If you could have won any British sporting medal in your lifetime.

[Usher wide.]

You can ‘step into the shoes of’ any British sportsperson & collect any medal or indeed trophy or belt (thinking tennis, snooker, cricket, motor racing, boxing etc.,) that happened in your lifetime & be the recipient.

It can be the Olympics, Commonwealth, it doesn’t necessarily have to be a gold medal as presented in these games.

1. What medal (trophy, award etc) would you choose & what year/date.

2. Whose ‘shoes are you stepping into’?

3. Why that person, why that competition/event?

I get to go first, naturally.

1. A 1966 World Cup Winners Medal.
2. Geoff Hurst’s shoes or in this case boots (later to become Sir Geoff…quite rightly too).
3. He was the first player ever to score a hat trick in a World Cup Final (damn Mbappe!), it was at Wembley, it was the only time we’ve ever lifted the trophy & that summer seemed to go on forever.

Feel free to offer up the same answer should you be of a ‘certain generation’.

[Bristol Red Rover]

Back to when sport had some kind of magic:
FA Cup Winners medal 1969
Francis Lee
First FA Cup final I recall fully engaging with. Transfixed by Man City and esp Franny Lee. FA Cup and Wembley, and scoring, was the stuff of wet dreams back then 

[BobG]

Geoff Houchen's winning goal for Coventry City in the 1987 FA Cup Final.

Not a fan of Coventry City - think Robert Betts - but that cup final was epic and that goal was transcendentally awesome. The best flying header I have still ever seen. I wanna do that..... Sod the medal.

BobG

[dickos1]

Geoff Houchen's winning goal for Coventry City in the 1987 FA Cup Final.

Not a fan of Coventry City - think Robert Betts - but that cup final was epic and that goal was transcendentally awesome. The best flying header I have still ever seen. I wanna do that..... Sod the medal.

BobG

That’s up there for me too Bob, it’s the first football match I can remember as I was 7 then and can remember the header clear as day.
His name was Keith though rather than Geoff

[BobG]

Ah! Of course it was.  Silly of
 me. Thank you.

Bob

[Upton Rover]

Bingo world champion

[Guernsey Exile]

Surely the only two correct answers here are Hayter and Tierney

[Scooter]

I’ve never boxed and I’m defo not a heavyweight but I’d take Frank Bruno’s place in 1989 and fight Mike Tyson for the heavyweight championship of the world (and win of course)

[Barmby Rover]

The Trent Championship twice that John Allerton won in the 70s. It isn't very often that someone can win a match against well over 1,000 competitors two years on a trot. If anything proves that match angling is a sport and not "luck" that proves it.

[nightporter]

Daley Thompson at the 1984 Olympics in LA. 

[Donnywolf]

Surely the only two correct answers here are Hayter and Tierney

I would opt for Franny Tierney's goal and given the enormity of it I would run to opposite end where Rovers fans were.

Then I would pull up shirt to reveal my T Shirt which would read ( of course ) "Promotion Goal , never forget it . It's the first and there will never be another "

[ncRover]

Linford Christie 1992 Barcelona Olympics 100m gold medal.
Being the fastest man on the planet must be some feeling.

[big fat yorkshire pudding]

As a marathon runner, London marathon winner for me.

[rustybullethole]

I’d love to have been the undisputed heavyweight world champion, so Lennox Lewis for me.
The reason behind it is simple.
If I could be anything, I’d chose to be proper hard.

[Monkcaster_Rover]

The Ashes in Australia 2010/2011. I’d like to step in to Chris Tremlett’s shoes mainly because he’s about the same length as me. Can’t see us winning again in Australia any time soon so why not!

[turnbull for england]

having read post properly  and removed my Geoff Hirst suggestion  , then agreeing with Daley Thompson  - ill go  with Bradley Wiggins  winning TDF in 2012  or Colin McRae  winning world rally in 07  both at the absolute peak of powers at the time  and who wouldnt have wanted to be able to do either if you even have a passing interest in the sports 

[Pintolager]

Andy Murray winning Wimbledon in 2013 just for the enormity of being the first British man to win the title after so many years of there not being a British winner.

[Thorney]

Probably

2003 - rugby union world cup final.

Johnny wilkinson, drop goal with 26 seconds left of extra time to win the world cup.
The ecstasy he must of felt when that ball left his foot and could see it heading directly between the posts with no time for austrailia to reply

[goalkick]

Open golf championship at St Andrews.

[richtherover]

Hate to be picky, Bob, but Keith Houchen's goal was the equaliser not the winner. Great goal though. Man City had Tony Coleman in their team in '69, having signed him from Rovers. Much as I would love to be World Champion at any sport, nothing for me would beat that Francis Tierney moment. Just what it meant. We were back!

[scawsby steve]

Geoff Houchen's winning goal for Coventry City in the 1987 FA Cup Final.

Not a fan of Coventry City - think Robert Betts - but that cup final was epic and that goal was transcendentally awesome. The best flying header I have still ever seen. I wanna do that..... Sod the medal.

BobG

That match was special for me, Bob. I'm not a gambler, and that was the only time I ever had a bet on football.

I saw the prices in the paper before the 3rd round, and fancied a bet on some mediocre mid-table First Division team with a long price. There it was, Coventry at 40/1. I had some family living in Coventry, so I had a quid on them.

£40 was a decent wad in those days, and I went crazy with every Coventry goal that went in, especially as Spurs were 2-1 up at one time.

Yes, the Houchen header was special, but it was only the equaliser. Gary Mabbutt scored an own goal to give Coventry the 3-2 win. What a game.

[BobG]

I must be getting old... Thank you Rich. thank you SS. That's two horrible mistakes I've made in one memory...

Who scored the winner then?! Lol.

BobG

[Filo]

The Trent Championship twice that John Allerton won in the 70s. It isn't very often that someone can win a match against well over 1,000 competitors two years on a trot. If anything proves that match angling is a sport and not "luck" that proves it.

Back in my match fishing days, the Trent was my place to go, Jan Porter was my hero