Your most embarrassing sports failure

[SB]

I’m sure everyone has an embarrassing sports failure so why not share them here with everyone!

A 1 on 1 in football?

Golf swing gone wrong?

Missed tackle in rugby?

[SB]

When I was a kid we played cricket in our street but none of us really knew the rules or played for a club. Anyway a friend from school asked me to play for his team ( desperate for players I’m sure) & I soon realised I was out of my league. They put me in slips & I almost had my head taken off when the fast bowler took an edge. They then stuck me in the deep on the boundary cause I was fit enough to run a bit . I’d pick the ball up & just let it fly across the middle of the wicket time & time again to the other players disgust. Eventually one bloke says just pick an end you idiot & throw to the bowler or the keeper. I said as long as the ball crosses the wicket they can’t run. Seems that was just a rule the boys in our street had made up & I was the fool that believed it. I didn’t play much cricket after that tbh.

[ChesterDave]

I played at the English Schools table tennis finals. Only 1 player per age group for each county. I lost 3 matches 3 games to nil.

Ah but Dave at least you won your county competition to qualify I hear you say.

Nobody else entered my age group countrly competition. I won by default

[Fivex]

It’s the taking part that counts

[spud_gun]

I played hockey in my teens.

First game for my clubs first team I got hit on the head with the ball and had to get taken to A&E

[ChesterDave]

It’s the taking part that counts

The competition was in Stoke. The worst of all worlds

[SB]

I played at the English Schools table tennis finals. Only 1 player per age group for each county. I lost 3 matches 3 games to nil.

Ah but Dave at least you won your county competition to qualify I hear you say.

Nobody else entered my age group countrly competition. I won by default

I hope you got a participation trophy at least

[SB]

I played hockey in my teens.

First game for my clubs first team I got hit on the head with the ball and had to get taken to A&E

A lasting impression

[SB]

Not sure if any of you remember am Aussie speed skater called Steven Bradbury?

Many years ago he made the final of the Winter Olympic Games . He’s the complete outsider of the 4 man final. It’s going as planned & he’s last into the last lap. The other 3 are jostling it out & on the last bend one guy goes down & takes the other 3 out & Bradbury avoids the carnage & skates to International glory. We Aussies still refer to any hollow victory as doing a Bradbury

If he was here he’d of shared it & won I think

[Norbs]

My brother was a decent golfer in his teens and we played regularly. 14th hole at High Elms and he's on for a score in the mid 80s, likely to win. Decent teeshot, misjudged his 2nd slightly left and it goes in a bunker. 13 attempts to get it out of what is a pretty ordinary bunker. 14th attempt and he thins it in to the bunker on the right. Hardly redeems himself but he did get up and down for an 18 after that.

It wouldn't have helped him that the rest of us were pissing ourselves laughing after the 3rd miss

[SB]

My brother was a decent golfer in his teens and we played regularly. 14th hole at High Elms and he's on for a score in the mid 80s, likely to win. Decent teeshot, misjudged his 2nd slightly left and it goes in a bunker. 13 attempts to get it out of what is a pretty ordinary bunker. 14th attempt and he thins it in to the bunker on the right. Hardly redeems himself but he did get up and down for an 18 after that.

It wouldn't have helped him that the rest of us were pissing ourselves laughing after the 3rd miss

I think anyone who’s ever played golf can relate to that. I had a pretty bad temper when I was younger & golf brought out the worst side of me. I put a putter shaft onto my boot one day & sent what looked like a boomerang into a dam.

[John Barnes]

football as a 8 year old ...begged my teacher to let me have a go in goal,Finally agreed so i'm in goal shot comes in rolling along the ground, I dived for it and it went under my arms.Here endeth my Goal keeping career

[SB]

football as a 8 year old ...begged my teacher to let me have a go in goal,Finally agreed so i'm in goal shot comes in rolling along the ground, I dived for it and it went under my arms.Here endeth my Goal keeping career

Jordan Pickford has made a career & there’d be some who wish he’d followed your example

[Le Chef]

Played at Boundary Park at Oldham when they had the astroturf pitch, was post season, but having trials at the time, put thru, on goal, just the keeper to beat, on the edge of the box, and my foot got caught under the astroturf, the ****ing stitching had come undo and I got my foot bloody caught, stretched my knee ligaments and I looked like a right ****

[Exiled_red]

I played in a crap 5 aside team with some mates in college so have a fair few stories from that time, one that sticks out is from one of the last games we played. We had played something like 3 season of 12/14 games and my mate had never scored a goal. This game he hits this shot which defects off two of their players, the post and goes in off the back of the keeper, he goes around high fiving all our players and subs and acting like he's scored a last minute winner in the cup final, his goal had taken us from 6-0 down to 6-1 down with about a minute to go