mashed in maryland
8:31 Sun Aug 16
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The Rob Harris Leeds match.
Absolutely diabolical display of refereeing at best and the most blatant case of match fixing ever at worst.
Wasn't even reported much at the time either.
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Chigwell
7:29 Sun Aug 16
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League Cup 2nd leg semi-final v Stoke City 1972. We only need a draw to reach the final. With 20 mins to go, we go 0-1 down. With 3 mins left we are awarded a penalty. Geoff Hurst doesn't miss pens, does he?
He thumps it where he always does, high to keeper's right. They all know that's where he aims, but usually they cannot get close to it anyway. Bloody Gordon Banks pulls off the save of his career (better than his save v Brazil, he will say).
Two replays later, we are finally beaten.
Definitely not the worst match for excitement, but the worst disappointment.
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normannomates
2:06 Sun Aug 16
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The list is to long
Personally the whole bond scheme season....
Now that was ducking depressing...puts our current/ position into context.
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Ronald_antly
1:59 Sun Aug 16
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1-2 at home to Leicester.
Early season as I recall.
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Billy Blagg
12:54 Sun Aug 16
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So many I've decided not to take part, but generally those defeats in Div II when we had players like Newell in our team and looked so inept I couldn't see a way back to being a top team again. Always makes me laugh when we lost under Allardyce and people said it was 'the worst team they'd ever seen' - you seen some of those sides of the 90's?.
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Percy Dalton
11:11 Sat Aug 15
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Fuck me showing my age here 2-8 to Blackburn on boxing day 11oclock kick off ruined Christmas and then typical us we beat them 3-1 at their ground three days later.
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Alex Bunbury
4:05 Sat Aug 15
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I think the Forest game was New Year's Day rather than Boxing Day not helped by it being about -5. I have a feeling we had Steve Jones and Mike Newall up front that day.
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chad sexington
1:34 Sat Aug 15
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That 1-0 against forest on Boxing Day when they were bott and couldn't buy a win. Snowing and shit.
The quarter final against arsenal. We were brilliant that night but those cunts hung on to penalties. You knew samassi the gangling spacker would miss
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Eerie Descent
1:25 Sat Aug 15
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Another one for the 3-4 against Wimbledon at home.
Had never left a game early, haven't since, but it was the fact that at the time, if I remember correctly, we had won our opening 3 games, playing some sublime stuff, then going 3 up after no time, for the first time for me anyway, I envisaged a stab at winning the league in my head.
The worst thing was, as soon as they got the first, just before HT, the feeling of euphoria completely went, and the feeling in the crowd was a sense of the inevitable to come.
Going out to Arsenal on pens a close second.
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southbankbornnbred
1:18 Sat Aug 15
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The other set of games that really stank were those that took place around and during the pathetic bond scheme proposals.
This all had little to do with performances, but they were a set of home games when it was obvious that the club was not listening to its fans in any way whatsoever.
Dark days, for me.
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southbankbornnbred
12:03 Sat Aug 15
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Losing 5-2 at home to Barnsley in the Littlewoods Cup in 1987 always sticks in the memory, for some reason.
I just remember the appalling capitulation and the general air of discontent.
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boleynkid
11:48 Sat Aug 15
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I remember feeling thoroughly demoralised after a 0-4 home defeat v Liverpool in the 70's. Toshack & Keegan destroyed us that day and it made me realise just how far behind we were the best teams in the league.
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Davenport
11:27 Sat Aug 15
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PAUL STALTERI
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jack flash
10:54 Sat Aug 15
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West Ham Utd 7 - Leeds 0 League Cup night match
It was so boringly one-sided I almost felt sorry for dirty leeds!
Thought I'd add that to cheer everyone up on this thread
There have been so many stinkers I've managed to wipe from my memory banks
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aubRM1
10:46 Sat Aug 15
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FA Cup Replay v Sunderland 1992 : 2-3
Perhaps not the worst game of football, in fact for the neutrals it was a classic, but I was gutted after this.
We all run the gauntlet of Roker Park on the previous Saturday and got away with a draw. Then found out with a win in the replay we'd be at the Bridge to face Chelsea in the QF...surely we'd get through against 2nd division opposition ....cue a typical West Ham....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgsvwFfvzA8
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Garth Algar
9:47 Sat Aug 15
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Losing 4-3 to Wimbledon at home 98/99 season.
Go three nil up and a real carnival atmosphere...then ruddock and Margas proceed to get ruined by Ekoku, Leaburn and Gayle!!
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Son of Anarchy
8:00 Sat Aug 15
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Losing to Spurs in cup, the game where jeremy nicholls wish spurs good luck at the end.
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Private Dancer
7:11 Sat Aug 15
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holy - I can't even remember that one. Good shout though.
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Monk~koknee
7:09 Sat Aug 15
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Dynamo Tiblisi went on to win ECWC that year in front of a bumper crowd of 4,750 in Duuseldorf.
They were eliminated from this year's Europa League in the first qualifying round by a team from Azerbaijan. So we are far superior to them these days.
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holyhandgrenade
7:09 Sat Aug 15
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Alongside the worthy nominations on here I'd also pick out Oxford at home early 87.
Lost 0-1 in front of 15,000 or so. Players looked completely disinterested and lethargic.
We all knew then that the previous seasons exploits and highs were well and truly over and we were back to the routine relegation fighting dross.
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Ronald_antly
7:08 Sat Aug 15
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It was on the cool side, with a hint of rain.
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