The random defeat that always sticks with you?

Morty said:
Boxing Day '88 Away at Preston. Winning 0-1 with 10 mins left and they scored 2 to beat us. I can still remember the car journey home. I couldn't speak!

Also a 95th minute equaliser for Man City in the FA cup in the late 80s. I've moved on now but dont get me started on how the ref didn't give a foul! That's thd closest I ever came to crying at a match. Heartbroken! Love hurts sometimes.
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I was visiting my mother in law that Xmas In Penang( Malaysia just in case you don’t know)Listening to a very patchy BBC world service football commentary( no idea what the actual game was but the scores were being given).Feeling very happy with 10 minutes to go, then you obviously all know what happened next.Several of My Wife’s relations were there, it’s what they do at Xmas and by the way I think the world of them( although her Mum is no longer with us),but I was talked in to going to midnight Mass( I’m not Catholic and nor is my wife now ) on Xmas Eve.The service lasted nearly two and half hours including a period when new adults( and I mean Adults) were baptised half way through .Bad enough losing to PKE but that was worse( sober on Xmas Eve for goodness sake which also happens to be our wedding Anniversary..obviously no connection).
I must admit I thought it was 1987 but It was a long time ago😳
 
Yeovil away, 2013. Lost 1-0 to bottom of the league, when we were pushing for promotion under Ince.

Down to eight men eventually, on a Tuesday night, with a hell of a trip back!

It was the start of the losing run that cost Ince his job and made a Barry Ferguson escape job necessary.
 
Yeovil at home in the FA Cup (2001 l think) and we lost 1 nil. It was a televised game and the kick off had to be delayed as the balloons under a net on the halfway line got stuck in the mud and they all had to be popped, highly embarrassing but at least we beat Orient in the play off final at Cardiff in the May 👍👍
 
Stoke away in the FA Cup 1965. Traveled to Stoke on the Saturday for the game only for it to be called off at the last minute due to a waterlogged
pitch. Played 2 days later and watched us lose 4 1. I think this was in the period of 7 or 8 years when we failed to win an F A Cup game.
 
Pauls_Boutique said:
I think that was the following season in the championship? Lost 4-1 after losing 4-0 away.

Remember getting on the tube for the play off final and some West Ham fans were singing ‘when we play Blackpool we always score 4’ and thinking I’d love them to be shut up this afternoon.
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Yeah sorry I meant to put the season after the prem.
 
Wrexham at home, Christmas 97/98 sticks in my mind for some reason. 1-0 up with about 3 minutes to go and lost 2-1, couldn't believe it.
 
Too many to mention
One not suggested:

FA Cup 1994 v Preston on Sky Monday night - full house, Tony Ellis back at Deepdale getting abused by 3 sides, Blackpool had the whole of what is the Finney Stand now, we played poor, Preston not much better, Lee Martin mistake, Conroy over his head. PKE won 1-0.



I've had some sad away visits, long journey defeats; Bristol Rovers, Bournemouth, Fulham.
 
Hereford away for me with Dirty not long after Larry took over-only 0-2 but was a real blow and a pretty easy win for them.
Midweek, a long haul home and not much singing in the minibus.

Slowly starting to forget it now...
 
Plumbs said:
Hereford away for me with Dirty not long after Larry took over-only 0-2 but was a real blow and a pretty easy win for them.
Midweek, a long haul home and not much singing in the minibus.

Slowly starting to forget it now...
[/QUOTE How did you feel about Blackpool winning 5-0 at Elland Rd Plumbs ? Genuine question did you not mind so much as it was Blackpool?
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Brentford in the rain.
That Barnet away game that everyone was at.
Funny enough I was at the Brighton mauling but didn't come away as dejected as the t'other games mentioned.
 
Raging_Bull said:
Walsall away when we needed a win to go up, I remember Colin Methven was outstanding for them at the back. The other thing that sticks in my mind was we invaded the pitch at the end of the match and poured towards their end and instead of kicking off actually shook hands with all their fans. odd, very odd.🤔
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Walsall , for me as well. As you say not only did the players not put the effort in neither did the fans
 
Old_Laytonian said:
Walsall , for me as well. As you say not only did the players not put the effort in neither did the fans
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I agree we were crap that day but I wouldn't say that there was any lack of effort. In fact we dominated the match for very long periods. I think the carnival atmosphere got to them. After all, apart from Deepdale, we weren't used to having half the ground away from home back then.
 
Trammo said:
How did you feel about Blackpool winning 5-0 at Elland Rd Plumbs ? Genuine question did you not mind so much as it was Blackpool?
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Tangobears winning? Not too bothered apart from losing at home in much the same way with the Preston 4-6 win (rolls eyes). It was deadly silence driving the minibus home apart from around 30 odd texts from Blackpool fans on the way back 😄
The weirdest thing was I went to the Burnley game on the Saturday with some of you and it was a real spanking by your six fingered friends,with some arguments breaking out in the away end.

Came past the Red Lion just as BSA were dropping off and that made me chuckle,but with football everything happens for a reason so I just take it on the chin. At least the Seasiders didnt bring out a DVD like the Nobbers did -that would have been tinpot 🤓
 
Exeter (a), Littlewoods Cup 1989/90 . 3-0 down at half time, hopeing that the talents of Mark Gayle and Nigel Hawkins could help turn it around !.
 
basilrobbie said:
A 3-2 midweek defeat at Brentford in (I think) 1978/79. We were two up at half time. Scarred me for life. Not a good coach journey home either , Ossie was incandescent.
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I don't think it was a midweeker that one BRR. Jimmy Weston scored twice for us and we were cruising...Second half they turned it around and we lost 3-2...definitely a Saturday and a ruddy long walk and miserable walk back to South Ealing tube.....
 
I just checked KKS and you are quite right. My memory is clearly fading......***

*** I remember the coach journey with Ossie though. 😎
 
I'd like to add the Torquay 3-2 defeat into the mix too, the one with the streaker and they scored 2 in added time.....grrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!
 
A very random one for me was a 1-0 home defeat against Grimsby on a Tuesday night in September 2003.

It sticks in the mind because it was my last home game before I left to go to uni.

We absolutely stuffed them for 90 minutes but were undone by a late-ish goal from them, I think from a corner. It's also memorable as we had a young lad called Doherty on loan from Fulham who made his only appearance that night. He was supposed to be the next big thing but I seem to remember he fell out with McMahon and went back a few days later.
 
I can't remember if we lost or drew, but I remember feeling really robbed when we played Rushden and Diamonds under Macca. I *think* we lost 3-2 but I can't quite remember. It was one of them games where we played well but they just scored. I hate those games where we look really good, but the opposition just looks clinical. You feel like 'why did we bother?'

In fact, I've now looked it up and it was as I recalled.

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Blackpool v Rushden and Diamonds, 21 October 2003

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Yeovil beat us 2 0 in 2013 under the Ince era Broadfoot, Fuller and Mackenzie all seeing red sticks with me to this day shambles
 
td53 said:
I can't remember if we lost or drew, but I remember feeling really robbed when we played Rushden and Diamonds under Macca. I *think* we lost 3-2 but I can't quite remember. It was one of them games where we played well but they just scored. I hate those games where we look really good, but the opposition just looks clinical. You feel like 'why did we bother?'

In fact, I've now looked it up and it was as I recalled.

www.11v11.com

Blackpool v Rushden and Diamonds, 21 October 2003

11v11 football match report for Blackpool v Rushden and Diamonds, League Division 2 2004 , 21 October 2003
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There were so many of those kind of games under Macca weren't there? Games where we looked fantastic but lost to random goals or dodgy defending. A bit like the one I mentioned above.

Looking back, if Macca could have got the defence sorted (and perhaps spent a little less time on the golf course and more on the training ground...) we could have done something special in the early 2000s.
 
Hednesford in the FA Cup.
Beaten by a non league team from a place none of us had ever heard of.
 
Hereford away in the LDV vans Possibly quarter finals lost 2-1 Think we were the holders at the time.
Brighton 3-0 loss away and it was roasting, 14 hour round trip.
Blackburn away in the peen hurts even now
Man Utd home in the prem.... from euphoria to a disaster
Cardiff away I was only 16 ish and went on me own on a train for a night match. Must have been early 2000s there were only around 100 pool there and felt like there fans were well up for it
Burnley away got spanked 3 zip in the championship, possibly 09? We were dire, one of the very rare times I’ve booed. then went and beat brum away 1-0 which was the day after my engagement party.... I was in not for state to go that game and had to drag my missus along.... great times
Said it before but I spent half my teenage years following us everywhere and we generally got beat, always made the love greater mind!
 
seaside7 said:
There were so many of those kind of games under Macca weren't there? Games where we looked fantastic but lost to random goals or dodgy defending. A bit like the one I mentioned above.

Looking back, if Macca could have got the defence sorted (and perhaps spent a little less time on the golf course and more on the training ground...) we could have done something special in the early 2000s.
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Aye, we always seemed to be one or two players away from being really, really good but never quite got it all together.

I look back on that side very fondly.
 
td53 said:
Aye, we always seemed to be one or two players away from being really, really good but never quite got it all together.

I look back on that side very fondly.
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I think we will be doing this under Critchley until we click completely.
 
clappers said:
I think we will be doing this under Critchley until we click completely.
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I'm on Lee's video after the tranny game saying 'it felt weirdly like a game under McMahon'

It just did and I totally agree with you, it's going to be a process and it'll take time.
 
Marton Monorail said:
4-0 defeat away at York......wasnt it always

Went on the Tango coach, as such we had tickets to sit in the York family enclosure in the main stand.......

I somehow managed to blag my old man to stand behind the goal with the other pool fans (sitting in the family stand was for little kids, not 11 year olds)

We got onto the terrace about quarter to 3, from about 10 to it hammered down for the full 90 minutes........safe to say my old man was not amused.

To compound things there was an away seating area under cover but the stewards refused to open it because it was £2 cheaper to stand up........after about 70 minutes they were ordered to by the local plod and the last 20 minutes were spent under cover........it didnt however make the 3 hour journey home, p*ssed wet through any easier.
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My wife, was girlfriend then, had never been to a football match, and I had persuaded her to go to York on boxing day.
About halfway through the second half, dripping wet, I whispered to her, "Can't believe I got you to come to York." She actually said that it was okay. I'd bought her a ticket for the Stockport home match a day or two later. I said, "We always stuff Stockport at home." Yes, you guessed it, we lost 2-1.
 
Pauls_Boutique said:
I was in a bar in Pollenca in Majorca for that game sat next to 2 Pompey fans when that goal game up on Sky so I remember that result as well.

They bought me and my wife a pint of Estrella each afterwards tho so not all bad.
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Similar story. I was at the game, I had a later train home (only to Wiltshire) so I went in the local watering hole after the game. I was greeted by tons of Pompey fans, all buying me drinks saying how harsh of a result it was. I stayed drinking with them until about 9pm. Class lot. I'll never forget the name Erik Huseklepp.
 
Tuesday night game against Walsall - must have been about '97 and they equalised with the last kick of the game. Went home in a right mood, couldn't sleep all night I was so wound up, got up 3 hours late and got sacked for repetitive lateness from Top Shop!!
 
I'll add 2 more not mentioned. Both 5-1 defeats after scoring first.

Burnley at Turf Moor on New Years Day 1994. After the 2-2 draw season before when our result gave real hope of keeping us up and Mansfield doing Preston 4-1 at Deepdale to send them down, this was a 7 month anti climax.
Wigan 2000 at JJB. Wayne Gill scores first, they equalise, 4 in the 2nd half to lose 5-1 but I have a personal twist. My girlfriend came to the match, felt unwell at half time, was sick on 3 seats after 50 minutes, we left and I found the score out on Teletext when we got in.
 
Ghost_of_Max said:
So, for whatever reason, is there a Blackpool defeat that still irks? Maybe a long distance drive, an unjust loss etc - February 2001 when we lost 2-1 to Chesterfield despite being the best side, totally out singing them and being on the receiving end of two sucker punch goals - genuinely still annoys me!!
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Rovers away prem season, the point I thought we were going to get relegated. Should of won that.
 
Barnet away. Got there late had car towed. Historic defeat. Booked a hotel drowned my sorrows, big hangover big defeat £1000 lighter.
 
Two Altrincham cup defeats in the 80s. Halifax away 1990, lost 5-3, and PNE away in the FA Cup in 94, we were diabolical that night. Man United at home in the Prem hurt but we did play well, they knocked us out with three punches, helped by the ref bottling a stone wall penalty when we were two up.
 
Potts Must Go said:
Two Altrincham cup defeats in the 80s. Halifax away 1990, lost 5-3, and PNE away in the FA Cup in 94, we were diabolical that night. Man United at home in the Prem hurt but we did play well, they knocked us out with three punches, helped by the ref bottling a stone wall penalty when we were two up.
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Paul Scholes made the difference when he came on as sub.
 
Still trying to over that loss to Chelsea 3 . 4 we nearly beat Osgood and all the Cockney ratings I was in a state of shock for weeks after.
 
QPR 3 - 2 Blackpool.

Midweek, 3-0 down after about 50 minutes and thought why the hell do i put myself through it.

We scored 2 to give us a glimmer of hope and bring home an unlikely point.

Finished 3-2 and in typical Blackpool fashion we had that glimmer of hope dangled in front of us and didn't get anything from the game.

Still bloody love us though 🍊 🧡
 
Yeovil in the FA cup live on telly. started with a balloon sat on the pitch in a puddle and the game was no better. we ended up getting turned over.
 
Trammo, wasn't it Giggs that came on at 2-0 down? Ferguson stuck him in a withdrawn left side role and he just picked passes that opened us up. But we were better than them for an hour of that game.

So many to choose from! But the one that really upset me at the time was Wigan in the Prem, we just shut down that day. Nerves or what, I don't know but the team didn't function as a unit, the majority had an off day, and no-one wanted the ball. It was only at 3-0 down we made some sort of start. Their third goal, the awful deflection, just seemed to sum the day up. Horrible to watch against a team we'd outclassed on the opening day.
 
Proper random, but it still irks me was a Tuesday night game that we lost 1 - 0 at Stockport in 96/97.
It was in the Third Division, which was then called The Second Division and is now called League 1 🙄

We absolutely ,totally outplayed them in all departments. We scored three seemingly good goals that were all chalked off for one reason or another. (No VAR around and I don't remember ever seeing the three disallowed goals on TV)

Udo Onwere was then sent off for what , even now, would be seen as a "soft sending off" and Stockport scored with the only shot I remember them having.

Bury, Stockport and Crewe were promoted and we finished 1 place short of the play-offs.
Yes that's Bury (no longer in the League), Stockport (no longer in the League) and Crewe all promoted to what is now the championship.

At the end of the season, Megson left us to join "a bigger club" and went to Stockport 🤣

Btw - Spellcheck showed Stockport as incorrect and wants to replace it with Stockpot 😆
 
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