Most frustrating game ever?

You don't think it's bad then you clear the first act and then the map is the whole of bloody Greece!

 

Recall a game at home v Hull. Probs early 90s. We had 99.9% possession, 18 corners and a crushing inevitably that we would lose.

Which we did 0-2

 

Got to be this one.

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As others have said, difficult to beat the very flat performance again Cardiff in the Semi. Honourable mention to a 1-0 home loss against Birmingham (season?) on a very gusty day where we played much better than they did but eventually did a 'Barnsley' at let them escape with 3 points.

 

I found the two Swansea play off games really frustrating. A game of football never really broke out in either game. 180 minutes seemed to go by without anything really happening & we were out. They were just horrible, frustrating games.

 

Definitely Cardiff at Wembley. I have wanted us to get to a Cup Final as long as I’ve been watching football. Even more so than getting to the Premier League. I guess that’s cos I started watching football in the 70s, when the Cup was the most important thing in footy. I really thought we were going to win it, that this would be the reason that I had spent 30+ years of watching a team with relatively little success. And to lose in the style we did was criminal. We’d been at Wembley under Bassett and one thing was certain under Bassett, we wouldn’t lose a Wembley game by one goal.

How did we lose 1-0 to Cardiff?? Why weren’t our entire team camped on the edge of their area by the end? You either equalise or the opposition gets an easy goal cos of the lack of any outfield player within 70 yards of your own goal. There’s two minutes left to the biggest game in your career, you pillock. Send everybody forward, throw caution to the wind. Under Davey, Carlisle would have gone out of the league, cos Jimmy Glass would have been in his own 6 yard box.

Don’t think I’ve ever been as disappointed watching the Reds, and that’s not for the lack of them spending 45 years trying!

 

It was a poor performance and Odejayi's miss summed it up.

 

The worst thing about those two games was the biased Sky commentary. “Swansea were just too good for Barnsley”, they said, totally oblivious to the fact that we had just drawn at their place, having lost by one goal at ours, and wasn’t that goal offside? I seem to recall some controversy. The commentators made it sound like two 6 goal drubbings.

 

Yeah we never turned up. Dike seemed more interested in grappling with their centre back and was under scrutiny from the referee for much of the first leg which didn't help.

 

Agree with all of the games mentioned above - except maybe the Stockport County one @Stephen Dawson as I have no recollection of it at all!

I'd propose another: Reds 1 Wolves 3 in 1996/97. Having moved down to Wolverhampton years earlier and having loads of Wolves supporting mates, Wolves is always a big game for me, even more so given both teams were competing for the second promotion spot. It was therefore very frustrating and disappointing that on that day we didn't perform and they turned us over and I think many people thought that our chance of automatic promotion had gone.
It all turned out well in the end though! "Cheer up Mark McGhee, oh what can it mean........"

 

Fair dos. January 22nd 2005. Three times taken penalty 89th minute and it f c kin snowed.

 

Monopoly Christmas day

 

Barnsley 3 Bradford City 3. Season we got relegated to league 1 early 2000's. I think Steve parkin was manager. We were 3-1 up, 7 minutes to go and the retuning Ashley Ward scored to help them get a draw. I think we would have stayed up if we had won the game.

 

It certainly had a knock on effect. We were trying to re-sign him at the time too.

 

As did the players seemingly downing tools following that miss. It was several years before I ever watched that miss again, and it was worse than I had remembered it. I’ve not watched it since.

 

Me neither. Never cried as much after a game.

 

Yeah, was at that. I'd concur or Moncur...

"Iley out" probably started around then.

 

Was that at the start of '89, a few days after we'd won 2-3 away at Shrewsbury on New years eve ?.

 

I agree with almost all of the games already mentioned, although I don't know about some because I wasn't a fan then (the 3-4 v Exeter for example).

One which really disappointed me was in Feb '91, near the end of a horrible winter, and the Gulf war had recently started!.
We played Everton in the Full Members/Zenith cup Qtr final, and just didn't turn up on the night. A Final at Wembley was the incentive of course, and even more so because the Semi final would have been 2 legs against Leeds.
Remember how peed off we were when they put us out of the Fa cup in a replay, and they clearly had the ref George Courtenay in their back pocket.
Everton strolled to a 0-1 win on the night despite not being at full strength, because of a pile up of postponed fixtures they had to get through at the time.