We all have our dream event

EACH weekend The Chronicle sport team jumps on its Saturday Soapbox and voices its opinion on some pressing sporting issues.

This week the Sports Team has decided to dream a little dream and share where they would choose to go if they could attend any sporting event in the world.

Jason Gibbs: As a sports editor I’ve had quite a few people ask me if I’ve ever been to the Melbourne Cup, I haven’t, and honestly it doesn’t really interest me.

I can see its appeal to even the most casual of race fans, it certainly is a spectacle, but it’s not for me.

You can’t go past a good old North London English Premier League derby for me. Tottenham versus Arsenal.

I’d love to be sitting there among the home fans cheering on my team (Tottenham). I still remember watching the Brisbane Strikers take on Sydney United the 1997 NSL grand final at Lang Park and the atmosphere was electrifying. You don’t often see that in an A-League game but that tribal passion is there every game in the EPL.

I could think of nothing better than watching Harry Kane slotting a penalty in the 90th minute to claim victory over our rivals. Okay maybe I can think of thing better - watching England legend Glen Hoodle in his prime steering Tottenham to victory over Arsenal.

Madolyn Peters: Being an avid Olympics watcher I couldn’t think of anything better than being right there in the action.

Some of my colleagues went to Rio last year to report on the event and it gave me major work envy.

It inspired me to consider going to Tokyo in 2020, working or not I think it would be an amazing experience.

Watching athletes reach the top and represent their country is the best thing about the Olympics.

And then watching them win and seeing Australia do well is even better.

I have also only been to one tennis match in my life a few years ago in Brisbane to watch the likes of Andy Murray and Serena Williams.

To be honest I don’t follow the tennis very closely but I don’t think any sports fan could pass up an opportunity to see one of the oldest tennis tournament in the world, Wimbledon.

Closer to home I would like to get to a Rugby League World Cup game eventually.

Glen McCullough: I’ve already missed attending what would have been my dream sport event.

But given I was still at school at the time and paper-boy pay was a little light on, I never did get to see Muhammad Ali’s comeback fight against Joe Frazier at Madison Square Garden in 1971.

I can only imagine the atmosphere that would have existed on that night, or indeed any time the great Ali stepped into the ring.

I’ve always maintained of all the sporting events I’ve been lucky enough to attend, none have given goose bumps like a major fight or horse race.

Brian Janssen’s Australian welterweight title fight against Frank Ropis in front of a packed, raucous Festival Hall crowd in 1983 is forever etched in my mind.

But at the other end of the scale it’s the US Masters that now sits high on my sporting event wish list.

It’s a far cry from the boxing ring and race track but the history and tradition of the Masters on the famous fairways of Augusta I’m sure would provide a one-off experience.