Pub chat - which games defined the beginning, and the end, of our glorious era?

[Basingstoke Fox]

On 04/02/2025 at 06:05, CrazyKopCorner said:

I would say it was the Watford defeat in the play offs really started the era. We had a proper pre season 2013 / 2014 went a goal down at Middlesbrough, had a defender have to go off through injury but came roaring back to win 2 -1 with goals from Drinkwater and most notably Vardy getting the winner and the way he took it with pace and power was breath-taking - I was right behind it and could see it was going top right hand corner the minute he hit it 

Completely agree. Especially considering the uproar by sections of the fanbase when they were both included in that opening day first 11. It set the perfect tone for one of our best ever seasons when I was concerned our fortunes would go the other way.

 

 

On 03/02/2025 at 22:14, Mark said:

His actions on touchline and confirmed after, interview is still here where he's still seething https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56754992 

Allardyce's glowing praise around how we were comfortably the best team he'd faced that season always sticks in the mind when thinking of how we'd regularly shoot ourselves in the foot after this.

[OntarioFox]

I actually think the 3-2 Knockeart game at Forest was a sliding doors moment. As much as I worship the ground Big Nige walks on, we had been in a massive slump in the second half of 12-13 (Barnsley away still makes me shudder) and that game got us into the playoffs by the skin of our teeth.

 

I reckon that had we not won that game, Vichai would have given Nigel the boot. Despite Deeney Day, the rest is history from then on.

 

End of era - yeah it's the Forest away game in the cup for me. Ironic really that it had to be on that ground again, but something really broke in our mindset that day and Rodgers phoned it in ever since.

[The boy Linacre]

On 04/02/2025 at 06:08, Bert said:

Brentford at home 2-0 up set the tone. 

That game sent us down as much as the next home against Southampton & the 2 games Waldorf & Statler gifted vs Villa & Bournemouth and Madders penalty miss.

BUT Rodgers spat the dummy at Top & Rudders coz of lack of recruitment in 80 degree heat and brought no subs on & Frank bought 5 on.  It wasn't about the club but him, following the Forest outburst a few months earlier.

We lost 2 pts, were relegated by 2pts.  We wouldn't be here now.

[steveherbe]

On 03/02/2025 at 21:56, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Man City away Jan 2016, and then whenever the second time we bottled the Champions League was.

No mate, WBA away in the Great Escape year was the start of it all. What an away day that was, and a lovely kebab thingy in The Vine pre-match.

[OntarioFox]

1 hour ago, steveherbe said:

No mate, WBA away in the Great Escape year was the start of it all. What an away day that was, and a lovely kebab thingy in The Vine pre-match.

I still talk about the chips and gravy i had from a random burger van that day. Been chasing the dragon ever since. 

[String fellow]

Start: Beating Sunderland 4-2 in the PL, on the first day of the title-winning season.

Finish: Losing to Man Utd 2-1 in the Community Shield and then to newly-promoted Hull City 2-1 in the PL, at the start of the following season.

[Foxmeister]

Losing to Spurs when leading in time added on.

 

Off the pitch, when Tielemans decided he wouldn't even negotiate a new contract.

[Foxmeister]

1 hour ago, String fellow said:

Start: Beating Sunderland 4-2 in the PL, on the first day of the title-winning season.

Finish: Losing to Man Utd 2-1 in the Community Shield and then to newly-promoted Hull City 2-1 in the PL, at the start of the following season.

I think that underestimates what an achievement it was to finish 5th twice, even accounting for the disappointment that we should have got CL both times.

[andy peake]

23rd May 2021. Leicester 2 vs Tottenham 4. We’d just won the FA cup for the first time and it was paraded around the ground to the reduced covid distanced crowd. This couldn’t distract from the fact that we’d managed to just miss out on the European Champions League for the second season running by messing up at the very end. Up to then Brendan was taking us to our full potential. After that we started falling apart and it has been downhill ever since.

[The Year Of The Fox]

The start?

 

Probably Watford away in the Playoffs was the catalyst

 

The end?

 

We beat Everton at home 2-1 under Rodgers with an injury Ian Nacho winner. But we were appalling that game, and dropped off massively from that point onwards.

 

That, or Warsaw away.

[splinterdream]

Beginning of an era the forest win knockeart 3 - 2 alez bleu

End Forest loss in the cup 4 - 1, Rodgers- there's going to be a squad refresh comments.

[Dan]

It can only be the curse of Wycombe Wanderers.

 

From the day we lost to them in the FA Cup, Essandoh gate, we ended up going through a seriously bleak period. We dropped out of the top flight in 2004 and wouldn't make it again for a long time.

 

August 2013, we draw Wycombe in the League Cup. We reverse the game by beating them 1-2 with a last minute winner, ironically. We go on to have what's got to be our best ever era.

 

July 2021, we play Wycombe in pre-season, lose the game and the rest since....

 

And there's a very real chance we play them in the league next season.

Edited 6 February by Dan LCFC

[willie-bell-in-rothley]

Started when we signed Robert Huth, ended when we didnt sell Slimani for a reported £40m

[Daggers]

Began: 20 June 2008, with the appointing of an immortal as a manager. Shortly followed by the incredible 5-4 dismantling of mighty Hinckley. That was when everything changed. That was when you could genuinely hold hope again during preseason.

 

The lights officially went out when that sweet Prince was released. Every time.

 

The curtains closed on the golden era 19 January, 2022. Losing to Spurs like that showed there was no squad at the club, no manager, and no DOF/owner worth their salt.

[grobyfox1990]

Beginning - West Ham home April 2015. That game really could’ve gone either way, was basketball at the end. 

End - Roma away May 2022.

[Foxdiamond]

Don't want to talk about the beginning of the end as already too miserable. Start of the rise for me was the Watford away game November 2013. Wiped out the play off memory and indicated we were serious contenders for promotion. Just as it all looked wasted in March/April 2015 came the first resurgence home to West Ham but then into overdrive in the comeback at West Brom.

[bovril]

Watford 3-0 away

Seville 2-0

Fulham 5-3

[Levi Port]

Slight off topic, but I’ve just watched the highlights of

 

- PSV 2nd leg, 2022, 1-2 

 

-United (h) 2021, 3-1 FA cup on the way to winning at Wembley

 

- Shef United, 2021, 5-0 when Kelly got three on Mothers Day and dedicated it to his late mother. 

- Arsenal, 2019, 2-0, Vardy and Madders under the lights in the rain

 

- Arsenal 2020, 0-1 when Under squares it to Vardy and we nick a ****house 

- Palace (a) 0-1, 2016, When we all stayed behind signing until we were kicked out
 

It’s made me incredibly depressed but amazing memories. 

Edited 6 February by Levi Port

[Pliskin]

West Ham United, the evening of the tragedy. Everything changed from that moment. It’s just been a slow initial decline, followed by a rapid one. 

[Free Falling Foxes]

I see this is on the BBC sport website today.

Not this era, but another one perhaps

 

Edited 6 February by Free Falling Foxes

[suffolk fox]

17 minutes ago, Pliskin said:

West Ham United, the evening of the tragedy. Everything changed from that moment. It’s just been a slow initial decline, followed by a rapid one. 

This.  In a nutshell.  Loss of Vichai our club hasn't been the same since.

[CUJimmy]

It depends on whether we are talking with the benefit of hindsight or without.

 

With hindsight relegation to League 1 was the kick up the àrse the club needed and promoted the root and branch reform that followed.  The helicopter crash undoubtedly ripped the heart out of the club but I don’t think it was until later that I realised how much was driven by Vichai.

 

Without hindsight the first time I thought we had a realistic chance of doing something special was the Chelsea game in 15/16.  Mahrez first chipped in a delightful cross for Vardy to do what he did best then deposited the Chelsea fullback on his backside before curling in the second.  We genuinely had players, and more importantly a team, who were making the PL elite look like chumps. José was sacked that week and the rest is history.  With a neat bit of symmetry the time when I thought our days in the sun were over was when Perez missed a sitter at Chelsea after the Cup Final meaning that we would almost certainly just miss out on Champions League for the second year in a row.  I felt then that we probably wouldn’t get that chance again.

Edited 6 February by CUJimmy

[grobyfox1990]

2 hours ago, Levi Port said:

Slight off topic, but I’ve just watched the highlights of

 

- PSV 2nd leg, 2022, 1-2 

 

-United (h) 2021, 3-1 FA cup on the way to winning at Wembley

 

- Shef United, 2021, 5-0 when Kelly got three on Mothers Day and dedicated it to his late mother. 

- Arsenal, 2019, 2-0, Vardy and Madders under the lights in the rain

 

- Arsenal 2020, 1-0 when Under squares it to Vardy and we nick a ****house 1-0

- Palace (a) 0-1, 2016, When we all stayed behind signing until we were kicked out
 

It’s made me incredibly depressed but amazing memories. 

2019 Arsenal, remember walking home drenched but thinking this club is really big time now. Just easily swotted aside Arsenal who came to the KP, sat back and hoped for a draw at best

[bovril]

2 hours ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

I see this is on the BBC sport website today.

Not this era, but another one perhaps

 

Beginning - Charlton away 1996; Middle - Atletico 1997; End - Wycombe 2001

[Bilo]

Roma away felt like the end for me. A big opportunity lost to win a European trophy for the first time in our history, the realisation we wouldn't be in Europe the following season and the fact that we'd had an indifferent season leading up to it all felt like an era was coming to an end.