The Sequel: Worst Moment

[tedfoxxx]

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.

Thanks I'd successfully supressed that memory until now. Per Fransen, Henrik Pedersen, Riccardo Gardner and a young Keven Nolan will haunt my dreams tonight.

 

[DesertFox]

The 5-0 home defeat to Bolton, and specifically, the half time whistle when I think we were already 4-0 down. Taylor Out chants after about 20 minutes of the first game of the season, and you could clearly see we were completely fecked, which was a depressing way to start a shitty season.

And the final whistle against Spurs at Wembley. Don't know why this bothered me so much, we'd just got to a Wembley final after all, but that was a real low for me.

Reading this back, and my post in the best moment thread, apparently I have an emotional trigger when I hear a whistle! :icon_lol:

 

[DesertFox]

Thanks I'd successfully supressed that memory until now. Per Fransen, Henrik Pedersen, Riccardo Gardner and a young Keven Nolan will haunt my dreams tonight.

I've always despised that twat from the moment he scored and celebrated like a smug arsehole in front of the kop.

 

[Billyjof]

Swindon playoff final whistle was gut wrenching after a roller coaster of emotions. I left feeling we had been cheated but proud of my team.

Wycombe qtr final really was a just an awful, terrible feeling. Never have I been so ashamed and crushed. I really thought we would make the final that year.

But hey that's what we love about the game, bad times never outway the good. Unless Craig Levin is the manager.

 

[Brown Nose]

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.

I have an emotional detachment from the Wycombe game as I'd missed the match due to a prearranged trip to Dublin so everything was guinessified. Sometimes it helps not being there.

The Bolton game, however, was altogether different. To know at half time in your first game of the season that you were relegation fodder, after being a solid and strong Premier League team before that, was so shocking and depressing. As with Sousa in his first game at Palace, if I was the owner, I'd have marched into the dressing room at half time and sacked the manager there and then. Something is deeply wrong when a performance that 'wrong' happens.

The appointment of Peter Taylor was another deeply distressing moment. It was between him and Joe Kinnear bizarre as it seems today. Neither were anything like right or good enough for the job. It was the close season and we could have done so much better. The distress as Taylor was unveiled was more for the fact that he seemed to be universally welcomed. It felt like I was living in a 'Stepford Wives' type world. We needed to recruit someone so different in terms of personality and approach. When we hit the top of the league in his first season, I recall being roundly abused by fellow supporters and friends when I said that there was something deeply rotten at the club and we were in a terribly false position. He'd already ditched Cottee and Walsh for threatening his authority and Lennon was about to go. He'd also bought the favour of others through stupid contracts and recruited really badly. Horrible times.

 

[Lako42]

The Spurs cup defeat was horrible for me as a young lad so I would put that first.

Then I would say the play-off 2nd leg in Cardiff. I was in a bar in Brisbane with about 5 other city fans at about 5 in the morning, the bar was outdoors in the main shopping st and people were stopping on the way to work to see what all the commotion was, then that penalty, I wanted to curl up and die.

It was made even harder to take after the fine performance we put in on the pitch. Gutted.

 

[Lako42]

Oh and a very bitter sweet moment that will always stay with me and nearly brings water to my eyes every time I think about it, the end of the Legends game at Filbert St.

Watching the floodlights turn off one by one as all the players stood in the centre circle as darkness slowly enveloped the entire ground, I had a cry in the darkness as I stood in the KOP that night, it was like a death.

The vision and sound of the lights at the top of the Carling Stand being shut down is epic for me, all replaced mintues later by the breaking of seats as people clamoured for their part of the stadium.

Surreal and emotional.

 

[Blaarev]

Oh and a very bitter sweet moment that will always stay with me and nearly brings water to my eyes every time I think about it, the end of the Legends game at Filbert St.

Watching the floodlights turn off one by one as all the players stood in the centre circle as darkness slowly enveloped the entire ground, I had a cry in the darkness as I stood in the KOP that night, it was like a death.

The vision and sound of the lights at the top of the Carling Stand being shut down is epic for me, all replaced mintues later by the breaking of seats as people clamoured for their part of the stadium.

Surreal and emotional.

Shit! you have me in tears now!

 

[Hazzman]

Booked half a day off to watch us under Sousa lose 6-1 at sodding Portsmouth. When Michael Brown the cheating dirty twat waltzed through through our back four that game, I wanted the world to eat me up.

Drove back, didn't put the radio or say a word for hour...turned the radio on, Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division. Which summed it up, that game was one of the final acts in seeing a previously successful team ripped to shreds and my hopes of promotion going with it.

 

[Mawsley]

Jock Wallace leaving
City fans not being able to spell Lineker
The time I queued for three weeks, four days and six hours only to find all the concourse hot chocolate and pies had sold out
Being attacked by a police dog after some game at Palace in the 80s

 

[Ike O'Noclassed]

Getting to the ground at the usual 1.45pm and finding the sneaky Man U fans had taken over the Kop by the simple ruse of turning up at 1.30 - which left us singing "We all live in a blue and white kop" huddled on the terracing in front of the Main Stand.

 

[Jeff]

City fans not being able to spell Lineker

City fans not being able to spell Wood.

 

[Doggie_muz]

It's the 2-2 away at Bolton for me. Not sure why (probably a 'time in my life' thing), but that was the most upset / miserable / gutted I have ever been after a game.

Many others have been mentioned - Shearer's hat-trick in the 4-3, Stoke away when we went down, Spurs in the Cup - all bad times.

 

[Blaarev]

City fans not being able to spell Wood.

City fans not being able to spell Akinbadbuy

 

[Mawsley]

Leicester 0 - 0 Palace 3rd Round in 08-09 ranks as the worst team performance I have ever seen, avoiding defeat only because Palace were equally as miserable.

And it is starting to dawn upon me that Palace seems to be synonymous with misery from my personal experience.

 

[Lako42]

Leicester 0 - 0 Palace 3rd Round in 08-09 ranks as the worst team performance I have ever seen, avoiding defeat only because Palace were equally as miserable.

And it is starting to dawn upon me that Palace seems to be synonymous with misery from my personal experience.

Trying to find the ground is miserable enough

 

[Mawsley]

Trying to find the ground is miserable enough

I only went the once and had a police dog clamped onto my arm because I wasn't walking fast enough.

 

[Lako42]

I only went the once and had a police dog clamped onto my arm because I wasn't walking fast enough.

Seems very fair.

 

[Motown Fox]

Seems very fair.

Yeah the dog could have caught something.

 

[H T B]

For us of an older ilk, Harlow throws up bad memories.

The first half against Leatherhead was not too bright either!