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Post by Pugsley on Oct 28, 2014 11:28:09 GMT
Wigan 4 Stoke 0 at Springfield Park in the pouring rain, Alan Ball's last game. Desperate stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2014 11:32:00 GMT
Wigan 4 Stoke 0 at Springfield Park in the poring rain, Alan Ball's last game. Desperate stuff. Was there. Still got the grass stains.
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Post by Pugsley on Oct 28, 2014 11:41:59 GMT
Wigan 4 Stoke 0 at Springfield Park in the poring rain, Alan Ball's last game. Desperate stuff. Was there. Still got the grass stains.
Left at half-time mate. Couldn't take any more.
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Post by maninasuitcase on Oct 28, 2014 11:44:29 GMT
Ian Bogie's goal after about 5 seconds... God I had forgotten that. Also that little fucker Tony Naylor always seemed to have a the knack of playing well against us.
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Post by Moosehead on Oct 28, 2014 11:57:41 GMT
Gillingham away, the seconds after Paul Connor hit the post in extra time.
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Post by j3st3r on Oct 28, 2014 12:01:30 GMT
No one has mentioned Pulis' sacking yet... Is this really the Oatcake...? ;-)
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Post by mywaydesolzan on Oct 28, 2014 12:07:18 GMT
No one has mentioned Pulis' sacking yet... Is this really the Oatcake...? ;-) Very good
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Post by Pugsley on Oct 28, 2014 12:25:44 GMT
No one has mentioned Pulis' sacking yet... Is this really the Oatcake...? ;-)
That's on the happiest moment thread....
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Post by Paul Spencer on Oct 28, 2014 12:33:34 GMT
I guess for a lot of us, the darkest moment as a Stoke fan, even though we had no idea on the day that it happened that ultimately it would turn out that way, would be when the roof blew off the Butler Street stand.
I remember being a kid at the time and being absolutely distraught that the (Spurs?) game had been called off and we wouldn't be going, at the time I thought that would be about the sum total of my despair, little did I/we know what would ultimately transpire as a result of it.
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Post by riproaring on Oct 28, 2014 12:36:21 GMT
Losing. 2-1 to Telford in the cup was pretty low for me. We went one down I think beeston levelled for us to lose 2-1 totally gutted
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2014 12:37:13 GMT
As a 19 year old, It's probably the FA Cup final defeat, and truth be told I wasn't even that bothered. I was so full of pride at that final whistle. But what if Kenny J has scored...
I've endured the good times
Never been to a Stoke v Vale game though which is sad
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2014 12:38:49 GMT
Was royally fucked off when fat Wank Lampard did us over in the last minutes in our first season. Fucking prat.
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Post by penkvillepotter on Oct 28, 2014 12:39:26 GMT
About 8 or 9 years ago we lost 3-0 or 3-1 at home on a Monday night in front of the SKY cameras and there was the obligitory ten thousand and three there. We were dire and Andy Johnson got a hat trick. It was the only I time I can remember thinking 'what the fuck am I doing here?'.
Mind you, Crewe doing the double over us is down there as well.
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Post by scfcno1fan on Oct 28, 2014 12:47:40 GMT
As a 19 year old, It's probably the FA Cup final defeat, and truth be told I wasn't even that bothered. I was so full of pride at that final whistle. But what if Kenny J has scored... I've endured the good times Never been to a Stoke v Vale game though which is sad Same here. The rivalry literally means nothing to me as they've been out in the wilderness for so long.
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Post by thestatusquo on Oct 28, 2014 12:50:27 GMT
As a 19 year old, It's probably the FA Cup final defeat, and truth be told I wasn't even that bothered. I was so full of pride at that final whistle. But what if Kenny J has scored... I've endured the good times Never been to a Stoke v Vale game though which is sad Same here. The rivalry literally means nothing to me as they've been out in the wilderness for so long. They are no fun unless you win. I rarely enjoyed the games as there was always too much pressure. If you lost then it was unbearable !
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Post by broomey1983 on Oct 28, 2014 12:55:15 GMT
losing to vale in 2002 at the brit, everyone at work stayed away from me for about 2 weeks as I could have killed someone after that
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Post by thestatusquo on Oct 28, 2014 13:21:24 GMT
Wigan 4 Stoke 0 at Springfield Park in the pouring rain, Alan Ball's last game. Desperate stuff. I was standing next to the bloke that threw the coffee !
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Post by doctortheopolis on Oct 28, 2014 13:22:01 GMT
Too many to mention unfortunately.
Being stuck in horrendous traffic outside the Bescot after the play off defeat was a real low point. The Brum 7-0 and subsequent pitch invasion antics made me wonder why I bothered. Crewe fans laughing at us outside the ground after we lost there later in the same season was also bad.
The 4-0 Wigan game when Alan Ball was sacked was pretty toss but I remember more vividly losing at home to Chester before that game and thinking that perhaps we weren't going to make the play offs after all! The away game at Hudderfield a few weeks later where the players didn't look remotely interested (and pretty much all the games that Graham Paddon was manager for) confirmed to me that we were indeed abjectly wank!
Having said that, I would put up with all the shite again every day of the week just to see my team win 5-0 in an FA Cup semi final!
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Post by rhodes2stoke on Oct 28, 2014 13:28:03 GMT
Walsall away...floodlight failure had to listen to some England commentary being played...very dark
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Post by louis11 on Oct 28, 2014 13:32:26 GMT
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Post by PotterLog on Oct 28, 2014 13:50:40 GMT
I find it odd that people are mentioning play-off defeats, particularly the Leicester one. They were frustrating, disappointing, even heartbreaking, but ultimately came off the back of decent seasons where we just fell at the final hurdle. The season of the Leicester game was magnificent, and the team did us proud - can that really count as a "dark time"? Not for me.
"Darkness" has to be a time of abject shame, bitterness and hopelessness. The Birmingham game comes close but the Man City relegation game will always win it for me. It's hard to imagine ever being that dismally dejected after a Stoke game again.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2014 13:53:08 GMT
The 4-1 twatting at home to Burnley in the 98/99 season, one of several high scoring twattings we received at home. I particularly remember that one on the basis that it didn't even surprise me that we'd lost, heavily, again, at home and I wasn't even really pissed off either. I took retribution though by booting up Sensible World of Soccer in the evening, playing against Burnley and went a bit Roy Keane on them. The match was abandoned in the second half when I'd had too many players sent off.
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Post by broomey1983 on Oct 28, 2014 14:01:13 GMT
Not a bad way to recover from a bad defeat than to bang SWOS on
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Post by tonedepear on Oct 28, 2014 14:20:42 GMT
Rotherham 4-0 Stoke @ Millmoor. (Not helped by the fact I worked in Rotherham with a load of season ticket holders. Bleak. Cold and I trod in dog shit on the way in as well.)
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Post by manchesterpotter on Oct 28, 2014 14:25:21 GMT
Relegation in the 97/98 season and then the collapse of the 98/99 season. I remember losing 4-1 at home to Bristol Rovers, after being 1-0 up at half time. It all kicked off after the final whistle, people ripping out seats and invading the pitch. Two weeks later we lost 4-1 to Burnley, the match that stanground mentions!
The loss of Kav and Thorne to those bastards is also a sore point.
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Post by robstokie on Oct 28, 2014 14:37:23 GMT
0-7 vs Brum, the ensuing relegation, losing to Nuneaton in the cup and the 0-6 at Forest first season back in the championship.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2014 14:40:35 GMT
Relegation in the 97/98 season and then the collapse of the 98/99 season. I remember losing 4-1 at home to Bristol Rovers, after being 1-0 up at half time. It all kicked off after the final whistle, people ripping out seats and invading the pitch. Two weeks later we lost 4-1 to Burnley, the match that stanground mentions! The loss of Kav and Thorne to those bastards is also a sore point. I remember being in the John Smiths/Mcewans for that game and some bloke launching a punch at Kyle Lightbourne on the pitch near the tunnel at the final whistle, on the plus side though it was the fastest I've seen Kyle run, so every cloud and all that. Terrible season.
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Post by Cyprusdelilah on Oct 28, 2014 14:45:27 GMT
When we sold Jimmy Greenhoff As a 12yr old lad, gone on holiday with my parents to Majorca. My Father phoning my Nan to see how Stoke had done the day before, he came back 2 words 'Greenhoff's gone' Think we drew 1-1 but, really did'nt matter.
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Post by reddipotter on Oct 28, 2014 14:47:14 GMT
Another vote for Blythe Spartans. I still have a cold shudder when I hear their name on the radio. Selling Micky Pejic comes close. That was the end of our good team. This thread is really cheering me up!
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Post by countofmontecristo on Oct 28, 2014 15:12:46 GMT
When we sold Jimmy Greenhoff ^ This! My one and only football related blart - nothing could assuage the sense of betrayal that consumed my 9 year old being. Devastation - total devastation. I'll get over it one day........
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