We’ve got a lot of worthy mentions. Too many to list but definitely think your list captures the “essence”, unfortunately.
I'm going for the 9-0 for several reasons. First of all we had a competent PL team back then (we finished 11th) unlike now. So the 9-0 was a complete shellshock. So in a season where we got 52 points and got some great results, that 9-0 was just woeful. That team we had should never have lost 9-0 at home to Leicester, even if we were down to 10 men early on.
I sympathise with this post, as I’m pretty sure I was there. I’m also pretty sure it was at the Dell though…
See for me that’s what makes it not so bad. We had a man sent off and we were an alright team. It was just a “freak result”. For me, Brentford this weekend signifies that we are consistently horrific and going to get battered every week…So it’s much worse than the 9-0s. The worst I have ever felt is the Forest defeat under Jones. If that was available I’d have voted for that. For me that was unforgivable. Against a relegation rival, in a six pointer and I don’t think we even managed a shot? I knew we’d get smashed by Brentford as soon as I saw the team. They’re a very good side. The pathetic performance against Forest was much worse for me as we should have been equal with them on paper.
Wasn't it 2-2 over 90 minutes? That's a reasonable scoreline against a better team. Sh*t just got weird in extra time.
That was our first season in League 1 and that result could have been that we were totally out played rather than giving up. The reason being, I have watched all of those players at some point and I never watched any of them give up during a game like we did on Saturday as a complete team.
That was utterly horrendous but can't class it as our worst performance after going 3-0 up. Probably our worst 17 minutes though.
I was staying in a hotel in Cornwall that night for work and myself and a colleague watched this game in the bar. It was very quiet and there were only 3 other people in that night. Once we had gone 2-0 up I had revealed myself as a saints fan through my goal celebrations. It soon transpired that the other 3 guys in the bar were Spurs fans! You can imagine the smug looks I got at the end
I agree. It was just an interesting coincidence that having attended both matches with a similar result that struck me. In those days players weren’t under quite the same seasonal discipline that the modern player is and I suspect that might have explained what, at the time, seemed a bizarre result. The big difference between then and after Saturday is you somehow knew that was not likely to reoccur next week, this lot you know it probably will.
The 6-0 against Chelsea in 2022 is the only time I've left a game early, as it happens. When the sixth went in after about 55 minutes, I just headed for the station. I needed to get back to London and the thought of being stuck on a train full of the awful Chelsea fanbase bouncing up and down and being boisterous just made me more annoyed. As it happened, I ended up on an empty train back to London, with a table seat and had a nice spot of food on the way. Highlight of the day Brentford on Saturday was as bad as I've seen it *since then. At least in the Champ when we shipped goals we looked like doing something ourselves, only to shoot ourselves in the foot. There was none of that on Saturday *I missed Tottenham due to the ridiculous KO time on a Sun night
I will say, and it's not me trying to say I'm better than anyone else ... is I've still never left the ground early, no matter how badly we were performing. I deserve a ****ing knighthood
