What is your biggest sporting loss?

[Warbur]

I like this thread - brings back a few memories from the rugby days.

Most memorable thumping was a game for Towcestrians U21 XV against the Argentina National U18 side (slight mismatch). I've no idea how this got arranged but there was also an U18 team against their U16 side - I think we were a warm up game for them before some tournament.

We were pretty useful back then but had no answer for these boys. I have no idea of the score now but it was certainly a cricket score. Their backs constantly hitting the line at pace and receiving loads of quality ball from the forwards etc. I was playing tighthead and got turned inside out by their loose head so 2 hammerings in one game. The only part we won was the handbags element - we used to have the good old "99" call so when our fly half started the shout went up, I turned around to find that I was next to their number 8 - actually make that 3 hammerings in one game

 

[m9wst]

Not a loss but biggest result i ever saw playing football as a kid was under 12's (ish) football, we had a decent team, were probably among the favourites to top the league, anyway, playing one of the newer teams in the league and won 35-0.

 

[USER1999]

I played colts rugby against Downside school. The result wasn't my fault, as I got pulled after about 30 seconds with concussion. We lost about 90 nil.

I don't think I'd have made that much difference!

 

[Lump]

As a 13 year old aspiring cricketer, playing for a really good local team... our coach invited over a family friend from Australia, he brought his 17year old son over with him (I don't recall his name, but he was miles ahead of anything a 13 year old should face).
I spend a horrid 60mins in the nets with him fast bowling at me...... a couple off the elbow, a handful off the helmet and a too many to recall into the kidneys. I stopped playing 2 months later after being afraid of being hit again. Parents where fuming with the coach.

 

[LewisR]

My football team lost 16-1 a few seasons back! Plenty of double figure scorelines between then and now too.

 

[Deleted member 18645]

My pretty decent non-league football team once lost 11-1 and one of their blokes scored nine. Made the national press next day. I didn't buy a copy.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Our Sunday morning side got done 13-1. I was in goal and played well including a penalty save. It was 0-0 for the first 15 minutes too including that save. They wanted to sign me but I was happier playing and drinking with my mates than playing for a pot hunting club.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Played Rugby in Cyprus in the mid 90's against the local Army team, who had Fijians in their team, and 4 where internationals

We got 3 - they got 135 !!!

 

[Deleted member 15717]

I was always pretty lucky as a youngster and played for fairly good youth football sides. My last game I ever played was my biggest loss. A cold, miserable saturday afternoon where a few of our players turned up hungover (this is now adult football!) and we got nailed 9-0. Needless to say, I retired from football soon after and continued playing golf instead!

 

[SaintHacker]

My first ever cycling road race was on a closed circuit. I was part of the 'handicap' group, basically newbies and old boys who were just there for a ride round. This group went off just after the Elite riders but a lap ahead. Me and another lad immediately bombed off the front and tried to catch the elite boys. All we had to do was stay there for 15 laps and we had it won. 3 laps later the elites caught us, tried to hang on but spat straight out the back, 3 laps later they caught us again, after they caught us a third time we just sat up and rode round...

 

[Liverbirdie]

When I used to play 5 a side a good few years ago (with a group of equally unfit potential alcoholics), we had a friendly arranged against a local 6th form college. We didn't know that numerous members of this particular college were members of a local Premier League Club Academy. It didn't start well, and then got much much worse. We lost count after a while, but I doubt that it was less than 30 goals...

Surely, Scouser's pummelling of you at Lymm last year, was your worst.......

 

[Beezerk]

When I first moved up to the North East I played for a team near Cramlington who weren't the best. One game was against a team of trophy hunters who were romping the league. Final score was a 24-1 loss I think, amazingly we scored first and I got man of the match :rofl:

 

[road2ruin]

Cricket (U14 level) - 14 all out - I was joint top scorer with 2 not out.....

Rugby (U16 level) - 98-0 - I remember this being against RGS Guildford. They had a guy who looked as though he was about 25 years old! Their tactic was very boring, although very effective, and just involved giving him the ball and watching him bulldoze his way though our entire team. He didn't seem to get bored of it either......

 

[Hobbit]

Rugby - being murdered by Fiji in a tour match. I remember their standoff running at me, and me expecting him to try a dummy... NO, he just ran straight through me!! But our worst defeat was against Liverpool 84-10. They had Mike Slemen returning from injury - I played fullback and was damned fast, and slimmer, and I never got a hand on him.

Cricket - all out in 2 overs for nought. Surprisingly, we lost.

 

[bluewolf]

Surely, Scouser's pummelling of you at Lymm last year, was your worst.......

That doesn't count because I was injured.. and drunk..

 

[cookelad]

Used to play a lot of 7-a-side footie competitively in a local league never got our arsenals handed to us until the day we got the chance to play in a local 11-a-side competition, all of us in our early 20s thinking "we're still young" and "we used to play full size pitches at school and that wasn't that long ago", we signed up! Never realised previously what a difference there was between 7 and 11 a side, and I dread to think what the score was but I think the opposition brought off their keeper and replaced him with another forward!

 

[In_The_Rough]

Played 3 frames of Snooker against Nigel Bond many years ago. I hit the cue ball 3 times!! 2 break off shots and the other he broke off I attempted a long pot and missed and he cleared up after that like he did straight after my 2 break off shots Lost 9 and 8 in a match years ago. The other guy putted everything in sight and I had a shocker.

 

[MegaSteve]

Back in the day I could play to a half decent level game of tennis and squash... I could, on a good day, trouble the recognised best players at my club at least... Anyhow herself and I would play the occasional 'friendly' game of badminton and for all the years of trying I never once won a game... I mean who wants to be beaten by a girl?

 

[Crazyface]

74-0 at rugger whilst at school. This was as well as aload of other shocking results. We were the worst year the school ever had. This was not to be tolerated and three brilliant players were brought in in the 3rd year, some sort of private intake they used to have and we returned the favour to that school that year 36-0, and to all others who had duffed us over.

26-0 at footie. A rag bag team of 18-25 year olds who played in whatever position they wanted to! 10 man attacks were not uncommon !

 

[GB72]

When I played rugby at university there used to be an annual humiliation at Loughborough. Basically Loughborough Uni used to actively recruit potential sporting stars of the future and so their teams were made up of all the Home Nations under 19 rugby players.

Also remember our local rugby club tour to the Caymen Islands. This is a team of lads most approaching their 40s and out of shape looking for a week away on the beers. We played 2 matches, the first against their national team who had world cup qualifiers coming up and wanted to practice against a more European style of play. We thought the second match had to be easier then we find out that it is all the Australian, New Zealand and South African expats who had not yet gained residency so could not play in the full national team. Add to that the fact that we were knobbled with free drinks in a local nightclub the evening before and you can imagine the kicking we took.