Most disappointing Wembley defeat..?

The Cardiff one based on how much we didn't turn up. Ridiculous game.

 

I'm not saying we'd still be there, but look at the speed of our decline not long after. A few seasons in the top flight can do a great deal for a club. And particularly at a time where it was easier to get there. I certainly don't expect to see us anywhere close to getting there again, not in my lifetime at least.

It would also have been good to quickly get back to dispel some of the novelty factor than surrounded our single season.

 

That mid-week Tottenham trip is without doubt the worst away game I’ve ever done travel wise.

Horrendous going down, constantly stop start & even worse coming back. It almost felt like it was some kind of piss take hidden camera show as to how many times we could be diverted off the M1

 

For some reason i don't remember anything about the Cardiff game, I was there and I wasn't drunk. Just don't remember anything about match

 

Ipswich, apart from the long journey home, due to various factors, we were back on the brink of being in the premier league, with what was a very good team. After that it was all down hill for the club. We've still not recovered from it.

All of them were painful, especially the Wednesday travesty.

 

Yes, a game we should have won comfortably, if only we'd scored that penalty... And that point-blank save from Hristov just before they scored the 4th..

 

Ipswich
Cardiff
Wednesday

All bad experiences, all games we could have (should have) won. Hard to say which was the worst.

 

London Tykes had hired an open top bus for the occasion. Boarded at Waterloo & there was snow on the upstairs plastic seats.. Being a bit creative, I had made the MUTHA of ALL tin foil FA Cups, for the kids to have fun with.
Of course, the biggest kid of the lot, got hold & wouldn’t let go of it. Then managed to lose it, half way up the Edgware Road, in a ‘freak gust of wind’?? Apparently, Cardiff found it.
I won’t mention names.. Hicksy..

 

We went on the train for the Spurs game and had no trouble at all getting back.Mini bus waiting at Doncaster and straight home.

 

Cardiff for me. Golden opportunity to win the FA Cup for a second time and we failed to turn up. Even then we should have equalised.

 

Cardiff in the FA Cup. The players had given their everything and then some against Liverpool and Chelsea, then didn't bother turning up against a team in the same division. Of course, Odejayi's miss is what everyone remembers, but the whole team were playing in 2nd gear that day for some bizarre reason.

Wednesday last season obviously hurt because you'd struggle to write a more typical game against them - penalty not given for us, nonsense red card in the same passage of play, Connell contriving to miss basically an open goal, and then the last second winner from that carthorse. But I'd sort of accepted we weren't going to get anything as soon as the red card came out and VAR declined to check it - that, combined with the fact they'd finished on 96 points and deserved to go up really, softened the blow significantly.

 

Cardiff

And driving home in a blizzard put the cap on it

 

Ipswich, we were so close to getting back to the PL, who knows how different our history since would be.

Cardiff, I get what people are saying about a great chance to win a major trophy, but we'd have still had a good Pompey side to beat in the final.

Wendy game, meh.

 

Slightly off topic, but the play off final win AT Cardiff v Swansea beats all our Wembley appearances IMO.
The fact that we were the underdogs. The fact that over 120 minutes Swansea probably deserved to win. The Four perfect penalties that we scored in the penalty shoot out. The penalty miss from Akinfenwa and the Colgan penalty save from Tate. The great finishes from Hayes and Nardiello and the misses from Trundle and Tate. The seemingly perfect journey to and from South Wales.
All in all great memories. The only blot on the day was the continual rain.

 

Not only that, we had a genuine chance of getting into Europe as well.

So definitely Cardiff for me

 

Cardiff!!
Weren't our best but still should have beaten the Taffs!
Odejayi's miss when clear through was when I realised it wasn't going to be our day.

 

I was 15 when that game happened bud. I was genuinely crying for about 3 hours. Was absolutely gutted. Had we got 'easier' teams on the way, non league etc, it probably wouldn't have been as bad. The fact we beat Chelsea & Liverpool (especially HOW we beat them) in the run was the reason it hurt so bad!

 

Cardiff. For me. We didnt turn up. Anything nearing half a normal performance would have been good enough that day.

 

Ipswich left me gutted. Kind of expected the Wednesday loss.
Enjoyed the tune Paul.

 

I was 23. I cried for hours. Me and my mate Adam had another night booked in Southend. We didn't even make our way back for our toiletries. We headed back to King's Cross and luckily the guard never tried to frank our early tickets. Got back to Wakefield Westgate. Went up and down the "run" and strip club. Couldn't get drunk and most mundane lap dance I've ever had.

I lost something that day. I know I've had some crap with Laura and George but lost part of myself that afternoon... Weird.