There are some 1-0 wins that were memorable, such as Geo's free kick against Spurs, but I was talking about the performances rather than how high the scoring was. The debate was about a drab 1-0 win over anything else and I don't think that we should ever be happy with drab games, we should always be trying to entertain.
A manager who loses more than he wins (entertaining or not) soon gets shown the door and is replaced by someone looking first to win games. It always reverts back to a "results business".
One of the best games for me was losing 2 - 3 to stoke city at BP in the fa cup infront of over 40,000 Waggy scoring past gordon banks twice and my dad stood with me on Bunkers A brilliant day
Much as I enjoyed that I would have preferred a scrappy 1-0 win and a semi-final and not having to wait over 40 years for one.
It's about both, performance and results, the balance is found by skilful management and will not always on the same day. If 1-0 wins would do it then that's fine as long as there is performance or you might as well play behind-closed-doors and forget about really good larkers, as they will move to something else that they will enjoy and not Groundhog Day football.
That is one of my all time memories. Stood to the left of that goal. He made Banks look like a Sunday league player rather than an England international. What a talent.
If we played "the worst football" seen by any team in history with 10 players permanently camped on our goal line and we still managed to win every game 1 - 0, surely that's going to be entertaining in some way? I mean, what's going on in the match for us to be so lucky so many times? And what is the worst football in history going to look like? Mis-kicks. Air-shots. Players running into each other. And we won 1 - 0. Entertaining, I reckon. You've clearly not thought this through.
Great day Evington. My point was sometimes even a defeat can be special. You must have been nr me n my dad And loads of stoke fans
The 4-3 at Leeds away sticks in my mind too. I get tired of watching crap games myself but when it's City I'm usually not too bothered as I am just happy to be at the match unless the game is truly dire and not many really are
Newcastle have won the appeal over Colochini's red card @ Sunderland. Rather late for that now isn't it ref. Robert Madley
The Hull City side of that era never played for scrappy 1-0 wins, and almost every game was entertaining to watch.
Indeed. I don't think it was a red, but there is an element of subjectivity to it, so the refs' association probably won't be best chuffed to see it overturned. The Newcastle handball shout was bollocks, btw. Never a penalty in a million years, even if it was ****ermole.
Maybe. But that season we had 8 games we won 1-0 that season. And some 0-0 draws. Yet it is remembered as a great season. Certainly my favourite season. Perhaps itbwas being 20 and stood on Bunkers and going to,all the away games, something not many did then.
It should never have been a red card and the awarding of a penalty for leaning at pace makes a mockery of what can be seen at every corner. It was a massively critical decision and it was wrong. No handball at the other end, but the trailing arm was blatant obstruction, even though it happens all of the time.
