The worst game ever was City V Crew around the early sixties, 1800 fans in a stadium that held over 40000 and city lost 1-0 with the only shot in the whole game. On top of that I had a scrap with a chap who said I was stood in his place, I lost that as well.
really ? surely there are many many games, possibly hundreds from the Dolan or Hatley eras that were worse
I saw a few. Half remember a game during that season when Doncaster were relegated from the league, I think it was a 0-1 loss at home to Lincoln or York. Easily the worst City performance I've ever seen. I laugh a lot when idiots talk about a 3-0 loss in the Championship as a real low point and I'm relatively young. Another was during the season we were relegated from Division Two in 1995/96. We hadn't won for ages. Richard Peacock scored twice, including a really good free-kick I seem to recall to put us 2-0 up. We were cock-a-hoop but then they scored 3 times before half time and beat us 5-2. Talk about hopes being shattered. Last one was a game with Macclesfield in about 1999. First game I ever took my missus too. It was freezing and the game was a dire nil all draw and I don't use that word dire lightly. It was horrendous. If either team had a shot, I'd be surprised.
Mmmmmm saw some dire stuff over the years but the first half display against Rhyl in the FA cup was a low point, very low. 1961 I think.
We lost 4-0 to Luton at the end of 2001/02, completely outclassed and one of the worst i saw at BP. Remember that season having a few poor home games from Christmas onwards. Macclesfield the following season is up there too.
Can't remember what year, think Brian Little might have been in charge, playing Blackpool and we were garbage. Richard Sneekes was playing, well he was on the pitch anyway, Brabin and Goodison had to be seperated after Brabs grabbed Goody round the throat. We lost 1-0. 3-0 Defeat at home to Macclesfield around the same time was another one. Glennon and Whittle bumping into each other and Clive Platt rolling the ball into an empty net was the highlight of that game!
I've watched some complete rubbish over the years, but the match that left me most annoyed and wishing I'd never gone, was Burnley away the season before last. We were robbed that night, a penalty awarded for someone falling over, a brilliant Geo free kick disallowed and then to add insult to injury, Geo gets sent off. Shocker.
City fans travelled well hat day and made a great noise. I started in 1995 but never went again until 2000/ 01 so my memories are quite short. But in that time i'd have to say i've seen alot of crap games. My first against Coventry in 1995 in the league cup wasn't a classic by any means. From memory most of the matches we played against Macclesfield were poor i.e. the cup match, the 1-3 night match where we scored first but got considerably dicked on as the night progressed. Worst part of that night was their player lobbing Glennon. Moving a season forward, watching City start the 2001/ 02 so well only for our season fall to bits, culminating in a poor end of season, and in particular results such as losing to Scunny (including Mr Andy Dawson) and their fans giving it the big'un was depressing. I'd say the worst was the last match at BP where the match never lived up to the occassion. We all wanted City to go out and beat the opposition infront of a great crowd. What we got was a team lacking in confidence, going through the motions and a truely amaturish display of finishing. Just watched the highlights on AmberNectar's Youtube site and some of the misses make you pull your hair out. Got a bit of the pitch though.
Well said. My bit of the pitch was a few blades of grass, which I sellotaped into a scrapbook. Only one has survived, and it's now all shriveled and brown.
*Pedant alert* That wasn't the last senior fixture. That came on the 8th of October 2003 v Barnsley reserves. *as you were*
I remember watching distraughtly from Kempton as we lost 3-0 to eventual champions Notts County in the first game of 97/98. Watching Trevitt and Mann look like pub team players that day makes me think of this Family Guy clip:
Back to the maths on Febbos geezers post and OLM's approximations with about 38,200 empty places how can you be stand in someones place?
I think for me it was against Torquay. Can't recall the year but we were 3-1 up into injury time and Torquay managed to score twice, of all the kicks to the knackers I've had supporting city that rates quite highly. Another was Shrewsbury away, I was living in Cheshire so thought I'd 'pop' to the game got lost in Shrewsbury, missed the first 25 mins by which point we were 2 nil down, then I got a ****ing flat tyre on the way home and it was pissing it down. Proper ****ter!
Thats exactly what I said to the fellow. There was 38000 free places to stand how could I be in his place. He said " I stand there every week even in the reserves". Fortunately for me there was a policeman close by (for crowd control) or I may have suffered seriuous injury. I think the chap was crazy. The reason I lost was that I gave in and moved.
I remember us losing 4-0 at half-time to Stoke in the eighties, Beagrie tore us to shreds, might have been Nicky Brown at full-back but whoever was just awful, think Mcshane and three times as bad that. Rambo Billy got a goal back in the second half I think.