Worst feeling for a goal conceded?

[Dusic]

As per title - which goals against really hit the hardest?

Recent shouts from me would be the Zlatan cup final header and Tom Davies deflected late equalizer at Goodison - felt like it had relegated us at the time.

Last season maybe that Cardiff winner after we absolutely battered them for an hour to the tune of one goal.

[ErwinK1961]

David fcking Norris.

I took the Van Persie winner in our first season back v United quite badly too.

But yeah, the Zlatan goal probably wins.

[EssEffCee]

Has to be Ibrahimovic at Wembley.

[franniesTache]

Been a few down the years, the Zlatan one definitely up there but the one that will always haunt me - probably as much to do with the age i was at the time as anything - is Adrian Fucking Heath

[Gloucester Saint]

12 minutes ago, franniesTache said:

Been a few down the years, the Zlatan one definitely up there but the one that will always haunt me - probably as much to do with the age i was at the time as anything - is Adrian Fucking Heath

That and Bond’s back pass to Rush at White Hart Lane in extra time. Marcus Bent for Everton in 2005 was a body blow. Zlatan’s the worst though in terms of impact. Best’s own goal at Derby was both painful and WTF at the same time. Now the answer would be ‘none’ because after two of the last three seasons and 2x 9-0 my ability to feel much about goals conceded is pretty much zero!

Edited 24 January, 2025 by Gloucester Saint

[Turkish]

Zlatan, Adrian Heath and David Norris 

[Tamesaint]

Adrian fucking Heath

Edited 24 January, 2025 by Tamesaint

[Gloucester Saint]

7 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Zlatan, Adrian Heath and David Norris 

Norris one was annoying at the time but we didn’t do enough to beat them. Sharp’s second was scrambled and should have wiped the floor with them given the form the teams were in. Dominated possession as expected but it should have been a Fratton 2019 outcome and scoreline. They still went down and we still went up, and they had four years of League Two whilst we enjoyed Pochettino, Ronald and the San Siro.

Whereas Heath denied our best ever team from winning another FA Cup in my first season following them. The club’s narrative would be different. If only Steve Williams had been fully fit….

Zlatan goes without saying after our great comeback and battering them second half.

Edited 24 January, 2025 by Gloucester Saint

[Turkish]

1 minute ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Norris one was annoying at the time but we didn’t do enough to beat them. Sharp’s second was scrambled and should have wiped the floor with them given the form the teams were in. Dominated possession as expected but it should have been a Fratton 2019 outcome and scoreline. They still went down and we still went up, and they had four years of League Two whilst we enjoyed Pochettino, Ronald and the San Siro.

Whereas Heath denied our best ever team from winning another FA Cup in my first season following them. The club’s narrative would be different. If only Steve Williams had been fully fit….

Zlatan goes without saying after our great comeback and battering them second half.

Agree with what you say about Norris, but, it's them...

Everton won the league and the cup winners cup the follow season so we'd have had a real chance of European glory the following season too if we'd have won the Cup, gutting but typical Saints, heroic failure same as 2017 final

[Chez]

Adrian Heath. Nothing compares. I was young and defeats made me cry. Now old, defeats just make me laugh (not through happiness of course).

[Maggie May]

Pires FA Cup final.

[Gloucester Saint]

4 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Agree with what you say about Norris, but, it's them...

Everton won the league and the cup winners cup the follow season so we'd have had a real chance of European glory the following season too if we'd have won the Cup, gutting but typical Saints, heroic failure same as 2017 final

We’d have beaten Watford, very handy side under Taylor but the emotion of the day go to them. We were actually the favourites in 1984.

One I missed the following year - Barnsley at home in the cup when we were strongly fancied again.

[Gloucester Saint]

1 minute ago, Maggie May said:

Pires FA Cup final.

It was disappointing but that was arguably along with the 1971 double team Arsenal’s best ever and Henry could have gone to ground in the first minute and Claus was off. WGS played the long game based on our fitness and we finished strongly, one very good save from Seaman but not quite enough. 

[LeBizzier69]

Marcus Bent equaliser after Crouchie should have taken the ball in the corner to run the clock down. One that always springs to mind for me.

[Colinjb]

Either Stewart Downing ('Boro) or Steven Davis (Villa) in the 04/05 Season.

Downing denying us a win in injury time in Twitchy's first game in charge cemented the trouble we were in. The Villa defeat made me realise, that for the first time in my life, yeah.... We are as good as down.

Marcus Bent above also felt similar, but those are the two that stick.

Edited 24 January, 2025 by Colinjb

[benjii]

The Norris goal isn't remotely up there for me. Annoying at the time but we didn't lose, which would have been embarrassing, and watching them memorialise a draw which did nothing to help them stay up or harm us is quite amusing. #smalltime

All 4 goals at the Fratton Park 4-1 were much worse (even though I only heard the first one).

Also the last minute screw ups in our first relegation season, in particular the Darren Bent one noted above.

Zlatan, obviously. 

Plus the Europa League screw ups. The Israeli goal at SMS and the Midgetland goal at SMS. Shocking we didn't do better in Europe.

Edited 24 January, 2025 by benjii

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

Jamie Vardy scoring in the 94th minute to make it 9-0. Really killed off any hopes of pulling off a remarkable comeback.

[goodymatt]

Tranmere’s 4th goal sticks in my mind as a kid. 3-0 up at HT, the magic of the FA Cup!

Tom Davies at Everton did feel like relegation and Zlatan in the final hit so hard, we deserved more.

We do have a knack of conceding late painful goals from a position of hope. The Southampton way.

[IFHP]

As a few have said Adrian Heath at Highbury in 84.

 

[bpsaint]

The worst thing about the Norris goal isn’t the event itself, but the fact that the blue few have written that goal into the Portsmyth folklore as the goal that stopped us winning the league that season. Never mind the fact we went top that day, and would have far more damaging defeats to Reading and Boro in the subsequent weeks, or that Bristol City took 6 points off us. Nope, according to them it was they that killed our title hopes. Just as big a myth as them “sending us down” by losing to West Brom.

Zlatan goal was a sickener but I never truly believed we’d win the game anyway. As above Downing, Bent and Steve Davis in the 04/05 were all as equally as gut punching as one another for me. Remember slumping back into my seat when Villa got their third knowing that was it for us.

Edited 24 January, 2025 by bpsaint

[Chez]

Andy Richie's goal has just came to mind. I hope Rodger fucking Milford stubs his toe every day.

[Lee On Solent Saint]

84 Highbury no question. I was 11 at the time. Was my first away game, think I cried all the way back to the car on the tube. As others have said, we would have won the cup that year without a doubt. 

[richie]

Man Utd equalizing in 90th minute at Old Trafford in FA cup in 1992 to make the game 2-2.

Although the result ended up ok with us winning the first ever fa cup game on pens  

I was 10 and was pretty much in tears!!!

 

[EssEffCee]

2 hours ago, benjii said:

The Norris goal isn't remotely up there for me. Annoying at the time but we didn't lose, which would have been embarrassing, and watching them memorialise a draw which did nothing to help them stay up or harm us is quite amusing. #smalltime

All 4 goals at the Fratton Park 4-1 were much worse (even though I only heard the first one).

Also the last minute screw ups in our first relegation season, in particular the Darren Bent one noted above.

Zlatan, obviously. 

Plus the Europa League screw ups. The Israeli goal at SMS and the Midgetland goal at SMS. Shocking we didn't do better in Europe.

The Be'er Sheva goal is a great shout, I'd say that's number two on my list. 

Agreed the Norris one doesn't rank that highly for me. Was over it quite quickly considering it was the skates.

The second United goal in 2005 hit teenage me pretty hard. Wasn't as cynical about Saints back then and thought we had a great chance of winning until then.

[Pamplemousse]

The worst one last season was that Ipswich game away. Genuinely thought at one stage I was going to lose my head and randomly start punching Ipswich fans at the station.

This one, the Leicester one was just sickening.

[IronCitySaint]

Nothing can beat the Adrian Heath goal. That was supposed to be our year.

The Andy Ritchie goal with the last kick of the game in 1990 was a bad one. Thought we were going to win the League Cup that year, but having to face a replay on their plastic pitch was the end of that.

[Gloucester Saint]

3 hours ago, richie said:

Man Utd equalizing in 90th minute at Old Trafford in FA cup in 1992 to make the game 2-2.

Although the result ended up ok with us winning the first ever fa cup game on pens  

I was 10 and was pretty much in tears!!!

 

Jeff Kenna weirdly miscued the ball back across his own area for the equaliser. I think it was him anyway.

Didn’t matter in both senses as a historic win on penalties. I remember Shearer’s little jig of joy when he scored his. A rare Stuart Gray goal for Saints first in normal time.

[Gloucester Saint]

2 hours ago, Pamplemousse said:

The worst one last season was that Ipswich game away. Genuinely thought at one stage I was going to lose my head and randomly start punching Ipswich fans at the station.

This one, the Leicester one was just sickening.

I’d have reserved it for Bazanu - even Martin said he cost us that game. An Ipswich fan would have made more effort to save at least two of them. First one just bursts through open hands, shouldn’t be going in from there and should have got a strong hand on the third. Any hand really. Second one not great visibility and the defending was woeful but still not acceptable to miss it altogether.

[Turkish]

10 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Jeff Kenna weirdly miscued the ball back across his own area for the equaliser. I think it was him anyway.

Didn’t matter in both senses as a historic win on penalties. I remember Shearer’s little jig of joy when he scored his. A rare Stuart Gray goal for Saints first in normal time.

yes it was Jeff Kenna, we went 2-0 up early on, they equalised right at the end and we held on in extra time. Tim Flowers sprint from the Stretford End to our fans after saving the last penalty was brilliant, almost as Giggs missing after arrogantly walking to the penalty area doing keep ups with the ball.

[Teamsaint1]

I wasn't there, but the Anderlecht goal at the Dell  was a really tough one to take.

 

I really hope not to have one overtake Adrian Heath as the  worst ever though. 

 

 

[miserableoldgit]

The Adrian Heath goal probably top, but goals for Everton and Villa, both at home during the 04/05 relegation season still rankle!

[Noodles34]

Andy Richie. 

[Andrew Watson]

Adrian Heath in 1984, compounded by the fact we surely would have beaten Watford in the final.

[Football Special]

10 hours ago, Noodles34 said:

Andy Richie. 

Yep, 89/90 team was good enough for a trophy , thought we'd won the game 

[Living the nightmare]

Adrian fucking Heath. Nothing ever has or will come close to the feeling when that little shit scored at Highbury. 

[Appy]

Norris obviously. 
 

Marcus Bent was horrible.

[Football Special]

13 hours ago, Football Special said:

Yep, 89/90 team was good enough for a trophy , thought we'd won the game 

What made it worse is everyone knew a replay on plastic pitch we were fucked 

[LGTL]

Norris. More for that fact that if he had that chance every day since, he wouldn’t have scored it once. Cunt. 

Ibrahimovic. We really should have won that final, but jumping up against Jack Stephens you knew the outcome was obvious. 

And bizarrely, Craig Gardner in the 5th round of the FA Cup away at Sunderland back in 2014. Not so much the goal, but I haven’t been annoyed with a result as much. We should have won the cup that year, our team was excellent and the draw had opened up yet we decided to rest everyone FFS. Lambert proceeded to miss an open goal in the last minute too. 

Edited 26 January, 2025 by LGTL

[Huffton]

Bent scoring for Everton in the 04/05 season. Stop that goal and we probably stay up. That was a gut punch of a goal.

[Sunglasses Ron]

Both injury time goals in the 9-0s were proper kicks in the nuts.

[S-Clarke]

7 minutes ago, Huffton said:

Bent scoring for Everton in the 04/05 season. Stop that goal and we probably stay up. That was a gut punch of a goal.

Yep that was a terrible feeling, but oh I long for the days where we actually compete to stay up like that year!

I think the worst feeling I had was Ibra in the final, we'd done everything right in that 2nd half, we were perfect in so many ways - as good as we'd played under Puel. That last goal was so inventible though, I think it came from one of our efforts being cleared off the line. We didn't really create anything in the final few mins, totally defeated us. That was our chance to win something and it took me a little while to forget that one.

[BallBoy]

I have been supporting for almost 60 years.  Thick and thin. Mostly thin. Adrian bl.... Heath by a mile. Compounded by the fact it was such a horrible, bobbly, pathetic goal, the timing and the pitch invasion by gloating Everton fans. It was our cup that year.