Worst robberies in football history?

[Dave Smith]

Icardi - Maxi Lopez.

However, for me, the ones would be:

1954 WC Final - Germany doped their team up to beat Hungary.

1984 - Forest v Anderlecht UEFA Cup Semi - Ref was actually proven to have taken a bribe.

1997 - Chesterfield v Boro - This one gets in owing to how harsh the outcome was owing to the gulf in class between the teams.

2002 - Korea v Italy - Obvious that the ref had been told to keep Korea in the game as much as possible.

2009 - Chelsea v Barca - This is the most ridiculous one of the lot not to have been proven legally that the ref was bent/told to keep Barca in the game.

 

[Dans]

Bayern vs Manchester United in 1999

 

[Stacks]

You can never convince me our CL loss to Real with the Nani red card wasn't highway robbery of the highest order. That one still stings bc with a prime RvP I believe we would have won the whole thing that year.

Jeez he wasn't Messi man. Dortmund had better players than us and prime Lewandowski. Bayern had prime Robben and Ribery among others (Kroos Muller, Schweinsteiger, Lahm). So RVP will beat them all by himself? sure ok

 

[Tom Cato]

On the pitch, that is.

Italy - South Korea 2002, Chelsea - Barcelona 2009, France - Ireland 2009 spring to mind.

Football injustices also happened at Ghana - Uruguay 2010, Argentina - Mexico 2014...

Any suggestions?

Chelsea Barcelona is forever going to be the #1 rated - Park-the-bus match. The whole game was Barecola passing the ball around and Chelsea with 11 men in and around the 16m box, until Drogba gets the breakaway. To Chelseas credit they knew they were playing a far superior team and applied the only tactic possible

 

[Bertie Wooster]

That France and Ireland one still angers me .

In the qualifiers for the following tournament - Euro 2012 - the final group game was a 'play off' between Ireland and Armenia. Winner went into the play offs, loser missed out.

Half an hour into the game the Irish striker Simon Cox controlled a through ball with his hand, and went through to shoot which the keeper blocked with his body outside the box. He was wrongly sent off for handball, and Ireland got away with a 'cheating' handball and went on to beat the 10 men and go through.

That never gets remembered or discussed. While the Henry one gets mentioned ad nauseum. If he and France were 'cheats', and Ireland 'robbed'; then it was even upped the very next tournament with Cox and Ireland being 'cheats' and Armenia 'robbed'.

 

[TheScriptwriter]

Barcelona - Arsenal when Van Persie got sent off for kicking the ball. Don't remember happening ever again or before.

 

[Dave Smith]

Chelsea Barcelona is forever going to be the #1 rated - Park-the-bus match. The whole game was Barecola passing the ball around and Chelsea with 11 men in and around the 16m box, until Drogba gets the breakaway. To Chelseas credit they knew they were playing a far superior team and applied the only tactic possible

Wouldn't say that was a robbery rather a smash and grab. Robbery in football terms is normally when the team cannot do anything about it due to decisions against them and/or the other team doping etc.

 

[Ixion]

Bayern vs Manchester United in 1999

I'm not saying Bayern weren't unlucky but if we'd only have scored the Sheringham goal and it went to extra time it wouldn't have been that unfair. We had more shots on target, more corners and more possession, Bayern hit the woodwork twice. Extra time would have been reasonable.

 

[Marcosdeto]

On the pitch, that is.

Italy - South Korea 2002, Chelsea - Barcelona 2009, France - Ireland 2009 spring to mind.

Football injustices also happened at Ghana - Uruguay 2010, Argentina - Mexico 2014...

Any suggestions?

Argentina - Mexico was in 2006 or 2010

And all i can remember was an offside goal

I don’t think that an offside goal in a 3-1 win is one of the “worst robberies in football history“.

 

[R.N7]

 

[Tottenhamguy]

Dortmund vs Malaga a couple of years ago. If my memory serves me right Dortmund ended up scoring an offside goal in the last couple of minutes thus advancing on goal difference to the semi finals.

 

[Rolandofgilead]

Two deciding illegal goals in the World Cup Final , how is it not a robbery?

Two? What was the second one please?

 

[Annihilate Now!]

Wasn't that faux outrage though? Can't remember the full game but it was a clear penalty that Juventus expected not to be awarded because Buffon was really old and had never won a European Cup.

Juventus definitely deserved to win that game 3-0 as Madrid were crap, but it would have gone to extra time... and yeah, that penalty was a blatant penalty that people were trying desperately to claim wasn't a penalty for whatever reason

 

[jeff gurr]

Two deciding illegal goals in the World Cup Final , how is it not a robbery?

My response was somewhat tongue in cheek.
I was 14 & my country had won the World Cup . 14 year olds are not concerned with how or why but only with the result.

 

[MTF]

Forgotten in the whole Ghana v Uruguay situation (which I don't think counts as a robbery) was that Asamoah Gyan missed the penalty kick to win it, but he still stepped up and converted the 1st penalty in the shootout a few minutes later. I know he'd much rather have converted the penalty in extra time to win, but I still think it was very brave to volunteer to take the 1st one in the shootout. I think many other players would have shied away.

 

[Redplane]

Jeez he wasn't Messi man. Dortmund had better players than us and prime Lewandowski. Bayern had prime Robben and Ribery among others (Kroos Muller, Schweinsteiger, Lahm). So RVP will beat them all by himself? sure ok

Perhaps but he and us absolutely bossed Real in both legs and that was with a prime Ronnie in their team, as well as a Ramos and all the others. Even if we wouldn't have won it - we would have at least given Dortmund a better game than Real did in the semis after undoubtedly knocking out Galatasaray before it.

 

[Oranges038]

Didn't Celtic beat Barca with 18% possession and 1 shot on target a few years ago? That.

Edit:

Remember that.

Forster was unreal that night.

 

[Giggs86]

This belongs to the "best robberies of all time", not the worst.

 

[sidsutton]

Franck's brothers.

 

[Hansi Fick]

Bayern (CL QF 2010)

You mean last 16?

 

[Hansi Fick]

One i think that hasn't been mentioned yet was the 2007 FA Cup final. 0-0 in extra time then this happened.




No goal line tech back then and Chelsea went on to win 1-0. Lucky Mourinho against United once more.

Doesn't look over the line to me

 

[always_hoping]

I'm not saying Bayern weren't unlucky but if we'd only have scored the Sheringham goal and it went to extra time it wouldn't have been that unfair. We had more shots on target, more corners and more possession, Bayern hit the woodwork twice. Extra time would have been reasonable.

One of the great myths was that United was outplayed in that final. Certainly not the case having watched it live at the time and rewatched the full match recently. I still believe United would have won more comfortably if Keane, Scholes wasn't suspended but would have missed out on all the drama then.

Doesn't look over the line to me

You probably need a new pair of glasses then?

 

[Hansi Fick]

You probably need a new pair of glasses then?

Impossible to determine from that photo. Might as well be one of those cases where goal line technology shows the ball still to be 0,1 cm on the line.

 

[Stacks]

Perhaps but he and us absolutely bossed Real in both legs and that was with a prime Ronnie in their team, as well as a Ramos and all the others. Even if we wouldn't have won it - we would have at least given Dortmund a better game than Real did in the semis after undoubtedly knocking out Galatasaray before it.

Real under Jose were never the best around. All the others? No Kroos, Casemeiro or Bale. They still had Ozil and Di Maria Didn't he get sacked that year and determine it one of his worst seasons?

I agree we would beat Gala. A Klopp Dortmund is a scary sight

 

[Tacitus56AD]

The 1934 World Cup was marred by being a high-profile instance of a sporting event being used for overt political gain. In particular, Benito Mussolini was keen to use this World Cup as a means of promoting fascism. There were also accusations of bribery, corruption and meddling in the Italian team's matches personally by Mussolini. Italy has always claimed to have deserved victory in the competition.

 

[Reapersoul20]

The Lampard goal that wasn't. England were just coming back into the game, 100% they would have won and brought it home if that goal was given.

 

[Bobski]

Doesn't look over the line to me

That decision wasn't the problem, it was Essien going 2 footed into the back of his knees that knocked him off balance and stopped him getting a solid contact.

One of most blatant yet rarely discussed woeful decisions of that era, a pen and a red card.

 

[Lay]

Vague memory but I recall Bayern knocking out Fiorentina with some blatant offside goals.

 

[MC89]

Last season’s league cup final, how we won I will never know, Mikey shouldve

1-1 December 1999 how we didn’t win I will never know.... hit bar 3 times.

Black Sunday - through on goal twice 2-0 game and league finished

 

[BridgeBanter]

Chelsea Barcelona is forever going to be the #1 rated - Park-the-bus match. The whole game was Barecola passing the ball around and Chelsea with 11 men in and around the 16m box, until Drogba gets the breakaway. To Chelsea's credit they knew they were playing a far superior team and applied the only tactic possible

I wouldn't say that's the truest reflection of the game.

The first leg at the Camp Nou Chelsea were certainly lucky to come away with a 0-0 because Barca had plenty of chances to score. However, the second leg was different. Barcelona in the 08-09 season really was the best team in Europe that season yet for 65-70 mins in the second leg Chelsea were the better team. Chelsea's midfield with Essien, Ballack, Lampard, and Malouda looked quicker, faster, and stronger than Barca. Numerous penalty non penalty calls weren't given but it was really only after the Pique handball in the box wasn't given that you could see the Chelsea players started to lose their heads. Barcelona only had one shot on target the entire game, which of course was the screamer from Iniesta.

 

[Kopral Jono]

It depends on how you define robbery. I'd actually differentiate smash and grabs with robberies, and in my opinion examples of the latter are actually few and far between at the highest level. Obviously in recent times you have ROK-Italy, second leg of France-Ireland, Chelsea-Barcelona and (speaking with my red-tinted specs on) the second leg of us against Real in 2013, but off the top of my head I honestly can't think of any others right now.

With robberies there has to be an element of great injustice that stems from very bad officiating.

 

[Hanks]

Barcelona - Arsenal when Van Persie got sent off for kicking the ball. Don't remember happening ever again or before.

Literally happened a month ago when Taremi was sent off against your team

 

[Cal?]

However, for me, the ones would be:

1954 WC Final - Germany doped their team up to beat Hungary.

1984 - Forest v Anderlecht UEFA Cup Semi - Ref was actually proven to have taken a bribe.

1997 - Chesterfield v Boro - This one gets in owing to how harsh the outcome was owing to the gulf in class between the teams.

2002 - Korea v Italy - Obvious that the ref had been told to keep Korea in the game as much as possible.

2009 - Chelsea v Barca - This is the most ridiculous one of the lot not to have been proven legally that the ref was bent/told to keep Barca in the game.

This one will forever be remembered as the game where the ref failed to give SIX fecking penalties.

 

[giorno]

Vague memory but I recall Bayern knocking out Fiorentina with some blatant offside goals.

2010, yes. Klose offside by like 2 meters

 

[Acrobat7]

2010, yes. Klose offside by like 2 meters

Wow, that‘s being offside by almost 2 Ronaldos!

Sorry, i had to. Still like you.

 

[Foxbatt]

USSR vs Belgium. 3-4. Certain off side goal given to Belgium. 1986 WC.

 

[kaiser1]

Madrid 4 Bayern 2 2018
Vidal red card plus 2 offside goals

Viktor Kassai should be in jail

 

[Tarrou]

our 3-1 at PSG was spawny as feck

also the 1-0 (Cantona) at Newcastle when Schmeichel had a stormer

 

[RedDevil@84]

On the pitch, that is.

Italy - South Korea 2002, Chelsea - Barcelona 2009, France - Ireland 2009 spring to mind.

Football injustices also happened at Ghana - Uruguay 2010, Argentina - Mexico 2014...

Any suggestions?

Ha ha. People bring the Ghana Uruguay constantly in the injustice list.
There was no injustice done. Suarez very willingly put his hand up, perfectly knowing that he would be sent off and Ghana will get a penalty which will mostly be scored. Just because Gyan s**t it when mattered, doesn't make it injustice. There was a very fair chance to win it and they blew it.
If this is called injustice, pretty much all penalty shootouts are injustice to the losing team..

It is in no way comparable to Henry handball or south korean game

 

[Ixion]

Oh yeah I forgot about our 3-1 against PSG, we didn't deserve to win that at all and whoever is in charge of our social media loves to bring it up all the time.