Top 10 Premier League comebacks

After Leicester scored four times in 20 minutes to inflict more pain on Manchester United, we look back on ten of the most memorable Premier League fightbacks...

10) Norwich 4-4 Middlesbrough, 2005

Norwich v Middlesbrough may not be a match that screams Premier League classic, but that's only because you've allowed your pre-conceptions to cloud your judgement.

In fact, this was a rip-roaring affair. Damien Francis put struggling Norwich ahead before Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and Franck Queudrue both scored braces to give Boro a comfortable three-goal cushion that lasted until the 80th minute.

Dean Ashton scored to give the Canaries hope, but heading into stoppage time Norwich were still two behind. Up popped Leon McKenzie (who is now a boxer) before captain Adam Drury equalised to salvage a dramatic 4-4 draw.

9) Wolves 4-3 Leicester, 2001

When Colin Cameron is scoring twice to inspire a fightback for a team with Doritos as a sponsor, you know you've landed on bona fide Premier League gold. When you find out that Alex Rae and Riccardo Scimeca also scored on such a magical afternoon, it's clear we're dealing with a 24-carat football comeback.

Leicester raced into a 3-0 lead, which they held until the 52nd minute before Cameron scored his first, but even namesake James couldn't have produced a better Hollywood denouement. By the time the clock had ticked to 85 minutes Wolves were level, but then Henri Camara converted a Denis Irwin cross to hand Wolves victory.

The match also acts as a reminder that such feelings of wonder don't last forever. I asked Wolves-supporting colleague Adam Bate for his memories of the game and his emotional response was thus: "Not much to add sadly. We both went down."

8) Leeds 4-3 Derby, 1997

Leeds' comeback against Derby may not have had any profound impact on either side's league fortunes (they finished 5th and 9th respectively), but there's no doubt Lee Bowyer's injury-time strike lifted the roof at Elland Road.

A double from Dean Sturridge (uncle of Liverpool striker Daniel) and a penalty from Aljosa Asanovic (no relation to Daniel Sturridge) gave Derby a 3-0 lead, with boos ringing around the ground after just over half an hour. Before half-time the home side already had two goals back, Rod Wallace (assisted by the wonderfully mono-browed Bruno Ribeiro) and Harry Kewell reducing the deficit. Kewell's was a particularly sweet volley from a winger then just 19 years old.

The second half brought a nonchalant penalty from Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink with eight minutes remaining, before Bowyer added the final dramatic twist in injury time.

7) Leicester City 3-4 Newcastle, 1997

Before Alan Shearer got himself well and truly settled on the pundits' sofa he was quite the striker, with Newcastle's victory over Leicester in 1997 emphasising his talent.

Shearer's hat-trick in the final 14 minutes snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. The first was a free-kick shellacked at a speed faster than any goalkeeper can handle, the second a drilled finish and the last a scrappy tap-in. Never had scruffiness mattered less to Newcastle supporters.

"I have a better understanding now why Kevin Keegan's hair was going grey," new manager Kenny Dalglish said after the game.

6) Chelsea 2-3 Arsenal, 1999

Chelsea had won their previous home match 5-0 against Manchester United, with manager Gianluca Vialli choosing to start Chris Sutton and Tore Andre Flo ahead of Gianfranco Zola, a decision that raises a puzzling frown in hindsight.

The Blues burst into a 2-0 lead against Arsenal with goals from Flo and Dan Petrescu (with a collector's item header) before things took a turn for the worse. Step forward Nwankwo Kanu, who scored the first, second and third goals Chelsea had conceded in the league at Stamford Bridge that season.

It's the third that we all remember, with Kanu finishing from a preposterously tight angle after Ed de Goey had left himself in a different postcode to his goalline. "Kanu believe it?" said Martin Tyler, after composing himself for a fraction of a second. And that's why he still gets the big gigs.

5) Tottenham 3-5 Manchester United, 2001

Back in the days when Manchester United produced fightbacks to win 5-3 in September, their second-half performance against Spurs nailed a place in Alex Ferguson folklore.

By half-time at White Hart Lane, Spurs supporters were offering oles every time their side touched the ball, Dean Richards having scored on his debut and Les Ferdinand and Christian Ziege increasing the lead.

Following harsh words from Fergie at the break, United emerged a side reborn. Mikael Silvestre replaced Denis Irwin and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer came on for Nicky Butt as the visitors used three strikers to breathtaking effect. David Beckham was the architect, providing three assists and scoring a glorious fifth.

4) Liverpool 3-3 Manchester United, 1994

It was 24 minutes to highlight the misery of the mid-90's for Liverpool. Three United goals came in the first quarter of the match at Anfield, each one increasing the gloom as Ferguson's side continued to occupy the Reds' former perch.

And then, just for one mad hour, football gave them another glimpse of glory. It came in the form of Nigel Clough, producing a bright spark in an otherwise uneventful spell at Liverpool. Clough scored two goals from outside the box before Neil Ruddock completed the comeback with ten minutes remaining. It may have been brief respite in United's supremacy, but the Kop felt as if it were witnessing King Cnut himself at work.

3) Crystal Palace 3-3 Liverpool, 2014

After 54 minutes of their match at Selhurst Park, Liverpool supporters had begun to believe the impossible. Following defeat to Chelsea at Anfield, Brendan Rodgers' side knew they would surely only finish level on points with Manchester City, and therefore had to make up a nine-goal swing on Manuel Pellegrini's side. In less than an hour against Crystal Palace, they were a third of the way to that target, but what followed made you stare in open-mouthed wonder.

After 78 minutes a deflected Damien Delaney shot rebounded off the back of Glen Johnson and past Simon Mignolet, before Dwight Gayle finished expertly after Yannick Bolasie had left Johnson reeling - Selhurst Park was bouncing, the noise of Palace supporters drowning out Liverpool's title hopes.

Seven minutes later the home side were level, Glenn Murray chesting the ball into the path of Gayle, who swept home his second. If Gerrard's slip was the punch to the solar plexus in Liverpool's title fight defeat, this was the final, desperate, knock-out blow to the face.

2) Manchester City 2-3 Fulham, 2008

Fulham may now be loitering at the bottom of the Championship, but in 2008 their Premier League status was extended in the most dramatic fashion. Trailing 2-0 away to Manchester City at half-time, and with other results going against them, Fulham were in a scenario that would leave relegation as a mathematical certainty, and the situation had not altered with 65 minutes played.

At that point Roy Hodgson sent on Diomansy Kamara, who scored twice (the latter in stoppage time) either side of a Danny Murphy penalty to give Fulham a lifeline. The Cottagers then won both their final two league fixtures, stayed up on goal difference and went on to reach the Europa League final two years later. All of that enabled Hodgson to land the England job when Fabio Capello resigned two years later.

A wonderful example of football's Butterfly Effect: How Diomansy Kamara got Hodgson the biggest job in the land and ensured Fulham fans got to watch Dimitar Berbatov a few years later.

1) Newcastle 4-4 Arsenal, 2011

The greatest footballing fightbacks hurtle throught the emotions, from the huge surprise and excitement of the impossible becoming possible, to the acceptance that "well, that was always coming."

Cheick Tiote's left-footed volley against Arsenal to complete Newcastle's astonishing comeback is a perfect example, as re-told by a Geordie friend of mine:

"I ended up about three rows in front, with a fan I vaguely recognise from previous celebrations screaming in my face. I didn't even see the ball hit the net, so clear was it that it was going in. Some people were jumping, but others just stood still, looking up with their eyes closed.

"The chances of us winning a trophy? Minimal. Despite that, the blind faith we have keeps us going after each hard luck story. Occasionally on this amazing journey we have the odd moment that warms the heart. Not the sneaky one-nil home win to the relegation fodder, but the moments you look back on for years to come and they bring a beaming smile to your face. That was one of those."

Lovely stuff.

A version of this article first appeared on Football365