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Post by smax on May 18, 2015 20:25:34 GMT 1
worst: Losing in FA Cup to Blackpool 1990 (we knew we had Tottenham at home next round ,with gazza) worst: Losing to Peterborough in both play offs worst: Being spat on at oakwell as a 9 year old with a Town bag walking up the hill away from the ground,c**** best: Being at Elland road in the paddock when Cowling scored best: Northwich Victoria away ,cant remember why but it was wild best: Kindon coming on as sub at Sheff Utd away (snow on ground ,not cold at all)
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Post by Cosmo Kramer on May 18, 2015 21:07:06 GMT 1
Simonsens penalty miss
And Old Trafford, easily the worst day i've had following Town
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2015 21:30:04 GMT 1
Worst Brum at home 2001 when we got relegated. Best Wembley when we got promoted to the Championship.
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Post by stinkypete on May 18, 2015 21:55:19 GMT 1
Selling Stewart was devastating, took me ages to get over that, he was my hero at the time! Barnsley at home in that play-off was shite!
Best was penalties at Wembley, also a 5-2 win away at Crewe in the great escape season always sticks in my mind.
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Post by suffolkterrier on May 18, 2015 21:59:52 GMT 1
Worst and best combined. Birmingham 2001; got married that day down in deepest Suffolk. Heard we were drawing 1-1 just before the ceremony; can still picture my brother's face as he found out the awful truth just before the pictures. Managed to mention it in my speech as there were quite a few Town supporters there. Put a bit of a dampner on proceedings, I can tell you. If the wife ever reads this, only joking !!
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Post by space hardware on May 18, 2015 22:01:13 GMT 1
Worst - can't choose between Peterborough 1992, Birmingham 2001 and Barnsley 2006. All shockingly bad days to be a Town fan.
Best - the two Lincoln play off games and the Mansfield final in 2004 stick in the mind.
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Post by delboy12 on May 18, 2015 22:02:34 GMT 1
Best by a mile Brentford away those that were there will never forget the scenes at the end of pens,worst posh at old Trafford felt so sorry for Deano.
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Post by yorkterrier on May 18, 2015 22:09:34 GMT 1
Mine are slightly off the wall.
Best - Carlisle second leg of the northern final. To see Town at Wembley back then was the stuff of dreams.
Worst - Cheltenham away with Pavs stray back pass. I just felt that we didn't really put any type of a shift in and given the surroundings it felt so wrong for the mighty HTFC.
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Post by Chips Longhorn on May 18, 2015 22:20:21 GMT 1
Best by a mile Brentford away those that were there will never forget the scenes at the end of pens,worst posh at old Trafford felt so sorry for Deano. Must've been 35000 town fans there that night
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Post by shawsie on May 18, 2015 23:09:14 GMT 1
Best in no particular order Sheff utd at wembley Newport at home - cowling winner to seal promotion Swansea in auto glass - never thought I'd ever see us at the twin towers Brentford and posh away in play off away legs....as good an atmosphere for both as I have known away from home. Worst as above Fulham away - desolate after chucking it away! Brum at home - never forgiven the dingles for playing half a team at Pompey! Macclesfield away - the worst single performance I can remember. Stewarts almost tearful at palace when we all knew he was gone...think he scored twice that day as well. Am sure there will be more but just off top of my bonce.
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Post by Nickhudds.UTT on May 18, 2015 23:22:18 GMT 1
Best. 95 Wemberleeeee, just superb day fromt start and enjoyed old Wembley.
Worst.... Any defeat to Yids The old Trafford final aswel
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Post by philincalifornia on May 18, 2015 23:29:15 GMT 1
Best - Sheffield United at Wembley. The whole experience was fantastic - 48 hour moment. Meeting people I hadn't seen since secondary School and many others, courtesy of ArtySid and his lad. Then my sister and Nephew came down and had managed to get tickets in the same section. Meeting a few of the Millbridge lads that I know inside the Stadium, and then sitting with MirfieldChris, Lodgey and SNOW, then a brilliant night out after.
Worst - the George Best, Denis Law, Bobby Charlton game at Leeds Road. It could've been 12 - 0 not 3 - 0. I think they even took pity on us and didn't run up the score, which made it even worse as far as I was concerned.
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Post by otium (EPBS) on May 18, 2015 23:35:40 GMT 1
In 44 years of watching Town i would say my best was the first game, sat on my Dads shoulders v Stoke in the Cup. Brentford away a close second. I was with two friends, we split up in the top tier just to help conduct he songs...it had a purity to it. The worst...the last game at Leeds Road v Blackpool...i was so sad i left 10 minutes from the end and walked alone to town and cried the whole way. It was not about people, they come and go, it was something bigger.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2015 1:35:03 GMT 1
Worst Brum at home 2001 when we got relegated. Best Wembley when we got promoted to the Championship. Yep these two for me too. The whole day at Wembley was memorable all 18 hours of it. After the excruciating shoot out the moment old simo blasted over was pure joy and then pure relief. We were finally back! Curtis f**kin woodhouse was a nightmare. The injustice of it all. It felt definitively like the end of an era.like we'd be years in the lower leagues...and sadly that was what happened. The old Trafford play off defeat I don't think we'd win so terrines but didn't have the surprise element that was so cruel. Honorable mention for a great single moment was Rhodes equaliser at Swillsborough. Ball through from PC and then you just knew. Great single moment that didn't mean that much but was sweet all the same.
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Post by drayltonboy (independent) on May 19, 2015 6:43:18 GMT 1
Best wasbeatig Bristol Rovers at Wembley. No worst. I never get upset over something I can't control
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Post by Porrohman on May 19, 2015 7:01:14 GMT 1
Best by a mile Brentford away those that were there will never forget the scenes at the end of pens,worst posh at old Trafford felt so sorry for Deano. Must've been 35000 town fans there that night It felt like it anyway Sent from my SM-G900F using proboards
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Post by CaptainHart on May 19, 2015 10:47:38 GMT 1
Another bad one for me was failing to beat Wimbledon at home in the FA Cup 5th Round. Leading 2-1 deep into stoppage time I said to my mate "all we have to do is defend this corner and we've won". As the ball came into the box I swear I could see 3 defenders and 27 attackers - result 2-2 and we lost the replay. Tommy Cowan, all 5' 8' of him, said that he would have headed it away if Steve Francis hadn't got in his way. I remember Ian Dunn and Boothy being criticised on MoTD for not running down the clock. It was a Wimbledon player, not Francis who impeded Cowan. They'd done their homework. Like you say TC was quite small, but he had a terrific jump and was good in the air. For corners he'd defend the corner of the goal area, given his stature most teams ignored him and thought they'd get the ball over him but frequently he cleared it. Against Wimbledon one of their players blocked his run as the corner was being taken. The did the same thing for the first goal (I think) in the replay.
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Post by araucaria on May 19, 2015 10:55:08 GMT 1
Best moment... Predictable but the Brentford penalty shoot-out I don't think will ever be matched for me. I would still like to meet the blokes I went mental with as the last penalty went in Worst...Can't remember the exact year but we were awful and getting relegated when someone jumped from the terrace and attacked the linesman. It's the nearest I've been to saying fuck it in my 38 years watching Town Maybe someone can remember the game/year ? 87-88 night game v oldham,the season that was so bad it was good in a mad weird masochistic sort of way Tuesday 19 April 1988 Town 2 Oldham 2. We were two up at half time. We should have had a corner at the stand side playing towards the Bradley Mills end, at 2-1. The ref gave a goal kick and Oldham went straight up our end and equalised. Then the linesman on our side, who, of course, had had nothing to do with the corner decision, was attacked. That's how bad that team was: an opposition goal kick was a goalscoring opportunity. The guy who attacked the linesman would have been better advised to slap one or two of our players.
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Post by Floyds on May 19, 2015 11:24:18 GMT 1
Maybe it's because I was younger, but all the best/worst are from when I first started watching Town.
We had some great cup games back then (Forest, Blackburn, Sunderland, Man City, Arsenal). Carlisle in the Autoglass, home and away.
Peterborough in 1991 definitely the worst. Blackpool at home in the cup as well.
Who was it (Barnet, Chester?) who we lost 2-0 at home to, when they'd not won away for months? Think we only had 4,000 for that one.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2015 11:27:58 GMT 1
Maybe it's because I was younger, but all the best/worst are from when I first started watching Town. We had some great cup games back then (Forest, Blackburn, Sunderland, Man City, Arsenal). Carlisle in the Autoglass, home and away. Peterborough in 1991 definitely the worst. Blackpool at home in the cup as well. Who was it (Barnet, Chester?) who we lost 2-0 at home to, when they'd not won away for months? Think we only had 4,000 for that one. Chester I think. Was so mad after that game I wrote a strongly worded letter to Hanging on the Telephone.
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Post by CaptainHart on May 19, 2015 11:31:44 GMT 1
Best: Boro 1970, promotion to top flight. Worst: Getting relegated to the Third Division for the first time.
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Post by CaptainHart on May 19, 2015 11:32:20 GMT 1
Maybe it's because I was younger, but all the best/worst are from when I first started watching Town. We had some great cup games back then (Forest, Blackburn, Sunderland, Man City, Arsenal). Carlisle in the Autoglass, home and away. Peterborough in 1991 definitely the worst. Blackpool at home in the cup as well. Who was it (Barnet, Chester?) who we lost 2-0 at home to, when they'd not won away for months? Think we only had 4,000 for that one. Barnet.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2015 11:41:36 GMT 1
The 2-1 away win against lxxxs when Collins scored in the 93 minute . To see bland road silenced like that was priceless . My mate (a lxxxs fan) was within sight of me in the south stand , he'd gone by the time I stopped jumping up and down .
Worse would have to be the Peterborough semi final defeat . If only we had had Marsden and Butler for those two games I think we would have won easy .
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2015 11:45:49 GMT 1
Maybe it's because I was younger, but all the best/worst are from when I first started watching Town. We had some great cup games back then (Forest, Blackburn, Sunderland, Man City, Arsenal). Carlisle in the Autoglass, home and away. Peterborough in 1991 definitely the worst. Blackpool at home in the cup as well. Who was it (Barnet, Chester?) who we lost 2-0 at home to, when they'd not won away for months? Think we only had 4,000 for that one. Barnet. The one I'm thinking about was '92. Chester only won two away games that season and finished rock bottom. Beat us 2-0 at home just before Christmas.
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Post by Chips Longhorn on May 19, 2015 11:47:02 GMT 1
The 2-1 away win against lxxxs when Collins scored in the 93 minute . To see bland road silenced like that was priceless . My mate (a lxxxs fan) was within sight of me in the south stand , he'd gone by the time I stopped jumping up and down . Worse would have to be the Peterborough semi final defeat . If only we had had Marsden and Butler for those two games I think we would have won easy . Peter Butler, currently manager of the Botswana national team
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Post by Floyds on May 19, 2015 12:00:08 GMT 1
The one I'm thinking about was '92. Chester only won two away games that season and finished rock bottom. Beat us 2-0 at home just before Christmas. They must have been the same era, then. The one I'm thinking of, the other team had been promoted the previous season and hadn't won an away game all season. Useless!
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Post by bejesus on May 19, 2015 12:44:26 GMT 1
Possibly tinged with just a little schadenfreude, but seeing the trajectory of Liam Lawrence's penalty in '04 and knowing instantly that he'd missed it. Stepping up with his penalty record and his stupid Beckham wannabe hair, I was laughing so hard inside and out before the ball even had even clipped the bar. It also left us 2-0 up after 4 penalties, so there's that too...
Hard to actually think of a worst moment. Gallows humour has a way of turning a lot of the would-be contenders into some of the better moments, for me. I have quite fond memories of most of the heavy defeats I've witnessed. Obviously every relegation is unpleasant, but worse is probably any time I've felt ashamed of, and been embarrassed by, the actions of my fellow supporters. Meat-headed hoolies fighting, people wanting to kick Leeds fans' heads in, violent threats, any time the humorous bravado of football fandom has veered away from banter and into something ugly.
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Post by Detective Boyle on May 19, 2015 12:47:47 GMT 1
Best - playoffs vs Mansfield Worst - vs Peterborough. Everything about that day was awful
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Post by fletch2011 on May 19, 2015 12:53:26 GMT 1
My best: Brentford 95 Bournemouth playoff Wolves at home in Jacko's first full season, we'd gone top the week before at Tranmere and were 1-0, I think in injury time. Robbie Keane scored for Wolves and we needed a win to stay top. Ben Thornley lobbed the keeper in front of the north Stand to win 2-1, I was in the top tier that game. It took a long time to get that excited about a goal again. Carlisle (a) in the autoglass. 13 mins of injury time, clinging on to a 2-0 defeat! 'Jacko's going to Wembley'
Worst Peterbro at OT. Had a weird feeling all day that it wasn't going to go our way. Birmingham relegation Macc away 4-0 Wimbledon in the league cup when Jeff Winter didn't give us a penalty in sudden death extra time. That year the draw was made at beggining of the year for all the rounds and you could see who you were going to get in the next rounds. We had a pretty easy draw and if we'd beaten them could easily have made it to the semis. I think Tranmere did instead.
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Post by Torquayterrier on May 19, 2015 12:58:38 GMT 1
Another bad one - away at Fulham under Bruce where we could have forced our way into a playoff position but we didn't turn up, Lee Clark scored twice for them. Only thing good about it was the weather.
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