What has been your lowest moment as a football fan?

[chrisr111r]

Not expecting too much sympathy as a Red, and nothing compared to some of the tales of woe here but the biggest pains that immediately come back to mind:

Michael Thomas nicking the league at Anfield in the last minute or whatever it was
Getting beat by bloody Grimsby in the League cup and facing a long late drive home
The Wimbledon & Palace FA cup upsets

plus some more recent ones:

The feeling of getting a spanking at half time 2005 CL final (eased by one of the best moments of recent years)
Gerrard's bloody slip against Chelski
Loosing on pens to City in the league cup 2016

[wazztie16]

chrisr111r said:

Getting beat by bloody Grimsby in the League cup and facing a long late drive home

I feel you.

Me, the missus at the time, and I think my mum and brother drove to Portsmouth from Derby for a weekday evening match, to see us lose 2-1 in the first round of the cup in 2015.

I'll never forget Lee Grant for that, from our view at the other end of the pitch it looked like he'd caught the ball, then the Pompey fans went wild...

[GT03ROB]

martinbiz said:

Throwing away our best chance of winning the league in years to Leicester

The melt down at the Bridge to give Leicester the title was sweet

[AJB88]

GT03ROB said:

The melt down at the Bridge to give Leicester the title was sweet

That's a high point for most football fans.

[GloverMart]

Cue the jokes, but as a Yeovil Town fan there have been many such moments through the years.

Followed them since '72 and bumbled along as a non-league club with the odd FA Cup giant killing till 2003 when Sir Gary Johnson took us into the Football League, the Holy Grail after 108 years had been won.

Two more promotions under Sir Gary (including into the Championship for one season!!) then the wheels well & truly fell off and three relegations in six seasons now see us back in non-league again.

Probably the worst game was in the final season during a run of form of 4 wins in 30 matches. Former club legend Darren Way should have been fired after taking us to the brink with his dreadful buys, awful tactics and clueless press conferences but the chairman & owner clung on to him like a limpet to a rock. Anyhow, one bright spot looked like being a win over Forest Green at home on 8th Dec 2018 when we went into stoppage time 1-0 up and lost 2-1. That was the day I began to fall out of love with my club and now I'm at the stage where I went twice last season and one of those was because I was paid to go and work there.

[shakermikee]

Bury fan (hence the user name) who has no team to follow any more. Feel like part of me has died, however bad your team is doing be grateful they are there. They were a huge part of my life and my kids lives, my Dad, Grandad etc.

Loved football but have lost all interest in the professional game, not watched MOTD or any league match since live or on tv and don't feel like I will till they're back at Gigg Lane. The teams I considered rivals I don't care about any more, thought I would sulk about football for a season and then get back into it, but still can't and still not over it.

[ElectricSoup]

shakermikee said:

Bury fan (hence the user name) who has no team to follow any more. Feel like part of me has died, however bad your team is doing be grateful they are there. They were a huge part of my life and my kids lives, my Dad, Grandad etc.

Loved football but have lost all interest in the professional game, not watched MOTD or any league match since live or on tv and don't feel like I will till they're back at Gigg Lane. The teams I considered rivals I don't care about any more, thought I would sulk about football for a season and then get back into it, but still can't and still not over it.

Many years ago Fulham stared in to this very abyss, in fact the club was wound up and reformed once. This was shortly after the Derby C*unty debacle I described above (I blame that very match for precipitating the crises which followed). We got away with it (Jimmy Hill was instrumental and although lots of people thought him a bell end he is a hero at Fulham, although fairly unsung for some reason) and even managed to repurchase the stadium, which is a minor miracle considering its location and potential monetary value. There was also a proposed merger with QPR (Fulham Park Rangers *shudder*) which almost came to fruition.

I really do feel for Bury fans, and I entirely understand your feelings now. That's pretty much how I'd have felt if we'd gone under. I hope the new phoenix club enjoys a rapid raise and lots of success.

[bonerp]

TTmonkey said:

Ask the Liverpool fans about now....

As Boris said about covid numbers "it was a technical glitch"

My worse moment has got to be Covid and the lack of excitement, and Gerard slipping ...

[Castrol for a knave]

11th May 1985, where for around 5 hours, until reunited with my family, I was convinced I was an orphan. Only home match I didn't attend that season.

[PurpleTurtle]

shakermikee said:

Bury fan (hence the user name) who has no team to follow any more. Feel like part of me has died, however bad your team is doing be grateful they are there. They were a huge part of my life and my kids lives, my Dad, Grandad etc.

Loved football but have lost all interest in the professional game, not watched MOTD or any league match since live or on tv and don't feel like I will till they're back at Gigg Lane. The teams I considered rivals I don't care about any more, thought I would sulk about football for a season and then get back into it, but still can't and still not over it.

Feel for you there fella. For many of us we don't choose our team, they choose us. I was born within a few miles of Villa Park, into a family of Villa fans, all from the north of the City, in a town where 95% of people were Villa fans. I'll be with them through thick and thin until I die, but if they were to just stop existing one day, I too would be distraught.

However I'd like to think that I'd pull my big boy pants up and get behind AFC Bury. Wiki says they had 750 applicants for the manager's job!! Now I know a large number of those will be blokes sat in the pub in Bury, but it has the potential to be a brilliant phoenix from the flames story, count me as a +1 to follow their fortunes.

[GloverMart]

PurpleTurtle said:

shakermikee said:

Bury fan (hence the user name) who has no team to follow any more. Feel like part of me has died, however bad your team is doing be grateful they are there. They were a huge part of my life and my kids lives, my Dad, Grandad etc.

Loved football but have lost all interest in the professional game, not watched MOTD or any league match since live or on tv and don't feel like I will till they're back at Gigg Lane. The teams I considered rivals I don't care about any more, thought I would sulk about football for a season and then get back into it, but still can't and still not over it.

Feel for you there fella. For many of us we don't choose our team, they choose us. I was born within a few miles of Villa Park, into a family of Villa fans, all from the north of the City, in a town where 95% of people were Villa fans. I'll be with them through thick and thin until I die, but if they were to just stop existing one day, I too would be distraught.

However I'd like to think that I'd pull my big boy pants up and get behind AFC Bury. Wiki says they had 750 applicants for the manager's job!! Now I know a large number of those will be blokes sat in the pub in Bury, but it has the potential to be a brilliant phoenix from the flames story, count me as a +1 to follow their fortunes.

Great words from both of you and yes, I should be grateful I still have a club to moan about!!

[DaveyBoyWonder]

As a Leeds fan, even through premiership relegation, administration, relegation to league 1, Dennis Wise, Ken Bates, being knocked out of cups by Newport etc, the appointment of Neil Warnock as our manager trumps even the appointment of Dave Hockaday. A man known to hate Leeds managing a team whose fanbase hates him. It was never meant to be. Probably the only thing I'd change in the last 16 years since relegation. That guy never deserved to be anywhere near our club and it was no surprise it didn't work out.

[GT03ROB]

chrisr111r said:

Gerrard's bloody slip against Chelski

Another beautiful moment..... we loved Stevie G from....

• getting sent off at the Bridge as he got frustrated at not qualifying for the CL as he got beat in the final game of the season
• the own goal in the League cup final
• the inch perfect backpass for Drogba to basically clinch the 2010 title

he turned up for us in more big games than many of our own!!

[Voldemort]

DaveyBoyWonder said:

As a Leeds fan, even through premiership relegation, administration, relegation to league 1, Dennis Wise, Ken Bates, being knocked out of cups by Newport etc, the appointment of Neil Warnock as our manager trumps even the appointment of Dave Hockaday. A man known to hate Leeds managing a team whose fanbase hates him. It was never meant to be. Probably the only thing I'd change in the last 16 years since relegation. That guy never deserved to be anywhere near our club and it was no surprise it didn't work out.

As another Leeds fan, that doesn't even make my top 10

Which would be topped, for want of a better term, by Bowyer and Woodgate deciding to racially tap dance on a student's head. That was the moment that it ended for the O'Leary team that could and should have dominated for years.

[Cie]

I feel guilty mentioning Augero’s last minute goal against QPR compared to some of the others in here. That’s mine though, I’ll never forget anything about that. The Champions League finals against Barcelona weren’t anywhere as bad for me because we lost to possibly the best club side to have existed, at least in my time. No shame in that.

[JNW1]

Voldemort said:

DaveyBoyWonder said:

As a Leeds fan, even through premiership relegation, administration, relegation to league 1, Dennis Wise, Ken Bates, being knocked out of cups by Newport etc, the appointment of Neil Warnock as our manager trumps even the appointment of Dave Hockaday. A man known to hate Leeds managing a team whose fanbase hates him. It was never meant to be. Probably the only thing I'd change in the last 16 years since relegation. That guy never deserved to be anywhere near our club and it was no surprise it didn't work out.

As another Leeds fan, that doesn't even make my top 10

Which would be topped, for want of a better term, by Bowyer and Woodgate deciding to racially tap dance on a student's head. That was the moment that it ended for the O'Leary team that could and should have dominated for years.

Also a Leeds fan and we've certainly got a few lows to choose from!

However, for me it's the 1975 European Cup Final; although he was no longer manager it was the last chance for the Revie team to win the ultimate prize - something their ability merited in my view - and until the day I die I'll believe they were cheated out of it that night (just as they had been in the Cup Winners Cup Final two years earlier). Defeats when you were outplayed by a better team - or relegation at the end of a season where you simply weren't good enough - aren't pleasant but you accept them on the basis you got what you deserved; however, we didn't get what we deserved on either of those occasions and as the European Cup is the biggest prize of all that's the one that really hurts for me.

Sorry but having Neil Warnock as manager - or even the Bowyer/Woodgate debacle - pale into insignificance in comparison IMO...

[chrisr111r]

GT03ROB said:

chrisr111r said:

Gerrard's bloody slip against Chelski

Another beautiful moment..... we loved Stevie G from....

• getting sent off at the Bridge as he got frustrated at not qualifying for the CL as he got beat in the final game of the season
• the own goal in the League cup final
• the inch perfect backpass for Drogba to basically clinch the 2010 title

he turned up for us in more big games than many of our own!!

Didn't he just - I'd forgotton some of those! Loosing him to you when he feared that Benitez would sell him anyway would've been somehow fitting but possibly the worst low of the lot for me!

[warch]

Castrol for a knave said:

11th May 1985, where for around 5 hours, until reunited with my family, I was convinced I was an orphan. Only home match I didn't attend that season.

That's terrible, A 7 year old me was really rather traumatised watching that on the television.

[mr pg]

AJB88 said:

That's a high point for most football fans.

Never let the facts get in the way of a good story. The draw at Chelsea was irrevalent. All Leicester had to do was win one of their last 2 games to win the league whatever the Spurs result. They won both.

[Byker28i]

warch said:

Castrol for a knave said:

11th May 1985, where for around 5 hours, until reunited with my family, I was convinced I was an orphan. Only home match I didn't attend that season.

That's terrible, A 7 year old me was really rather traumatised watching that on the television.

Bradford, Hillsborough, some of the football violence of that era

1990 Swindon won promotion to Division 1, then were later demoted after being found guilty of financial irregularities which resulted in Sunderland gaining promotion. The guy I worked with was killed by a drunk hit and run driver whilst the whole town was out celebrating.