TheAlehouseBrawlers Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 2 minutes ago, Whitey Grandad said: That was a horrible evening all round. I was especially annoyed by those Derby fans who were allowed onto the pitch at the end just to stand there and goad us. …and it was pissing down as we trudged out the stadium - I was still a bit fiesty back then, just as well paths didn’t cross. Shit trip back too. More recently Sheff Utd away in the League Cup in December, safe to say over 5,000 disgruntled Saints fans. Not Saints, but going out of the World Cup in 1990 was as aggy as I’ve felt over a football match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franniesTache Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 29 minutes ago, TheAlehouseBrawlers said: …and it was pissing down as we trudged out the stadium - I was still a bit fiesty back then, just as well paths didn’t cross. Shit trip back too. More recently Sheff Utd away in the League Cup in December, safe to say over 5,000 disgruntled Saints fans. Not Saints, but going out of the World Cup in 1990 was as aggy as I’ve felt over a football match. Still think the rain at that Derby play off probably prevented some serious crowd trouble, there were some seriously angry saints fans that night and some very game Derby fans. Had it not been sheet rain i'm not convinced that combination would've ended well 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manji Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 18 hours ago, Saint86 said: Same with this one... I wouldn’t react this way now but I felt physically sick after that game. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manji Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 15 hours ago, Miltonaggro said: There was a lot of afters in real time that day - frustration release across north London. Never seen so many scousers morph from Yosser to Cilla Black so quickly. Just a bit . Insane pitch invasion. Scousers slicing up Saints fans with Stanley knives while their back was turned. Remember getting an early soccer special to London. Train was rammed fans lying in luggage racks. Nearly everyone was drinking ( about 7:30am) lots of drugs flying around. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmer Saint Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 On 21/02/2024 at 11:29, whelk said: I should be used to it but it annoys me how much a defeat still impacts my mood when I should know better. I remember Echo headline when we got relegated a while back that there had been rise in domestic violence at same time and was linked. Whilst I have never ever hit the missus I do probably take it out on the family in terms of mood. Also I can’t be arsed to talk about it too much in post match analysis either - a form of denial perhaps? So wondered what others’ reactions are, or have been? Eg taking a heroin overdose, ripping up season ticket (cue photo), having a pet put down, sacking a rival supporter My kids haven't eaten since Bristol City - they laughed at the result. I also shot their cat, but they don't know about that yet. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Bates Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 I cried. That was in a cup match where it went all the way and we lost on penalties in a game we were robbed in. Cant remember who against it was well over a decade ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Bates Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 10 minutes ago, Farmer Saint said: My kids haven't eaten since Bristol City - they laughed at the result. I also shot their cat, but they don't know about that yet. Feed them the cat, full of pork stuffing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Master Bates said: I cried. That was in a cup match where it went all the way and we lost on penalties in a game we were robbed in. Cant remember who against it was well over a decade ago. Bolton away in the league cup 4th round 2002? Edited February 22 by Turkish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 10 hours ago, Weston Super Saint said: But did you cry when we beat Liverpool? with embarassment at our manager 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Wolf Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Charlton at home, around 2009 I think it was. Maybe 2008. We lost 1-0 with the last kick of the game, I went outside and banged my head against the pillar of the door frame. I was a very angsty screwed up teenager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmer Saint Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 1 hour ago, Master Bates said: Feed them the cat, full of pork stuffing. I can't, I fed it to the goats. If we lose Saturday, it'll be the goats that go next. I'll then feed them to the cows. It's like those Aldi bird in a bird things you get at Xmas. Personally, I hear bird in a bird and I get a picture in my head of Pam St Clement and Patricia Routledge going at it with a strap on. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leighsterrr Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 3 minutes ago, Farmer Saint said: I can't, I fed it to the goats. If we lose Saturday, it'll be the goats that go next. I'll then feed them to the cows. It's like those Aldi bird in a bird things you get at Xmas. Personally, I hear bird in a bird and I get a picture in my head of Pam St Clement and Patricia Routledge going at it with a strap on. Can someone introduce a sick emoji...I was gonna laugh til I got to the last paragraph 😁 I'd never let a game of football get to me until this season...so the chances are my biggest personal overreaction is yet to come... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee On Solent Saint Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 (edited) 16 minutes ago, Leighsterrr said: Can someone introduce a sick emoji...I was gonna laugh til I got to the last paragraph 😁 I'd never let a game of football get to me until this season...so the chances are my biggest personal overreaction is yet to come... Saving it for the play off final then?! Edited February 22 by Lee On Solent Saint spelling 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Billy Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 As another poster alluded too, I've witnessed so many defeats since early 60's that I've become punch drunk and almost numb to it but there is one that did get me in a uncontrollable frenzy. I think it was 2007 in the second leg playoffs against Derby. We lost the first leg at home 1-2 but got it back to 4-4 at Derby second leg. It goes to penalties and in his wisdom George Burley decides to give Leon Best, young and inexperienced, the task of taking the first penalty. I was apoplectic even before he took it knowing that the poor kid will miss. My anger was not with Best but with Burley for putting that that sort of pressure on him. We lost on penalties 4-3 and I still maintain that Burley lost us that game. I remember being in a stinking mood for a couple of days and family avoiding me at all costs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Wolf Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 21 minutes ago, Saint Billy said: As another poster alluded too, I've witnessed so many defeats since early 60's that I've become punch drunk and almost numb to it but there is one that did get me in a uncontrollable frenzy. I think it was 2007 in the second leg playoffs against Derby. We lost the first leg at home 1-2 but got it back to 4-4 at Derby second leg. It goes to penalties and in his wisdom George Burley decides to give Leon Best, young and inexperienced, the task of taking the first penalty. I was apoplectic even before he took it knowing that the poor kid will miss. My anger was not with Best but with Burley for putting that that sort of pressure on him. We lost on penalties 4-3 and I still maintain that Burley lost us that game. I remember being in a stinking mood for a couple of days and family avoiding me at all costs. We've had good managers and bad managers but Burley was just weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cat Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 2 hours ago, Master Bates said: Feed them the cat, full of pork stuffing. I haven't been stuffed with pork since that horrible night in Amsterdam. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thereisonlyonemickychannon Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 I have become so pesimistic supporting Saints. Even though we went on a very long undefeated run, I just knew that we are not top draw. So many of those games had terrible moments of play. I still can't like Russell Martin. I want to be proved wrong, but I know I am right! Bloody pesimistic see! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpsaint Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 8 hours ago, franniesTache said: Still think the rain at that Derby play off probably prevented some serious crowd trouble, there were some seriously angry saints fans that night and some very game Derby fans. Had it not been sheet rain i'm not convinced that combination would've ended well That fucking game, honestly the range of emotions we went through that night. I’ll never forget the elation as Rasiak scored our third, I still watch the highlights sometimes just to see how mental we went in the away end when that went in. I still vividly remember Leon Best about 2 minutes after that having the opportunity to square the ball for an aggregate winner instead choosing to hammer it wide instead. The rain as we left the ground though, not just a bit of drizzle but absolute fucking stair rods. Got back to Southampton at 2.30am, home bed and up for work at 5.30am, understandably I wasn’t in the best mood that day. Someone else mentioned the 4-1 against Pompey at St Mary’s. What annoys me the most about that game is Pompey had a few players like O’Hara and some other triple barrelled name skate cunt that were banned from playing unless Pompey could prove they could afford to pay their wages. Needless to say the lied about being able to pay, those guys played and scored, and we lost. We had them on the ropes for a large part of that match as well, just David James keeping them in it. What a celebration when Lambert scored though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Wolf Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 4 minutes ago, Thereisonlyonemickychannon said: I have become so pesimistic supporting Saints. Even though we went on a very long undefeated run, I just knew that we are not top draw. So many of those games had terrible moments of play. I still can't like Russell Martin. I want to be proved wrong, but I know I am right! Bloody pesimistic see! You already have been proven wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Clarke Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 (edited) 4 minutes ago, bpsaint said: That fucking game, honestly the range of emotions we went through that night. I’ll never forget the elation as Rasiak scored our third, I still watch the highlights sometimes just to see how mental we went in the away end when that went in. I still vividly remember Leon Best about 2 minutes after that having the opportunity to square the ball for an aggregate winner instead choosing to hammer it wide instead. The rain as we left the ground though, not just a bit of drizzle but absolute fucking stair rods. Got back to Southampton at 2.30am, home bed and up for work at 5.30am, understandably I wasn’t in the best mood that day. Someone else mentioned the 4-1 against Pompey at St Mary’s. What annoys me the most about that game is Pompey had a few players like O’Hara and some other triple barrelled name skate cunt that were banned from playing unless Pompey could prove they could afford to pay their wages. Needless to say the lied about being able to pay, those guys played and scored, and we lost. We had them on the ropes for a large part of that match as well, just David James keeping them in it. What a celebration when Lambert scored though. Glad I wasn't the only one impacted by that game! Honestly it took a week to get back to normal for me, but even a couple of years on I was still hung up over that game. Like you say the rollercoaster of emotions - Viafara 'spoiling the party', then Rasiak equalising in the last min. And of all people, the regular former penalty and free kick taker of Derby (Idiakez), to miss our crucial spot kick. And what pissed me off even more is that Derby went on the following season to be the worst ever team the PL has ever seen. What a waste of time. Edited February 22 by S-Clarke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 2 hours ago, Saint Billy said: As another poster alluded too, I've witnessed so many defeats since early 60's that I've become punch drunk and almost numb to it but there is one that did get me in a uncontrollable frenzy. I think it was 2007 in the second leg playoffs against Derby. We lost the first leg at home 1-2 but got it back to 4-4 at Derby second leg. It goes to penalties and in his wisdom George Burley decides to give Leon Best, young and inexperienced, the task of taking the first penalty. I was apoplectic even before he took it knowing that the poor kid will miss. My anger was not with Best but with Burley for putting that that sort of pressure on him. We lost on penalties 4-3 and I still maintain that Burley lost us that game. I remember being in a stinking mood for a couple of days and family avoiding me at all costs. It was that shirt tug in the home game that annoyed me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Watson Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 I was totally devastated after that result. However that was the beginning of the end for Lowes hideous regime and Derby got 10 points the whole of the following season and would we have got many more with the awful squad we had at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Munster Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 5 hours ago, Whitey Grandad said: It was that shirt tug in the home game that annoyed me. I was more annoyed in that match when some Derby thug took out Bale. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thereisonlyonemickychannon Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 7 hours ago, Bad Wolf said: You already have been proven wrong. Oh no I aint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wade Garrett Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 My wife banned me from drinking Stella after a particularly shameful episode following our relegation with Harry and Jim. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
east-stand-nic Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 Definitely Highbury 84 for me, but as a lesser known game, December 1981 I think it was, home to Brighton. If we had won we would go top for the first time ever. We lost 0-2. I was 13 years old and gutted to fook. I'd never seen us top. Didn't have to wait long though as we went top in January 1982 due to so many other games being called off for snow. After Highbury 84 i pretty much quit school. It messed me up so bad I could not be bothered to go back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire Saint Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 1 hour ago, Wade Garrett said: My wife banned me from drinking Stella after a particularly shameful episode following our relegation with Harry and Jim. You are not alone there ! I still apologise to the local land lady for my behaviour that evening. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Wolf Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 4 hours ago, Thereisonlyonemickychannon said: Oh no I aint If you don't like him after 25 games unbeaten, you probably aren't ever going to like him. He's doing a brilliant job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 1 minute ago, Bad Wolf said: If you don't like him after 25 games unbeaten, you probably aren't ever going to like him. He's doing a brilliant job. But not as brilliant as the managers of Leicester, Leeds or Ipswich. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Wolf Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 1 hour ago, Yorkshire Saint said: You are not alone there ! I still apologise to the local land lady for my behaviour that evening. Opposite end of the spectrum but whenever I go into a certain pub here, I always have to apologise for my reaction to Shane Longs goal at Anfield. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Wolf Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 11 minutes ago, Whitey Grandad said: But not as brilliant as the managers of Leicester, Leeds or Ipswich. Aren't we two points behind Leeds? Granted that's still behind but it's hardly fair to suggest that he isn't doing a brilliant job because of a two point gap, especially when Leeds and Ipswich managers are seen to be working miracles (justifiability so in terms of Ipswich) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 18 minutes ago, Bad Wolf said: Aren't we two points behind Leeds? Granted that's still behind but it's hardly fair to suggest that he isn't doing a brilliant job because of a two point gap, especially when Leeds and Ipswich managers are seen to be working miracles (justifiability so in terms of Ipswich) Could Do Better 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Wolf Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 6 minutes ago, Whitey Grandad said: Could Do Better Of course. That'll always be the case though. Again, I don't think it's fair to suggest he isn't doing a brilliant job simply because he isn't doing a perfect one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintoaks Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 84 & 86 Semi Finals still haunt me to this day. 84 more so, still have the memory hearing the crack of Mark Wrights leg break against Liverpool. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weston Super Saint Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 32 minutes ago, Whitey Grandad said: Could Do Better Especially with better resources available. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 47 minutes ago, Bad Wolf said: Of course. That'll always be the case though. Again, I don't think it's fair to suggest he isn't doing a brilliant job simply because he isn't doing a perfect one. I just think that ‘brilliant’ is too strong a word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 13 hours ago, S-Clarke said: Glad I wasn't the only one impacted by that game! Honestly it took a week to get back to normal for me, but even a couple of years on I was still hung up over that game. Like you say the rollercoaster of emotions - Viafara 'spoiling the party', then Rasiak equalising in the last min. And of all people, the regular former penalty and free kick taker of Derby (Idiakez), to miss our crucial spot kick. And what pissed me off even more is that Derby went on the following season to be the worst ever team the PL has ever seen. What a waste of time. it was also because a lot was at stake. We had gone shit or bust to get promoted. Was that the second season after relegation? Either way we all knew if we didn't go up that season it was going to be a long road back and it proved. I know the club were pissed at Burley as he'd been talking about play off all season when they expected us to be going for automatic promotion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Wolf Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 17 minutes ago, Whitey Grandad said: I just think that ‘brilliant’ is too strong a word. 8/10 IMO 1 = Not technically human 2 = Worst manager in the club's history 3 = Awful 4 = Disappointing 5 = Below par 6 = Okay 7 = Really good 8 = Brilliant 9 = Outstanding 10 = Perfect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Clarke Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 11 hours ago, Andrew Watson said: I was totally devastated after that result. However that was the beginning of the end for Lowes hideous regime and Derby got 10 points the whole of the following season and would we have got many more with the awful squad we had at the time. That season was under 'Let's go Wilde', we'd just splurged our immediate future on a promotion that season. Lowe came back in the season following that, when the whole club went to the shit as was expected on the back of that Derby game failure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Clarke Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 11 minutes ago, Turkish said: it was also because a lot was at stake. We had gone shit or bust to get promoted. Was that the second season after relegation? Either way we all knew if we didn't go up that season it was going to be a long road back and it proved. I know the club were pissed at Burley as he'd been talking about play off all season when they expected us to be going for automatic promotion. Yeah, second season. We'd screwed up the first year as we stuck with Redknapp and only gave him 90k for Fuller. So that playoff season was our best crack at getting back up, but like you say we all knew what the future would hold should we fail that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Wolf Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 42 minutes ago, S-Clarke said: That season was under 'Let's go Wilde', we'd just splurged our immediate future on a promotion that season. Lowe came back in the season following that, when the whole club went to the shit as was expected on the back of that Derby game failure. Didn't we sink our last pennies into signing Saganowski? I seem to remember us clambering for the wholee summer to try and find the cash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 10 minutes ago, Bad Wolf said: Didn't we sink our last pennies into signing Saganowski? I seem to remember us clambering for the wholee summer to try and find the cash. We had him on loan second half of that season and he was brilliant and then soon as we signed him he went to shit. We spent £2m on Raskiak that summer who was great first half of the season then didnt play as much after christmas. I think Burnley made about 10 signings, Rudi Skacel and Rasiak, Kelvin Davis, being the big signings then Pele, Viafara who also cost bit of cash. We signed Bradley Wright Phillips with the money we won in some sort of competition, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Clarke Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 (edited) 50 minutes ago, Turkish said: We had him on loan second half of that season and he was brilliant and then soon as we signed him he went to shit. We spent £2m on Raskiak that summer who was great first half of the season then didnt play as much after christmas. I think Burnley made about 10 signings, Rudi Skacel and Rasiak, Kelvin Davis, being the big signings then Pele, Viafara who also cost bit of cash. We signed Bradley Wright Phillips with the money we won in some sort of competition, BWP will forever be known as the 'Coca-Cola Kid'. It was a Coca-Cola Championship comp, any team could win a 'transfer' under a specific value. All the struggling L2 clubs hated us for that, given that we'd only recently been in the PL, and had just spent £2m on Rasiak prior to it. Bit embarrassing that! He wasn't too bad, but never really set the English leagues alight. Edited February 23 by S-Clarke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skintsaint Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 1 minute ago, S-Clarke said: He wasn't too bad, but never really set the English leagues alight. Went to the MLS and did well there, think he now does punditry for the MLS. Not a bad easy gig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LGTL Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 On 22/02/2024 at 11:07, S-Clarke said: The Derby playoff semi final hit me particularly hard, don't think I went back to work that week. I guess I just knew that it was shit our bust for us that year, and the future was going to be pretty bleak. I still haven't dried out from the walk back to the car that evening. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swannymere Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 I had an extra pint when Van Nistlehorse scored at St.Mary's to put us down. Cnut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franniesTache Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 36 minutes ago, Turkish said: We had him on loan second half of that season and he was brilliant and then soon as we signed him he went to shit. We spent £2m on Raskiak that summer who was great first half of the season then didnt play as much after christmas. I think Burnley made about 10 signings, Rudi Skacel and Rasiak, Kelvin Davis, being the big signings then Pele, Viafara who also cost bit of cash. We signed Bradley Wright Phillips with the money we won in some sort of competition, Coca Cola competition was where the Bradley Wright-Phillips money came from, that team was fucking awful in terms of actually giving a shit though. Remember losing to Watford away in the cup 4-0 where the only player that looked even remotely interested was Surman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OttawaSaint Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 When we lost in the FA Cup Qtr Final vs Norwich. MLT sent off, we were holding on to a 1-0 and Norwich tied it up late, lost Barry Horne to a red card in extra time, held on, held on, and they won it with the last kick. I was still just a kid but I fucking raged and smashed up a chair and cupboard door. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire Saint Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 (edited) The defeat against Oldham at the Dell in the cup still makes me cross. If I ever see Roger Milford let alone Bunn or Ritchie.... Edited February 23 by Yorkshire Saint 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winnersaint Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 Watford 7-1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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