What has been your lowest moment as a football fan?
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ElectricSoup said:
You accurately describe the position of Fulham fans now in those comments. Losing the Europa League final felt exactly like that - never knowing if there will ever be another chance like that. The club's 141 years old, and still no major trophy. We must be the biggest club left without one. Probably joint with Crystal Palace.
Brighton are in the Prem too, no trophies ever. Watford and Bournmouth were until last season, no trophies either. Not the lowest moment but Forest's run in at the end of last season. Ok lads, we don't have to win this, just don't ship 4 goals and we'll go through to the playoffs on goal difference....Ah b
ks....
One of the key things when you support a perma-dreadful team like Forest or England is not to take ignominious failure to heart, have a sense of humour about it and take heart from the fact that at least no one can accuse you of being a glory hunter.
I remember that Algeria game because I didn't watch it, I was driving through London to see my girlfriend (now Mrs warch) on a Friday evening and there was barely a car on the road. It was great!
ks....One of the key things when you support a perma-dreadful team like Forest or England is not to take ignominious failure to heart, have a sense of humour about it and take heart from the fact that at least no one can accuse you of being a glory hunter.
I remember that Algeria game because I didn't watch it, I was driving through London to see my girlfriend (now Mrs warch) on a Friday evening and there was barely a car on the road. It was great!
TwigtheWonderkid said:
ElectricSoup said:
You accurately describe the position of Fulham fans now in those comments. Losing the Europa League final felt exactly like that - never knowing if there will ever be another chance like that. The club's 141 years old, and still no major trophy. We must be the biggest club left without one. Probably joint with Crystal Palace.
Brighton are in the Prem too, no trophies ever. Watford and Bournmouth were until last season, no trophies either. Danny Baker was right about Chelsea's historical place in the order of things, of course.
Peter911 said:
I am a Coventry fan. No end of low moments over the years, and well used to it.
It's the 'hope' that gets me down! ??
I think we are experts on it.It's the 'hope' that gets me down! ??
Relegation from Premiership
Relegation from Championship
Relegation from League 1
Council selling the stadium designed to us to a franchised rugby team
Playing games in Northampton and now Birmingham.
Multiple admins and nearly going pop.
But currently we do feel like we are on the up.
warch said:
One of the key things when you support a perma-dreadful team like Forest or England is not to take ignominious failure to heart, have a sense of humour about it and take heart from the fact that at least no one can accuse you of being a glory hunter.
Amen, brother. Fulham, Scotland, Ayr United. I have been accused of being a "misery hunter" in the past, in fact. However, I believe that you do not choose the teams you follow. They choose you, and there is no escape.Champions League final against Barca in 2006.
Lehmann with a brain fart early on and getting sent off.
Sol scoring with a header putting us in the lead.
We then conceded 2 quick goals in the last 15 minutes which was absolutely gutting, added to the fact that Henry who was probably the best player in the world at that time, missed 2 guilt edge chances.
If ever we was going to do it, this was the time but alas it wasn't to be.
The other game with Barca in 2011 where Van Persie got sent off with one of the worst reffing decisions ever for having a shot on goal a second after the ref had blown for offside and being sent off, we lost 4-3 on aggregate after we probably would have held on and gone through on away goals.
Best moment would have to be winning the league at Anfield with Thomas last min goal to win 2-0, greatest title win ever in my book.
Lehmann with a brain fart early on and getting sent off.
Sol scoring with a header putting us in the lead.
We then conceded 2 quick goals in the last 15 minutes which was absolutely gutting, added to the fact that Henry who was probably the best player in the world at that time, missed 2 guilt edge chances.
If ever we was going to do it, this was the time but alas it wasn't to be.
The other game with Barca in 2011 where Van Persie got sent off with one of the worst reffing decisions ever for having a shot on goal a second after the ref had blown for offside and being sent off, we lost 4-3 on aggregate after we probably would have held on and gone through on away goals.
Best moment would have to be winning the league at Anfield with Thomas last min goal to win 2-0, greatest title win ever in my book.
Radec said:
Champions League final against Barca in 2006.
Lehmann with a brain fart early on and getting sent off.
Sol scoring with a header putting us in the lead.
We then conceded 2 quick goals in the last 15 minutes which was absolutely gutting, added to the fact that Henry who was probably the best player in the world at that time, missed 2 guilt edge chances.
Chelsea (the only London club to have won the European Cup) were so grateful to Beletti for scoring the winner that we bought him! Lehmann with a brain fart early on and getting sent off.
Sol scoring with a header putting us in the lead.
We then conceded 2 quick goals in the last 15 minutes which was absolutely gutting, added to the fact that Henry who was probably the best player in the world at that time, missed 2 guilt edge chances.
16th September 2002 - Birmingham City 3 - 0 Aston Villa. The first second city derby in 15 years. Blues already 1-0 up through home crowd favourite Clinton Morrison, Villa defender Olof Mellberg launches a throw in back to 'keeper Peter Enckelman and ... oh dear!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18QsjFUquD8
It wasn't so much the losing to our hated rivals after their long absence from the top flight, but the fact that one of their fans got on the pitch giving poor old Enckleman the wker sign. It was a mean-spirited thing to do, he was rightly arrested, tried and jailed, but ultimately it led to the beginning of the end of his Villa career, after which he dropped down the leagues.
Even now, 18 yrs on I am aghast as to why West Midlands Police allowed this to go ahead as an evening kick-off. Both sets of fans had large numbers all day drinking and the game afterwards was marred by violence in the city centre. My Dad was a manager in a factory in the city at the time - next day there were fist fights between rival fans on the factory floor, such was the bad blood.
An awful time to be a Villa fan, of course Blues fans have the opposite view. On the bright side, Blues haven't beaten us in their last 14 attempts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18QsjFUquD8
It wasn't so much the losing to our hated rivals after their long absence from the top flight, but the fact that one of their fans got on the pitch giving poor old Enckleman the w
ker sign. It was a mean-spirited thing to do, he was rightly arrested, tried and jailed, but ultimately it led to the beginning of the end of his Villa career, after which he dropped down the leagues. Even now, 18 yrs on I am aghast as to why West Midlands Police allowed this to go ahead as an evening kick-off. Both sets of fans had large numbers all day drinking and the game afterwards was marred by violence in the city centre. My Dad was a manager in a factory in the city at the time - next day there were fist fights between rival fans on the factory floor, such was the bad blood.
An awful time to be a Villa fan, of course Blues fans have the opposite view. On the bright side, Blues haven't beaten us in their last 14 attempts
PurpleTurtle said:
My Dad was a manager in a factory in the city at the time - next day there were fist fights between rival fans on the factory floor, such was the bad blood.
Great stuff! I'd bloody love to work somewhere where the staff came to blows over football. Not me, I'd be watching from a distance. AJB88 said:
sc0tt said:
Choosing west ham to support as a kid.
Same here. She said, “You either start supporting West Ham with my brother, or you’ll be using your own hand instead of me using mine in our front room, when mum and dad have gone to bed.
I duly turned up at Fratton Park for WHUs first game that season, away to Portsmouth.
Frank7 said:
I’m in there somewhere, I was around 17, and seriously into a 16 y.o. Dagenham girl that I’d met at a Youth Club, her 18 y.o. brother was a Hammer.
She said, “You either start supporting West Ham with my brother, or you’ll be using your own hand instead of me using mine in our front room, when mum and dad have gone to bed.
I duly turned up at Fratton Park for WHUs first game that season, away to Portsmouth.
Couldn't you write very well or somethingShe said, “You either start supporting West Ham with my brother, or you’ll be using your own hand instead of me using mine in our front room, when mum and dad have gone to bed.
I duly turned up at Fratton Park for WHUs first game that season, away to Portsmouth.
Seeing the mighty Rams get relegated for the first time in my life, I cried. A lot. I was young though.
Failing that, possibly Ben Osborne scoring a winner against us in the derby. He went to the same school as me, 2 years below, and grew up in the village that I did for a chunk of my childhood.
Failing that, possibly Ben Osborne scoring a winner against us in the derby. He went to the same school as me, 2 years below, and grew up in the village that I did for a chunk of my childhood.
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