You would be forgiven if you believed that Bayern Munich had been all-conquering in Germany since the dawn of time.
Many have already forgotten the last time any team won the league outside of Die Rotten, but in that time there have been a few teams capable of landing blows to the German champions.

One such team is Borussia Monchengladbach, the team with one of the longest names in World football who has beaten Bayern a couple of times in the last decade.

One such time was this enthralling encounter at Borussia Park, where Bayern started the better team. They took the lead through a Robert Lewandowski penalty, for a very slight handball spotted by VAR.

Leon Goretzka hammered home a second for Bayern inside the empty stadium. It was Covid times so fans still could not enter.
Gladbach started turning it around minutes later with a fantastic through ball that Jonas Hofmann finished off nicely.

The Bayern defence had gone missing for the first goal, they completely disappeared for the second goal. Hofmann once again in behind to slot home the equaliser.

Just after halftime, Florian Neuhaus made it 3-2 with a brilliant curling finish into the top corner.
The final score meant nothing for the league table, Bayern were still champions and Monchengladbach didn’t even make the Champions League. This was, however, Monchengladbach’s eighth win against Bayern in ten years.

The rivalry set the Premier League on track to becoming the best league in the World. Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal and Sir Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United always produced exciting matches.

This was probably the most exciting of the lot, as both teams were chasing the latest challenger Chelsea for the title.
Arsenal was the reigning champions, and the Invincibles of 2004 had dropped a level. Similarly, the Red Devils were in a period of mild disarray staring at a second season without a league title.

The game is famous for having kicked off before the kick-off, both Patrick Vieira and Roy Keane had to be separated in the tunnel.
It was Vieira who drew first blood for the Gunners a header into the bottom corner beat stand-in keeper Roy Carroll in the eighth minute.
A brilliantly worked United equaliser as Wayne Rooney touched down the inch-perfect pass from Paul Scholes for Ryan Giggs to smash home.
Patrick Vieira and Thierry Henry then combined themselves to let Dennis Bergkamp loose who ripped the ball past the helpless United keeper.
Then just after halftime, it became the Cristiano Ronaldo show, with Ronaldo bagging a brace, the first a shot across goal that beat Arsenal stand-in keeper Manuel Almunia.

The second Ryan Giggs managed to drag Almunia wide chip it over and Ronaldo rushed in at the back post for the tap-in.
United now 3-2 up almost shot themselves in the foot, Mikael Sylvestre made contact in the face of Freddie Ljungberg and was duly sent off.
But United managed to hold on and unlikely hero defender John O’Shea was spotted up front all by himself to finish the game off.
United momentarily jumped above Arsenal but come the end of the season the Gunners would finish second behind eventual champions and record-breakers Chelsea.

Lyon and Paris Saint Germain have had some brilliant games over the years. Many were one-sided in favour of Lyon back in the 2000’s but in the 2010’s they switched in favour of PSG.

In this era of French football beating PSG is the holy grail and yet Lyon seemed to have their number. In this particular game, Lyon played one of their best performances in recent memory, an incredible end-to-end game.
Nabil Fekir started the show with a free kick that fooled everyone and left the keeper in no man’s land. Anthony Lopes made a slew of fantastic saves before Layvin Kurzawa absolutely walloped the ball into the back of the Lyon net.

PSG’s struggles to break down this strong Lyon team was compounded by Dani Alves’ silly red card. His foul on Tanguy Ndombele was not enough he proceeded to verbally abuse the referee for good measure, his marching orders given seconds later.
The rest of the second half was a defensive test for the Parisians as Lyon kept up their siege on the PSG goal.

In the final minutes, Memphis Depay found a way through, cutting in on his right foot, and going past one defender his screamer hit the top corner and sent the Lyon Kop into a wild frenzy. PSG would reclaim their title and Lyon would gain third place, but this game will be the best remembered that season.

A wild race the 1995 Italian Grand Prix delivered an absolute classic.
David Coulthard qualified in first position ahead of Michael Schumacher but spun off in the formation lap thus forcing him to start from the pit lane.
However, a crash in the first lap forced a race restart that allowed Coulthard to start from pole again. Max Papis, Jean-Christophe Boullion, Roberto Moreno and Andrea Montermini all came together. Coulthard’s luck finally ran out when he span off course giving Ferrari’s Gerhard Berger the lead to the delight of the Italian crowd.

A few laps later Damon Hill crashed into the back of Michael Schumacher as he slipped trying to avoid Taki Inoue.
Unfortunately for the Tifosi Gerhard Berger’s pit stop was too long and his teammate Jean Alesi who took the lead in his stead had the same problem a lap later. Rubens Barrichello and Mika Hakkinen both shared one-lap leads in the aftermath. Gerhard Berger had to retire because his car caught the camera that flew off of his teammate Alesi’s car.

Soon Barrichello himself was forced off with engine failure, and with seven laps to go Jean Alesi retired as well with smoke billowing from his rear wheels. This left Johnny Herbert far ahead of Mika Hakkinen. It was only his second ever win the first coming earlier in the season at the British Grand Prix.

Michael Schumacher would win his second title in a row outperforming his two closest rivals Damon Hill and David Coulthard by at least 30 points.

If you want to beat the greatest, you must put in a performance of the ages. Juan Martin Del Potro did so in 2009 beating Roger Federer in an exceptionally tight match.

The Argentinian had beaten Rafael Nadal in the semi-finals whilst the Swiss had beaten Novak Djokovic in his semi to set up what seemed to be a one-sided affair.

Del Potro dropped the first set 6-3 with Federer really putting in some amazing shots to beat the Argentinian.

In the second set, he went toe-to-toe with the Swiss never letting go and clawing back Federer’s one-game lead.

The set was poised at 6-6 when Del Potro finally got the tiebreak winning 7-5 in the mini game.

Federer won the third set 6-4 leaving Del Potro with it all to do if he wants to lift a grand slam.

The fourth set went the same way as the second, this time a game of cat and mouse as both Federer and Del Potro exchanged the lead on multiple occasions. Eventually the Argentinian beat his Swiss counterpart 7-6; 7-4 in the tiebreak.

However, it seemed like Federer, the great one, lost steam.

Del Potro would win the final set 6-2 and win his first and to date only ever Grand Slam title.

Federer on the other hand would never win the US Open ever again, his last title coming in 2008.