Most Devastating Defeats

goalscrounger said:
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.
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Good shout goalscrounger yep certainly add that to the list, players getting changed in the coach on the way to the ground
 
This tournament has showed exactly how much little passion/interest I have for International Football. People at work gutted/deverstated about last night's result.

I couldn't give a monkeys ... gutted/deverstated is losing 4 out of 5 major club football cup finals, losing a play-off final at Wembley (now that one hurt), getting relegated from the Premier League in 97 over those bl00dy 3 points and losing our star players
 
Davey_C said:
This tournament has showed exactly how much little passion/interest I have for International Football. People at work gutted/deverstated about last night's result.

I couldn't give a monkeys ... gutted/deverstated is losing 4 out of 5 major club football cup finals, losing a play-off final at Wembley (now that one hurt), getting relegated from the Premier League in 97 over those bl00dy 3 points and losing our star players
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it's a shame you can't get more into it. I was gutted about all those things you mention, and last night also.
 
Davey_C said:
This tournament has showed exactly how much little passion/interest I have for International Football. People at work gutted/deverstated about last night's result.

I couldn't give a monkeys ... gutted/deverstated is losing 4 out of 5 major club football cup finals, losing a play-off final at Wembley (now that one hurt), getting relegated from the Premier League in 97 over those bl00dy 3 points and losing our star players
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I'm not gutted or devestated over last nights result & usually don't give two hoots about international football & agree with all your comments on the Boro but I so wished we'd got over the line & won, more for Gareth than anything, the way he talks, conducts himself a true professional

Didn't watch the 1st half of the German game but from the 2nd half onwards I watched England & really wanted them to succeed, maybe jumping on the bandwagon but I was hoping they'd make history

IMHO, next year at the WC will be a test of how far we have come
 
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England wise, by miles, it's the Italia '90 penalty defeat to Germany. The way it unfolded and the fact I was younger and much more into England then made the difference I suppose. after that Euro '96 but not quite as badly, maybe because it was getting exciting at Boro straight after.
 
Last night really was up there for me, first time we’ve been to a final in nearly 60 years in this comp and losing on penalties to a team who have won it five times now and got to other finals too just doesn’t seem fair really. Everything aligned - home advantage, good draw, beating the Germans, and we still lost on F***ing penalties again. We really should have changed things before we conceded, no hindsight needed here we were getting battered. Then we should have went balls out for the winner in the last ten minutes after the threat from Italy went off, as jenas was saying in commentary we weren’t brave enough and that lies squarely with southgates cautious approach.

The main ones outside this came thick and fast with the cup final against Leicester, then the replay, then Leeds away and then Chelsea, absolutely disastrous month, 4 kicks in the teeth one after the other and all before I even turned 17. What could have been with that squad we had on relegation and the players lined up to come in.
 
I'm not bothered about last night, It would have been good to see them win and I thought England could have done better on the night but that's about it.

I'm watching more football these days than I ever have but more interested in seeing a half decent game than anything else.
 
since1970 said:
I'll add Sheff Wed away - last match of the 88/89 season - where we paid the ultimate price for dropping into the bottom three for the first time that season.
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Look at all those setbacks & we still follow the mighty Boro & those of a certain age, still get our kids to follow them too

My granddaughter is 4 months old & she'll be in to the Boro in no time, she'll have no choice really
 
This was one of the first I remember really hurting, even though we were fantastic on the night. I’d just properly got into football and all the glory boys at school were taking the mick out of me for being a Boro fan beforehand (there weren’t many of us at all in my school in Durham)

 
Erimus74 said:
Look at all those setbacks & we still follow the mighty Boro & those of a certain age, still get our kids to follow them too

My granddaughter is 4 months old & she'll be in to the Boro in no time, she'll have no choice really
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I know right, daughter is off to Durham Uni this year, having lived all her life in Kent, and has just told me she will be going to some games at the Riverside #ProudDad
 
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FabioPorkpie said:
This was one of the first I remember really hurting, even though we were fantastic on the night. I’d just properly got into football and all the glory boys at school were taking the mick out of me for being a Boro fan beforehand (there weren’t many of us at all in my school in Durham)

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argh, that worldie save from Schmeichel to stop Falconer's header has haunted me for however many years it is now.
 
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