Id X

In 2002, X was ranked 92nd in Channel 4's list of 100 Greatest Sporting Moments in British television.
As the ball travels towards Y, the ____________ starts to drift to the right (due to the Magnus effect).  Z , on the reaction of  Y : "He looked as though someone had just nicked his lunch.", as Y was much-mocked for his rotundness.  And again Z added "If it had been a cheese roll, it would never have got past him."
In 2009 the Irish chamber pop group ___________ wrote a song called "Jiggery Pokery" about this incident.

what is the X we are talking about?
The blanks and the variables are all different and are there just make it a bit more tougher.