Most gutted after a game

[Avenue Saint]

It was 2-2 after 90 minutes.

 

Yes I know. After winning 2-0, and the rest is of course history...

[View From The Top]

Heysel happened the next year. We did end up in Europe but got knocked out in the first round by Hamburg.

 

Away to Hamburg was one of the best trips possible. Boy did we have sme fun !!

 

Greatest away trip in the history of the world when you're 18!!

[View From The Top]

Something like 200 in the Everton pen that night, of whom 150 were Saints fans looking for revenge (many wearing their "trophy" headwear they had relieved from the Scousers the weekend previously!!!).

 

The mither on the pitch & around the ground after that game with Saints fans destroying Everton would result in a public enquiry now!

 

I can still see Rolfie strolling down the pitch to take them all on.

[Stanley Saint]

by a country mile , it's the 84 semi at Highbury. Nothing comes close.

 

Heath

 

This. And then having to stand and watch loads of people getting hit over the heads by a police baton charge. No fun at all.

[kpturner]

Anderlecht at home in the cup winners cup - totally gutted

[SO5 4BW]

Another vote for Highbury '84 - but the Watford 7-1 was no fun either. Also - as above - Burnley at SMS in 2009 - relegated, in administration and you didn't know if you'd ever see Saints play again

[Wes Tender]

2005 at home to Leeds, 3-0 up with 18 minutes to go, what could possibly go wrong?

 

Me too. I was there. Also the very similar end result against Tranmere, which I watched on TV at the Lamp & Mantle, West End. Why did Hoddle make those substitutions, eh, Dalek?

[OttawaSaint]

91-92 season, Norwich in an FA Cup QF replay. With 2nd div Sunderland awaiting us in the SF we had done the hard part and drawn away at Carrow Road. We took an early lead and Le Tissier got sent off for kicking out at Robert Fleck. Norwich got an equaliser but we held on for extra time, then Barry Horne got sent off and we held on heroically with 9 men trying to force a penalty shoot out. Then as the seconds ebbed away with 120 on the clock, some cvnt called Geremy Goss scored the flukiest header I have ever seen with his back to goal and on the edge of the box. Gutted, absolutely gutted afterwards, could barely speak...

[shurlock]

91-92 season, Norwich in an FA Cup QF replay. With 2nd div Sunderland awaiting us in the SF we had done the hard part and drawn away at Carrow Road. We took an early lead and Le Tissier got sent off for kicking out at Robert Fleck. Norwich got an equaliser but we held on for extra time, then Barry Horne got sent off and we held on heroically with 9 men trying to force a penalty shoot out. Then as the seconds ebbed away with 120 on the clock, some cvnt called Geremy Goss scored the flukiest header I have ever seen with his back to goal and on the edge of the box. Gutted, absolutely gutted afterwards, could barely speak...

 

Yep. wasn't it the other way around - they held us to a 0-0 draw at our place and we lost at theirs. To make things worse, it was also the year the public fell in love with the skates and anderton as plucky underdogs....

[SaintSarah]

Derby in the playoffs, their fans goading us after the match, the rain that bounced up a foot high from the pavement, traffic at a standstill on the A34 on the way home. What a sh*t night.

[warsash saint]

The game vs Everton in our relegation season when Marcus Bent scored late on.

 

That one goal just killed everything - the fans, the coaching staff, it was absolutely horrible after that game.

 

This is one that haunts me

[OttawaSaint]

Yep. wasn't it the other way around - they held us to a 0-0 draw at our place and we lost at theirs. To make things worse, it was also the year the public fell in love with the skates and anderton as plucky underdogs....

 

Yes you are correct, funny how the memory plays tricks eh?

[rick1976.4.38]

What was the most gutted that you have ever felt coming out of a Saints game?

 

Disappointing as last Saturday was, for me it wasn't a patch on leaving Highbury in 84 after the FA Cup semi. That was just horrible.

 

Your thoughts (this promises to be a really cheerful thread)

 

truely gutted that day,heath has been my most hated player ever since,still gripes me to this day,only in the last year has my dislike for everton wained

 

the playoff at pride park is the worst in recent times and that fu**ing rain as we left the ground

[Appy]

Everton at home 05.

 

Last Sunday.

 

Oldham at home 09/10.

 

Derby playoffs.

[melmacian_saint]

2003 cup final, yes it was the mighty invincibiles of Arsenal with Henry, Pires, Bergkamp and all but I felt we didn't take the many chances we had to take control over the game. Arsenal pretty much scored and sat back.

 

Also HALF-TIME, FERNANDES IN FOR OAKLEY!

[Special K]

Everton at Highbury , 1984.

Same bunch of scouse c^nts at home, 2005.

Villa at home, 2005 - so predictable, that second half was like a car crash in slow motion.

 

Oh, the pain! Same list as me. The Villa game is the only game i have left a ground early. There was a horrible certainty about that one. And i still hold a real sense of injustice over the way we went out of the semi in '84 (detest Everton to this day).

[70's Mike]

Everton 84, we were imo best team in country at that time

[SNOWY]

I was there that day as a young 14 yr old and it hurt in more ways than one. I was in agony cos I'd been on my tiptoes the whole game. My back was killing me.

 

And of course, the result was a killer. I hated Adrian Heath and everton.

 

Still gutted about that result. I blame Lawrie, should never have played Williams, he was no where near fit.

[Tamesaint]

Greatest away trip in the history of the world when you're 18!!

 

Thank God that the German DMark (worth 30p in those days) was the same shape and size as a UK 5 pence piece!!

[jampot]

Losing to Liverpool in the semi final of the fa cup in 87 at Whiteheart Lane. Kevin Bond, what were you doing!

[hedgeend]

Thank God that the German DMark (worth 30p in those days) was the same shape and size as a UK 5 pence piece!!

 

they were quite handy wern't they , fitted into the "machines" in a certain part of Hamburg very niceley :blush::blush:

 

Heath was an A1 c you next tuesday , I can still see hear that horrible peircing scream that comes when you concede away from home and all them scouse tw*ts coming on the pitch , basdtards , yep I guess it must me Highbury '84 for me as well

[beatlesaint]

Another vote for Everton in the Cup at Highbury in 84.

Longest journey home ever, totally totally heartbroken that day.

[SW11_Saint]

by a country mile , it's the 84 semi at Highbury. Nothing comes close.

 

Heath

This probably. Or the Skates at home in 88, when Barry Horne scored for them. All over them, yet somehow contrived to lose. Oh Steve Baker...

[Sheaf Saint]

Another vote for Everton - but this time it's the 2-2 at the Dell in 1989. We absolutely battered them with shot after shot after shot, and to this day I will still never understand how they held on for a draw. It was almost as if there was some mighty force of nature keeping the ball out of their net. I was just speechless coming away from that game.

[edprice1984]

Everton at home in 2005...sat in a pub in Swansea with two or three other Saints fans. No-one said anything for about an hour, then my best friend said..."We're gonna get relegated, aren't we?" Everyone just nodded.

 

Derby in the playoffs was horrible, but I felt proud that night we did everything we could to win it.

 

The game on Sunday was bad, the only difference was that I felt it was coming (it is Utd and they always do that etc etc) so the pain was short lived.

 

The most gutted I have ever been while watching a match live was Villa at home in 2005. 2-0 at half time only for Lee Hendrie (of all people) to spark Villa back into life and win it 3-2. I knew we would go down then, I can still see Olivier Bernard NOT TRACKING BACK!!! The lazy c***!

[jjsaint]

Everton . That one.

[Webby]

Losing to Liverpool in the semi final of the fa cup in 87 at Whiteheart Lane. Kevin Bond, what were you doing!

 

Ooh yeah, I was at that one too. Must've been about 15 yards away from Mark Wright when he broke his leg! We all heard it crack.

 

Edit: it was 85/86 actually.

Edited 7 September, 2012 by Webby

[OldNick]

What was the most gutted that you have ever felt coming out of a Saints game?

 

Disappointing as last Saturday was, for me it wasn't a patch on leaving Highbury in 84 after the FA Cup semi. That was just horrible.

 

Your thoughts (this promises to be a really cheerful thread)

i still have the scars of that day now, nothing has come near it although Tranmere away in the cup losing a 3 goal lead, when the master tactician Hoddle was our manager

[Lets B Avenue]

Anderlecht at home in the cup winners cup - totally gutted

 

The horror! The horror! :scared: Having got the 2 goals back and then to lose to the only mistake Jim Steel made all night.

 

Losing to Liverpool in the semi final of the fa cup in 87 at Whiteheart Lane. Kevin Bond, what were you doing!

 

1986.

[alpine_saint]

What was the most gutted that you have ever felt coming out of a Saints game?

 

Disappointing as last Saturday was, for me it wasn't a patch on leaving Highbury in 84 after the FA Cup semi. That was just horrible.

 

Your thoughts (this promises to be a really cheerful thread)

 

On paper, that has to be the worst in living memory. We still had an outside chance for the Double, and who knows in which direction the club would have gone after that if we'd got it ? I still remember don Revie writing us off as a small club in the Grandstand pre-season review of clubs on the day the next season started (the c**t...)

 

However, having only dim memories of it, I would have to say the 2003 Cup Final (what could have been) and of course after Van Nistelrooy scored in our last game of the PL relegation season. I wasnt there, but it must have been pretty bad after Villa scored the winner a few weeks earlier too; many fans must have known the fat lady was clearing her throat then.

 

Strangely, these all pale in comparison to my feelings after the penalty shoot-outs in Italia 90 and Euro 96. For some reason these were very painful.

[fanimal]

Everton FAC s/f 1984; Fratton Park after the 4-1 defeat, and then Boro away last season followed by Reading at home, as we had the Championship snatched from us when we fully deserved it and actually had the chance to WIN something!

[Kingsbridge Saint]

Oldham. Milford. ****. I would still diss the ****er over it if I saw him today.

[doddisalegend]

Everton FAC s/f 1984; Fratton Park after the 4-1 defeat, and then Boro away last season followed by Reading at home, as we had the Championship snatched from us when we fully deserved it and actually had the chance to WIN something!

 

Oh yeah that was a really kick in the nuts .....the point I realised we were going to be second again.

[rick1976.4.38]

my consensus is that everton 84 wins as the game most of us came away from the most gutted,still the pitch invasion at the end made up for it.

[View From The Top]

my consensus is that everton 84 wins as the game most of us came away from the most gutted,still the pitch invasion at the end made up for it.

 

Sounds just about right.

[kpturner]

my consensus is that everton 84 wins as the game most of us came away from the most gutted,still the pitch invasion at the end made up for it.

How can you reach a consensus on your own? Anyway, it was nothing compared to the Anderlecht cup winners cup tie at the Dell. Edited 7 September, 2012 by kpturner

[kpturner]

91-92 season, Norwich in an FA Cup QF replay. With 2nd div Sunderland awaiting us in the SF we had done the hard part and drawn away at Carrow Road. We took an early lead and Le Tissier got sent off for kicking out at Robert Fleck. Norwich got an equaliser but we held on for extra time, then Barry Horne got sent off and we held on heroically with 9 men trying to force a penalty shoot out. Then as the seconds ebbed away with 120 on the clock, some cvnt called Geremy Goss scored the flukiest header I have ever seen with his back to goal and on the edge of the box. Gutted, absolutely gutted afterwards, could barely speak...

Are you sure? Perhaps you were so gutted that you completely forgot where you were We didn't do the "hard part" by drawing at Carrow Road. We completely fooked it up by drawing 0-0 at home in the original tie - with a completely inept display. We then went to Carrow Road for the replay - and I think it was Rob Newman who scored teh equaliser and Chris Sutton who scored the winner - not Goss.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqB8QoOz0aI

[OldNick]

How can you reach a consensus on your own? Anyway, it was nothing compared to the Anderlecht cup winners cup tie at the Dell.

I was at both and to my mind the Everton defeat was the worst by a long way. Anderlect doesnt even make the radar for me. If we had beaten Everton almost certainly we would have beaten Watford in the final, wheras the cup winners cup was never going to be won.

[kpturner]

I was at both and to my mind the Everton defeat was the worst by a long way. Anderlect doesnt even make the radar for me. If we had beaten Everton almost certainly we would have beaten Watford in the final, wheras the cup winners cup was never going to be won.

You obviously felt like that because you were old. I was a youngster, watching my team advance (as a second division team) through to the quarter finals of the Cup Winners Cup. To me, they absolutely could win it....and when we got back to to 2-2 against Anderlecht I was even more convinced. That deciding goal was my first experience of football devastation. After that, everything else was much easier to recover from - especially as I was older. The Everton game does not stick in my mind in the way that Anderlecht game does.

[SNOWY]

Who remembers Barnsley at home in the FA cup? If we'd won we were due to be at home to Liverpool in the last 8 & on the telly (a big deal in those days) The League Cup final in 79' was also depressing. 1 up at half time but completely over run second half. That was a nightmare coach ride home as well.

[OttawaSaint]

Are you sure? Perhaps you were so gutted that you completely forgot where you were We didn't do the "hard part" by drawing at Carrow Road. We completely fooked it up by drawing 0-0 at home in the original tie - with a completely inept display. We then went to Carrow Road for the replay - and I think it was Rob Newman who scored teh equaliser and Chris Sutton who scored the winner - not Goss.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqB8QoOz0aI

 

I already acknowledged that I got it wrong above, but thanks. It was Goss' fluked scooped ball to Sutton's fluked header. Funny how the youtube vid showed neither of the sending offs, looked like we were taking a real battering but we were holding on with 10 and 9 men at times. Still gutted.

[The9]

Newport YMCA v Christchurch Hamdden in August 2000, the pre-season friendly during which my knee ligaments got ruined. I knew it, crawled off the pitch, got changed, went home and went out to stand on one leg and get drunk to numb the pain. Had an operation on it... nine years later.

 

As far as Saints matches go, probably Derby in the Play-Offs for me, along with Man U relegation and Burnley in Championship when some of the Saints fans started lobbing things at the away fans from the pitch, in admin, relegation, didn't know we'd have a team and people behaving like pr1cks.

 

I didn't enjoy Newport County v Rochdale much either, County's last match in the Football League, which was in 1988. Similar to Saints v Burnley but in a crappy ground with 20 times fewer people. Oh, and Newport County 0-1 Carl Zeiss Jena in the Cup Winners' Cup Quarter-Final in 1981. And Newport County v Barry Town in the 1987 Welsh Cup Final in my first visit to Ninian Park. In fact pretty much any Newport match from 1987 onwards was pretty depressing.

[Saints Fan Dan]

The two Pompey matches from last season (surprised they haven't had more of a mention). The one at home was the worst moment but we were appalling in that match and deserved what we got. But the Fratton Park draw irritates me more because we really should have won and would have had Adkins decided to replace Fox (never forget the look on his face) with Harding who needlessly belted the ball out for the corner which led to their goal. Glad he's gone now. ****er. Of course that moment wasn't as bad because we thought "nevermind, we'll have to smash them at home" but in the long run it irritates me more. Had we finished 1st last season I wouldn't care so much but not winning the title still really irritates me.

 

Everton in 2005, Marcus Bent lashing that shot into the top left hand corner. It was February but you knew that was it for us.

[SuperMikey]

FA Cup 5th Round against the Skates in 10/11. Thought we had a chance when Rickie equalised, but then they tore us apart at the back (Jaidi and Perry at CB as Fonte and Thomas were cup tied/injured) and it finished 4-1. Remember being in the family stand with my Dad and watching Kelvin grabbing in slo-mo at the shot for their 4th goal as it span over him.

 

Obviously the Skates at home last season as well. Goading their inbred fans when we went 2-1 up only for Norris to equalise minutes later. Never been so angry at SMS before, dozens of us trying to push past the police line in the Itchen North to get at them as they sat there all smug. F*ckers.

 

Obviously the City + Utd games this season too, but at least there were silver linings to those games in terms of performance.

[Sidney Fudpucker the 3rd]

Any game where we've been leading with 10 minutes to go and then lost. That accounts for quite a lot of Saints games.

 

Tranmere away when we led 3-0 at half time and lost 4-3 was particularly disappointing.

[Bad Wolf]

Derby playoffs

 

4-3 against Leeds

 

Utd 2-1 in 2005 (for obvious reasons)

[tajjuk]

The game vs Everton in our relegation season when Marcus Bent scored late on.

 

That one goal just killed everything - the fans, the coaching staff, it was absolutely horrible after that game.

 

Yep this one for me as well. Crouch could have scored at the other end, people debating whether he should have run into the corner. Knew as soon as that goal went in that we were down.

[Charlie Wayman]

A better question is "when did you last leave a saints game feeling like a million dollars?"

 

Right! I can't remember such a game either, win, lose or draw somehow Saints always manage to somehow fall shor of expectations.. if it finishes 1-0 "it should have been 4 or 5!", if it finishes 1-1 "it should have been 4-1!", if it finishes 4-0 "it should have been a hatful!"

 

Know what I mean and the poor effing cat gets it in the Guly's whatever.

[kpturner]

....dozens of us trying to push past the police line in the Itchen North to get at them as they sat there all smug. F*ckers..

Are you a football thug then?....or were you secretly glad that the police were holding you back?

[SuperMikey]

Are you a football thug then?....or were you secretly glad that the police were holding you back?

 

I'm generally a pretty calm person, never been involved in a football-related fight, but something snapped then. I'm pretty sure I would've waded in - never been so angry in my life...