The goal that haunts you...

Definitely these. We’d have gone up (wouldn’t we?) automatically if it hadn’t been for those two late sickeners. Plus Kayode at Wembley. I’m going to be depressed all day now remembering these.

 

Yeah everyone remembers the Play-off Final but it shouldn't have come down to that. That whole season I look back on with same sadness I do the Premiership season because of Willard.

 

Dean Wilkins for Brighton & Hove Albion. Injury time winner on the final day of the 90/91 season. And Barnsley fans weren't even there to see it.

 

Di Canio at Hillsborough. I felt like the world had ended. That was back when Wednesday actually had lots of fans and they were loving it, singing that ******* song. I feel sick just recalling it now.

Chris Brunt in the 705th minute of stoppage time, at the same s***hole.

Chris Maguire in the 923rd minute of stoppage time, same dump.

Pattern emerging.

 

In the season we made the last ever old Wembley play off match we let Simon Baldry score the only goal he got all season with a late winner. Decided to hang around at full time with a lot of other fans at the players entrance long enough to hear Eaden on his mobile telling his mum he's injured whilst nearly in tears.

 

Brighton scoring (not against us) in the 95th minute whilst we stood in the Ponty after beating Boro 1-0 in '91. The tannoy telling us we were in the play offs, the radio in my ear confirmed we weren't.

 

Looking back we've had some **** luck with key moments over the years.

 

I think we can say we clawed it all back last season!

 

and some not so bad ones

 

Any that Sheffield Wednesday scored against us

 

That one sticks in my mind too especially after we thought we had made the play-offs and the celebrations had begun. I remember sitting in my bedroom in shock at what happened that day !

There was one earlier that season as well when Carlton Palmer equalised late on for Wednesday, they were still unbeaten at the time. That took some getting over as well.

 

Had we gone up in 99/00 i think Bassett would have kept us up.

Eaden Hignett would have stayed and ive no doubt we would have signed Curtis plus more prem experience.

 

Jordan Clark, scoring for Shrewsbury in 2015.

Had no real relevance, other than us losing the game, but it always stands out.

Colchester's late equaliser in the same season, last home game. Wasn't it Moncur that scored it? Or Clive Platt.

 

There was Mel Sterlands equaliser for Dirty Leeds in the cup too. That was an absolute sickener.

 

Chris Brunt.

 

That 3-3 at the Blunts proper flattened me. Three times we led and three times we conceded an equaliser. When Hignett put us 3-2 up with only minutes left I thought we'd cracked it. Then Marcus Bent (I think) profited from a mix up between John Curtis and Kevin Miller to level with virtually the last kick.
Also three last minute defeats at Hillsboro that haunted me badly. Di Canio's winner in the Prem season, Chris Brunt's long ranger with his swinger (after hitting a dozen on his favoured left foot into row Z) and then Maguire's late sickener when we were playing 9 v 10.

 

That late penalty away at Port Vale, 2000. Hopes of automatic promotion pretty much dashed. Some right aggro afterwards, remember telling some nutter to F off, after refusing to ‘stand with them’.
Shared the train journey back to London with a miserable Neil Shipperley, who was still reeling from the bollocking they’d had off Harry. I’ve had better away days..

 

I remember the Shrewsbury game, had commentary on. I had my stroke that evening. Luckily at my Mams, not alone in Wentworth.

 

I'm liking your post because, thankfully, you were at your Mam's and not alone. It's certainly not because of you having the stroke, or us losing a football match.