Worst moments

[Popeye doyle]

8 hours ago, Whitestar said:

Remember the QPR plastic pitch disaster 7-0 or 7-1 i can't remember, 0-3 at home to Darlington on bommy night, but for me the most disappointing pi$$ weak performance was 2-2 at home to Birmingham when we should have sent them down, it was nothing to us and we were 2 up, hideous!!!

I met my then girlfriend (now my wife) who’s from the south east and we went to that game, pretty sure it was on a Friday night. The first time she’d seen us play and she wasn’t impressed to say the least. It all turned out well though because she supports Bolton now.

[Dr Faustus]

I’m still mulling over the best bits, but I can easily tell you my the worst- suppose that’s the pessimist in me. 

 

Burnden- Black Sunday; after slapping Boro thought we had a real chance- missed Salford Cup semis to get on it, proper give it to them (15 at the time). That went south

BL6- On the pitch it’s probably last season 0-4 vs the sister fisters… year before I held out until the end, but first time I’ve ever left before HT. Off the pitch I was suicidal with KA… just wanted to to be put out of misery.

Away- including neutrals in this. Again, the dinglings feature heavily- spitting at my kids forever endeared them, 2-5, but it’s about the occasion… where they’ve let me down the most. Stoke at Wembley hurt so much, but we had redemption. Spanking QPR justified the £50 on the door, stopped my nightmares of London. Beating them at home by the same score in my lads first ever game put all that to bed… but I’m still not over Oxford. I can accept defeat, understand failure… but not showing up is unforgivable. Feels like my missus has been shagging my best mate; like a stone in the pit of my stomach that I just can’t shift

[desperado]

12 hours ago, Casino said:

Cup games, holdsworts villa, pattersons oldham and felgates southampton def hurt

But league games that decide the next 12 months are miles worse, so for that reason, charlton, chelsea and stoke, watford, tranmere and  oxford

Cpl of late season fuck ups under greaves, carlisle and york still remembered too

Pretty much sums it up.

Close the thread 🤣

Nah, the bad times make the good times even better

[Rival Son]

3 hours ago, Dr Faustus said:

BL6- On the pitch it’s probably last season 0-4 vs the sister fisters… year before I held out until the end, but first time I’ve ever left before HT. Off the pitch I was suicidal with KA… just wanted to to be put out of misery

BL6 on the pitch, has to be the very first season and 1-5 against Coventry. A relegation six pointer, 1-0 up and 1-1 at half time, before we imploded in the second half.

Talk about the “goal” against Everton, if you like, but this was the match that relegated us.

[Duck Egg]

47 minutes ago, desperado said:

 

Nah, the bad times make the good times even better

Absolutely. Mate of mine, loves his football, was a great player and watches it regularly on the box or live from time to time.  He's never supported a club though, just gets enjoyment from seeing local sides do well and watching games, the big freak.

For me, you can only truly appreciate the game when it's kicked you hard in the knackers and given you the highest of highs. Often in the same match! I've tried to tell him he's missing out but he thinks I'm daft investing such emotional energy into it. 

[FrancisFogarty]

Oxford far worse than Black Sunday for me in terms of absolute cluelessness. Everyone had such high hopes, we were already in the Championship. What could go wrong ? Then it did.

Black Sunday if I remember correctly we started out brightly enough, and we were cautiously  fairly optimisticly hopeful but it all went down hill fast. And stayed there for a bit then went worse again.

[bwfc2003]

1 hour ago, FrancisFogarty said:

Oxford far worse than Black Sunday for me in terms of absolute cluelessness. Everyone had such high hopes, we were already in the Championship. What could go wrong ? Then it did.

Black Sunday if I remember correctly we started out brightly enough, and we were cautiously  fairly optimisticly hopeful but it all went down hill fast. And stayed there for a bit then went worse again.

Not one booking on Black Sunday summed it up

[Dr. Feelgood]

Obviously various relegations, the last match ones especially. The play off defeats, fckg Tranmere especially ... though, like others, the Oxford one left a destroyed spirit that needs repairing. It's nowhere near there yet.

But, to add very personal ones,

1. The Peter Reid injury(s) devastated me.

2. Selling Tony Henry, our best player, to Oldham ffs, was proof we were sliding again (& we were). Out of the blue too.

3. Len, fckg, Cantello. Biggest fee at that time. Crock of shite. We ignored Gary Owen's near-begging us to buy him, 'swooped' for Cantello from West Brom who promptly spent the money on Gary fckg Owen. Cantello was shite & playing for Rhyl in no time.

There will be hundreds more but these stand out to me, personally. 

(Oh, & at the risk of ruining counselling for many people, Holdsworth's miss. Sorry).

[tomski]

Watford 99 only time I’ve ever booed anything. Refused my GCSEs the day after and stayed in bed 

Edited August 19, 2024 by tomski

[Ani]

Thinking about it the worse times in recent years would be the way fans were turning on each other in the Megson and KA times.

 

There has always been a small element of needle between fans but in both those periods it got to the stage where I am sure some fans wanted us to lose to say ' I told you so' . The 'happy clappers' were just as bad  the other way, jumping on any criticism as by others with immediate removal of 'real fan status.'

 

Megan's last game was , I think a 2-2 at home to Hull after being 2 up at home. Driving back to Leeds a combination of snow and roadworks saw the M62 down to one lane on 4 or 5 occasions, getting home after 1am with work next day, was not sure why I was bothering. 

[MickyD]

On 19/08/2024 at 00:21, tomski said:

Oxford. Fucking pathetic.

Lowest was accy. Couldn’t get pitch side for our goal. Had carlsberg sprayed in my face. Then watched them hit us for 7. I challenge anyone there to find a worse game.

Purely from a ‘where I sit’ viewpoint, Wigan 0-4 was rather shit. Being close enough to the away end that I could see the plaque on their teeth was a bit shit.

Black Sunday, whilst equally shit, was pretty much a show of relative positions in the footballing pyramid. 
 

Stoke at Wembley 

Southampton

Tranmere

Villa

Oldham in cup

Wigan’s smash & grab at their place last season

Leaving it there as the more I think about it, the shitter some results look. Particularly the unexpected ones. I know it’s rough with the smooth but attending unlikely victories at Goodison, Old Trafford, Anfield, Highbury, etc., don’t seem as good when viewed alongside some of the shit results which ultimately cost us promotion and (in the case of Villa at Wembley) the chance to book-end games at the old Wembley.

[tomski]

2 hours ago, MickyD said:

Purely from a ‘where I sit’ viewpoint, Wigan 0-4 was rather shit. Being close enough to the away end that I could see the plaque on their teeth was a bit shit.

Black Sunday, whilst equally shit, was pretty much a show of relative positions in the footballing pyramid. 
 

Stoke at Wembley 

Southampton

Tranmere

Villa

Oldham in cup

Wigan’s smash & grab at their place last season

Leaving it there as the more I think about it, the shitter some results look. Particularly the unexpected ones. I know it’s rough with the smooth but attending unlikely victories at Goodison, Old Trafford, Anfield, Highbury, etc., don’t seem as good when viewed alongside some of the shit results which ultimately cost us promotion and (in the case of Villa at Wembley) the chance to book-end games at the old Wembley.

Oh yeah loads of felt worse moments. Accy is the most embarrassing though by some distance.

[Traf]

1 hour ago, tomski said:

Oh yeah loads of felt worse moments. Accy is the most embarrassing though by some distance.

Accy was definitely the most embarrassing. 

[Dr. Feelgood]

48 minutes ago, Traf said:

Accy was definitely the most embarrassing. 

It was, because the desparation squad had just shown a bit of form & we were thinking "we can get out of this".

The 7-0 defeat by Reading was a bit out of the blue too.

The 5-0 cup semi by Stoke was awful, but at least we were in the last 4. My memory is that we weren’t actively terrible in that intially, we just then got horribly overrun.

[batton carrier]

League games I can get over fairly easily. Even the Wigan results last season didn't linger long on my mind .There is usually another league game coming up to focus on.

Play offs and cups not so much.

Oxford ruined my Summer even fixture day was tainted. It was the manner of the defeat

The cup final defeats against the dippers and Boro were hard but something in me said it was only the league cup.

The fa cup semis I have seen left me proper low. Holdsworths miss I can't tell you how high I jumped when he hit it no way was that not going in ( cheers deano) .The Stoke debacle with all the build up before hand it felt like it was our time. But the players didn't get the memo.

I just want us to get to an fa cup final in my lifetime.

[L/H White]

all these wigan bumming's are ruining my life 

[paulhanley]

Lots of comparatively recent ones so I shall delve back to my earlier BWFC watching days for these: 

* Getting relegated from Div 2 in May 1983 with a grim 4-1 defeat at Charlton. As a kid I thought it was the end of the world. We'd been shedding decent players all season to balance the books (Peter Reid to Everton for a measly £60K) and the writing was on the wall. But we'd scraped clear in the previous two years and we harboured hopes we'd do it again. Even more so when we went 0-1 up when Ian Moores bundled the ball in half way through the second half. Horrible.

* I remember being gutted about an abysmal 1-2 Freight Rover Semi final home defeat to Mansfield in 1985. Me and my mates at school had convinced ourselves we were Wembley bound. Bitter pill to swallow. 

* Tranmere in that play off final. The scabby bin-dipping bastards. An appalling day when we missed our chance to re-assume our position in the upper echelons of English football after the misery of point 1 (above). Elton Welsby, Chris Malkin, Eric Nixon and all other turds had their day. But the boot was on the other foot two years on.

 

 

[woolli]

1 hour ago, paulhanley said:

Lots of comparatively recent ones so I shall delve back to my earlier BWFC watching days for these: 

* Getting relegated from Div 2 in May 1983 with a grim 4-1 defeat at Charlton. As a kid I thought it was the end of the world. We'd been shedding decent players all season to balance the books (Peter Reid to Everton for a measly £60K) and the writing was on the wall. But we'd scraped clear in the previous two years and we harboured hopes we'd do it again. Even more so when we went 0-1 up when Ian Moores bundled the ball in half way through the second half. Horrible.

* I remember being gutted about an abysmal 1-2 Freight Rover Semi final home defeat to Mansfield in 1985. Me and my mates at school had convinced ourselves we were Wembley bound. Bitter pill to swallow. 

* Tranmere in that play off final. The scabby bin-dipping bastards. An appalling day when we missed our chance to re-assume our position in the upper echelons of English football after the misery of point 1 (above). Elton Welsby, Chris Malkin, Eric Nixon and all other turds had their day. But the boot was on the other foot two years on.

 

 

I was there the that day Paul. Like you said, going one up give us false hope. Ended up getting mullered!

[tomski]

4 hours ago, paulhanley said:

Lots of comparatively recent ones so I shall delve back to my earlier BWFC watching days for these: 

* Getting relegated from Div 2 in May 1983 with a grim 4-1 defeat at Charlton. As a kid I thought it was the end of the world. We'd been shedding decent players all season to balance the books (Peter Reid to Everton for a measly £60K) and the writing was on the wall. But we'd scraped clear in the previous two years and we harboured hopes we'd do it again. Even more so when we went 0-1 up when Ian Moores bundled the ball in half way through the second half. Horrible.

* I remember being gutted about an abysmal 1-2 Freight Rover Semi final home defeat to Mansfield in 1985. Me and my mates at school had convinced ourselves we were Wembley bound. Bitter pill to swallow. 

* Tranmere in that play off final. The scabby bin-dipping bastards. An appalling day when we missed our chance to re-assume our position in the upper echelons of English football after the misery of point 1 (above). Elton Welsby, Chris Malkin, Eric Nixon and all other turds had their day. But the boot was on the other foot two years on.

 

 

You can have Tranmere. Never liked em since

[Krimzon]

I was at the Aldershot Home game but probably too young to realise the impact until walking thru the main car park to see the violent protests against the board  but even if we had won we would have had another game to play , so it hurt but it wasnt as bad as some of the others. 

The miss by Comstive (rip) would have avoided one of the worst days of my life . 

The miss by Holdsworth . It felt like my only ever chance at a cup final and a Euro trip had gone and ruined what should have been a top night out in London afterwards. 

The Coventry 5-1 . we were Brilliant in that game and there was only one team in it at 1-2 . Closest ive been to tears at the end since the Tranmere thing. 

Away at chelsea , the slightest of deflections that took it off Giallanzas head, the 60 yard run by frandsen that took him past 4 Chelsea players only for him to pass it back to their keeper and nearly getting my head kicked in in a Chelsea pub afterwards for not beating them (I went with a Chelsea mate).

The sale of Curcic.

Strangely the 2-2 at home to Liverpool in the cup , could have been 4-0 up at halftime and I was convinced our shot at one of the greatest giant killings had gone and the fame and glory with it. nobody goes to Anfield in a Replay and wins. At the end I was almost suicidal and was too broken to sing or clap the team off the pitch. 

The 2 Sporting Lisbon games , Never ever ever forgive Megson for that. 

[perth_white]

On 20/08/2024 at 05:49, tomski said:

Watford 99 only time I’ve ever booed anything. Refused my GCSEs the day after and stayed in bed 

I've seen Watford mentioned a few times here and I've been thinking 'glad I skipped that'. Turns out I went (photographic evidence sent by my mum last night) but I have absolutely no recollection of it whatsoever. Must have been traumatic for it to be the one I've completely blocked out.

[Dr. Feelgood]

10 hours ago, perth_white said:

I've seen Watford mentioned a few times here and I've been thinking 'glad I skipped that'. Turns out I went (photographic evidence sent by my mum last night) but I have absolutely no recollection of it whatsoever. Must have been traumatic for it to be the one I've completely blocked out.

Just after Stretford scored 2 in injury time to win the Eurpean Cup.

It was a bad few days.

We then lost Eider &, I think, Jensen. 

[Dr Faustus]

1 hour ago, Dr. Feelgood said:

Just after Stretford scored 2 in injury time to win the Eurpean Cup.

It was a bad few days.

We then lost Eider &, I think, Jensen. 

And the massives beat Gillingham

[Stig]

1 hour ago, Dr. Feelgood said:

Just after Stretford scored 2 in injury time to win the Eurpean Cup.

It was a bad few days.

We then lost Eider &, I think, Jensen. 

We kept those 2 for another season. Lost them after the Barry Knight Ipswich game the season after

[Nottm_Wanderer]

On 20/08/2024 at 08:02, Ani said:

 

Megan's last game was , I think a 2-2 at home to Hull after being 2 up at home. Driving back to Leeds a combination of snow and roadworks saw the M62 down to one lane on 4 or 5 occasions, getting home after 1am with work next day, was not sure why I was bothering. 

Yes the M62 was really scary that night , driving in icy tyre tracks ...the westbound carriageway was blocked , cars stranded overnight . I am a bit paranoid now about that stretch in winter . Match was dreadful , only good bit was my mate texted me next day to say megson sacked ...although his replacement gave us some dark days too