Raj Posted 22 August 2011 Posted 22 August 2011 My friend and I (good grammar that eh?) shook Mark "want to manage a massive club so went to Wolves!) McGhee's hand when he joined City. thinking about it now,that was pretty horrendous!
isaidno Posted 22 August 2011 Posted 22 August 2011 Newcastle 4-3 Leicester when City had gone 3-1 up. Shearer hat trick, I felt pig sick Same match for me , was inconsolable for about an hour after the game
Monk Posted 22 August 2011 Posted 22 August 2011 The most upset I've ever been at a game was when Pompey beat us 3 nil at home in 1993, mind you I was only 12 at the time. Relegation to League 1 was a massive low point, but I think I've never been so ashamed to be a Leicester fan than when La Manga was on BBC evening news as one of the top stories.
Ric Flair Posted 22 August 2011 Posted 22 August 2011 Collymore's broken ankle away at Derby. I was in tears, i've never loved a man as much as I love/d Stan Collymore.
Father Ted Posted 22 August 2011 Posted 22 August 2011 Losing 5-1 to Forest was awful. Also, I'd say being in administration was awful as well.
Bob Weasel Fox Posted 22 August 2011 Posted 22 August 2011 Worst signing ever - and both before anyone asks!!!
ScouseFox Posted 22 August 2011 Posted 22 August 2011 Collymore's broken ankle away at Derby. I was in tears, i've never loved a man as much as I love/d Stan Collymore. I was in disbelief and close to tears when that happened to. Although I was 6, so it's sort of allowed, when one of your boyhood heroes can't even move, and looks like he's about to cry
Guest Bilo Posted 22 August 2011 Posted 22 August 2011 That day at Stoke. Defeat at home to Wycombe, I still think we never fully recovered from that. Losing 5-1 at Forest. Administration. Losing 5-0 at home to Bolton on the first day of the 01-02 season made me realise it was going to be a bad season.
HEGGSY Posted 22 August 2011 Posted 22 August 2011 Jesus fooking Christ what a sh.it period for our club
Trav Le Bleu Posted 22 August 2011 Posted 22 August 2011 Wycombe. Was going to say going into Administration, but that's a very good call. Though maybe Harlow Town. 8th January 1980. Deep shame.
Phube Posted 22 August 2011 Posted 22 August 2011 Roy Essandoh. This, This and This!! I nearly kicked the chair infront... and I'm generally a calm person!
Salieri Posted 22 August 2011 Posted 22 August 2011 Has to be Swindon scoring their 4th and winning goal in the play-off final. We were 3-0 down and pulled level. Painful memory.
DANGEROUS TIGER Posted 22 August 2011 Posted 22 August 2011 Relegation to League One excluded, mine has to be our league cup final defeat to Spurs. Mine was the 1961 Cup Final defeat to Spurs, when right back Len Chalmers got a serious leg injury. No substitutes then, and the score was 0-0 at that point. We wee playing really well too. Awful, to lose that game.
Guest MattP Posted 22 August 2011 Posted 22 August 2011 Leicester 1-2 Wycombe. Still can't watch it when it is shown on TV.
AyewJoking Posted 22 August 2011 Posted 22 August 2011 Losing to Blackburn in the play-offs and also Swindon. Both sickening at the time plus I was only a nipper.
CupidStunt Posted 22 August 2011 Posted 22 August 2011 Relegation to League One excluded, mine has to be our league cup final defeat to Spurs. That was mine too, outside the ground we were being taunted by the spurs fans, shouting "fak arf bak u narf, you norvun kants" I Couldnt help mesen, I just smacked the **** on his hooter in temper, went down like a sack of spuds he did....wasnt proud of it afterwards, but felt good at the time
LJS Posted 22 August 2011 Posted 22 August 2011 Wycombe for me. I've just posted about my best moment as a City fan in the other thread. In the same way that at the time I thought our 5-2 win over Sunderland represented the beginning of a new era, the Wycombe match forced me to accept that an old and mostly glorious era was coming to an end. I don't remember much from the match beyond Roy Essandoh's late headed winner. I was sat in the Kop with feeling as low as any football moment has ever made me feel. I also remember watching the highlights of the game on Match of the Day that evening. They showed footage of Lawrie Sanchez (who had been sent from his dugout) delighting at his side's giant killing victory. That was quite sad for me. For the past few years we had been the underdogs in the top flight, managing top ten finishes against the odds in a pool full of big fish. Now it was our turn to feel the very pain we had been inflicting on others for so long. I used place the blame for that defeat and our eventual demise squarely on the shoulders of Peter Taylor. That has changed as I've grown older and read more over the years. Whilst Taylor was a dreadful manager for us, we should acknowledge that any manager would have struggled having to succeed Martin O'Neill. And in any case, our fall from grace began off the pitch and before Taylor ever arrived at City. Martin O'Neill's ego perhaps had a bigger role in our downfall than did the inability of Peter Taylor to win football matches.
Freeman's Wharfer Posted 23 August 2011 Posted 23 August 2011 Wycombe for me. I've just posted about my best moment as a City fan in the other thread. In the same way that at the time I thought our 5-2 win over Sunderland represented the beginning of a new era, the Wycombe match forced me to accept that an old and mostly glorious era was coming to an end. I don't remember much from the match beyond Roy Essandoh's late headed winner. I was sat in the Kop with feeling as low as any football moment has ever made me feel. I also remember watching the highlights of the game on Match of the Day that evening. They showed footage of Lawrie Sanchez (who had been sent from his dugout) delighting at his side's giant killing victory. That was quite sad for me. For the past few years we had been the underdogs in the top flight, managing top ten finishes against the odds in a pool full of big fish. Now it was our turn to feel the very pain we had been inflicting on others for so long. I used place the blame for that defeat and our eventual demise squarely on the shoulders of Peter Taylor. That has changed as I've grown older and read more over the years. Whilst Taylor was a dreadful manager for us, we should acknowledge that any manager would have struggled having to succeed Martin O'Neill. And in any case, our fall from grace began off the pitch and before Taylor ever arrived at City. Martin O'Neill's ego perhaps had a bigger role in our downfall than did the inability of Peter Taylor to win football matches. Not so sure about that. What do you mean? The way I remember it is that O'Neill left us after staying several times when others might have gone, I didn't/wouldn't ever begrudge him that. When he left we had £11million in the bank from Heskey and had just signed LG Electronics and NTL deals that brought in as much, if not more, money than the club had ever had. In came Taylor who immediately set about dismantling a successful squad, getting rid of the likes of Cottee and Walsh because he felt they were too old and completely mis-managing Guppy and Collymore. In their place he brought in utter crap for ridiculous fees. Admittedly it wasn't solely down to Taylor how much we paid but he must have said he felt the players he was bringing in were worth the fees agreed. Players such as Hartson and Gudjohnsen were going for around £5million at the time yet Taylor went for Akinbiyi. He not only changed the personnel, I also remember he changed us from 3-5-2 to 4-4-2 because "all the top teams use it". Nevermind the 3-5-2 that had won us cups. We had some good results for half a season but players like Izzet and Lennon were carrying us through, as soon as he couldn't keep Lennon we were done. Especially when you bring Junior Lewis in to replace him. I know it may partly say more about how much MON was loved than how much Taylor was disliked, but many of the players of that era don't speak too highly of him. I certainly think there are others that might have been a bit shrewder and more careful in keeping things ticking over from the MON era at first rather than completely changing everything. It might be my disdain for the man but I always detect an air of arrogance about him. So, for me, the blame still rests on his shoulders. Yes he had a tough job replacing MON, as anyone would have, but his ineptness, stubbornness and arrogance made it harder than it needed to have been for him. He never admitted he was in the wrong, he never did the honourable thing and walked away. I think even if you asked him now he'd shirk the responsibility for his short-comings and failings at Leicester.
CupidStunt Posted 23 August 2011 Posted 23 August 2011 Talking of Peter Taylor, my ONLY good memory of him was when we won away at West Ham for the first time
Alan Young Posted 23 August 2011 Posted 23 August 2011 Losing 2-0 t0 Spurs in the FA Cup semi final in, i think, 1981. Being young and expecting us to win made it worse. Over the years i have just come to expect the worst,so it's not quite as bad!
LJS Posted 23 August 2011 Posted 23 August 2011 Not so sure about that. What do you mean? O'Neill backed the wrong side in the boardroom battles of the late 1990s for his own rather selfish reasons. He supported the Elsom/King faction because he knew that they would spend money. Unfortunately this was money that the club couldn't afford to spend. The so called 'Gang of Four' were demonised at the time (by myself as much as anybody else), accused of not having the nest interests of the club at heart. It turns out that they did. They wanted to cut spending to secure the long term future of the club. O'Neill was quite clear in public about which boardroom faction he favoured. This is because he knew the fans adored him and would side with him. Facing the vitriol of the vast majority of our fans, the Gang of Four could never win. We paid for it in the end. O'Neill buggered off (which was fine in itself) and the victorious board members pissed away millions on Peter Taylor's list of low quality transfer targets. O'Neill has a track record for not giving a toss about the clubs he has managed. He left Norwich for us because Robert Chase refused to part with cash for Dean Windass. And he left Villa in the shit because Randy Lerner wouldn't reinvest the incoming transfer fees in the playing squad. These two men, plus our own Gang of Four, wanted to run their football clubs like businesses. O'Neill didn't give a toss about that and for me has to take a share of the blame (along with the board, who take an even bigger share of the blame, and Taylor, who can be blamed for a little) for our eventual administration.
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