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        - Cho Yan

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DO I NOT LIKE THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!

BYE,
   Stevie.

Well, 4th Division Colchester's win over the then champians Leeds in the early
1970's FA Cup always springs to mind, as does Wrexham's win over Arsenal a
couple of years ago, and Bolton's campaign this season won't be forgotten in
a hurry!

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The Scottish Cup record is 36-0 to Arbroath against Bon Accord, but
probably pre-turn of the century. Incidentally, I think that one of the
Scottish Premier clubs (Aberdeen ?) have the phrase 'bon accord' in their
club badge. Is there a connection? I could of course be mistaken. I'm
trying to remember this from the days I used to collect the Panini stickers.

Ian

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Mike.

I like thinking of upsets in terms of underdogs winning
vs great teams. Some examples posted here involving
British teams were of this kind.

Here's one that would be classified an upset by my
definition:

        Hungary 1 - Turkey 3 (I think this was
        in Hungary) during the heyday of the
        Hungarian team led by Ferenc Puskas,
        possibly 1951 or thereabouts.

Any win by Malta, Cyprus, Faroes, San Marino etc. would also
classify as an upset, if against a team perceived to
be better than middling.

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Serdar Boztas ||  Yalniz'in odasinda            Bir sozde saklanmis bir yalani
Monash Uni    ||  Ikinci bir yalnizliktir       Bir gozde okudugundan
              ||  Ayna.                         Bakmaz kendi gozlerine bile.
Australia     ||                O z d e m i r    A s a f

Counting World Cup qualifiers, the biggest margin of victory was 13, when
New Zealand met Fiji in the WCQ 1982 (13-0).

Cheers,
Karel
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-- Karel Stokkermans, RISC-Linz, Schloss Hagenberg, Austria, Europa

"O hoe vergeefs / des doelmans hand / zich strekte naar de bal    [  21-6-88,  ]
 die 'een minuut / voor tijd de Duitse / doellijn kruiste..."     [ J. Deelder ]

Selamlar,
Karel
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-- Karel Stokkermans, RISC-Linz, Schloss Hagenberg, Austria, Europa

"O hoe vergeefs / des doelmans hand / zich strekte naar de bal    [  21-6-88,  ]
 die 'een minuut / voor tijd de Duitse / doellijn kruiste..."     [ J. Deelder ]

|> Say, what would be the greatest upset of all time?
|> And what was the biggest margin of victory or most goals
|> scored in a match, in a full-international and in
|> world-cup competition (including qualifications)?
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|>   - Cho Yan

        Well, if you included Scottish cup matches...Hearts win on Sunday!
        They didn't score that second goal, no really they didn't. I saw the
match live. They never had the ball in the second half. They couldn't
possibly have scored....could they?

        Oh well, maybe next time......
David Morris......

USA 1, England 0 in the 1950 World Cup Finals in Brasil.

When the score went over the wire, journalists thought it was a misprint.
and reported the score as USA 1, England 10 which was much more believable,
and, no doubt, expected.

The gap between the minnows and giants of yesteryear has closed considerably
and "upsets" will occur all the time now.  Malta 1, Belgium 0 has hardly
left me gasping.

But the biggest upset in _recent_ times, I have to say, is:

West Germany 1, Algeria 2 in the 1982 World Cup Finals in Spain.

I remember watching that match and couldn't believe how well the Africans
played.  West Germany were (are) contenders/favourites in virtually every
World Cup.  Amazingly, they recovered from this disaster to achieve yet
another World Cup Final.  But the emergence of African football was never
more evident than on the day Algeria outplayed the Germans.

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