ceredigion Posted 8 April 2014 Posted 8 April 2014 We will all have our memories of vital and important matches we have been to. Crucial Play Off games at Wembley, League Cup Finals, matches where we went up, or stayed up or went down, famous wins at Anfield, Old Trafford, etc. The games which everyone remembers. But what about the less important games that didn't matter at all in the long run but which have stuck in your mind for one reason or another and which you are glad to have attended? One such match for me was in January 1991 away at Notts County in the laughable Zenith Data Systems trophy. We'd just had 4 seasons of utter mediocrity in the old Division Two but Brian Little had got the team into the play-off positions and this was our first decent cup run of any kind for years too. Notts County were actually a First Division side that year so we were the underdogs but we took a huge following to Nottingham, must have been 6 or 7 thousand of us on an absolutely foul night of non-stop torrential rain on Notts County's open away end. The game went into extra time and was looking like a penalty shoot-out until Paul Fitzpatrick scored one of those late winners which were a trademark of the Brian Little era and made it 2-1 to us. Even though we were drenched and it was a Mickey Mouse cup, we celebrated as if we'd won the Champions League. Next up in a two-legged Northern Area final was Nottingham Forest, with a Wembley final for the winners. Forest beat us in the end of course. They always did in those days. But for a few seasons afterwards the club even included ''Zenith Data Systems Cup, Northern Area Final Runners Up'' among our meagre list of honours at the front of the match programmes. We did it make it to Wembley eventually that season after all, but that's another story. Anyone else remember that game, or others which never mattered in the grand scheme of things but which you've never forgotten even if everyone else has?
crazylegs1984 Posted 8 April 2014 Posted 8 April 2014 the one game that sticks in my mind is that win 5-2 over sunderland when collymore made his filbert street debut hit a hattrick and partnered with heskey beautifully , collymore got a hat , heskey and i think it was oakes who sealed it off with our man phillips scoring for sunderland
StanSP Posted 8 April 2014 Posted 8 April 2014 We will all have our memories of vital and important matches we have been to. Crucial Play Off games at Wembley, League Cup Finals, matches where we went up, or stayed up or went down, famous wins at Anfield, Old Trafford, etc. The games which everyone remembers. But what about the less important games that didn't matter at all in the long run but which have stuck in your mind for one reason or another and which you are glad to have attended? One such match for me was in January 1991 away at Notts County in the laughable Zenith Data Systems trophy. We'd just had 4 seasons of utter mediocrity in the old Division Two but Brian Little had got the team into the play-off positions and this was our first decent cup run of any kind for years too. Notts County were actually a First Division side that year so we were the underdogs but we took a huge following to Nottingham, must have been 6 or 7 thousand of us on an absolutely foul night of non-stop torrential rain on Notts County's open away end. The game went into extra time and was looking like a penalty shoot-out until Paul Fitzpatrick scored one of those late winners which were a trademark of the Brian Little era and made it 2-1 to us. Even though we were drenched and it was a Mickey Mouse cup, we celebrated as if we'd won the Champions League. Next up in a two-legged Northern Area final was Nottingham Forest, with a Wembley final for the winners. Forest beat us in the end of course. They always did in those days. But for a few seasons afterwards the club even included ''Zenith Data Systems Cup, Northern Area Final Runners Up'' among our meagre list of honours at the front of the match programmes. We did it make it to Wembley eventually that season after all, but that's another story. Anyone else remember that game, or others which never mattered in the grand scheme of things but which you've never forgotten even if everyone else has? 3 away games... Luton away in a friendly - 1-1. Think Matthew Spring (?) scored a screamer for them in front of us in the away end. Watford away in the league - lost 1-0. We were all over them and this was the days of Gabor Bori and Lackszo Zsolt. They went down to 10 men and we still couldn't muster up a goal. Think Darius Henderson scored for them. I can't remember if this was before or after the above match. Reading away in the league - won 1-0. Waghorn header. They were all over us from start to finish and I have no idea how we came away from that with 3 points. That was the first victory I'd tasted away from home anyway. They're the ones that come to mind purely for personal and sentimental reasons of being 'firsts'.
Guest Posted 8 April 2014 Posted 8 April 2014 All of our FA Cup victories - since none of them mattered in the end - but the romance and hope was always there. Most of all my game of all time The three goalie, comeback cracker.
Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo Posted 8 April 2014 Posted 8 April 2014 I certainly think the 5-3 over Bolton this season will stick in the mind for a few years. Never have I been so baffled/exhausted at half-time, 3-3, having no idea how the rest of the game would pan out
Gary Eatfood Posted 8 April 2014 Posted 8 April 2014 I remember the Notts Co. game well. I've never been so soaked in all my life, apart from at Maine Road in 1995. I was only 8 at the time but clearly remember the celebrations when ooh Tommy Wright scored a deflected equaliser. As happy as that made me I felt like crying because it meant another 30 mins standing in the bloody rain. I think the only other away end to rival that one was the heaving throng that we took to Portsmouth in the 92-93 play-offs. Does anyone remember the 0-0 draw against Oldham in the 90-91 season? Probably the best 0-0 I've ever seen, John Hallworth was unbeatable in goal for Oldham that night.
Gary Eatfood Posted 8 April 2014 Posted 8 April 2014 And for those of you who weren't there or weren't even born, here it is... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpIv8FSNLwk
trueblue72 Posted 8 April 2014 Posted 8 April 2014 I remember the Notts Co. game well. I've never been so soaked in all my life, apart from at Maine Road in 1995. I was only 8 at the time but clearly remember the celebrations when ooh Tommy Wright scored a deflected equaliser. As happy as that made me I felt like crying because it meant another 30 mins standing in the bloody rain. I think the only other away end to rival that one was the heaving throng that we took to Portsmouth in the 92-93 play-offs. Does anyone remember the 0-0 draw against Oldham in the 90-91 season? Probably the best 0-0 I've ever seen, John Hallworth was unbeatable in goal for Oldham that night. I remember getting soaked at all of these games, oh the memories
Guest Col city fan Posted 8 April 2014 Posted 8 April 2014 Not sure if it had much of an impact on anything (genuinely can't recall), but the 4-3 away loss to Wolves was one of the most bizarre games of football I've ever been to. When their first went in, you kinda knew what was gonna happen.
CosbehFox Posted 8 April 2014 Posted 8 April 2014 1-0 at Oakwell, the great escape under Holloway was on. Naa it wasn't. A week later we played like idiots at home to Wednesday. Great atmosphere that day.
Gary Eatfood Posted 8 April 2014 Posted 8 April 2014 I remember getting soaked at all of these games, oh the memories At Portsmouth away the only thing I remember getting soaked were my trouser legs as I waded through all that pi$$ on the way out of the ground.
Fridge lcfc Posted 8 April 2014 Posted 8 April 2014 A game that I remember well is hereford away when we were in league 1. Oakley scored a great freekick and for the whole of the second half we were taking the p!ss out of their keeper. Think his name was galaski or something like that.
CPW22 Posted 8 April 2014 Posted 8 April 2014 Beating Forest 3-0 in our first season back in the Championship. Always sticks with me given they had stuffed us 5-1 at their place earlier that season and been unbeaten away for so long until they lost to Derby a few weeks before.
Houdini Logic Posted 8 April 2014 Posted 8 April 2014 A game that I remember well is hereford away when we were in league 1. Oakley scored a great freekick and for the whole of the second half we were taking the p!ss out of their keeper. Think his name was galaski or something like that. Now you mention that, can anyone remember Incey?
Fox92 Posted 8 April 2014 Posted 8 April 2014 Sunderland away always sticks in my mind because it is probably the earliest game I can remember. September 1999, result was 2-0 I think. Can still remember being sat really close to the Sunderland fans.
Bert Posted 8 April 2014 Posted 8 April 2014 Walsall away. We were always going to win and although you could argue it did contribute to the league title. The snowball fight at the end was immense.
ceredigion Posted 8 April 2014 Author Posted 8 April 2014 I recall fondly a 2-1 win against Middlesbrough on the last day of the 1987/88 season which stopped them going up automatically. It didn't matter a jot to us because we we marooned in the mid-table mediocrity of the David Pleat era, but it was fun spoiling Middlesbrough's promotion party. Although they did go up in the play-off in the end.
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