Worst Game Ever
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Inspired by my lad, who went to Rome to see the Roma Chelsea game at the beginning of November, which we lost 3-0. He stayed on for Lazio v Nice match a couple of days later. Lazio won 1-0, from an own goal. No shots on target or on goal from either side, he said it was the worst game he's ever seen, and he's seen a lot.
Anyway, this week he's been working in Moscow, so went to see Locomotive v Rubin Kazan today. 1-0 to Locomotive, reckons it was the 2nd worse game he's ever seen! Not having much luck.
Not sure I can name my worst ever game. Following Chelsea thru the 70s and 80s, I have a lot to choose from! Anyone else recall a game that was head and shoulders below the rest? Even better if you've travelled thousands of miles to watch it.
Anyway, this week he's been working in Moscow, so went to see Locomotive v Rubin Kazan today. 1-0 to Locomotive, reckons it was the 2nd worse game he's ever seen! Not having much luck.
Not sure I can name my worst ever game. Following Chelsea thru the 70s and 80s, I have a lot to choose from! Anyone else recall a game that was head and shoulders below the rest? Even better if you've travelled thousands of miles to watch it.
I go to Lazio more these days than I do West Ham, seen some awful on the field play but never care anyway as I'm usually pissed up int he Curva Nord.
I did however travel to Everton away on Wednesday night, probably the worst display i've ever seen West Ham put on, and I've seen some awful ones in the past.
I did however travel to Everton away on Wednesday night, probably the worst display i've ever seen West Ham put on, and I've seen some awful ones in the past.
Southampton 1 Arsenal 1 26th Feb 2005. Its embedded in my brain. The invinsibles, Vieira Henry, Pires, Ljungberg etc etc at their pomp, great game? Haha not a f
king chance, freezing cold it was like Antarctica at St Mary's, to add I was dieing with the flu, 90 minutes of direness watching David Prutton kicking every Arsenal player around the pitch, very little actual football, Prutton eventually getting sent off in the second half and a 10 match ban for a hideous foul on Pires. Very little else happened.
king chance, freezing cold it was like Antarctica at St Mary's, to add I was dieing with the flu, 90 minutes of direness watching David Prutton kicking every Arsenal player around the pitch, very little actual football, Prutton eventually getting sent off in the second half and a 10 match ban for a hideous foul on Pires. Very little else happened.Hahahahahaha, you lot are rank amateurs. All this guff about top level sides (someone mentioned a Premier League match for fks sake) being 'the worst game ever'.
Try Dorchester Town 1 - 1 Staines in the Skrill South 2013/14.
TUFC had loaned Nathan Craig and Ashley Yeoman to Dorchester to get matches into them. I went for the craic. There was no craic.
Alternatively Fleetwood 0-0 Torquay. A 650 mile round trip to watch Moneybags Fleetwood huff and puff their way to nil while we had no shots.
How about Accrington 1-0 Torquay. The first football league match in history with free entry for all and they STILL didn't fill the ground. Both sides desperate for the points to avoid the drop. It pissed it down all match, I was in the terrace with no roof (the only time I've ever got wet at football). Their ploughed field made football impossible. Absolutely nothing happens until the 93rd minute when our captain Lee Mansell makes a legitimate tackle where he clearly wins the ball. Ref gives a free kick and the most baffling straight red of all time. Accrington step up and mist the kick so badly it fools everyone and ends up in the back of the net. 5 hour trip home piss wet through.
Shanghai Shenhua v AFC Someone finished 1-1 in what was the slowest match I've seen. Cracking equaliser from the Someones, mind.
You'll never win this talking about matches broadcast on Sky, chaps, the standard of top level matches is simply too high.
ks sake) being 'the worst game ever'.Try Dorchester Town 1 - 1 Staines in the Skrill South 2013/14.
TUFC had loaned Nathan Craig and Ashley Yeoman to Dorchester to get matches into them. I went for the craic. There was no craic.
Alternatively Fleetwood 0-0 Torquay. A 650 mile round trip to watch Moneybags Fleetwood huff and puff their way to nil while we had no shots.
How about Accrington 1-0 Torquay. The first football league match in history with free entry for all and they STILL didn't fill the ground. Both sides desperate for the points to avoid the drop. It pissed it down all match, I was in the terrace with no roof (the only time I've ever got wet at football). Their ploughed field made football impossible. Absolutely nothing happens until the 93rd minute when our captain Lee Mansell makes a legitimate tackle where he clearly wins the ball. Ref gives a free kick and the most baffling straight red of all time. Accrington step up and mis
t the kick so badly it fools everyone and ends up in the back of the net. 5 hour trip home piss wet through.Shanghai Shenhua v AFC Someone finished 1-1 in what was the slowest match I've seen. Cracking equaliser from the Someones, mind.
You'll never win this talking about matches broadcast on Sky, chaps, the standard of top level matches is simply too high.
Northampton Town vs Macclesfield Town about 12 years ago at Sixfields. The week before I'd got back from a February break in Crakow where there were 6 ft snow drifts and temps well into minus figures.
Sixfields felt even colder. Chilled to the bone, couldn't stop trembling - so much so I was spilling my halftime bovril Football was awful from both sides. 0-0.
Sixfields felt even colder. Chilled to the bone, couldn't stop trembling - so much so I was spilling my halftime bovril Football was awful from both sides. 0-0.
October 2010 - an FA Cup first round match between Farnborough and Dover Athletic.
We'd held them to a draw in a decent game at home, well contested, etc.
Then I made the mistake of getting the coach to Dover for the Tuesday night replay. The Farnborough side that had given it everything in the first game seemed to have been replaced by extras from The Walking Dead. 5-0 at The Crabble in the end.
And the worst of it was that because I was on the supporters' coach, I couldn't even stop for a commiseratory large Doner Kebab on the way home.
Oh, and I once spent my birthday at Andover, for a Hampshire Senior Cup match. Late bloody November, and they had no hot food on, nor any decent coffee (Oxford City for the best matchday coffee). I damn near froze to death that night, and the football was so underwhelming that I can't remember the score or even who won, FFS! But at least there was a Kebab after that one...
We'd held them to a draw in a decent game at home, well contested, etc.
Then I made the mistake of getting the coach to Dover for the Tuesday night replay. The Farnborough side that had given it everything in the first game seemed to have been replaced by extras from The Walking Dead. 5-0 at The Crabble in the end.
And the worst of it was that because I was on the supporters' coach, I couldn't even stop for a commiseratory large Doner Kebab on the way home.
Oh, and I once spent my birthday at Andover, for a Hampshire Senior Cup match. Late bloody November, and they had no hot food on, nor any decent coffee (Oxford City for the best matchday coffee). I damn near froze to death that night, and the football was so underwhelming that I can't remember the score or even who won, FFS! But at least there was a Kebab after that one...
Presuming you've not been involved with Dover for a few years, I can tell you they're no better a club now they're big time Charlies.
Yet another with Crawley Town syndrome. They took Tyrone Marsh off us (what a terrible player he is) and agreed a fee. They didn't pay it on time, so when they played us later in the year, our chairman (not unreasonably, in my view) asked for the money. Dover's answer? We're not paying, if you want it, sue us.
They then broke our right back's leg in two places and effectively ended his promising career.
Horrible club from a dreadful place.
Yet another with Crawley Town syndrome. They took Tyrone Marsh off us (what a terrible player he is) and agreed a fee. They didn't pay it on time, so when they played us later in the year, our chairman (not unreasonably, in my view) asked for the money. Dover's answer? We're not paying, if you want it, sue us.
They then broke our right back's leg in two places and effectively ended his promising career.
Horrible club from a dreadful place.
ferrariF50lover said:
Presuming you've not been involved with Dover for a few years...
...horrible club from a dreadful place.
Couldn't agree more about the "dreadful place". It certainly filled me with dread when I travelled there to begin basic training at Old Park Barracks in 1987....horrible club from a dreadful place.
I've got to admit that due to being unemployed/retired for a few years, and having other interests, I've all but stopped following Farnborough FC. I've gone from being a season ticket holder and occasional volunteer, on first name terms with the chief exec, to not seeing a single game last year.
It must be a good 5 or so years since I saw them play Dover though.
Without getting all Monty Pythons Four Yorkshiremen on this....
5-1 Boxing day away at Scarborough in 2004, the main rivals of my team York City. It was cold, it was wet and we even had a player sent off for a second bookable offence. The offence was wasting time taking a throw in, when we where already losing. Its at 3:14 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYAVYDflGE0
Away at Stoke in the FA Cup 3rd round and I've never been so cold at a game of football before.
Then there is the 0-6 defeat away to Guiseley last season, that was something else. Power cuts and a complete surrender by our players on the pitch.
The worst home game was a boring, tedious FA Trophy game against Newport, 0-0 and near full time the game needed a goal to avoid extra-time. The sub 1,000 crowd all cheered when the winning goal went in, as we all got to leave and try to forget we'd ever been there.
5-1 Boxing day away at Scarborough in 2004, the main rivals of my team York City. It was cold, it was wet and we even had a player sent off for a second bookable offence. The offence was wasting time taking a throw in, when we where already losing. Its at 3:14 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYAVYDflGE0
Away at Stoke in the FA Cup 3rd round and I've never been so cold at a game of football before.
Then there is the 0-6 defeat away to Guiseley last season, that was something else. Power cuts and a complete surrender by our players on the pitch.
The worst home game was a boring, tedious FA Trophy game against Newport, 0-0 and near full time the game needed a goal to avoid extra-time. The sub 1,000 crowd all cheered when the winning goal went in, as we all got to leave and try to forget we'd ever been there.
i've seen some rubbish games and played in some as well.
but htis one sticks in the mind
https://www.11v11.com/matches/nottingham-forest-v-...
Forest (my favs) v Grimsby.
I had not long met a new lady and as we were doing everything together, she came to the match with me, which considering we live in Essex was impressive.
Despite us winning 3-1, we went 1-0 down fairly early, and despite the fightback, it was so cold and the game so boring, some guy was reading the sun newspaper at halftime, by mid second-half, the majority of A Block where we were sat was doing the crossword with him, him shouting out the clues and any letters, and us shouting out the answer.
but htis one sticks in the mind
https://www.11v11.com/matches/nottingham-forest-v-...
Forest (my favs) v Grimsby.
I had not long met a new lady and as we were doing everything together, she came to the match with me, which considering we live in Essex was impressive.
Despite us winning 3-1, we went 1-0 down fairly early, and despite the fightback, it was so cold and the game so boring, some guy was reading the sun newspaper at halftime, by mid second-half, the majority of A Block where we were sat was doing the crossword with him, him shouting out the clues and any letters, and us shouting out the answer.
I wasn't there (!), but watching this one on the box still rankles as the biggest waste of my time ever...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_European_Cup_Fi...
It could never have been that boring in real life, so could have only been a fix.
I played in a 22-2 defeat in some SW cup in darkest Cornwall, but one of our two goals was a Beckham-esque lob from inside our own half. Three seconds of joy in the worst 90 minutes of sporting participation ever.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_European_Cup_Fi...
It could never have been that boring in real life, so could have only been a fix.
I played in a 22-2 defeat in some SW cup in darkest Cornwall, but one of our two goals was a Beckham-esque lob from inside our own half. Three seconds of joy in the worst 90 minutes of sporting participation ever.
selym said:
I played in a 22-2 defeat in some SW cup in darkest Cornwall, but one of our two goals was a Beckham-esque lob from inside our own half. Three seconds of joy in the worst 90 minutes of sporting participation ever.
I played in a match once that we won 21-0, we had just put our 19th goal in, and as they went to kick off their captain shouted to the team 'keep your heads up lads we can get something out of this match' 10/10 for optimism
jesta1865 said:
selym said:
I played in a 22-2 defeat in some SW cup in darkest Cornwall, but one of our two goals was a Beckham-esque lob from inside our own half. Three seconds of joy in the worst 90 minutes of sporting participation ever.
I played in a match once that we won 21-0, we had just put our 19th goal in, and as they went to kick off their captain shouted to the team 'keep your heads up lads we can get something out of this match' 10/10 for optimism
jesta1865 said:
I played in a match once that we won 21-0, we had just put our 19th goal in, and as they went to kick off their captain shouted to the team 'keep your heads up lads we can get something out of this match'
10/10 for optimism
A mate of mine played in a game that they lost 22-0. A week later he was still moaning about the 14th goal being miles offside, and that was the turning point. Their heads dropped after that, and the ref had cost them the game. 10/10 for optimism
You’ve got to go to the conference or lower to watch appalling football itsno better than pub football sometimes and I should know I’ve been watching it for ten long years. The referee decisions are the only thing that keep you amused sometimes I swear they either don’t know the rules or aren’t watching the same game.
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