The goal that haunts you...

One goal that irks me is from about 1975 / 76 season
And it was 2 points a win and Graham Taylor’s Lincoln City came to town week after mauling Donny 5-0 .
We were camped in Lincoln City’s half nearly all game with Bob Doyle missing a penalty and they scored a solitary breakaway goal .
Lincoln finished champions on 74 points that season with the three points a win equivalent being 106 points .

 

Ironically given the thread title, I'd forgotten about this. I don't think I've ever been as angry after a game as that one - we'd wasted so many chances to kill them off, they'd gone down to 10 men and (I could be wrong) think they may already have been relegated? We then inexplicably switched off and left their player unmarked to score - utterly needless. A win would've basically secured a play-off spot, instead we'd have to win at the Champions....thankfully, we know how that went

 

Can't remember if they were down to 10 but they were already down.

 

Their goalkeeper was injured and they'd used all their subs so they had to put an outfield player in net, we decided just to play keep ball rather than try to kill the game off for reasons that i have never really understood.

 

Carlton peahead Palmer injury time equaliser midweek after Rambo put us 1 up still don't like thinking about it now

 

think they even announced the dates too! i remember us & m'boro fans celebrating together, then the news filtered through, could ev caused a riot!

 

Yep, I was convinced we'd blown our chance of the play offs. Felt crap right up to the next match which seemed ages.

 

A goal that never was. Chris Dagnall had not scored in ages and had missed loads of sitters. Anyway he had a shot in front of the Ponty, keeper beaten, goal- bound all the way. Jumped up celebrating like a maniac, YESSSSS, get in, only for mi mate to say "sit darn yer pillock, it ent gone in". Apparently it smashed off the foot of the post.

 

That’s the one I immediately thought of when I read the thread title. Had it going through my head all the way up past Wadley Bridge past all the coaches, up to the car, then all the way home and all night in bed, then all the rest of the week, ad infinitum. It still haunts me every time I hear that bloody song

 

Remember that well. Ian Marshall scored a couple I think.
Also the Fulham and Exeter come back goals, Tony Cunningham v Fulham standing out in my memory.
I’m sure there was another game, against Stockport where something similar happened, we somehow managing to concede 3 late on to draw 4-4!

 

The goal that genuinely haunts me is Martin Reuser's last minute one to seal Ipswich's playoff final victory back in 2000, with Keith Brown forgetting that to play someone offside, they need to be in your half. I know we might not have equalised anyway, but not only did it kill our hopes and dreams on the day, it proved to be a watershed moment in the history of the club, a real turning point, the following years being a period of decline and managerial changes a plenty, as well as administration.

Goals that stick in my mind more positively are Neil Thompson's howitzer v Stoke, and one of the finest chopped goals I've ever seen, about 35 yards out by Steve Cooper at Easter 1989 v Sunderland. Just clipped the bar on the way in. For someone who scored brilliant headers, it was a beauty. And I've never seen any footage of it on TV.

 

In recent times Hourihane’s goal at Fleetwood in the JPT semi-final, we murdered them last night and god only knows how it went to pens...

I knew after that night we were onto something that season.

 

Di canios winner in premier league at Hillsboro sticks in my mind

 

I know I’ve related this before, but a friend of mine claims it’s the only time he’s had an orgasm at a football match...