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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2014 11:36:44 GMT
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Post by metalhead on May 23, 2014 11:44:21 GMT
Too many mentals to think of  |
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Post by werrington on May 23, 2014 11:46:20 GMT
Good read that
Birmingham away 90/91 Paul Barnes was my personal favourite
I'm still breathless from it
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Post by foxysgloves on May 23, 2014 11:49:23 GMT
I'm just getting ready for a "Diouf has officially signed" mental.
Not sure how my colleagues will react when i rip my shirt off and start bear hugging and kissing them.
Lets go fuvking mental!!!
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2014 11:55:18 GMT
Gunnarson v Sheff Wednesday in front of the boothen to make it 3-2 in the 89th minute to end a 16 game winless run in the relegation battle of 02/03. It was truly a must-win game, if we'd lost that game fuck knows where we'd be right now. We were watching for an entrance to a boothen end concourse, as were lots of others, so it was basically as close as you can get to a terrace mental without being on a terrace. edit *17 game winless run news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/2597071.stmThat was a particularly dark descent into winter but things started getting brighter from there.  |
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Post by Robo10 on May 23, 2014 11:59:50 GMT
Lots of mentals over time, lots of bruises too from seats, and in the old days crush barriers!
Back of the Boothen as a teenager was a rough old place when we scored, especially if you were the one on the barrier
Alas thats what Tone missed for the past 2 seasons, no real mentals in big (any) games as we became a bit predictable
Sparky has bought quite a few back this season!
Assaidi was the one though of recent times, I went away absolutely buzzing from the game.
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Post by block27row27 on May 23, 2014 12:00:20 GMT
Top stuff
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Post by dutchstokie on May 23, 2014 12:02:15 GMT
I wasnt there personally but the second leg Cardiff play off has to rate right up there - does it not? Watched teletext for 2 hours and right at the death it flashed up F/T 0-2 - I just lost the plot !!! Anyone want to shed some light on how that felt....? *if you were there please  |
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Post by Mr_DaftBurger on May 23, 2014 12:05:25 GMT
Great read that. It's a brilliant feeling. Didn't go mental at any of the cup semi final goals was just too stunned and still nervous even at 4 - 0!  One of the great mentals was not a goal. The penalty miss at the end of the Luton 4 - 4 games. One of my favourites was the Tony Kelly equaliser at Liverpool in the League Cup. Just for a moment it felt like we were in the big time again and what a following we took! |
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2014 12:09:29 GMT
I wasnt there personally but the second leg Cardiff play off has to rate right up there - does it not? Watched teletext for 2 hours and right at the death it flashed up F/T 0-2 - I just lost the plot !!! Anyone want to shed some light on how that felt....? *if you were there please I was at the "beam-back" for the Cardiff second leg match. As the second goal went in off Oulare's arse the Stoke fans went berserk and broke out onto the pitch. It was quite surreal having a "mental" at The Brit when there wasn't actually a game going on there!! Still, brilliant nonetheless. |
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Post by LGH87 on May 23, 2014 12:14:35 GMT
I wasnt there personally but the second leg Cardiff play off has to rate right up there - does it not? Watched teletext for 2 hours and right at the death it flashed up F/T 0-2 - I just lost the plot !!! Anyone want to shed some light on how that felt....? *if you were there please I'd love to shed some light, but for both goals the moments that ensued are complete blanks to me.....I've only come close to matching those two mentals on a few occasions since. One that always sticks out in my memory for some reason was the OG/Kitson equaliser away at Boro in the first season in the Prem. I seem to remember the whole away end going absolutely beserk that day. Gunnarson's last minute winner already mentioned in the thread was bedlam, as was a last minute Iwelumo header against Millwall, can never remember if that was the same season or the season before though. Sidibe in the 3-2 vs Villa is an obvious but brilliant one. The atmosphere for the next ten minutes in the ground was unbelievable and you could sense something had changed, we believed we belonged in the Prem. |
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Post by Silkystoke on May 23, 2014 12:18:41 GMT
Villa at home, first season back, the guy next to me went home with a love bite on his neck...!!! didnt know what to do, just stood there like a twat going er er fuck er yes yes fuck goal yes etc etc think i even kissed me dad..
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2014 12:35:07 GMT
I wasn't at the famous playoff semi against Cardiff but there were a few good mentals at Ninian Park in the following years. In 03/04 they were doing really well in their first season after promotion and seeing as this was our first meeting since the playoffs, the rivalry was still very raw! We had to travel down on official coaches and the security felt like a full-scale military operation. In the 2nd half a very young Kris Commons equalised with a wonder-goal right in front of the away section and the smattering of stokie souls went fucking beserk! Unfortunately we ended up losing 3-1.  A year later (possibly two) Gifton Noel Williams travelled late to the game having been up all night attending to his wife who had gone into labour. Just after Akinbiyi had hit the post in front of us (we already started surging down the terrace as the view was restricted so a lot of us didn't realise the ball had hit the post until the it had rebounded back to the 6-yard line) Gifton scored and sent us bananas. He celebrated by doing a baby rocking celebration! I know Ninian Park was a shithole but give me that shithole any day over a trip to some plastic identikit like Pride Park or The Walkers Stadium. |
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Post by sheikhmomo on May 23, 2014 12:58:44 GMT
The come from behind at the death mentals are so rare they are the best. 1996 Kenilworth Road 1-0 down with four minutes left, huffing and puffing but not really looking like salvaging anything. BOOOM! Studger. BOSH! She-ron, She-ron, She-ron!
Fucking mental.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2014 13:02:11 GMT
The come from behind at the death mentals are so rare they are the best. 1996 Kenilworth Road 1-0 down with four minutes left, huffing and puffing but not really looking like salvaging anything. BOOOM! Studger. BOSH! She-ron, She-ron, She-ron! Fucking mental. Didn't we do something similar at Preston a few years ago? A 4-3 granstand finale?? |
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Post by madelinesmithmmmh on May 23, 2014 13:10:15 GMT
Good spot Mr Sheikh. My son's first away game and I had to explain not to mention my behaviour to his mother. Also that this didn't happen for Stoke very often.
That Dean Crowe 4-3 goal was something else just for disbelief, although reality came all to soon.
I liked the Eustace penalty against Preston one Boxing Day. The last minute goals are great (for Stoke, I hasten to add) but last minute penalties are just too much, there was one (against Bradford?) in the last season at the Vic as well.
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Post by The Drunken Communist on May 23, 2014 13:30:27 GMT
One that always sticks out in my memory for some reason was the OG/Kitson equaliser away at Boro in the first season in the Prem. I seem to remember the whole away end going absolutely beserk that day. Go to around 1:05 & you catch a 2 second glimpse of the away end going mental |
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2014 13:51:59 GMT
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Post by dbstoke on May 23, 2014 13:53:23 GMT
I wasnt there personally but the second leg Cardiff play off has to rate right up there - does it not? Watched teletext for 2 hours and right at the death it flashed up F/T 0-2 - I just lost the plot !!! Anyone want to shed some light on how that felt....? *if you were there please I was there that night, and it's stayed with me everyday since. Changed my life to a degree too, because it also served as a timely boost when my enduring enthusiasm for stoke was starting to waver a little. For me it was the best "mental" as a Stokie, (and as one who was at both) just shades the afternoon at Meadow Lane. The difference for me, is that at meadow lane we were a decent outfit, and kind of half expected to do well there. Obviously, it wasn't part of the plan to leave it so late and cause thousands of Stokies all around the ground to experience that legendary mental, but it wasn't a shock either that we won promotion. At Ninian Park that night though, we were the underdog, licking our wounds from the 1st leg home defeat, and defeat again it seemed was inevitable. We went by accident if I'm honest, along with a few hundred others who if they're honest would probably admit that after the 1st leg, they too had made the mistake of buying the home AND away leg tickets at the same time. Not thinking, that if we lose at home, we've probably got no chance of going down to Cardiff and winning by 2 goals, not only winning by 2, but not conceding either! The first leg result was in my opinion, the reason why we only took the now legendary "700 hardy souls" to Ninan that night. If we'd won and won clear, then there would've been a scramble for tickets and an eventual sell-out in the away end. As it was we didn't sell out and in some ways the space in the away end was a bonus, because it gave you a chance to properly exercise your legs and jump around like some sort of lunatic plugged into the national grid. And also, it made it more unique, because I can proudly say "I was one of the 700". The goals themselves seemed to come from nothing, particularly the first. It was Cardiff that had dominated most of the game with their possession, it felt like they were going to score everytime they got the ball. Yes we'd had chances, but it felt like we were toothless. As the old saying goes 'we could've played all night, and we still wouldn't have scored!'. There wasn't a player on the pitch as the game came to a close, that looked like he could steal it for stoke. Cardiff were that comfortable that it prompted the now infamous lap of honour tannoy announcement. I can remember seeing the ball going in from the left down the far end, then it got casually knocked back into the centre and I was expecting to see it booted to safety and the final whistle would blow. But instead, there was a split second where I saw the goalie make a dive, and I knew we'd got an effort on target. What followed when the realisation hit that we'd just scored, was manic, breathless, uncontrolled, mayhem. I was stood around 3/4 of the way up the away end, and within seconds found myself in a mosh pit style free for all near the fence at the front. About three minutes of the game had restarted by the time I got back to my starting position. The second was a little less riotous, but riotous nonetheless, because we had gained a belief, and Cardiff (including Kav) were shattered. I remember at the final whistle, I saw Martin Smith from the Oatcake, (he doesn't know me) just standing amongst the chaos, staring at the pitch on the verge on tears, in disbelief at what he'd just seem. the sheer elation I felt. The mental never been matched since. And that for me is because it was fuelled by a number of factors. Ie The small army of Stokies that travelled. Cardiffs awesome arrogance. The pre-match build up of flags, fireworks and choir singing. Cardiffs unparalleled transfer spending in that division. Kavs pre match comments. Thorneys sitter that stopped on the line. The security checks at that services about 20 miles outside Cardiff, but mostly the constant boredom of being a lower league team. That night we left Ninian park under police guard and a shower of bricks, knowing we were going to the final, and I had a feeling I will take it to the grave. |
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Post by Robo10 on May 23, 2014 14:00:26 GMT
Making me well up DB!
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2014 14:06:01 GMT
Vale park 0-2 packed end what a game, the last game I took my late father to see.
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Post by Ayupshag on May 23, 2014 14:07:29 GMT
Steinos goal against the vale. The one where jonny butler skipped down the line and cut it back for the magic man to volley home.
The 2 minutes that ensued were unbelievable. Trainers in the air, a pitch invasion and bodies surging back and forth. Unbelievable
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Post by plattamusii on May 23, 2014 14:45:11 GMT
I was incognito in the Bycars for that. Couldn't fully participate but it was a bit special
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Post by LGH87 on May 23, 2014 14:46:20 GMT
I wasnt there personally but the second leg Cardiff play off has to rate right up there - does it not? Watched teletext for 2 hours and right at the death it flashed up F/T 0-2 - I just lost the plot !!! Anyone want to shed some light on how that felt....? *if you were there please I was there that night, and it's stayed with me everyday since. Changed my life to a degree too, because it also served as a timely boost when my enduring enthusiasm for stoke was starting to waver a little. For me it was the best "mental" as a Stokie, (and as one who was at both) just shades the afternoon at Meadow Lane. The difference for me, is that at meadow lane we were a decent outfit, and kind of half expected to do well there. Obviously, it wasn't part of the plan to leave it so late and cause thousands of Stokies all around the ground to experience that legendary mental, but it wasn't a shock either that we won promotion. At Ninian Park that night though, we were the underdog, licking our wounds from the 1st leg home defeat, and defeat again it seemed was inevitable. We went by accident if I'm honest, along with a few hundred others who if they're honest would probably admit that after the 1st leg, they too had made the mistake of buying the home AND away leg tickets at the same time. Not thinking, that if we lose at home, we've probably got no chance of going down to Cardiff and winning by 2 goals, not only winning by 2, but not conceding either! The first leg result was in my opinion, the reason why we only took the now legendary "700 hardy souls" to Ninan that night. If we'd won and won clear, then there would've been a scramble for tickets and an eventual sell-out in the away end. As it was we didn't sell out and in some ways the space in the away end was a bonus, because it gave you a chance to properly exercise your legs and jump around like some sort of lunatic plugged into the national grid. And also, it made it more unique, because I can proudly say "I was one of the 700". The goals themselves seemed to come from nothing, particularly the first. It was Cardiff that had dominated most of the game with their possession, it felt like they were going to score everytime they got the ball. Yes we'd had chances, but it felt like we were toothless. As the old saying goes 'we could've played all night, and we still wouldn't have scored!'. There wasn't a player on the pitch as the game came to a close, that looked like he could steal it for stoke. Cardiff were that comfortable that it prompted the now infamous lap of honour tannoy announcement. I can remember seeing the ball going in from the left down the far end, then it got casually knocked back into the centre and I was expecting to see it booted to safety and the final whistle would blow. But instead, there was a split second where I saw the goalie make a dive, and I knew we'd got an effort on target. What followed when the realisation hit that we'd just scored, was manic, breathless, uncontrolled, mayhem. I was stood around 3/4 of the way up the away end, and within seconds found myself in a mosh pit style free for all near the fence at the front. About three minutes of the game had restarted by the time I got back to my starting position. The second was a little less riotous, but riotous nonetheless, because we had gained a belief, and Cardiff (including Kav) were shattered. I remember at the final whistle, I saw Martin Smith from the Oatcake, (he doesn't know me) just standing amongst the chaos, staring at the pitch on the verge on tears, in disbelief at what he'd just seem. the sheer elation I felt. The mental never been matched since. And that for me is because it was fuelled by a number of factors. Ie The small army of Stokies that travelled. Cardiffs awesome arrogance. The pre-match build up of flags, fireworks and choir singing. Cardiffs unparalleled transfer spending in that division. Kavs pre match comments. Thorneys sitter that stopped on the line. The security checks at that services about 20 miles outside Cardiff, but mostly the constant boredom of being a lower league team. That night we left Ninian park under police guard and a shower of bricks, knowing we were going to the final, and I had a feeling I will take it to the grave. You've summed it up perfectly mate, and brought it all flooding back to me. I will forever be indebted to my mother for that night, she knew how much the game meant to me and took me to that game, I was 14 at the time and Ninnian was not for the faint hearted back in them days! I think I've been 3 away games in total with the ode dear, Cardiff, Tranmere boxing day & Sheff Weds the first game back in Div 1. |
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2014 15:20:44 GMT
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Post by darkash on May 23, 2014 17:11:00 GMT
The come from behind at the death mentals are so rare they are the best. 1996 Kenilworth Road 1-0 down with four minutes left, huffing and puffing but not really looking like salvaging anything. BOOOM! Studger. BOSH! She-ron, She-ron, She-ron! Fucking mental. One of my favourite away games of all time, wasn't it a tuesday night? |
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Post by march4 on May 23, 2014 17:26:34 GMT
Richardson's goal at Notts County takes some beating.
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Post by onionman on May 23, 2014 18:03:37 GMT
O'Connor at Cardiff. At that time we were so accustomed to failure, that mental was about utter shock as much as it was about ecstasy and relief. Therefore the only way it could possibly be equalled is if Stoke experience another two decades of total misery.
Another great mental was Mark Devlin's late winner against Crewe in 1991.
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Post by robstokie on May 23, 2014 19:39:45 GMT
I wasnt there personally but the second leg Cardiff play off has to rate right up there - does it not? Watched teletext for 2 hours and right at the death it flashed up F/T 0-2 - I just lost the plot !!! Anyone want to shed some light on how that felt....? *if you were there please *It was superb, Felt like a miracle considering how late on it was and the fact that the equalising goal (to send it into extra time) came out of virtually nowhere. In Fact, before we scored the equaliser, the bloke on the tannoy told The Blooturd fans to stay off the pitch after the final whistle because they were going to do a victory lap. |
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Post by butlerstbob on May 23, 2014 20:07:09 GMT
Good read that Birmingham away 90/91 Paul Barnes was my personal favourite I'm still breathless from it This for me along with the West Brom game I think maybe a season or two after when there was around 7 thousand of us! Also recently Chelski at home, what a mental, I actually turned around to see a grown man with tears in his eyes, any other time and place and I would have told him to man up but its football and its acceptable when you have just had a mental like the Chelski mental! |
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