If that's the game I'm thinking of the score was 1-5 because we did threaten briefly to turn it around after half time and Buszacky got one back. I remember Adel getting a standing ovation when he was inexplicably subbed. I agree with the Everton one first game of the season after we wuz robbed of the title. Real shock because we still had our team then which had won 17 and lost none of our 21 home games the season just gone, they had a man sent off and if my memory's not playing tricks on me we also missed a penalty! The one that was harder to take was when Everton did it to us again the following year by 5-1. By then Sibley had dismantled the team and Dave Thomas created at least three of the Everton goals by pinpoint crosses. We were a shadow of the team that we had been 15 months earlier. We knew then that it was going to be long hard winter. Yet miraculously we just about survived that season. Then Steve Burtenshaw finished off what Sibley had started and we bowed out of the top flight with a whimper. Why oh why do we keep signing football managers who come from the North London clubs? It never ends well. Les Allen, Burtenshaw, Houston/Rioch, Redknapp. Aah Shouldn't have said that with Ramsey and Ferdinand in charge.
I still have nightmares of thousand chanting from the school end...'4-0 to the sheep shaggers!' Horrible night...and they were so smug singing their way down the road on the way back to the station. I know we'd have been the same if it was the other way round, but so horrible being on the losing side.
December 2012 v Liverpool, I payed £63 a seat to watch a woefully inept display that saw us ripped apart by Suarez in a 3-0 defeat.
Cheers Eternal I had blocked that from my memory. Made even worse if possible by nightmare roadworks on the A40, in Christmas week.
Seem to remember losing 2 seasons in a row to Chelsea in the early 80's - and they took the loft. We got revenge at their place winning 2-0 the season we went up. Any home game involving Tony Scully, epitomised the wilderness years in division 2 for me.
Late nineties I took a pal who was a rugby league fan and had no interest in football to his first ever football match, at LR, to watch us lose against Port Vale 0-1 (think it was the season after the 4-4 game, so hopes were high of some entertainment) - it was dire to say the least and he's never forgiven me, always brings it up in conversation saying that both myself and the club owe him 90minutes of his life as it was such a waste of his Saturday - needless to say, he's never been to a game with me since!
December 2009 v Middlesbrough We had a nightmare journey down from Norfolk, some pikeys had stolen the signalling cable at Chelmsford and as a result trains were cancelled and delayed. It took four hours to get from Norwich to Liverpool Street and we had to stand all the way. We arrived at Loftus Road 15 minutes after kick off and when the score was still 0-0, it was downhill from there and we lost 5-1. The return journey was a repeat of the journey down standing all the way, and I got home after midnight, a great day was had by all.
If memory serves Boro hadn't won for a while and had only scored a few times all season, and their manager, Strachan I think it was, was mooted for the sack. I had decided to go horse racing at Sandown - so I had the good fortune to miss this one. So I will nominate the 0-4 in 2002 against Cardiff instead, and I think Earnsure got all 4. Also the Swans 0-5
I remember Ipswich at home & was 3-0 down at h/t & it could have been 6, the worst first half performance I can remember, think it ended up 3-1.
0-0 Blackburn, nothing happened. I think maybe 1 tackle and a shot. Couple of years back. 90 mins never to be seen again.
V M at home and also Forest in F A Cup. Forest away Nigel Clough's 30 second hat trick! Oxford in Final. Am I finding a theme her ...cups? Fulham away 6-0. Or was it 6-1 I had lost interest by 70 mins. Tottenham and WHU away last year were soul destroying. Port Vale away with their striker cupping his ear to us, Griffiths I think was his name. Play off defeat to Cardiff. Must be some dating back to the 70's and 80's but not as raw as the above.
Also nominate a turgid 0-0 against Plymouth, think it was the last game of the season either 06/07 or 07/08 when Ainsworth was in charge.....nothing happened during the game and I came away thinking that was 2 hours that i would never get back......
86 v Oxford after beating forest, watford, scum away (robbo from half way line) & scousers in semi (stoning supporters club train home...cause they cldnt nick the wheels!!).....wasnt there also a 0-6 v arse (home fa cup)....mid-late 90's
I remember that Arsenal cup game, took my arsenal supporting wife. By the end she was feeling sorry for us. First time Ashley Cole made a name for himself, tore us to pieces that day.
0-0 at home to Barnsley in the 90's,it was the biggest pile of dross from both teams that I can recall.I actually felt suicidal for a few hours afterwards,truly depressing fare!
QPR 2 Bristol city 1 I believe it was Paul Harts last game in charge, abysmal we ended up with 3 centre halfs and 3 fullbacks and cries of "6 at the back your having a laugh" we won and i hated every minute of the bloody game
Interesting how few Cup games have been mentioned. Suppose we're used to it and everyone now understands that Cup matches in the early rounds (our stalking ground) are reserved for experiments and giving fringe players a run out. Going back to when the Cup games meant something I remember losing at home to Plymouth 3-0 in 1973(?) when a full strength side simply did not turn up. Pity because that was just before the quarter finals. Time of the power cuts and 3 day week. On the Saturday we did turn up playing Liverpool at home. Fabulous 2-2 draw with Frank McLintock equalising late on with what was probably his only ever goal from outside the area in the gloom at about 3.45 as the game had been brought forward an hour. Nobody was allowed to switch on the floodlights. I'm convinced to this day that Clemence didn't see it until it was too late. It was unusual for us to lose a Cup game to lower league opposition in those days
