewing.

Dung - hang your (forgetful) head in shame

Tuesday, September 2, 1980

Having gone down 4-0 to First Division Southampton at the Dell in the first leg of their League Cup second round tie, Second Division Watford beat them 7 - 1  in the return leg to proceed to the next round on a 7 - 5 agg score.

FA Cup 2nd round this season.

Curzon Ashton v AFC Wimbledon.

With 10 minutes to go CA were 3-0 up, having been 2-0 up at half time and 3-0 up since the 62nd minute. 3 minutes later it was 3-3. Then big Tom Elliott flicked a header backwards towards goal in the 4th minute of injury time to win it 4-3 for Wimbledon. Mental!

Crotone fc were recently in the 8th tier of Italian football - and they narrowly escaped relegation from Seria B a couple of seasons ago.

They were promoted into Seria a.

After 10 games they had 2 points

After 19 games (half the season) they had 14 points

At the start of April they were 8 points away from safety.
 
They just beat Lazio 3  - 1 the 3 points make it 20 from the last 27.

Empoli lost 2-1 meaning little crotone pulled of what must be one of the greatest escapes

http://www.espnfc.co.uk/blog/espn-fc-united-blog/68/post/2834862/crotone-are-about-to-rise-to-the-top-of-italy-in-serie-a

A really nice piece on their promotion season, and the improbability of them even getting to Seria a