ForeverRed Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 Brighton playoff final. Not just a bad day on the pitch. I drove down from York where we were living then, and got caught by a speed camera both on the way to the match and on the way home. Bad day all round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
City Cat Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 Scotty Murray getting hacked down at Stoke (blatant penalty) and sent off for diving. Stoke winning 1-0 in injury time and then being kept back outside the ground for "safety" whilst the home fans threw projectiles at us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dollymarie Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 5 hours ago, redsquirrel said: hearing george elokobis leg snap Sam Vokes was horrible too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
East End Old Boy Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 9 hours ago, redsince1994 said: Was gonna say the 0-6 against Cardiff but some of the gallows humour in the stands was outstanding. I’m still trying to get a program for that game! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
East End Old Boy Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 1 hour ago, Dollymarie said: Sam Vokes was horrible too! I’ll raise you Gerry Sharpe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redfieldred Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 5 hours ago, ZiderEyed said: Surprised nobody has mentioned the 5-0 to Preston last season. I don't know why but it felt particularly gutting after they'd come up with us only a few seasons ago, and seemed to be SO far ahead of us on the pitch. Pne perplexing as wed just looked to finally be improving. It still felt like a one off and we did get the ticket money back. Honourable mention to the festive season 2 years ago. Went to derby to get beat 4-0 then Burnley 4-0 and finally reading 1-0. About 600 miles, 270 minutes 9 goals against 0 for and only looked like scoring 80 minutes in to the reading game, just before they scored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One BCFC Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 7 hours ago, redfieldred said: What worse than 05 or the Wilson years. Perpetual frustration at losing play offs or finishing 7th . My worst Brighton 04 . I got up that morning and a seagull had crapped all over my car. It was not a good omen. Stuck in a traffic jam on the way back with a bus load of Brighton fans in front. Waving plastic seagulls and popping champagne corks. Yes. 100% worse. At least we played football under Wilson and won most our games. Between 2009-2013 the club was a mess, players just plating to pick up a wage, the Steve Coppell saga, having David James in goal, players like Ryan McGivern at the back and SOD of all people. Wilson gave us great memories still like Hartlepool and Mansfield but I cant think of any good memories of 2009-2013. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Cyril Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 9 hours ago, Chivs said: 3) Anything and everything to do with S'OD. He almost sucked the joy out of watching City for me. Everything he used to say (and sniff) caused me grief (although a lot of it made sense but that's not the point). S'OD brings to football all the joy of a death shroud. If we ever play a team he is associated with, I expect to see a deathly mist hanging over the pitch with the sound of church bells peeling a lonely toll. I'm going slightly grey inside just thinking about him. Apologies for sharing again, but this was the view I was stuck with through the SOD era..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dollymarie Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 1 hour ago, East End Old Boy said: I’ll raise you Gerry Sharpe! Before my time (wasn’t even born sorry!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmpowell Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 To feel so deflated after a period of time I would say the 0-6 drubbing in the sleet by Cardiff, on a very cold Tuesday night in 2010. But for a single point in time, by a clear mile my single worst moment... it was being stood outside o’neils opposite the Prince of Wales pub when word came through that Wilson hadn’t even put Lita on the bench! We all very nearly got back on a train home, to this day I wish we had done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Port Said Red Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 I try to avoid being mawkish on this forum, but I remember the first home game after Dean Horrix died, the first time I saw some quite emotionally stunted men well up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingtonRed Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 Away at Crystal Palace watching mcgivern get skinned repeatedly by zaha. Horrible concrete terracing. The high point of the night was a bloke starting up 'we are bottom of the league'. Thanks for the laugh whoever you were! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonR Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 The Clueliss Era for me, he seemed to want to take us down. That was the most gutless, inept and lazy I can ever remember seeing city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
italian dave Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 Like several others I'm going for May 1990 at Twerton. But I challenge any of the others to have had a worse time than this! I can't remember the detail, but the game had originally been due to take place earlier, but got postponed at short notice. I hadn't been going for some reason, so didn't have a ticket. Tickets were valid for the rearranged game, and because that turned out to be so crucial, it was impossible to get a ticket. However, a gas supporting colleague at work who had a season ticket was on holiday the day of the rearranged game, so he let me have his season ticket. First challenge was to negotiate the police cordons around the ground checking tickets, and the turnstile, as a 30 year old with an OAP season ticket! Then when I got in I found that his seat was right in the middle of the main stand, so surrounded by the most diehard gas heads. Who greeted me with 'so you're the City fan that Ron's given his ticket to'!! So, awful as the whole experience was, at least others didn't have to watch it surrounded by gas! Needless to say, it was one of the few matches I've ever left early! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 1 hour ago, italian dave said: Like several others I'm going for May 1990 at Twerton. But I challenge any of the others to have had a worse time than this! I can't remember the detail, but the game had originally been due to take place earlier, but got postponed at short notice. I hadn't been going for some reason, so didn't have a ticket. Tickets were valid for the rearranged game, and because that turned out to be so crucial, it was impossible to get a ticket. However, a gas supporting colleague at work who had a season ticket was on holiday the day of the rearranged game, so he let me have his season ticket. First challenge was to negotiate the police cordons around the ground checking tickets, and the turnstile, as a 30 year old with an OAP season ticket! Then when I got in I found that his seat was right in the middle of the main stand, so surrounded by the most diehard gas heads. Who greeted me with 'so you're the City fan that Ron's given his ticket to'!! So, awful as the whole experience was, at least others didn't have to watch it surrounded by gas! Needless to say, it was one of the few matches I've ever left early! That day was my birthday and in addition to experiencing one of the worst moments of my city-supporting life I had to put up with their rag of a fanzine being called `The 2nd of May` for years afterwards until Wycombe did us the favour of relegating them to Division 4 on the same date and they curiously changed the name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
italian dave Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 37 minutes ago, Red Right Hand said: That day was my birthday and in addition to experiencing one of the worst moments of my city-supporting life I had to put up with their rag of a fanzine being called `The 2nd of May` for years afterwards until Wycombe did us the favour of relegating them to Division 4 on the same date and they curiously changed the name. Yes, fate does some wonderful things sometimes, doesn't it! The only away match ticket I still treasure to this day is the Crawley v City game that day: nothing match in every respect, but what joyous scenes afterwards!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
City Cat Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 6 hours ago, East End Old Boy said: I’ll raise you Gerry Sharpe! Yup....I was there as a kid 1971 v Middlesbrough.....the snap of his leg could be heard....pretty traumatising for me but obviously worse for Gerry... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gasbuster Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 18 hours ago, Cheesleysmate said: Yeah, without a shadow of a doubt for me it has to be this one. Smarty's goal against us in 1987 was a close second. The 3-0 at Trumpton was a nightmare, at least we went up though. Sure the Smart goal was New Year's Day '87. I literally threw up when it went in. The previous 90 mins saw the Sag goal peppered with their keeper making save after save; with the woodwork helping them as well. They get one shot at goal in the 88th minute and it flies in. Right in the middle of a sequence where we could just not beat them. Utter misery. (and I was sharing a house with two 15er mates at the time, as well !) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamski Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 2 hours ago, italian dave said: Like several others I'm going for May 1990 at Twerton. But I challenge any of the others to have had a worse time than this! I can't remember the detail, but the game had originally been due to take place earlier, but got postponed at short notice. I hadn't been going for some reason, so didn't have a ticket. Tickets were valid for the rearranged game, and because that turned out to be so crucial, it was impossible to get a ticket. However, a gas supporting colleague at work who had a season ticket was on holiday the day of the rearranged game, so he let me have his season ticket. First challenge was to negotiate the police cordons around the ground checking tickets, and the turnstile, as a 30 year old with an OAP season ticket! Then when I got in I found that his seat was right in the middle of the main stand, so surrounded by the most diehard gas heads. Who greeted me with 'so you're the City fan that Ron's given his ticket to'!! So, awful as the whole experience was, at least others didn't have to watch it surrounded by gas! Needless to say, it was one of the few matches I've ever left early! If I remember they had a “waterlogged pitch” and we were on fire at that time, can’t remember if the Gas had a few injuries at the time. Rumours were rife that they had watered the pitch to avoid the game! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ciderhead433 Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 18 hours ago, Marina's Rolls Royce said: Being kept in on the terraces of trumpton and being forced to witness the celebrations that night in 90. Which is why you can stuff your Harry Kane- NO ONE for me will ever eclipse the genius of: COLIN DANIEL i don't know how, where or when but one day I'm gonna shake that man's hand. I was with my Dad who was a gashead and he told everyone i was City pure misery i had to stay he had the car Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sugarwray Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 Rochdale away 1982 December. We went 92nd thanks to the only goal of the game trickling in past John Shaw just as it looked like we might hold out for a point. Only about 40 City fans were there in the rain. I lived in Liverpool at the time and I brought along three mates who used to watch Liverpool on the Kop. It was hard to convince them that I enjoyed watching City more Liverpool. The toilets had a window so you could watch the game as you used the urinals. There was an emotional solo rendition of “We’ll win again, don’t know where don’t know when, but I know some sunny day we’ll win again”. Tony Harding RIP used to belt out chants on his own. His other solo was “I’ve heard more noise in a Trappist monastery”. Thirty five years on we are winnng again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Welcome To The Jungle Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 Fulham last season at AG. Never have I felt AG so hostile and disunited in my time. Not been back since Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
openendboy Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 Losing to Walsall 3-1 in the first leg of the ‘88 Play-Off final at home. 25k attendance under the lights, incredible atmosphere beforehand, then David ******* Kelly ruining us. Then walking back up Ashton Road under a barrage of bottles, stones and sticks, that was a fun experience for a 9 year old let me tell you. Listening to the 4-0 replay was probably the worst experience hearing a game on the radio, horrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gakoe Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 Brighton at the millennium for me. Wasted opportunity. Hull play off. That was a very disappointing trip!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South stander Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 In recent times, this was a low point Bristol City 0-1 Sheffield United. November 2013 and the team were heading one way - down the league! www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/24968097 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miah Dennehy Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 5 hours ago, Red Right Hand said: That day was my birthday and in addition to experiencing one of the worst moments of my city-supporting life I had to put up with their rag of a fanzine being called `The 2nd of May` for years afterwards until Wycombe did us the favour of relegating them to Division 4 on the same date and they curiously changed the name. They didn't change the name, by the time we were relegated I'm pretty sure it wasn't even being published any more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AppyDAZE Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 Please God, let it not be Saturday, 26th May 2018. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poland_exile Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 though it wasn't a hammer blow moment such as being thrashed by the gas or blowing a play-off, I've just remembered against Reading during one of our all to frequent 90s relegations. It was the last game of the season with Reading supplying probably 5,000 of a total attendance of less than 10,000. It was the first and only time I've seen us out-numbered at home and it felt utterly shameful. Equally as bad was the feeling that you didn't know when the next good times would come - if a talking cat had approached me the next day and said we'd get relegated for the next nine seasons on the trot I'd have believed it. But despite the air of despondency and hopelessness, we were all back again the following season. This wan't a match that defined a season or cast a cloud over the world, it was just one of those moments that left you bereft of any hope or optimism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Always Believesham Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 5 hours ago, adamski said: If I remember they had a “waterlogged pitch” and we were on fire at that time, can’t remember if the Gas had a few injuries at the time. Rumours were rife that they had watered the pitch to avoid the game! That JPT game was my personal low point. I was lucky to get a ticket, the sheer embarrassment of losing that game was the worst thing to take. I seem to remember they were due to play Stockport the weekend before, who were on a run of 7 or 8 wins on the bounce. watered the pitch on an evening the rest of the country were covering their pitch to protect against frost. Not only did they slog out that horrible result against us, they won their re-arranged game and went up on a run that took them into the play-offs and cost Stockport promotion. Had a weird soft spot for them ever since! I have never really cared about the paint trophy, not in a distainful way I have always just taken it or left it. Just, that game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 1 hour ago, Miah Dennehy said: They didn't change the name, by the time we were relegated I'm pretty sure it wasn't even being published any more. That may be the case Miah but my I prefer my version! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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