IT IS CHRISTMAS time and while you are no doubt looking forward to the bounty of gifts coming your way from friends and family, chances are that you are also nostalgic for the great presents you got when you were a little kid.
Here are The42 we were doing a bit of reminiscing too and we decided to test your knowledge of these great sporting Christmas presents that you almost definitely got at some stage of your life.
What was this planetary-esque toy called?
Space Hopper
Lo-Lo Ball
Go-Go bouncer
Planet Bouncer
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Do you remember this innovative creation?
Football in a Bag
BagBall
Kicknet
Kickmaster
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What was the correct spelling of this fun racing car game?
scalextric.com
Scalextric
Scaleretrix
Scalelectrics
Scaleletrix
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Any ideas was this tennis based game was called?
Racketeering
Rounders
Slingball
Swingball
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A lot of us got BMX bikes for Christmas but what do the letters actually stand for?
Transworld
Bicycle Mountaineering
Bicycle Motorcross
Brilliant Majestic Xperience
Bicycle Mountaineering Xtreme
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What words were written across the top of this famous yellow football?
International World Cup
International Derby
World Championship
World Football
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What was this table-top football game called?
Passmasters
Supercup football
Pro Action Football
Subbuteo
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A few of us were definitely given these gloves.
Mizuno
Mikasa
Miranda
Miclino
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You scored out of !
Santa Claus
You've given so many gifts over the ages that there isn't a single one that you don't know/
You scored out of !
Elf
You've seen the best sporting Christmas presents in Santa's workshop over the years.
You scored out of !
Scrooge
You discovered the meaning of Christmas in old age... but by then it was too late.
You scored out of !
The Grinch
You hate Christmas and every sport-related presents ever created.
Norman Whiteside wasn’t 17 in 1985, unless he played in the 82 world cup when he was 14!
Cheers Graham,
I obviously got Norman Whiteside and Freddy Adu mixed up!
That 1970 match description is class.. “neutralised”
Your a gas man, Will
Wouldn’t consider that tackle to be a straight red nowadays, probably borderline. Back then….not even close, yellow at worst
Miss timed is all it was.I remember watching that game and being shocked when he was sent off.Disagree that it was on any way cynical, there isn’t a cynical bone in Kevin Moran’s body.
Yeah, definitely mis-timed. I blame Reid for having legs!
How times have changed…. You did not see Everton players swarm the ref demanding a red, Man U players were in shock….. Rightly so too, you saw these tackles every week and you got on with it…. Its a sending off and a media circus today, but back then it was, ummm football….. Tackles are expected, and was rarely ever cynical…….
Spot on Graham, sure even Peter Reid protested to the ref on behalf on Moran…..very rare you will see that nowadays.
Peter Reid actually begged the referee not to send Moran off. Frank Stapleton reverted to emergency centre half and had a stormer. Peter Willis was the referee and it was his last ever match to officiate. He was looking to make a name for himself. Years later the F.A. Stopped referees officiating in their last ever match in the cup finals.
‘With United down to 10, Everton took them to extra-time’, shouldn’t that be United took Everton to extra-time as the Toffees were just crowned league champions you know.
Also had more league titles than United! And had just won the cup winners cup beforehand!
Moran’s wasn’t allowed receive a winners medal that day either .
Forget the tackle. He’d get 6 months now for pulling & dragging out of the ref in protesting his innocence! Although he didn’t quite get to Di Canio levels…
Unusually it was an intercept of Paul McGraths pass that led to Kevin having to make the lunge.
Suberb tackle won the ball cleanly. Football is being destroyed these days by cheating, diving and every second tackle being either a yellow or red. Games these days are often decided by which team has a player sent off its a complete joke
Lol, everyone had common sense comments today till that…. Thought we might have a good thread…..
Badly timed don’t think tackles back then were cynical or malicious as they are today .
A proper challenge that! :D
Big Ron would have referred to the tackle as a ‘reducer’
This may be an urban myth and I am well open to correction but is it true that the first person to be sent off in the FA Cup final (Kevin Moran) and the first player to be sent off in the Premier League (Niall Quinn) both went to the same school (Drimnagh castle)??
If memory serves me, I was seven at the time, kevin Moran didnt get a winners medal on the day after his red card. He only received it after a campaign on his behalf.
Bit misleading. Why would you be considered the most cynical player in FA Cup Final history just because you were the first to be sent off in one? Moran was a tough ‘no prisoners’ player, but he was never cynical in his playing days.
If it was today Reid would be gone for simulation…
Most cynical ever? The writer obviously doesn’t remember Willie Young in 1980! Only a yellow too. I think that was the tackle that prompted the introduction of the straight red for a professional foul.
Good article Will, still very few being sent off in big games- Lehmens in 06 CL final, Reyes in 05 FA cup final-can’t think of any others. A few in World cup finals- two Argentinians in 1990, Desailly, Heitinga