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Post by boothenpotter on Oct 28, 2014 8:12:04 GMT
was just thinking this morning on my way to wrok about the worst/darkest moment ive faced being a stoke fan and i narrowed ot down to the home 7-0 defeat to birmingham! that was a bad day. i dont think it even led me to want to give up supporting but it wasnt nice lol!
boothen potter (twitter: duane_barrett)
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Post by crapslinger on Oct 28, 2014 8:16:09 GMT
was just thinking this morning on my way to wrok about the worst/darkest moment ive faced being a stoke fan and i narrowed ot down to the home 7-0 defeat to birmingham! that was a bad day. i dont think it even led me to want to give up supporting but it wasnt nice lol! boothen potter (twitter: duane_barrett) The day Chic Bates was announced as our manager. |
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Post by chiefdelilah on Oct 28, 2014 8:34:21 GMT
My absolute 'what-am-I-putting-myself-through-this-for' moment was the Bescot play-off disaster.
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Post by boothenpotter on Oct 28, 2014 8:40:52 GMT
id removed the bescott shambles from my memory lol
boothen potter (twitter: duane_barrett)
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Post by 19notbeaten72 on Oct 28, 2014 8:55:57 GMT
I think i would have to say the day lou finally upped & left for Celtic for me. We were on a roll at the time & heading for really good things i was totally gutted & i only really got over it when we made the premier league.
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Post by elystokie on Oct 28, 2014 9:05:39 GMT
Hillsborough, heartbreaking.
Never experienced such injustice.
That cheating twat Styles ran it close tho'.
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Post by mondeoman on Oct 28, 2014 9:10:06 GMT
Losing to Blyth Spartans in the 70s ?, I ripped up my season ticket outside the Vic.
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Post by jeycov on Oct 28, 2014 9:11:48 GMT
News of the serious and career ending car crash involving Gordon Banks
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Post by skip on Oct 28, 2014 9:20:19 GMT
Walsall away followed closely by Nuneaton away (I paid twice to watch that), Liverpool 0-8 at home.
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Post by Linx on Oct 28, 2014 9:21:35 GMT
Losing the second leg of the play off semi final against Leicester. We were so close to the Promised Land I could taste it, and having secured 0-0 at their place without too much trouble, I felt it was already written for us to go to Wembley and finish the job.
I drove all the way home (90 miles), in the dark, overtaken by carloads of Leicester fans, scarves flying out of the windows as though they were taunting me personally. Definitely the lowest point I have ever felt.
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Post by skip on Oct 28, 2014 9:21:43 GMT
Walsall away followed closely by Nuneaton away (I paid twice to watch that), Liverpool 0-8 at home.
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Post by greystokie on Oct 28, 2014 9:24:11 GMT
When we sold Jimmy Greenhoff
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Post by march4 on Oct 28, 2014 9:33:08 GMT
The second relegation to the third division.
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Post by thevoid on Oct 28, 2014 9:40:37 GMT
Any of the play-off defeats, because, unlike a Cup game, it affects the entire next season.
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Post by lordb on Oct 28, 2014 9:47:33 GMT
84-85
And Brian Little (after the first ten games)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2014 9:48:38 GMT
Stoke 2 Man City 5 and the reality hitting that we'd once again sunk back to the third tier. The 92/93 all seemed in vain. Dark times indeed
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Post by maninasuitcase on Oct 28, 2014 9:53:11 GMT
Chris kamara's managerial reign.
Great player. Shite manager.
Brian little period.
Losing thorne and Kav to baadiff
Walsall and Gillingham in the play offs.
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Post by cousindupree on Oct 28, 2014 10:00:10 GMT
It was the binary season and I lived in Dubai. i had traveled back and been to 7...yes 7 games where we didn't score a single goal.I decided in my madness to come back for QPR away and I think it was a friday night game.I stood on the open terrace in the pouring rain in my feckin work suit as we failed to muster a single shot on goal.I was so close to turning my back on my beloved club and finding something more worthwhile to do.As a fanatical stoke supporter for more than 40 years its the first time and only time I have come so close.Glad i didnt  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2014 10:02:06 GMT
Leicester in the play off and Gary fucking Parker.
Brum 0-7 at home.
These are the stand outs for me. The infamous cup defeats hurt at the time but most teams have been on the wrong end of a cup upset and they are one off games.
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Post by Waggy on Oct 28, 2014 10:06:16 GMT
Agree with the birmingham one 0-7. I remember being outraged shouting obscenities at the end of the match" you buggers" etc
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2014 10:24:19 GMT
Ian Bogie's goal after about 5 seconds...
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Post by mrcoke on Oct 28, 2014 10:36:33 GMT
I was shocked when Stoke sold Greenhoff because I knew that meant relegation, he was the heart and sole of the club.
But it wasn't till the start of the 77-78 season and I looked at the fixture list and it sunk in that Stoke were no longer a top flight club that I felt totally gutted.
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Post by potter25 on Oct 28, 2014 10:39:22 GMT
Losing at home to Crewe 2-0 just before the Birmingham defeat
They passed the ball between themselves for long periods and we couldn't get it off them(they took the piss)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2014 10:48:06 GMT
Losing at home to Crewe 2-0 just before the Birmingham defeat They passed the ball between themselves for long periods and we couldn't get it off them(they took the piss) I remember that all too well. We had Stewart up front on his own, it was horrid. |
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Post by midlandpotter on Oct 28, 2014 10:48:29 GMT
one that sticks in my mind is the season before we got promoted when we drew 1-1 with hull and nicky barmby scored in the last minute ,i think it was our last home game.id been so sure we were going to make the play-offs that year and was so deflated after watching that goal loop in.not as high profile as a few but one that i always remember.
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Post by elystokie on Oct 28, 2014 10:51:55 GMT
It was the binary season and I lived in Dubai. i had traveled back and been to 7...yes 7 games where we didn't score a single goal.I decided in my madness to come back for QPR away and I think it was a friday night game.I stood on the open terrace in the pouring rain in my feckin work suit as we failed to muster a single shot on goal.I was so close to turning my back on my beloved club and finding something more worthwhile to do.As a fanatical stoke supporter for more than 40 years its the first time and only time I have come so close.Glad i didnt :) I can sympathise to a degree, I saw a lot of Stoke that season along with my eldest son, my Dad was ill and I was travelling up and down from Portsmouth a lot, that was my Dad's last season, annus horribilis. |
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Post by boothenpotter on Oct 28, 2014 10:56:52 GMT
another one that springs to mind is losing at home to the vale in the autoglass the year after we won it. i think we had about 30 shots on goal and steino missed a penalty and they had one shot and robin van der laan scored. i remember being absolutley gutted!
boothen potter (twitter: duane_barrett)
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Post by thestatusquo on Oct 28, 2014 10:57:54 GMT
God, where do you start. Far too many to list for me. Just when you think you've had the worst something else pops up.
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Post by Mr_DaftBurger on Oct 28, 2014 11:06:21 GMT
Definitely Blythe Spartans. The end of the seventies, the end of everything, the beginning of misery.
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Post by Pugsley on Oct 28, 2014 11:27:59 GMT
Wigan 4 Stoke 0 at Springfield Park in the poring rain, Alan Ball's last game. Desperate stuff.
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