The goal that haunts you...

Not in a bad way, just a goal you always remember. Not the best goal or most important but one that for some strange reason you never forget.

Mine.

Early 70s when I was about 13. A dark, cold, misty afternoon on the Ponty. It’s well into the second half of a clogging nil-nil. The Ponty as usual was a wall of noise from start to finish - big blokes shartin, stamping boots, rolling thunder of banging on the back wall. Not being that tall, seeing owt on the pitch meant scurrying around for a gap or swinging up onto a barrier.

As I work my way to behind the goal, suddenly, a clear view.

At that exact moment someone lumps it through the mud to Mick Butler who’s about 25 yards out. He’s dead centre when he lets fly. It’s coming at right at me, but it’s going over. In the last seconds it dips just out of the keeper’s reach and smashes into the net right in front of me. Ponty explodes. I fall over. Never experienced an earthquake but that must have been well up the Richter scale

Won 1-0. Wonder what that game was? Can’t remember whether it was Saturday or midweek.

 

The last goal that we lost a game to

 

Easter Monday 1983. Away at Hillsboro, 0-0 half way through the second half. Glavin on the bench, gets brought on. Glavin dancing through the Blue and White stripes, and banging it in the corner in front of the jubilant Reds fans behind the goal to win 1-0.

 

Owen Archdeacon v Leicester FA Cup replay last minute equaliser.
A goal to rival the quality of the superb opener from Julian Joachim. We went on to win the shoot out. I remember it so fondly as it was the last time My Grandad could attend with us. Ill health would rob him if that and sadly take him from us not long after. With that goal been a absolute screamer it pops up now and again and always brings a little smile to my face remembering my Grandad grabbing hold of me as it went in.

 

Doesn`t seem to be any footage of this.
We were sat in the stand opposite the tunnel with loads of Reds fans as we did for years in the eighties. Went absolutely barmy when Glav scored!

 

A goal scored against us was Trevor Sinclair's overhead kick at Loftus Road in our promotion season (can't remember if it was the Cup game or the league game). It always used to get shown on MOTD or Football Focus for years afterwards and I used to still applaud the audacity and brilliance

 

There might not be any footage, but it definitely happened!!

 

that late late equaliser that Colchester scored when we drew 2-2. I thought when that went in the playoff dream was over. Luckily we all know what happened the following game and wigan etc. but I left the ground that day devastated.

 

last home game of the promotion season under Hecky, you're right. Colchester eqalised in the 10th minute of added time. Always go Mam and Dads after the game and she said "Well played, good game". We've drawn 2-2 Mam. Eh, Scores on BBC at FT said we'd won 2-1, she says. Made me feel even worse

 

We went one down and then turned it around, I remember Fletcher scoring a cracking goal, play-off dream seemed on and then bang that goal went in and I was gutted..........

 

Too many to count.

 

The three goals Ipswich scored in the mid 90s to come back from 3-0 down with 5 mins left.

Never felt comfortable watching a game ever since, with the exception of being 6 up at half time against Hudds.

 

Me too.

 

Tony Mowbray's header vs us in play off final in 2000.

Tinkler volleys the ball out when he had chance to control it and clear it upfield.

Yes that ahead of Keith Brown's debacle of a second half.

We get in to half time ahead we win the game.


Always stuck with me.

 

In the cup, and it still is - I'm sure I've seen it twice this year!

 

McManaman's late winner in the Willard fiasco that ultimately sucked the life out of our Premiership campaign. Coming away with a point from that game would have made a difference in confidence, even though we'd still have to deal with the 3 suspensions from it.

I could have quite happily murdered him for the way he celebrated it with the away fans too.

 

Sheffield Utd 3-3 Barnsley and Port Vale 2-2 Barnsley stick out in my mind along with that and I know it wasn't a goal but Barnard's penalty miss still haunts me. As does Hristov's header.

 

My reaction to that in the East Stand Upper still gets mentioned from time to time by those around me. Let's just say I did not react to it well.

Weirdly, when the players came back out to do the lap of honour afterwards, the utter dejection in their faces gave me a feeling of confidence that they'd be fired up to atone for it at Wigan the following week. I think it made a positive difference in the end, but it absolutely didn't feel like it at the time.

 

I was gutted. Thought we'd blown it that day.

 

Looked great from behind the goal. Scored a few like that myself...