The games that really choked you

[broadsword]

Today has totally murdered me. It's made me think of the times that rovers have really brought me low.

Palace eighty nine George bloody Courtney, glad all over and going into second leg with a healthy lead. Just absolutely unreal

Sheffield Wednesday cup semi in ninety three. We'd just signed Anderson and I was hopeful of a trip to Wembley 

Leicester at home in ninety two or was it ninety one. I can still remember Russell getting that lucky bounce off mimms, all these years later. We needed a win to get back on track but we lost again

The champions League campaign, the first portent that we were on the slide. Trelleborgs at home was a dead rubber. Great expectations come to nought

Thecup semi against Chelsea, Morten missing An easy header 

Defeat against Burnley always hurts of course .

 

think that's it

 

 

 

[roverandout]

England v Italy final. World Cup 98 v Argentina.  The defeat to Chelsea in the fa cup. 

[broadsword]

Well if you're going to include England, then Argentina eighty six, and West Germany 90

[Herbie6590]

Palace away is the one but I was listening on radio whilst at a wedding so doesn’t really count. 

Chelsea FAC S/F.

Bristol Rovers away even though we won. If you know, you know. 

 

[Oldgregg86]

6 minutes ago, Herbie6590 said:

Palace away is the one but I was listening on radio whilst at a wedding so doesn’t really count. 

Chelsea FAC S/F.

Bristol Rovers away even though we won. If you know, you know. 

 

What if your one of the ones that doesn’t know ?

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

England v Brazil 1970, best we’ve ever played against the best team there’s ever been and we should have had a draw.

England v West Germany 1970 in the same comp. A bit like today really. Cruising and then it all blew up.

[Dreyski]

The game against Forest in ‘99 that effectively sent us down.

 

The Man U game when Smith/Saha handballed and scored.

[rigger]

Shrewsbury away seven goal massacre. Sir Roger getting injured, the Don going in goal.

[M_B]

2 hours ago, Herbie6590 said:

Palace away is the one but I was listening on radio whilst at a wedding so doesn’t really count. 

Chelsea FAC S/F.

Bristol Rovers away even though we won. If you know, you know. 

 

Courtney's face when he came out at Bradford was a picture. It was the first match he reffed after the Palace match. He genuinely looked surprised at the barrage he got. 

He made up for it at Wembley I suppose. 

[broadsword]

There was a home game against Brighton, I think he was trying to even things up. He sent three of their lads off including the goalie 

[Herbie6590]

4 hours ago, Oldgregg86 said:

What if your one of the ones that doesn’t know ?

Ask an old bugger like me to explain... 😆

[Herbie6590]

4 hours ago, Oldgregg86 said:

What if your one of the ones that doesn’t know ?

We had to win at Bristol Rovers to have a chance of promotion to the 1st Division. It would have been back to back promotions under Howard Kendall. The problem was that PNE needed to stop Swansea winning at Deepdale...and...

 

Just look at Faz's expression at full time...tells you the story in full. 

[rigger]

4 hours ago, Oldgregg86 said:

What if your one of the ones that doesn’t know ?

On the same day as we won at Bristol, Preston couldn't hold Swansea at Dumpdale. Swansea went up, we didn't.

[all you need is duff]

Leeds away on Boxing Day a few years ago. We scored a last minute winner then lost 

[roverandout]

19 minutes ago, all you need is duff said:

Leeds away on Boxing Day a few years ago. We scored a last minute winner then lost 

How can we score a last minute winner then lose

[simongarnerisgod]

football wise iv`e never felt as low as after the palace game,mainly because palace were terrible in the first leg and we patently bottled the game at selhurst park

england losing to germany in the 1990 world cup was pretty devasting as well,we matched the best german side ever only to lose on a bloody penalties then had to watch the final,one of the worst games iv`e ever seen

[roverandout]

Euro 96. That near near miss from gazza. I thought we were pretty shit through the whole tournament but we came so close to making the final 

[oldjamfan1]

20 minutes ago, roverandout said:

How can we score a last minute winner then lose

What he means is we scored what should have been a last minute winner then lost. Leeds somehow managed to reply with two further goals in injury time. Speaking of which the 2-2 draw v City when we were 2-0 up in the 90th minute in one of Sam’s early games in charge was a sickener but I agree that nothing comes close to Palace, not even Bristol Rovers.

Edited March 19, 2023 by oldjamfan1

[Mike E]

8 minutes ago, oldjamfan1 said:

What he means is we scored what should have been a last minute winner then lost. Leeds somehow managed to reply with two further goals in injury time. Speaking of which the 2-2 draw v City when we were 2-0 up in the 90th minute in one of Sam’s early games in charge was a sickener but I agree that nothing comes close to Palace, not even Bristol Rovers.

Matt Derbyshire never (or rarely) played for us again after that.

[Leonard Venkhater]

5 hours ago, Oldgregg86 said:

What if your one of the ones that doesn’t know ?

Rumsfeld Rovers!

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

10 minutes ago, Mike E said:

Matt Derbyshire never (or rarely) played for us again after that.

Quite right too. Even school boys don’t make mistakes like that. It cost us a win a well deserved win.

[jim mk2]

The worst ever:

England v West Germany, World Cup 1970. 

2-0 up and lost 3-2. Absolutely harrowing. Still hurts now. 

For Rovers, there's been so many overs the years and today was as bad as any

[Leonard Venkhater]

36 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Quite right too. Even school boys don’t make mistakes like that. It cost us a win a well deserved win.

I think Sam G did a similar thing v PNE, which arguably relegated us..

[roverandout]

 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

14 minutes ago, roverandout said:

 

It doesn’t show the Derbyshire dropped bollock on that.