Most frustrating game ever?

Port vale away 2000. Conceded a last minute penalty & said tara to automatic promotion..

 

Can't remember exactly when, maybe about 04/05? Away at Hillsborough, 93rd minute, it's 1-1. Chris Brunt gets the ball about twenty five yards out and starts turning. Everyone in the kop can see it coming. About fifteen minutes later he's finally got the ball onto his left foot.

'CLOSE HIM DOWN! CLOSE HIM DOWN YOU USELESS... oh for f*cks sake.'

It was like slow motion, and they all just bloody watched him. I hate Hillsborough.

 

Grimsby 3 Barnsley 2 on Good Friday 1982, in a match which may have cost us promotion to the top flight for the first time in our history. This was the exciting Barnsley team which featured Glavin, Banks, McCarthy etc. We were in the hunt for promotion to the First Division, in our first season back in the Second Division after a 22 year absence. We totally outplayed Grimsby in the first half and led 2-0 at half-time. It looked like being a certain away win. However, Grimsby reduced the deficit early in the second half and then stormed us. This was the proverbial game of two halves. The equaliser and then the Grimsby winner followed. Our players looked devastated at the end. The following day, Easter Saturday, we were at home to Derby. The lads were so deflated by having lost that Grimsby game that it affected their performance and we played out a dull 0-0 draw. I felt that the Grimsby second half turnaround had cost us 5 points in all. We finished the season 4 points short of a second successive promotion, and third in four seasons. 4 points away from seeing Glavin playing for us in the top flight.

 

please tell me you don't try and do this......

 

I just wanted to go home and go to bed (after the Ipswich game at Wembley I was back home and in bed by 6pm, refusing to speak with anybody - I used to be bad with defeats. Christ, you should have seen me after the semi-finals in 1990 and 1996!), but we went up to the pub. We decided not to get on the Londontykes open top bus back into town. But 10 minutes later we picked our faces up, belted down the road, asked a cabbie if he’d seen the open top bus go past and, just like in the movies, said “follow that bus!”

Thus ensued a very expensive taxi ride trying to find the bus, with a rather merry Hicksy on the phone telling me some landmarks they were passing that really didn’t help our driver (“a chip shop” “a pub called The Swan” “a young couple with a pram” etc) but somehow we caught up with them, only to find they had no beer left and Mr C still had the face on cos Hicksy had dropped the big shiny FA Cup he’d made for the kids off the top deck of the bus on the way to the game!

 

2006/7 season.

 

Those days can return if the club get taken over by the right people. Some of the rich fuddy duddy types our owners mix with will hopefully actually want to spend some money on a project. A project like taking a medium sized provincial club into the Premier League. In spite of the relegations and penny pinching I've never been more optimistic about the club one day returning to the Premier League. I know these owners don't want to pump loads in but they mix with bigger hitters that might do...one day.

It's a crumb of comfort I cling to anyway.

 

Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough, 82/83, League Cup fourth round.We played them off the park! Some very dubious refereeing and linesmen assisted them in a very undeserved 1-0 victory.
The year prior to that in the league was a 2-2 draw and it was a cracking game. I think there were a few harsh decisions against us that day too.

 

The final mission on Tony Hawks underground on the PS2 when you've got to combo the entire neighbourhood was pretty frustrating. I'm not ashamed to say I had to use the perfect balance cheat.

 

I used all the cheats to complete Doom 64.

 

I disagree, had we given it a go, we'd have lost by at least 5.

Poya was criticised at the time for this result, but it was the one time for me that his tactics actually seemed to work. It was dreadful to watch, but it wasn't until we over committed in the final third that Swansea actually got a clear sight of goal. With 10 minutes to go, they'd had 78% possession, and 2 shots off target. I still think we might have nicked that game 1-0 had we not lost our heads over a decision that didn't go our way with 10 minutes left.

 

When Romal Palmer lost concentration.

 

In fairness, I think Carlton Morris was guilty of that on that occasion too.

 

I agree with lots of the games people chose but this one still annoys me. Glavin scored with a header from a perfectly timed run and was given offside, there was a scramble near the end and Parker thought he’d scored. The linesman, Mr F A Hope, gave us offside so many times and was so infuriating I thought we were all going to invade the pitch.

 

Any of the teams who came and stuck ten men behind the ball for 89 minutes and got a break away goal for a 1-0 win with their only attack and only shot on target. The guilty parties include: Halifax Town (absolute Bete Noir); Hartlepools United; Port Vale. They were frustrating battles each time, the stress shown in the players' frantic efforts to break down the ranks of defenders and getting to the crowd as well. Not helped either when Alan Ball Snr kept throwing the ball back into the crowd to waste time. Ugly! Ugly! Ugly! I recall a player called Tony Flower getting Halifax's only goal in this sort of game. He was the only attacker and the other nine outfield players all just defended for 89 minutes. None of them could play football, but, the way they played, it didn't matter. Still angry now. Will be thinking about it all day now. Doh!

 

Bus Simulator '21 - I bought it to relax myself but the User interface is so frustrating I end up coming off it dreaming of going all Michael Douglas a la Falling Down.

Must be something about Ipswich I remember being at the front of the Ponty when we were 3 nil up against them with what seemed like a couple of minutes to go and we drew 3-3- 1995/96?

 

Barnsley v Notts County 2003/4 season. I remember us battering them but we could only score 1 goal. They scored a last minute equaliser. I can't remember if Tony Galimore or Dean Gorre missed a penalty in that game as well. I know we did something similar a couple of weeks later at home v Oldham and Chris Lumsdon definitely missed a penalty.

I'll always look back on that season fondly until Christmas. It was my first season going to away matches. I remember going to Chesterfield away and winning 0-2 and naively thinking it was some of the best football I'd seen. Glavin was on the coaching staff under Thordarsson. Unfortunately it all went wrong in January.

 

Altrincham away, FA Cup.

 

Wolves away 2007. New Years Day. Just a tepid performance. In fact most away games I went to under Simon Davey were.

 

All the ones mentioned were very frustrating and hard to pick one from different times .
One game I remember being very frustrating was at home to Graham Taylor’s at the time high flying and record breaking Lincoln city I think about 74:75 ish.
We were camped on the Lincoln last third and couldn’t score with even the often reliable Bob Doyle missing a penalty .
Lincoln scored from a breakaway and won one nil .
I remember walking out of Oakwell bemused at how we lost that game with the effort our players put in .