Patriots and Newcastle blew it big, but are Chengdu sport’s biggest chokers ever?

South China Morning Post - Nov 9, 2026

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory is a time-honoured tradition across the sporting world, just think Newcastle United in the English Premier League 1995-96 season, or the Atlanta Falcons in the 2017 Super Bowl and you get the idea. But has any team, anywhere, in any sport ever done it more emphatically than Chengdu Rongcheng did this past weekend? The Chinese Super League choke artists confirmed their status as potentially the most spectacular losers of all time when a 3-2 defeat to...

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