Another boring Tuesday at work so on a similar theme to yesterday. When have you been most gutted watching Saints? Mine might seem a strange one but it was the 76/77 season when we were home to Olympic Marseille in the Cup Winners Cup. Night match. Great atmosphere and we looked like going through before our hopes were dashed late on. Remember feeling gutted for days! What games have left you devastated?
2006/07 season. Loosing to Derby County on penalties in the Championship Playoff Semi-Final. Probably the most gutted I have ever been after a Saints match. All the hard work to get to that position went down the drain and the thought of having to do it all over again in the same league the following season was just horrible (even though we were no where near the playoffs in 07/08!). I feel for any team in any league that looses in the playoffs, it's probably one of the hardest things to take. Also, loosing 4-3 against Tranmere in the cup a few years before that sticks in my mind aswell. We were 3-0 up at half-time.
So many games to choose from!!!! The game that made me angriest was the 4.3 loss to Tranmere after being 3.0 up. Also a couple of games under Redknapp where we threw games away and were subsequently relegated.
April 2005, a saints team managed by Harry Redknapp was followed by around 2000 fans decked out in yellow and determined to create a carnival atmosphere, all the way to Blackburn. The fans sang from the first minute to the last. The team rolled over and were made to look sh*t, losing 3-0 against a very poor Blackburn team. At the final whistle, not one single Southampton player could bring themselves to acknowledge the fantastic away support. This game destroyed my belief in the power of the crowd as the mythical “twelfth man”. I’ve been watching saints since the 80’s and I’ve seen some dire performances, but that is the closest I’ve come to thinking “Why do I bother?”
Just to rub salt into those Derby play-off wounds, the fact that in any other competition we'd have already done enough to win on away goals made it even more of a sickener.
The FA Cup final a few years back was a bit gutting. Arsenal were very poor, maybe made to look poor by the Saints, Marsden was a legend. Ormerod nearly scored a blinder. Then Pires popped up with about Arsenal's only decent chance and scored what turned out to be the winner Was also peeved by the Redknapp failures. When we kept getting the result against Norwich in the run in and then letting them back in etc.
Losing 4-1 to Portsmouth in 2005. I went straight to bed when it finished (about 2 in the afternoon). The 4-3 defeat to Leeds (where we were 3-0 up with 20 mins left) was the only match where I've ever left early
Being 2-0 up against middlesbrough in the prem with 90 mins on the clock at st marys , but good old saints somehow letting Stewart Downing score twice in the dying seconds to get a draw .
Beating Spurs 2 nil at half time in FA cup then losing 6-2 thanks to Ronnies hatrick............i was gutted beyond belief
OMG, how long have you got?! After due thought, and having been at that Tranmere 4-3 and a lot of the others on here I would go for these 3: 3rd place: 2005 losing 2-1 to United to finally go down. It was such a toothless performance Runner up: 1984 losing 1-0 to Everton in the last minute of the semi-final. We dominated the game and then Adrian Heath (not the biggest player of all time) scored with a header against Dave Watson (England's massive centre half) and Peter Shilton. Had we won we'd have won the FA Cup that year and finished as league runners up The winner is 1974 at Goodison Park. We had to win to have any chance of staying up and romped in 3-0. Now we needed already relegated Norwich to win at Birmingham - and as our final whistle went we heard that Norwich were 1-0 up. We started to celebrate - and then came the news that the Blues had scored twice and we were going down.
That own goal by Best was amazing (has anyone got the clip of it!) I still cannot work out how he managed it! We also gave away a stupid penalty :s...
Only had a season ticket for the last few season but one sticks in the mind. Loosing 2-1? to Forest in our relegation season, fans were fighting in the stands and thats when the realisation dawned that our youth team just wasnt up to it, and we would be going down to the third teir just years after being in the prem. Horrible sinking feeling and such a negative mood at the club poles apart from now.
