Comments on: The Top 5 Sporting Dummy Spits

By: PDNZ

PDNZ — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:30:58 +0000

What about Shane Warne abusing a kid at Westpac Stadium for taking a photo of him smoking, getting a security guard to throw him out of the stadium, and stealing his bag containing the camera before the guard took him away?
Of course all of this was denied after a cop forced the ‘Pie Boy’ to return said bag to the kid. Unfortunately, he was not so forthcoming with the return of some $200k he had received for purportedly giving up smoking with the use of an advertisers patches.

By: melbvictory87

melbvictory87 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:09:46 +0000

easily the number 1 dummy spit of all time. the real world cup is the biggest sporting event known to man and for a dummy spit in its final has to take number 1. on the other hand, rugby league probably fails to make the top 100 sports in the world and its world cup semi final drew 15k wowwwwwwwwwww, it also made the government a loss due to lack of interest from overseas so i really dont see how that could possibly be number 1

By: Jez

Jez — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:49:00 +0000

I can only hope that is a sarcastic comment…

They dropped him on his head well after the ruck was over… Anyone who says any different is straight up kidding themselves…

By: Mango Lust

Mango Lust — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:16:33 +0000

Arjuna Ranatunga leading his side off the field in a one-dayer after Murali was called for chucking?

O’Driscoll? Imagine complaining after being driven, shoulder-first, into the turf by 2 opponents when nowhere near the ball!!! And in the first few minutes of the first test when you are the captain and key player on the team!!

By: pothale

pothale — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:15:40 +0000

And Fabien Pelous’ absolutely frustrated kick in the arse to Alan Quinlan during the Heineken Cup Final – hilarious!

By: Knives Out

Knives Out — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:32:29 +0000

Freakin’ whingeing Poms..

I thought that Smit’s response to Thorn’s ‘spear’ aka drop was quite melodramatic.

Daniel Dubroca’s roughing up of the referee post-WC QF 1991 was another melodramatic moment. In fact, there are quite a few French moments of madness: the rage and tears of Vincent Moscato following Lascube’s dismissal, Zidane’s stunning headbutt on ‘The Matrix’, Serge Blanco’s fists of fury attack on Nigel Heslop, Patrick Viera’s spitting hi-jinks, Christian Califano’s flying Fijian headbutt, Armand Vaquerin’s Russian Roulette special and many, many more. Allez les Bleus.

By: pothale

pothale — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:10:37 +0000

How about Brian O’Driscoll getting fairly cleaned out of a ruck by two fantastic SH rugby players, faking an injury to get out of playing the rest of the tour cos he knew they were gonna lose, and then whinging about it for years afterwards claiming it was an illegal spear tackle?

By: chris, syd Aust

chris, syd Aust — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 03:52:55 +0000

and that is a dummy spit how allblackfan? nice try thou

By: allblackfan

allblackfan — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:35:35 +0000

How about Robbie Deans?
Wanted the All Blacks coaching position but didn’t get it so he got the Wallabies job instead!!

By: Andrew Jones

Andrew Jones — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:01:43 +0000

Mike Gatting – yes!!! Sunny Gavaskar staging a walk-off when given out LBW in Melbourne in 80-81 was also a classic (he led opening partner Chetan Chauhan to the boundary but the Indian manager met him at the gate and told him not to be a peanut). Lillee was the bowler, Drewster, so he was never too far from the action!!

Nice one Netrug – didn’t quite have the same class as Cassius Clay (allegedly) throwing his gold medal off a bridge, did it? I guess there is a difference between protesting against two centuries of racial discrimination and protesting against coming 3rd!

And Billo, I AM surprised!!
cheers
AJ

By: Billo

Billo — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:22:05 +0000

Lanky, on Sky Sports the England rugby union team’s live audience for its November internationals was only very marginally higher than the audience for England’s games in the Rugby League World Cup, which were shown early on a morning.
People do watch the highlights, because only the highlights are on free to air, which makes it a mystery that league is scoring so much higher when it is supposed to be only a regional game.
With all the media support that rugby union gets it’s very worrying that it doesn’t have a greater viewing advantage over league. And the crowds at Guinness Premiership matches are declining sharply this season. It’s a puzzle!

By: Lanky

Lanky — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:40:48 +0000

Billo, perhaps you should look at the live viewer numbers for the England Rugby Unions autumn internationals before you compare the viewing figures for the highlights? Who the hell watches highlights when you can watch live??

By: Billo

Billo — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:17:44 +0000

When you write about the “otherwise disregarded” Rugby League World Cup, you may be surprised, as I was, to note that the recorded highlights of the games played by the pathetic England team received higher viewing figures on the BBC than the highlights of England’s rugby union team’s series of autumn international matches.
Check it out in ‘TV Sports Markets’.
How do you explain that one?
I thought the World Cup Final was the finest sporting contest I’ve seen this year in any sport, by the way.

By: Dublin Dave

Dublin Dave — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:32:34 +0000

Andrew,

I believe the direct French translation of “mercurial nutjob” is, er, Eric Cantona?

Also, wasn’t there a famous spat in the 1980s between England’s cricket captain Mike Gatting and an umpire called Shakoor Rana involving a lot of finger pointing and “hair dryer” treatment? Can’t remember what it was all about but it looked heated.

By: netrug

netrug — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:26:30 +0000

What about the Swedish weightlifter who threw his bronze medal on the ground at the Beijing Olympic Games after the medal ceremony?

By: Drewster

Drewster — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:21:20 +0000

Some good aussie dummy spits i can recall : (Cricket) D.K. Lillie and the tossing of the aluminum bat, D.K. Lillie and Javed Miandad, (AFL) Fabulous Phil Carman’s Head Butt on boundary Umpire Graham Carbery and Smacking Out Gary Sidebottom in his comeback game from suspension, Barry Hall’s King Hit KO of Brett Staker Earlier This Year, (League) Steve Roach calling State of Origin Ref Tony Archer A “F*#king Cheat”
But my favorite is the McEnroe Spit, All that was needed to make that the Classic of all time was that famous aussie chant
” McEnroe’s A Wanker” and i bet his reaction would have been ” Surely you can’t be serious”

By: Andrew Jones

Andrew Jones — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:34:59 +0000

Thanks all – some outstanding suggestions (I loved the 6-0 ref attack in particular). Please keep them coming! And thanks Vicki, of course you are correct. (Although it was then called Flinders Park – Kennett re-branded it Melbourne Park later, in the “On the Move” era….)
cheers
AJ

By: Vicki

Vicki — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:41:56 +0000

Johnny Mac Dummy spit and default are stuff of legend. But I would like to make a correction to your piece. in 1990 the Australian open was played a Melbourne park not Kooyong . They Stopped playing the Australian open at Kooyong in 1987.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:33:07 +0000

There was a monumental dummy spit from either an NFL or College football coach at a post game interview although I can’t recall the side or the coach. Anyone help me out?

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:07:58 +0000

How can you leave out ‘Iron Mike’ & his Evander happy meal ???

By: sunshinecoaster

sunshinecoaster — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:57:09 +0000

zinadine zadans flying head but to the chest maybe?

By: sunshinecoaster

sunshinecoaster — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:54:32 +0000

Lay down Sally

By: Rous

Rous — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:16:53 +0000

Wot ???

Only one Aussie in the Top5 ???????

By: sunshinecoaster

sunshinecoaster — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:55:25 +0000

How about Andrew Symonds and company last year when all of a sudden India decided to sledge them back

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:59:35 +0000

How about Mary Decker after she tripped on Zola Budd…

By: Mattay

Mattay — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:39:15 +0000

Oops – I see you included the sprinter in question, per my original comment.

I’ll trade that one then for the Italians after losing in the 2002 World Cup to Korea. They may have had some grounds to feel hard done by, but their reaction was very Ricky Stuart-esque, including the scorer of the winning goal, Ahn Jung-Hwan, who played at the time for Italian club Peruggia, being told by the club president he would never play for the club again. The president later rescinded the comment and offered to purchase the player (who was previously only on loan), but the player told him to get stuffed.

By: Mick of Newie

Mick of Newie — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:12:13 +0000

My favourite was in the America’s Cup it was the kiwis and Dennis Connors, the details remain a bit hazy but involved a lot of huffing and puffing, finger pointing and name calling at a press conference.

By: Mattay

Mattay — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:25:01 +0000

As an Adelaide United fan, surely John Kosmina, Carl Veart and Ross Aloisi’s efforts after the 6-0 Grand Final loss is worthy of a mention. First I ever heard of a 6-0 loss being the refs fault. Cost Aloisi and Kosmina their job and Veart was retiring anyway.

Also, what about that sprinter who got called for a false start, so lay down in the middle of the track and refused to move?