The Shot That Shook The World

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Vote for the shot that shook the world.
You can vote 5 times, once in each category, but you need to do it now, it only takes a few seconds.
The show is on ITV tonight at 9.45pm

In the sports category, I voted for Foinavon winning the grand national.

http://www.itn-theshot.com/
 
I did this yesterday, think I went for 9/11, JFK assassination, Moon Landings, Solskjaer and the '84 Ethiopian famine.
 
I keep getting distracted by them using music from The Insider. Three tracks and counting...
 
Ted - they say "This category covers excellence from a range of sports" and you voted for Foinavon!!! Where was the greatest horse ever?

9/11; Berlin Wall; Ethiopian Famine (but f***ing Diana will probably be number one here); Neil Armstrong; Rumble in the Jungle
 
I would have thought that if they wanted the most populist moment from horse racing they would have gone for something to do with Red Rum. Strange choice.
 
And Liverpool winning the Champions League more momentous than the frigging Berlin Wall coming down.
 
Just like it on record for Gareth that I didn't even select Liverpool in the sports category ( Rumble in jungle ).
 
I voted for Foinavon as it was the only horse racing option, I'm sick to bleeding death of football.
In the end I thought the programme was a big dissapointment. The events supposedly shook the world, yet many of them didn't get more than about 10 seconds coverage.
 
Lots of interest with around 200000 (please remove/insert 0s as appropriate)telephone voters.

Seemed to me that the Twin Towers came first and the millions that starved in Africa got relegated.

1966 assumed as much importance as that other piece of history in 1066.
 
In terms of the actual footage, I think the right one "won" the vote. No matter how many times I see it, I still have to remind myself that it's real and that it's an effing airliner being intentionally flown into a skyscraper. Similarly, it's hard to get away from the fact that the Zapruder film is a President's head being blown apart. These are the kinds of things that you just don't expect to ever happen, whilst as harrowing as the pictures from Ethiopia are, at the back of your mind you know the same scene has been played out in various parts of the world for centuries without the benefit of tv cameras to jab at your conscience.
 
As is becoming the norm, I fell asleep before the end so missed it :rolleyes: The last thing I remember is them talking to Jack Charlton. Can somebody enlighten me and tell me what the order of the last five were please?
 
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