In light of Newcastle’s epic 2nd half turnaround at the weekend I looked into the top ten football comebacks in recent memory.

10. Turkey 3-2 Czech Republic: European Championship, 2008.

We all know how crazy Turkish fans are, as football means more than life itself to them. They went absolutely mental when Turkey produced this shocker of a comeback.

2-0 down with just 15 minutes left, but Arda Turan pulled one back to make it 2-1, and a late brace from Nihat Kahvaci saw the Turcs mark down a most unlikely win against the Czechs.

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9. Bayer Uerdingen 7-3 Dynamo Dresden: German Cup, 1986.

A comfortable 2-0 home win in the first leg put Dynamo forward as favourites to progress, and was comforted by a 3-1 half-time lead in away in the return game.

5-1 ahead on aggregate by the break, Bayer Uerdingen produced one of the most exciting, spectacular comebacks of all time and scored another six goals to put them through to the semis.

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8. West Germany 3-2 England: World Cup, 1970.

We all know about this comeback, and what a one it was from the Germans. England looked to defend a 2-0 lead to progress to the Semi-Finals, but Sir Alf Ramsey took off star striker Bobby Charlton to rest him for the next game, but dramatically turned into a German Victory. Beckenbauer, Seeler and an extra-time (108’) goal from Gerd Muller sent the Deutchland’ers through to the semis.

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7. Liverpool 3-1 Olympiakos: Champions League 2004-05.

In a year which saw Liverpool lift the European Cup in Istanbul, before another stunning comeback against AC Milan, the Reds went into the game needing to score two following a 1-0 defeat in Greece but fell short of the wire in the first half, and two became three after Rivaldo scored a free-kick.

It was two substitute appearances which pushed Liverpool to victory. Florent Sinama Pongolle tapped in Harry Kewell’s cross from 6-yards out, whilst Neil Mellor raised the Kop’s hope just 9 minutes from time. However it was an absolute peach from skipper Steven Gerrard from 30-yards out which saw Liverpool progress to the next stage, making their comeback one of the best of all time.

“This is stuff of which dreams are made – but this real life”

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