Your lowest moment supporting the Toon?

Relegation without a doubt, followed by watching us get beat on pen's by Partizan Belgrade and the two most recent cup finals ( especially the 2nd one... gut wrenching)

 

A low point for theToon, but a great sporting moment for football fans was the defeat at Hereford (then in the Southern League) in the early 1970's. There was no promotion, as such, from the Southern League so Hereford were real minnows and they defeated the might of Newcastle United.

The game was all the more remarkable for the state of the pitch and the wonderful goal by Ronnie Radford which sparked wild celebrations and a pitch invasion.

This is how football used to be!! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-ze42I6NEo

 

A very low point for NUFC, took a long time to get over it.

 

It was a huge result at the time, made remarkable by that goal. Another spectacular result from that era was the mighty Leeds United (and they were mighty then) losing 3-2 to Colchester United.

 

Here is the Leeds clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuVilFJ9NoU

Sorry to veer fom the main thread!

 

Lowest point was obviously relegation
2nd lowest, just might be the hiring of Graeme SOuness. That fool was about to be sacked by Blackburn and the bloody board Shepherd I think, went to sign him on a fat 4-year contract. Great job breaking up our squad of young,talented players - Bellamy, Robert, Solano, Dyer etc... and even get rid of them 1 by 1

 

1995/1996 we battered Manu all game with schmiecal saving everything we could throw at em and then cantona at the back post.... The turning point in history for me at how cruel ootball can b.......

 

When we were 0-2 down at home to Wigan in our first season up. We'd lost to Blackpool and Stoke at home in a row, and when it looked like were about to lose to Wigan, I literally felt tears starting to emerge from my eyes, because I really felt at that point that all our hard work in the championship was going to be in vain, and we'd get relegated, and I could only see us going downhill from there. Forunately we managed to pull two goals back, including a last minute header from Colo.

Relegation was bad, but from the Championship season is when I really felt truly in love with the Toon.

 

Proud moments Tash to see a group of players and manager pull together in such adversity. Every man and beast telling us that we'd be down there for a while and it takes years to recover. The owner was still fumbling round in the dark ****ing things up. I'll forever be grateful to Hughton and that band of players who took things into their own hands, took pride in our great club and simply refused to let all the outside pressures keep us down. There were some dark days but they gave us something to get behind.

 

03 April 1996 L'pool 4 Newcastle 3,even to this day I'm still not over it even refuse to watch it or discuss it,I took that one bad and still do

 

Just to refresh the memory or tell the story for the 1st time to younger members, here's a little something about the game. Good for Liverpool fans and neutrals, but not so good for us.
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On 3 April 1996, Liverpool faced Newcastle United in a Premier League fixture at Anfield, during the 1995–96 season. Liverpool won the match, scoring four goals to Newcastle's three. The winning goal was scored by striker Stan Collymore in the second minute of stoppage time. Before the match, both clubs had lost their previous fixtures but still had a chance of winning the league and wanted to close the gap between themselves and leaders Manchester United. Newcastle United, who were 12 points ahead in January, had suffered from poor performance throughout March, winning one match out of four that month. Liverpool had won six of their last nine league games during February and March, scored the most goals and conceded the fewest until this match.

Liverpool started the match as the more promising team and striker Robbie Fowler scored the first goal. Newcastle striker Les Ferdinand scored the equaliser in the tenth minute and winger David Ginola added a second for Newcastle four minutes later. Fowler scored early in the second-half to reduce Newcastle's lead but Faustino Asprilla restored their goal advantage in the 57th minute. Stan Collymore, who set up the opening goal for Liverpool, equalised for Liverpool in the 68th minute. In stoppage time, Collymore scored his second goal of the match involving a one-two with Ian Rush and John Barnes in the build up. The winner sparked jubilant scenes for Liverpool supporters at Anfield and consigned Newcastle to their second consecutive defeat in the league, reducing their chances of winning the league.

The match is considered to be the best Premier League game in the history of the competition. Newcastle's manager Kevin Keegan described it as a "classic",[1] while Liverpool manager Roy Evans said "the entertainment value was up there with the best".[1] In 2003, the game was awarded the Match of the Decade award on behalf of the Premier League, which was celebrating its tenth anniversary. The result influenced the league championship; the leaders Manchester United lost only one more match that season and retained the title.[2]

 

Reading these over just brings new ones to mind.

Being the only person in a London pub wearing a newcastle shirt as the score against Man U went from 1-0 up towards 6 -1 down, with everyone in the pub giving me grief about each Man U goal. Had to walk out of the pub at about 4-1 down. After a couple of blocks I popped into another one in the hopess that things might look up. left that pub at 5- 1 and another a few minutes later.

Unpleasant

 

The pain,the pain make it go away and who can forget that image of KK slumped over the hoarding at full time,he summed it up perfectly on how we all felt

 

A lead pellet for the right ear?

 

In a way last week's game was one of the low points as we just seemed to surrender our footballing principles.

 

Yeah, but that was jsut a run of the mill, common or garden moment of profound disillusionment. There have been hundreds of those. In a couple of weeks, it will just blend in with the rest.

 

Row A

 

Oh, the Liverpool game. You know, for all his great servitude to the club and deserved place as one of the very best, there was no way in hell Peter Beardsley should have been on that pitch past the 60th minute, let alone the 90th. But a horrible, horrible end to a game. Losing to Villa to go down, though, is probably the most profound result which encapsulated and summed up everything about that early part of Ashley's tenure. From Wise, to Kinnear, to "For Sale", to Sports Direct, relegation and that result - an own goal from yet another overpaid pile of crap - sickened me to the very core.

In terms of cups, it's almost as if every year we surrender a cup fixture. Even late-90's, we flummoxed our way to finals only to forget to turn up. I'll never forget vs Man U, when Nicky Butt was all but wearing red...but even recently, you look at Brighton, or Stevenage - our cup 'heritage' is pretty sickening.

UEFA Cup vs Marseille was pretty poor, but again just part of our cup culture where with absolute certainty we will eventually forget to turn up for a match. That's why we'll never win one.

Off the pitch, the day SJH stepped aside for the mother of all fckups, Frederick Shepherd. The purchase of Michael Owen was a dark day. As was the sale of Andy Cole - probably the single most emotional transfer I've experienced, even ahead of losing Gascoigne, Beardo and Waddle.

 

The relegation was tough, but I really enjoyed the 3 seasons after it (not so keen on this one so far), so it's difficult to think of it as a bad thing now. Gave the club a good way to rebuild and get rid of the mercenaries we'd employed before. The Championship season in particular I liked because it was so different to anything we'd seen in recent years before that. Steamrolling teams, and the start of the good atmosphere from the team that we have now (Although again this season that seems to have dipped).

 

I was at both finals. Then the Cardiff semi. All bad but great days of fun. But the makems getting promoted by default hurt as we were miles ahead in the points. But after slaughtering Man U at home and schmeichel playing a blinder to deny us and Cantona getting a misskicked goal. Hurt biggest. It cost us the prem.