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• Manchester United winning the 1999 final, capping off a historic season which also saw them win the Premier League & FA Cup. This also lead to an Epic Fail for Bayern Munich, as they were on course to complete that same feat in Germany & the German season ends after the English, but after they lost to United, they went onto win nothing that season.
• Celtic's 1967 win over Inter Milan is a CMOA, due to how it was a victory for football (with Inter Milan's manager even saying that), with Celtic's attacking power overcoming Inter Milan's Catenaccio (a more defensive system) and overturning a 1-0 deficit to win the trophy.
  • Also a CMOA for Scottish football; all eleven Celtic players and manager Jock Stein were born within 30 miles of Glasgow (in fact, with the exception of Ayrshire native Bobby Lennox, they were all from what would be considered the greater Glasgow area). That same year, Celtic also won the Scottish League, the Scottish League Cup, the Scottish Cup, and the Glasgow Cup, a grand slam unparalleled in British football.
• When Tottenham Hotspur played European Champions Inter away from home they were saved from a humiliating 4-0 loss by Gareth Bale, who single handedly scored 3 goals to give Spurs the flattering result of Inter 4 - 3 Spurs. This would have been a CMOA in of itself, if it wasn't for the fact that when Inter came to Tottenham, Bale destroyed them again, although this time, it was a CMOA for the whole team as well, as Tottenham went on to win 3 - 1.
• The Chelsea-Barcelona semifinal (for the Spanish side, of course). After a 0-0 (with a denied penalty for Barcelona) at Camp Nou, where Chelsea did a great job stopping the locals' famous football, they took advantage of the home support and scored first, forcing the Spaniards to draw the match to get to the final on away goals. The referee denied the British from a few arguable penalties (and a rather clear one), and instead gave out a straight red card to the Barcelona player Abidal for pretty much being near a Chelsea player who collapsed during a run to the goal, forcing them to spend the last 30 minutes with one player down. Chelsea considered they had the job done and put some more defenders. In the 92nd minute, Andrés Iniesta scored the winning equalizer, starting a massive craze all over the Barcelona fans (he pulled off a similar one during the 2010 World Cup- someone said "He doesn't score too many goals, but when he does, they go all over the world").
  • Chelsea would get their revenge three years later. Barcelona needed to win by two goals in the Nou Camp after losing 1-0 at Stamford Bridge. Egged on by the home crowd, and with one Chelsea defender (Gary Cahill) injured early on and another (John Terry) sent off, Barcelona raced into a two-goal lead. However, Chelsea's Ramires scored a spectacular goal to pull back and give Chelsea the lead on away goals just before half time, before Leo Messi missed a penalty. Barcelona spent much of the second half trying to break through the Chelsea defence (at 2-1, Chelsea would go through on away goals), before, in stoppage time, Chelsea's misfiring striker Fernando Torres broke free in the Barcelona half and rounded the keeper before putting the ball in the empty net and sending Chelsea through on aggregate.
• Champions' League 2002 final between Bayer Leverkusen and Real Madrid. Raúl scored an impressive goal at minute 8 by taking advantage of a lapse in concentration by Bayer's back. Lúcio managed to tie five minutes later. First half is about to finish, when Roberto Carlos kicks the ball high into the sky. Zidane sees the ball, readies himself... and manages to volley the ball on the corner of the goal with an impressive kick. See it here.
• The 2005 final between AC Milan and Liverpool. Milan were completely dominant in the first half, with Paolo Maldini opening the scoring after less than a minute and Hernan Crespo catching Liverpool off guard on counterattacks twice in five minutes to rack up a 3-0 lead by half-time. Eight minutes into the second half, Liverpool proceeded to score three goals in six minutes through Steven Gerrard, Vladimir Smicer, and Xabi Alonso (Alonso from a rebound from a missed penalty) to level the score, and the score remained 3-3 until the end of extra time. Liverpool goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek saved two Milan penalties in the shootout (a third went wide), including the decider from Andriy Shevchenko, to complete the unlikely comeback.
  • To add to the awesome factor, the 2005 win was Liverpool's fifth, making them the first English club to be given the trophy permanently. Moreover, Liverpool had very nearly failed to progress past the group stage in the competition, needing to beat Olympiacos Piraeus of Greece by two clear goals in their final group match and only scoring the deciding goal in the last ten minutes.
• Chelsea winning the final in 2012. They went 1-0 down with seven minutes left, when with 2 minutes remaining Didier Drogba scored the equaliser and the match went into extra time. Then in extra time, Bayern Munich missed a penalty. Then it went to penalties, and at one miss each Bastian Schweinsteiger struck the post with his spot kick, and up stepped Didier Drogba to win the competition.