Games you’ll simply never get over

CGP1 said:
The Northern Final with Bolton at home, denied by an awful decision, watching them celebrating on the pitch. Thinking at the time it was probably the best chance I'd ever have of seeing Pool at Wembley.

Fortunately the last bit's been put right with interest over the years, but that game hurt like hell.
Click to expand...
I remember feeling exactly the same
That it would be my only chance to see my team at Wembley.
NASA have recently declared that Russell coughlins penalty from the first leg has now passed out of our solar system
 
FY4MIKEH said:
Losing 3-2 to Manure after leading 2-0 at half time and having a stonewall penalty turned down. The first time I've felt physically sick after a game.
Click to expand...
Agree 100% FY4
In fact there were just 25 mins left when we were denied that pen
I Know it is all ifs and buts but that 3 points could have saved us.
Remember getting home and watching Sky Sports and all the pundits said it was a nailed on penalty.
 
20togo said:
In time you do get over all the games but that Bradford one was took a fair while to do.
Click to expand...
What I distinctly remember about that game 20’s was the drive home and Chris Kamara was being interviewed on the radio. He said. “We knew we would win!” which I find amazing because we absolutely smashed them in the first leg which I remember very well because I was meant to be collecting a “freebie” ticket but when I got to the ticket office it wasn’t there so I spent the full game amongst the Bradford fans.
Extremely hard to control you’re emotions when your team is playing so well 😂
 
Surprised Sunderland away last game of the 1974 season hasn't got a mention.
I was at the reserves with my dad when the old boy changed the away number on letter A to a 1 met by loud cheers from the much larger than norm reserve crowd. A win would have taken us back to the old Div 1. Not far from the end the phone rang, silence. The old git changed the home nil to a 1 😩. We managed to rescue a 2-1 defeat from the jaws of victory. My trembling voice went up a few octaves on the journey home 😪
 
Walnut said:
Away at Walsall last game of the season. Guessing it was early 80s . Party atmosphere but missed out on promotion
Click to expand...
Early 90s, we had slaughtered every one up until that game. 3 sides of the ground filled with Pool fans expecting automatic promotion and we never turned up, lost 2-0.
 
Thanks for stirring up these grim memories.

I was too strong in my criticism of Russell Coughlin; RIP.

As for the City equaliser, nowadays one of the players would just fall over and a free kick or penalty would’ve been awarded.
 
Tangman74 said:
Vs Man City 1988? One of my first games with my dad - man cities last minute equalise had me in pieces !!
Oh yeah - Dave bambers horrendous penalty vs Torquay play offs
Click to expand...
I worked for Dave bamber a few years ago and he said even after all the goals he scored for us he was reminded of that miss a good few times a week still !
I felt quite bad for bringing it up
 
I remember the Russel Coughlin miss it was terrible weather and at the time I was devasted as it was a real chance to go to Wembley.

I never thought I would see a worse penalty, how wrong I was the Dave Bamber penalty was even worse. During the late 80's and 90's we had

loads of the games where we failed at the last moment, Lincoln and Walsall at end of the season. The Bradford game was the one I got the

most down about, I had promised my nephew a Notts County supporter that I would go to Wembley with him to watch the final of

Notts against Blackpool, but of course, Blackpool lost. I still went with him he was 7 or 8 at the time, and we watched his team get beaten.

Fast forward to today, and when you compare the fortunes of Notts County and Blackpool we have done remarkably well to get to

the premier league and championship, while Notts have been stuck in the national league struggling to get out. In the modern game

when you have Man United having a reported value of 5 billion pounds it is hard to believe that we gave them such a good game at home in the

premier league, yet we feel disappointed that we lost as if the top clubs don't always get the decisions, it happens in the championship.
 
All the ones mentioned above

Blackburn at home in the Prem - awful refereeing
Torquay P/O Final - cried all the way home (I was 18)
Bradford Play Off Semi - whilst pissed off I think I was that shocked it didn’t affect me as much as I thought it would!
West Ham P/O Final - probably the least impactful as I had bad vibes about the day from the moment I woke up. Consoled myself that we were the best team by a mile and got dicked by a mixture of shit refereeing (again!) and poor finishing
Man Utd Prem - see above ref: refereeing, played out of our skin though and Ryan Giggs ran the show when he came on.
Walsall and Lincoln last day fiascos (Skully played a blinder for Walsall)

Blackburn at home was probably the one I felt most cheated about but the Torquay Wembley game was the one that upset me the most
 
Eternaloptimist said:
What I distinctly remember about that game 20’s was the drive home and Chris Kamara was being interviewed on the radio. He said. “We knew we would win!” which I find amazing because we absolutely smashed them in the first leg which I remember very well because I was meant to be collecting a “freebie” ticket but when I got to the ticket office it wasn’t there so I spent the full game amongst the Bradford fans.
Extremely hard to control you’re emotions when your team is playing so well 😂
Click to expand...
Probably because some bright spark had the idea to print directions to Wembley and coach travel info in the programme!! Had bad vibes for the whole evening as soon as I saw that. I, and everyone parked around me, even had a leaflet for coach travel shoved under the windscreen wiper of my car when I got back after the game.

Coming on the back of us throwing away automatic promotion and even potentially winning the division itself so close to the end of season made the whole thing much worse.
 
Another for the 1991 play off final v Torquay.

The only time I've cried at a football result. Hope the gits stay non-league forever!
 
For us older ones Blackpools 70-71 top flight season has a few moments that made a 10 year olds eyes water.

The 4-3 defeat to Chelsea (from a 3-0 lead) is always cited as the definitive disappointment.

But leading Man City 3-1 with 10 minutes to go and only drawing 3-3 was another little heartbreaker.

And whilst we only lead Leeds United 1-0 for a little while, to concede an equaliser via a dreadful back pass from Peter Suddaby was quietly sickening in its own way.
 
hampshire_exile said:
For us older ones Blackpools 70-71 top flight season has a few moments that made a 10 year olds eyes water.

The 4-3 defeat to Chelsea (from a 3-0 lead) is always cited as the definitive disappointment.

But leading Man City 3-1 with 10 minutes to go and only drawing 3-3 was another little heartbreaker.

And whilst we only lead Leeds United 1-0 for a little while, to concede an equaliser via a dreadful back pass from Peter Suddaby was quietly sickening in its own way.
Click to expand...
Stoke at home. 1-0 up and Harry Thompson decided to catch a ball that was going wide. He fumbled it. Corner. They scored. I was totally pissed off, well, as pissed off as a 10 year old can be with a ** stupid goalkeeper!!
 
Portsmouth away FA cup yakubu scored last min winner... got stuck at manchester on train on way home at early hours🤯
 
Lewis_Winthorpe said:
Another for the 1991 play off final v Torquay.

The only time I've cried at a football result. Hope the gits stay non-league forever!
Click to expand...
In all honesty, I never thought I would ever see us play at Wembley, so I've never been too down on the Torquay game. It was a real occasion, so the result was somewhat incidental.

We were back 12 months later in remarkably similar circumstances, after missing out on automatic on the last day of the season, before winning on penalties this time round.
 
same here. For some reason I wasn't too down about losing to Torquay. As you say, the fact Bllackpool playing at Wembley seemed to overshadow that.
 
Wizaard said:
In all honesty, I never thought I would ever see us play at Wembley, so I've never been too down on the Torquay game. It was a real occasion, so the result was somewhat incidental.

We were back 12 months later in remarkably similar circumstances, after missing out on automatic on the last day of the season, before winning on penalties this time round.
Click to expand...
I was only 13 for the Torquay game and didn't massively understand the whole significance of the Wembley thing as my old man used to bang on about Blackpool going to Wembley a lot back in the day. I'd got it by the time we played Scunny in '92.
 
Performance wise West Ham in the play off final is up there because we didn’t deserve to lose that and if I recall there was a good argument for a foul in the build up to the winning goal, as others have said though long term it was probably for the best we didn’t go back up with the Oystons.

In terms of the PL season I do have to agree with Rovers away, 2-0 up we should have seen that out and United at home as well but even at 3 up (if we scored the penalty) they brought quality on and it showed so who knows if we would have seen it out.
 
Blackpool v Spurs in the cup. Lost my ticket on the way, and they would not let me in. I was only 15 at the time, and did not have any money to replace it.
 
Peterborough away last season. Watched it with long standing seasiders who had come over for the last time from Queensland. Watching a Blackpool game during their stay was imperative .See-ing their faces drop further following each goal still makes me feel sick now. Even if they had not been there i would have still hated the memory of that game. It was garbage.
 
Another for TU at Wembley wasn't too bad. It just was was it was. I remember being down on the way home, stopping at a SS on the M6 which was full of Pool when OO walked in.

Lincoln the following year when we missed out on auto was far worse. Made worse by the coach insisting we stopped for 'an hour' on the way home when nobody felt like slamming beers down the neck. We just wanted home, the lower room in the Cri and a pint of Walkers Warrington Ale to mope over.
 
In a slightly different / non-negative twist, I'll go for Liverpool (a) when we won 2-1. Not only was it surreal to see Blackpool walk out at Anfield, but to then take the game to them and lead 2-0 at half time before winning 2-1 was amazing!!!
 
GrahamwantshisOates said:
Huddersfield away 1968.
Won 3-1 and pitch invasion celebrating promotion back to top flight.
A last gasp own goal gifted QPR a late winner and by the narrowest margin of goal difference.
Sickener!
Click to expand...
The Hudders full back scored an own goal and Alan Skirton gave him a bear hug and danced around with him.
 
mad-link said:
Best goalmouth scramble in the history of world football - fact.

I worked in Sheffield with a City fan who was in the kop, his glasses went flying and were obviously doomed.

Click to expand...
mad-link said:
Best goalmouth scramble in the history of world football - fact.

I worked in Sheffield with a City fan who was in the kop, his glasses went flying and were obviously doomed.

Click to expand...
Just look how mad we went at a goal back then, I wish it was still like that now…
 
Italia 90 losing on pens to West Germany. I went to work after it had finished & I've never known it where everybody was totally flat. When jobs came in the tone was "come & have a look at this please if you can be arsed" I don't think anybody discussed the game, but merely shook their heads. For Blackpool the Bradford debacle took some getting over. I remember having a pint in the Saddle after & it wasn't a good atmosphere, tangerine tears.
 
Man City - FA cup late equaliser for them.
Sherpa Van Northern Final - knocked out by Bolton.
Preston away - Boxing Day '87. 1 nil up with 10 mins to go. Lost 2-1.
Gillingham at home late 80s. We were 3 up with 10 mins to go. Drew 3-3.

We've list bigger more important games since then. But I was absolutely bereft at these for some reason.
 
Since I started going just after the Bamber penalty miss play-off final (I remember a float at Poulton gala that year with a coffin saying RIP DAVE BAMBER and I asked my dad "who is dave bamber?" and that's what started it) the 96 Bradford game will always be the worst.

I went to the away leg, that trademark Tony Ellis Robben style cut in and low swerving shot was beautiful and I don't think i'd ever been more upbeat as a young Blackpool fan, then came the come-down. I remember at the final whistle people just staring at the pitch in disbelief, kids on the pitch laying down in tears. Don't think I ever recovered from that one to be fair.
 
Agree with so many of the ‘Pool games cited above in the thread, but equally I remember being gutted as a youngster when Holland lost to W Germany in the ‘74 WC Final.

I’d been absolutely thrilled by the magic of Cruyff, Neeskens & co throughout the tournament & to see them ground down by the ruthless German machine, and denied true football immortality, was a massive disappointment, which still niggles when I think about it.
 
Lots of the above.
One that sticks with me and gets mentioned with us quite a lot was Halifax away 1990 in League 4. We were 3-1 just before half time (3-2 H/T), all my bets were doing ok. There was a great party atmosphere. We’d had a great day out.
We lost 3-5!
 
Last edited:
Morty said:
Man City - FA cup late equaliser for them.
Sherpa Van Northern Final - knocked out by Bolton.
Preston away - Boxing Day '87. 1 nil up with 10 mins to go. Lost 2-1.
Gillingham at home late 80s. We were 3 up with 10 mins to go. Drew 3-3.

We've list bigger more important games since then. But I was absolutely bereft at these for some reason.
Click to expand...
That Gillingham one really resonates, and City.

Preston - I was there but dont' recall it having a big impact on me - although I remember the Nobbers fans to the stand on our left banging some rhythm on the advertising hordings - made a right racket. Think Pool were above them in the seats as well.
 
Whilst Torquay and Blackburn away etc. still irritate me, the only game I will never get over was when we played Brentford away in 1990. We had to win to have a chance of staying up and we lost 5-0. The 'memorable' part was the Blackpool players laughing out loud after their third goal went in - I will never forgot that moment.

And the most positive memorable games were both against Leeds - unexpectedly hammering them away 5-0 in 2011 but even better was the following season when they went one nil up against the run of play. It was probably one of the best pool performances I have ever witnessed and it was never in doubt we would go on and win the game. After the match Warnock said something along the lines of "any team that finishes above Blackpool will be promoted".
 
TangerineBayern said:
Quite a few but that shit show at Peterborough away final game of last season takes some beating for the manner in which Critchley treated the traveling fans by putting out such a shite team and attitude towards the game itself.
Click to expand...
I always wonder if Quitchley realised he had a big job to do the following season . 😏
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top