What's the lowest quality professional football match you've ever witnessed?

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  1. Barnsley Loyal

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    Barnsley v S****horpe league cup went to penalties and still both sides couldn't score then

    We eventually went through after about 62 penalties


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    Home game on a cold wet Tuesday night to Southport sometime in the 60's ...I was praying for the ref to blow so I could go home....it hadn't occurred to me I could go at anytime I wanted .
     
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    Similar for me; the 2-0 loss to Rhyl in the FA Cup in December 1971 at a freezing Old Trafford. Standing on vast terraces with a couple of thousand others watching us lose to what I think was then a Cheshire League team was bad enough; but the real killer was that this was our THIRD attempt at these buggers, having drawn the original tie in Rhyl and the first replay at the Well, and that I'd been to all three!
     
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    Marine weren't professional then were they?
     
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    The journey back, just a couple of days or so before Christmas, seemed to last forever. That was my first ever visit to Old Trafford.
     
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    They were part time professionals, if my memory serves me right.
     
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    Rhyll in the first replay after we'd drawn at their place. Even though the match was going in to extra time, the prospect of another 30 minutes of mind numbing 'entertainment' was too much to contemplate so I made for the bus station and the next bus home. We drew the game 1-1 and the match was replayed (again), at Old Trafford and we were duly dumped out the Cup losing 0-2.
     
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    To be fair, lots of away games in the 80s could fall into this category.

    A few hundred of reds fans standing on some away end watching us get routinely beaten with barely a noteworthy effort on goal.

    Visits to Portsmouth, Oldham and Shrewsbury all come straight to mind.




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    Despite the scoreline, Rotherham 2-3 Shrewsbury was the one and only time I'd gone to see someone other than the beloved reds. It was horrendous.

    Rotherham gifted 3 goals to Shrewsbury in the first half. All defensive errors. I think these were the only efforts at goal in the first hour. Adam Le Fondre came on in the last half hour and changed the game.

    I think Andy Liddell was in caretaker charge at the time.

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    The last two Donny away games, particularly the one with that berk Wilson in charge!


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    Actually I've just thought of another one. Fulham v Liverpool, October 1986, league cup round 2 second leg.

    Liverpool had won the first leg 10 - 0. I was in London so went along, intrigued as to what tactics both teams would employ. The match programme had a section on ticket arrangements for round 3, should Fulham get through. It was like a practice match, bored stiff for the entire 90 minutes.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4tS-6yAeeA
     
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    Barnsley vs Crewe last year can't be far off. I remember their centre half slicing the ball over his own shoulder and out for a corner 20 yards out. We then knocked the resulting corner straight out of play for a goal kick. Little Johnson really treat us that day to a football feast
     
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    England v ...........
     
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    Saw some dire games in the early '70s but they all blur a bit so its hard to pick one out on its own, though games against Aldershot, Darlington, Torquay, Workington all seemed to feature in the particularly bad ones.

    I too remember some poor cup games, only drawing at home to Enfield when we had a decent side sticks in mind and the cup defeat at Northampton mentioned above was particularly poor.

    Worst I can remember for not meeting expectations though - early 80's for reasons I wont bore you with I finished up watching Everton v Birmingham in the original First division it was the most 0-0 game I ever saw, no shots on target or even close. in fact apart from a couple of half hearted long range attempts that sailed into the crowd nearer the corner flag then the goal I dont think there was anything resembling a chance for either side. Every time I looked at the big clock it had barely moved (I never thought of just leaving either)
     
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    Frickley Colliery v Grantham Town around 1968. Frickley had ex-Reds 'Tiger' Jones and Roy Senior in their team. Grantham had some ex-Peterborough players. So bad I cannot remember the result, but I can't recall any goals going in, so it must have been 0-0. With the smaller crowd and being closer to the pitch, you could hear more of the 'banter' from the players. Choice memories (sorry for language here) were: 1) 'I can see there's f... all up wi' thee,' said by a Frickley player after a Grantham player was part destroyed by an over-zealous challenge and left in a heap; 2) 'Do that again and you'll find your knackers round your neck,' said by a Grantham player is response to another 'hard but fair' Frickley challenge. Good memories of South Elmsall, though, and the tiny ground with the Frickley muck stack looming over the far terrace. Always laugh at the memory of a result in one of the Sunday rags, which read 'Frickley College 1, Alsager 0.' I wondered what you would study at 'Frickley College?'
     
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    If its only Barnsley games then 2 quite recently. V Shrewsbury and V Crewe both 2-1 defeats and total non events. I seem to have a very unfortunate habit of picking poor games.

    But my most recent game of very poor quality belongs to last Saturday when I traveled to Dumbarton to see United get beat 1-0. We just never got started and TBH were lucky only to be beat 1-0 from a glorified junior team.
     
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    Barnsley V Carlisle during viv Anderson's ill fated season - we lost 1 nil, as Carlisle were relegated and dropped through the divisions like a dose of Epsom salts. Still too "good" for us though.
     
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    agree with previous post, alty v reds last year was so so bad, we also got piss wet through
     
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    Not to sure people understand the word professional in this thread....
     
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    Andorra v England, March 2007, Barcelona, after pointlessly walking up that hill to the Olympic Stadium. Even worse than the 0-0 in Israel four days earlier.

    Thank you Steve Maclaren.
     
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