What has been your lowest moment as a football fan?
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As a Sheffield United fan there's far too many to mention.
Getting relegated several times (1994 and 2007 spring especially to mind) when it seemed highly unlikely a few games beforehand.
Pushing for promotion, having great results then selling our top strikers (Brian Deane and Jan-Aage Fjortoft) at Xmas as we 'couldn't afford them'.
I think we hold the record for playoff final defeats. I've been there for all of them too, particularly enjoyed the David Hopkin almost last kick of the game winner for Palace.
Repeatedly selling our best young players for fack all, then seeing them prosper elsewhere.
I used to joke about a gypsy curse being placed on Bramall Lane. It must have ran out at the start of last season, but it looks like it was recently renewed.
Getting relegated several times (1994 and 2007 spring especially to mind) when it seemed highly unlikely a few games beforehand.
Pushing for promotion, having great results then selling our top strikers (Brian Deane and Jan-Aage Fjortoft) at Xmas as we 'couldn't afford them'.
I think we hold the record for playoff final defeats. I've been there for all of them too, particularly enjoyed the David Hopkin almost last kick of the game winner for Palace.
Repeatedly selling our best young players for fack all, then seeing them prosper elsewhere.
I used to joke about a gypsy curse being placed on Bramall Lane. It must have ran out at the start of last season, but it looks like it was recently renewed.
Derby C*unty v Fulham, 14th May 1983.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW0mNuQPokQ
Particularly look out for the Derby "fan" tackling the Fulham winger at 7min 50sec.
My Dad, a Fulham fan who passed the baton to me, died in a road accident 13 days later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW0mNuQPokQ
Particularly look out for the Derby "fan" tackling the Fulham winger at 7min 50sec.
My Dad, a Fulham fan who passed the baton to me, died in a road accident 13 days later.
Edited by ElectricSoup on Monday 5th October 11:12
Exeter City - Season 2002/3
Mad summer signings (Lee Sharpe, Don Goodman, lots of other no names)
Michael Jackson, Uri Geller and David Blaine becoming directors (Yes really)
Club chairmen who were rinsing the books and eventually were convicted
Relegation to the conference
A summer of not knowing on a daily basis if the club would still exist the next day as more and more creditors came out the woodwork.
A CVA that destroyed any trust and relationship with most local companies.
Still, that was a long time ago. Since then lots has happened including selling a Mr O.Watkins to Villa via Brentford. I wonder what ever happened to him.
Mad summer signings (Lee Sharpe, Don Goodman, lots of other no names)
Michael Jackson, Uri Geller and David Blaine becoming directors (Yes really)
Club chairmen who were rinsing the books and eventually were convicted
Relegation to the conference
A summer of not knowing on a daily basis if the club would still exist the next day as more and more creditors came out the woodwork.
A CVA that destroyed any trust and relationship with most local companies.
Still, that was a long time ago. Since then lots has happened including selling a Mr O.Watkins to Villa via Brentford. I wonder what ever happened to him.
Edited by Cyder on Monday 5th October 13:36
Bradgate said:
The 0-0 draw vs Algeria in the 2010 World Cup is my actual lowest moment. The game was as unwatchably awful as football gets, and the England team were an absolute shambles in every possible way. They didn’t want to be there. They didn’t want to play for Capello. They treated their own fans who had spent thousands travelling to support them with undisguised contempt. They were a disgrace to their country, and a decade later I’m still angry about that game.
Yes, I was seething after that game. However, the Iceland defeat in 2016 runs it close. Roy Hodgson can think himself very fortunate that football managers aren't like surgeons and lawyers, who can be stripped of their right to practice if they are grossly negligent. Because if that was the case, he would have never been allowed to work in football management again. The 
! TwigtheWonderkid said:
Yes, I was seething after that game. However, the Iceland defeat in 2016 runs it close. Roy Hodgson can think himself very fortunate that football managers aren't like surgeons and lawyers, who can be stripped of their right to practice if they are grossly negligent. Because if that was the case, he would have never been allowed to work in football management again. The !
Managing Palace is akin to Purgatory. ! 
Nayim from the halfway line...
The French police kept us in after the final whistle until, after half an hour listening to the Zaragoza fans, the gates were charged. The police were judicious in their use of batons, and then decided to use their tear gas, but I managed to stay out of it at the back of the stand. Had to walk all the way back to the Arc De Triomph to get the bus back to the ferry. A very long trip...
The French police kept us in after the final whistle until, after half an hour listening to the Zaragoza fans, the gates were charged. The police were judicious in their use of batons, and then decided to use their tear gas, but I managed to stay out of it at the back of the stand. Had to walk all the way back to the Arc De Triomph to get the bus back to the ferry. A very long trip...
Highs always outweigh the lows though!
The whole Steve Kean manager saga at Blackburn was a low point, and it made us a laughing stock throughout football, and made me stop enjoying going to games. Subsequent managerial appointments, didn't help either.
Relegation from the premiership wasn't great but tempered by the chicken running on the pitch!
The whole Steve Kean manager saga at Blackburn was a low point, and it made us a laughing stock throughout football, and made me stop enjoying going to games. Subsequent managerial appointments, didn't help either.
Relegation from the premiership wasn't great but tempered by the chicken running on the pitch!
GT03ROB said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
GT03ROB said:
* 1973 League Cup Final
1972 I think.I went into the city centre the next day and it was like a morgue.
nicanary said:
You've just reminded me. March 1959. Norwich City from the Third Division South losing 1-0 to Luton Town in the FA Cup semi-final. Greatest cup run of all time and acknowledged as such by "outsiders". Beat top clubs along the way on merit and the whole city took it as read that the cup was ours that year. I srill reckon we could have beaten Forest in the final - f**k you Billy Bingham!
I went into the city centre the next day and it was like a morgue.
This is the thing, my lows are not when CFC were crap, 6-0s to Rotherham were bad but kind of accepted. It was those odd seasons when you came so close & you never knew if you would get another chance. I went into the city centre the next day and it was like a morgue.
Losing a Cup final in the 70 or 80 would have been devastating, we had none for 21 years barely a sniff some years you thought this is our chance. Now losing a final means less as there's always next year. You'll know you'll be there or there abouts.
GT03ROB said:
nicanary said:
You've just reminded me. March 1959. Norwich City from the Third Division South losing 1-0 to Luton Town in the FA Cup semi-final. Greatest cup run of all time and acknowledged as such by "outsiders". Beat top clubs along the way on merit and the whole city took it as read that the cup was ours that year. I srill reckon we could have beaten Forest in the final - f**k you Billy Bingham!
I went into the city centre the next day and it was like a morgue.
This is the thing, my lows are not when CFC were crap, 6-0s to Rotherham were bad but kind of accepted. It was those odd seasons when you came so close & you never knew if you would get another chance. I went into the city centre the next day and it was like a morgue.
Losing a Cup final in the 70 or 80 would have been devastating, we had none for 21 years barely a sniff some years you thought this is our chance. Now losing a final means less as there's always next year. You'll know you'll be there or there abouts.
And that's why the Derby game I quoted above was such a low. Did not know if we'd ever come close to the First Division again. Lo and behold, relegated the next year and stayed in Divs 3 & 4 until the late 90s.
Edited by ElectricSoup on Tuesday 6th October 11:43
Edited by ElectricSoup on Tuesday 6th October 11:58
I feel that pain! Things are looking interesting at the moment with the Deadpool takeover though huh? 
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