The worst you have felt supporting your team?

[SuffolkBlue]

Feb 2018, not beaten Norwich for almost 10 years. Go 1-0 up at carrot road in the 90th only to concede at 90+5. Didn't speak for days

 

[Don Tonberry]

A 3-0 defeat on a Tuesday night away at Rochdale in March 2014. That result had Pompey only out of the League Two relegation zone on goal difference and it genuinely looked like we were going to be relegated to the Conference.

Thankfully the board saw sense and sacked Richie Barker a few days later and Andy Awford came in to do a rescue job. That was a fucking horrible season though (as were the ones before and after it.)

 

[Mark kavanagh]

I'd go for the 1-2 defeat at home to an as good as relegated Welling on the first Rovers match after legendary manager Johnny King had passed away. A string of gutless performances on field with a clueless manager in Brabin unable to motivate them, on a day when us fans needed uplifting by the team.

Was just gonna type the same boz. Dreadful attitude that day . Welling were down already and we just surrendered after their equaliser. Not the tribute the great man deserved

 

[K-Win]

For me, it was losing to Southampton in the FA Cup through an injury time Steve Moran goal back in '84. I started following Pompey in the mid-seventies (I'm ancient) and this was my first ever derby game as we hadn't met them competitively for eight years. We'd had the better of the game, too. The build up to the game had been so intense and the atmosphere so hostile that losing in that fashion just broke me for a while.

This is closely followed by finding out by telephone while on holiday in pre-Internet Australia that Leicester had knocked us out of the old Div 1 play-offs back in '93. We were superb that season and went blow-for-blow with Keegan's on-the-up Newcastle and a strong West Ham side. We only needed a win at relegation-threatened Sunderland to seal auto promotion to the top tier, but our talisman Paul Walsh decided that was the day to throw a punch at an opponent and get sent off. This simultaneously cost us that game and the subsequent play-offs through his suspension. This always felt like a one-shot chance and that we would have to break the team up if we didn't go up. The club basically fell apart after that, culminating in administration five years later. Grim.

 

[Marked Ox]

When we lost to Exeter in the Conference play off semis on penalties after missing some glorious chances at the end of the game. The realisation of another season (and in reality another 3 seasons) down there was worse than the relegation to the Conference in the 1st place.

 

[joethegill]

Man City at Wembley 99 ranks pretty highly.

On a physical note, getting hit in the bollocks by a Simeon Jackson penalty away at Wycombe about a decade ago left me feeling pretty ropey.

On a slightly more honest note though - the first evening game after my dad died was dreadful, as was the realisation that the thing I most enjoyed about going to watch football was that I was going with him rather than the club itself. I haven't felt as passionately about the club since that day.

 

[GTFCfish]

A 3-0 defeat on a Tuesday night away at Rochdale in March 2014. That result had Pompey only out of the League Two relegation zone on goal difference and it genuinely looked like we were going to be relegated to the Conference.

Thankfully the board saw sense and sacked Richie Barker a few days later and Andy Awford came in to do a rescue job. That was a fucking horrible season though (as were the ones before and after it.)

But it was all worth it with our arrival back in the league in 16/17, had you not been in League 2 back then you would’ve missed out on the glamour tie at Blundell Park.

 

[T.A]

Man City at Wembley 99 ranks pretty highly.

On a physical note, getting hit in the bollocks by a Simeon Jackson penalty away at Wycombe about a decade ago left me feeling pretty ropey.

On a slightly more honest note though - the first evening game after my dad died was dreadful, as was the realisation that the thing I most enjoyed about going to watch football was that I was going with him rather than the club itself. I haven't felt as passionately about the club since that day.

That paragraph is what scares me each and every season. He's only in his 60's and healthy *touch wood* but if the club survive i dread the day I have to go without him.

 

[Don Tonberry]

But it was all worth it with our arrival back in the league in 16/17, had you not been in League 2 back then you would’ve missed out on the glamour tie at Blundell Park.

I was there when Kal Naismith bent in that late free kick against you!

 

[SeasideKurt]

Huddersfield at home when the match was called off. Wondering if A) the football club will survive and B) I'll ever be back inside Bloomfield Road.

 

[K-Win]

We only needed a win at relegation-threatened Sunderland to seal auto promotion to the top tier, but our talisman Paul Walsh decided that was the day to throw a punch at an opponent and get sent off. This simultaneously cost us that game and the subsequent play-offs through his suspension.

Wow. Just found a match report of the game back in '93. It's amazing sometimes how crap the human memory is. So actually a win at Sunderland would have left us needing a win in our last home game for auto promotion. I also originally blamed Walsh for costing us the game but his sending off came late on at 3-0 down. In fact the game turned on centre-back Guy Butters being dismissed after punching the ball off our goal-line at 0-0 after 30 minutes. I was correct about Walsh's three-match suspension putting paid to our play-off hopes, though.

 

[Big fish little fish]

#inevitable #apologies #sorrynotsorry

Standing in Soho Square, being told the news... blah blah blah... three man commission blah blah blah... not in the wider interests... blah blah blah town in Buckinghamshire. You know the drill.

Whoever said time heals all wounds was a knob.

 

[joethegill]

That paragraph is what scares me each and every season. He's only in his 60's and healthy *touch wood* but if the club survive i dread the day I have to go without him.

I would just say don't take it for granted! In little over 18 months I went from going to games with not only dad but also my grandad, down to just myself. Took some adjustment.

Hope you and your dad have several more decades of match-going together - hopefully with the club surviving!

 

[THE LAST WALTZ]

Wembley, Man City, 1999.............

Never happened.

 

[PuB]

Wembley, Man City, 1999.............

Never happened.

Not sure what you’re talking about mate

 

[Kim Jong Un]

Man City at Wembley 99 ranks pretty highly.

On a physical note, getting hit in the bollocks by a Simeon Jackson penalty away at Wycombe about a decade ago left me feeling pretty ropey.

On a slightly more honest note though - the first evening game after my dad died was dreadful, as was the realisation that the thing I most enjoyed about going to watch football was that I was going with him rather than the club itself. I haven't felt as passionately about the club since that day.

Perhaps accidentally, but that last sentence is one of the most heartwarming things I've read in a while.

 

[Laker]

3 stand out for me.

Leicester in May 92. We were in the second division play off semis, drew 1-1 at home then got spanked 5-0 in the second leg. I was eight and listened on the radio, cried all night. Even then I knew it was the end of a once in a life shot at the top tier.

Kidderminster home around February 2005. We were bottom of the fourth tier playing Kiddy who were third from bottom and badly needed a win. We lost 3-1 and were nothing short of dreadful. It was that point I knew we were down and the club was in such a state too.

And finally the Torquay conference play off final in 2009. We came second after nearly catching Burton (they won the league by two points after beating Weymouth’s yoof team - still bitter...) and got to the final after a brilliant win over Stevenage. We then didn’t turn up and lost 2-0, second final defeat in two years. It hurt way more as I wasn’t as pissed as the year before. Took five more years to get back after that but the feeling was the club might fold etc. Dark days.

 

[Caer]

Basically all of 2016/17 - 2017/18. Appointing Moyes was on paper a good appointment among the fans, myself included but bloody hell what a slog.

Beating Crystal Palace 4-0 at Selhurst Park and had a bit of hope that just maybe we had turned a corner, we then lost 4-0 at home to Southampton the week later and lost 11 of the last 14 games.

The 2017/18 season, as seen on Netflix™ was just a constant barrage of disappointment, it was a continuous ache of 'what's the point anymore?' We were in acres of debt, the atmosphere was poisonous, the managers were dreadful, the players didn't care and the owner was spending untold money on potted plants. As always the few bright sparks like coming from 3-0 down to Bristol City with 20 minutes left to get a point or beating Fulham 1-0 to put our season back on track were quickly snuffed out. The final nail in that season's coffin was losing 2-1 to Burton at home, scoring both their goals in the final 5 minutes in front of a half empty stadium.

On an entirely different note, a single feeling; 1-0 up to Man City in the League Cup final and Yaya Toure scoring a self-confessed fluke to draw level, they then scored immediately after to go 2-1 up. That feeling just hollowed me out. The highs of scoring early on and looking on top in a cup final to the feeling of blowing it in the space of 60 seconds.

 

[Trapdoor]

June 2002
Michael Jackson, Uri Geller and David Blaine being paraded around SJP by a pair of crooks bleating something about HIV and West Africa ostensibly raising money for our beleaguered club. I guarantee no kids in West Africa saw a penny from that particular fundraiser farce.

May 2003
Our final relegation to the conference. The first ever team to be relegated not finishing bottom of the league. We had gone through four managers that season and had even offered the job to Paul Gascoigne. On the 14th after relegation had been confirmed the two owners were finally arrested for fraud.


The lowest point in the clubs history. I went off to uni in 2002 and I remember feeling pretty much done with the club at taht point. I fully expected it to fold but fortunately some others had far more faith in the survival of the club than I did. They managed to pull a CVA together and stabilise the club under trust ownership. By the time I finished uni in 2006 things were starting to look up.

 

[K-Win]

Michael Jackson, Uri Geller and David Blaine being paraded around SJP by a pair of crooks bleating something about HIV and West Africa ostensibly raising money for our beleaguered club.

That's some line-up. It really is something when that tiresome fraud Geller is the most respectable person on a list.

 

[B.F.C.]

At 5pm today when we finally went out of business after 134 years.
A sad day

 

[slaphead]

On a slightly more honest note though - the first evening game after my dad died was dreadful, as was the realisation that the thing I most enjoyed about going to watch football was that I was going with him rather than the club itself. I haven't felt as passionately about the club since that day.

This rings a massive bell with me too, and I find myself feeling the same. I lost my Dad the day after we went to an evening game at Dover, I dropped him off and six hours later had a call from my Mum saying he’d been rushed to hospital but didn’t make it. He was, like me, a ground staff volunteer at the club so we had that too as well as games, but now I rarely go over the ground and don’t go out my way to get to games. I now go more out of habit, whereas before we’d bust a gut to get to games, we even drove back from a holiday in France (much to my Mums and wife’s disgust) to get to the 4-4 game at yours.

 

[The Southbank]

Losing to Bolton in the 1995 Championship Play-off final was torture. We were 2-0 up at HT, missed a penalty to make it 3-0 and ended up losing 4-3 after extra time. Also consider we finished second that season, the only ever year that a team has not been promoted automatically.

 

[KeithH]

Last night, this morning and every fucking day until 1885 actually manage to start a game at some point in the future.

 

[Kim Jong Un]

Last night, this morning and every fucking day until 1885 actually manage to start a game at some point in the future.

Would like to see Bury not go with the year of formation for a new club or "AFC Bury." Bury United?

 

[KeithH]

Would like to see Bury not go with the year of formation for a new club or "AFC Bury." Bury United?

1885, year of original formation and nowt else for me.

 

[shoddycollins]

1885, year of original formation and nowt else for me.

They might let you just be Bury eventually, as they have with Darlo. I believe AFC Wimbledon could also drop the AFC from their name legally now but have become attached to it.

 

[Fedora Dale]

Enjoyed myself supporting my team last night. It was a decent and enjoyable win against Carlisle.

Then gutted later to find out about Bury. Not the same without having local rivals to play, and having banter with them.

Look forward to losing to a National League "1885" in the FA Cup in a few years, then getting revenge by winning at the Nou Gigg in their first league game back against us.