Most Devastating Defeats

Fattyfoggon

Fattyfoggon

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Tough for England tonight but thinking about toughest defeats all were in the quarter finals of the F.A. cup.
Boro vrs Orient should of beat them in both games.
Wolves, again we should of beat them in the home game and the replay
Finally Birmingham battered them twice in the league only to lose in the cup.
All three broke my heart ... And a honourable mention to Celtic vrs Feyonard European cup final the first big final I watched Celtic took the lead then blew it, loved Jimmy Johnstone .....
 
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Norwich in the playoff final. I always remember thinking when watching other teams in play off finals 'you'd be gutted to lose'. It's a simple statement but the whole season on 90mins (maybe even pens).

All the hassle of getting at ticket and booking a weekend in London. The game was the very definition of 'a no show' 😔

The team line up looked disjointed and some players clearly carrying injuries. 2-0 down in no time and never looked like scoring. The absolute opposite to the 2 semi games against Brentford. I remember being absolutely gutted for week. The amount of times my missus kept saying 'its only football' (now ex😂)
 
Remember sitting in the NOP`s - along with a load of the lads round the table - gutted.
It was a bit like last night.
What with Orient, then that - with British Steel an ICI going down the pan - we were literally kicked in the balls.
We lost all our decent players, an three years later were losing 5-1 at home to Grimsby with 5000+ "crowd" - thinking "what the ...flip" is happening here?
Defeats like Cardiff and v Leicester signal the end of a cycle and the beginning of the next. 90 Minutes can effect the club in more ways than one - going forward.
Bad dark days indeed.
The Holgate just felt cold and empty.
 
My 1st big heartache was the Birmingham FAC QF defeat, a cup we were going to win, probably the double too, still annoys me to this day, the Derby 1-1 at home, we battered em & they equalised with 90 minutes on the clock, that result, for me anyway, lost us the league

Upsets followed, Orient, Wolves, Leicester x 2, Cardiff

But we've had some memorable days too

England gripped the nation on the run up to the final, even the posters on here who follow England's fortunes & were up for it & excited probably didn't expect us to reach the final, we have & removed a barrier, hopefully the next barrier is to win the WC

We reached the SF of the WC v Croatia & now the finals of the Euros, fingers crossed for next year
 
You need the losses to put the wins into perspective. At the time 88 loss to Leicester was awful, same for the Leicester cup final with Heskeys late goal. But ultimately life is about perspectives and last night didn't hurt because I was happy we finally made it to a final and happy that this team still has another 3-5 years to fully mature. A win last night would have been an unexpected bonus for this squad
 
Last night didn't even come close to the Boro defeats mentioned on this thread.

To be honest it felt like Italy were the better team anyway so it doesn't hurt as much as it would if we'd outplayed them and lost on penalties.
 
Actually, I need to add Man City 4 Boro 0 in the League Cup Semi Final of 1976 to this list. First (and only?) time I've cried over a footy result. We'd won the first leg 1 nil and I can remember Look North hyping a possible Boro Newcastle final. The team got delayed in traffic on the way to Maine Road, never got going and were taken apart by thr eventual cup winners.
 
Bit too young to have been properly devastated the 97 cup finals.

Eindhoven. Whilst we were beaten by the better team I think most of us knew we were unlikely to reach that level again.

Cardiff Q/F. The performance as much of the result. Doubt we'll ever have a better chance to win the FA Cup and we completely bottled it. The late Peter Whittingham was superb for them.

Relegation with a whimper in 08 - take your pick of games. Away to a crap Newcastle was particularly bad I seem to recall.
 
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