The Sequel: Worst Moment

[Miles Away]

At Brown Noses request we can try this one (though I expect we will all have mostly the same answer).

What was your worst moment as a City fan.

The Stoke game is an obvious choice, but I'd have to say I had a very specific moment at this game (during a trip home):



The final whistle blew, the rest of the fans shuffled out and I just stood staring at the pitch. It was a shit performance punctuated by Dennis Wise playing like an utter dick and left me with absolutely no doubt we were going down that season. How could it all go so wrong, so quickly?

 

[Fox Fan]

This one was quite bad during that season too [video=youtube_share;NqR_qvC3O2M]http://youtu.be/NqR_qvC3O2M?t=12s[/video]

 

[Fox Fan]

Sorry - I think this thread should have opened with this:

[video=youtube_share;Iad3gV-9C1U]http://youtu.be/Iad3gV-9C1U[/video]

 

[spionfox]

What was your worst moment as a City fan?

1- Getting beaten up and robbed of my scarf by West Ham 'fans' after a home evening match. Reporting to a copper who turned out to be 'on loan' from the Notts constabulary and didn't want to know.

2- Running through a hail of stones, rubble and bottles on my way to my car after we had put paid to Stoke at the Victoria Ground in our play-off semi-final second leg.

Any bad memories ON the pitch never seemed as bad as those moments!

 

[Micky]

The 5-0 home loss to Bolton.

Being 3-1 up at Newcastle, only for Alan F&%*ing Shearer to score a hat-trick and win it for them.

The Swindon play-off defeat.

The Spurs Carling cup defeat.

The day O'Neill left.

 

[Blaarev]

The moment this thread appeared and started reminding me of all the moments I had hoped to forget

 

[Miles Away]

The moment this thread appeared and started reminding me of all the moments I had hoped to forget

Misery loves company

 

[LeeCovFox]

The FA Cup defeat at the hands of Wycombe, for me. That's the only time I can remember sitting behind after the match and just trying to absorb how bad what I'd just watched was. It was the sitting behind thinking about it I'd have down as my worst moment rather than Essandoh's winner.

Losing 0-2 to then third division Brighton in the League Cup second round, 1994-1995, was pretty bad too. I'd gone with my dad, uncle and cousin and was the only City fan in the group. Brighton were on a real downer then and although we were struggling in our first top flight season for years we were expecte to win that. I think we ened up losing 0-3 on aggregate.

Others worth a mention are conceding that late goal to lose to Spurs in the 1999 League Cup final, and the Stoke game which saw us relegated. There were several awful moments in that match, mostly involving me shouting at the telly in a pub for Holloway to ****ing do something. By the time the final whistle went it all felt a bit inevitable. I wasn't at any of the two aforementioned games which is the only reason why they don't trump the ones mentioned at the start of my post. Actually, thinking about it, Erland Johnsen's dive against us in the FA Cup in '97 was another one but, again, I wasn't there.

 

[Macky]

Swindon play-off final.



That is all.

 

[SwedeFox]

Cup Final vs Spurs was grim for me. I was 7 years old and wanted to win it so terribly bad. I can still feel the anticlimax.

 

[Blaarev]

Realizing that Frank McLintock were getting us relegated for the first time as long as I had been following

 

[Brown Nose]

Thanks for this thread. Misery is an integral part of football supporting and I have many, many offerings.

First up, Newcastle away under Keegan. We're six down at half time with the geordies laughing and pointing at us as our shambolic side succumb to Cole and Kelly who take the piss with a hat-trick each. I recall the feeling of terror as the second half began 'please don't get ten, eight I'll take right now'. Fortunately, we eventually lost just by the seven to one. On leaving the stadium and getting abused from all angles by the locals we return to our coach to find bricks through most of the windows. A desperately long and cold few hours on the bus back ensued. Desperate, desperate, day.

 

[Graz]

Nowhere near as much as fun as the other thread...

The worst is definitely the relegation to League 1. That Stoke game was just tragic. Watched in my uni flat on Sky, and remember the pictures of Richard Stearman looking absolutely gutted with the Stoke fans running on around him to celebrate their promotion. Think that will stick with me. Devastating.

Other than that, probably the worst for me was a 2-2 draw at home with Ipswich in 2004 (one of Micky Adams' last games, if not his last). 2-1 up in the final couple of minutes and then, as usual by that point for us, we threw it away right at the end with Matt Heath scoring an own goal, having scored for us earlier on. Awful game, awful feeling of throwing it away yet again, and to top it off got attacked by Leicester 'fans' on my way home because heading to the train station meant I couldn't be a "propa Lestoh fan", despite wearing a Leicester shirt (a story I realise I've told a few times on here before!). Ended up sitting at the hospital for a couple of hours and then the police station for more.

That was following 2 home games with Preston in the space of a week, first in the league then in the League Cup (was at both games), which we ****ed up both as well... 1-1 in the first game with their keeper scoring against Fatty Pressman, then losing after ET in the cup game after they equalised in the last minute to make it 2-2, then ex-player Cresswell completed his hat trick in extra time to give them a 3-2 win. Remember Nathan Blake saying after the game that as soon as they came back into the game, our players expected to lose.

Bad, bad times.
Damn you and your thread. Give me the whisky.

 

[Dour]

The Stoke game was nowhere near as excruciating as the home game against Sheffield Wednesday the week before. It started off badly with the Birch trying to stir up enthusiasm with the playing of the theme from The Great Escape. And then to let in three goals against a dismal team... By the time I left - the first and only time I have voluntarily left before the end - it felt like there were only a couple of hundred Leicester supporters still in the ground. I think everyone knew the jig was up then. That the League One season proved to be overall excellent fun doesn't diminish from the horror of that game.

Looking back to what was the underlying cause of that debacle, the worst moment really had to be when that prick Mandaric arrived.

 

[glyn]

Swindon play-off final.



That is all.

This is number 1 for me I think.
Followed by Yann v Cardiff
And confirmation of relegation in 1987, which was my first experience of City being relegated.

The relegation to League One was gut-wrenching, but I'd been expecting it all week (as someone said, as soon as we lost to Wednesday the week before)

 

[Volpone]

Losing to Liverpool in a semi-final replay at Villa Park. Peter Shilton wore an all white kit and Keegan scored. The crush leaving the ground at the end was a bit frightening.

 

[Motown Fox]

The Wycombe game for me because not only was it the defeat but also the end of an era and of course our position in the Football World has not been
as high since.

Others include that 5-0 defeat to Bolton the 6-2 defeat to Kenny Burns Birmingham the 4-0 defeat to Chelsea at The Walkers. The whole season when McKlintock was in charge. The defeat at home to Blackburn in 1991 after which I was so pissed off that I with quite a few others took our protests about David Pleat outside the stadium for about an bour after the game.
Other bad memories stem from being hit with a bit of wood by a Villa fan in Pen 2 when they invaded the Kop. Also a number of Chelsea games when violence took place bricks rocks etc. The 1974 Cup Semi final defeat by Liverpool which was the first time I was totally deflated after a City game.

 

[tedfoxxx]

Muzzy leaving, I wanted to see him spend the rest of his career with us, even though money and obviously our team were pretty dire at the time.

The very worst has to be Wycombe or the Stoke game for me. Luckily the long term effects of the relegation season weren't that bad in the end. We got a great jape in league 1 and a much needed clearout and rebulid.

 

[Miles Away]

I was at the Wycombe game too. It was dire, but I had no idea just how bad things were about to get.

The Bolton 5-0 defeat must have been absolutely awful to watch. Nothing like knowing you are doomed on the very first day of the season.

 

[jb5000]

Gary McAllister leaving.