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Post by laykroadlegend45 on Oct 28, 2014 15:24:17 GMT
Day sir stan passed away legend gone definitely not forgotten
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Post by Silkystoke on Oct 28, 2014 15:33:07 GMT
Losing Vs Torquay fuckin Utd 1 0 .... I lived in Torquay, life was shit...!!! 28th March 1992... funny thing is, im now married and the wife's birthday is, yes the 28th March...!!!!
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Post by BraveSirRobin on Oct 28, 2014 15:43:10 GMT
Nuneaton fucking borough.
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Post by Silkystoke on Oct 28, 2014 15:52:20 GMT
Blyth fuckin Spartens... spelt right or wrong...???
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Post by Silkystoke on Oct 28, 2014 15:53:51 GMT
and Villa at home first game of this season...... really expected us to fuckin twat them 6 /7 /8 fuckin 0... fuckin football...!!!!!
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Post by onionman on Oct 28, 2014 15:54:50 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. I took my frustration out on Stoke's players instead of the opposition, by editing the Championship Manager statistics and making all of them rubbish, then taking over as manager and selling them all to non-league teams.
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Post by ukcstokie on Oct 28, 2014 16:05:11 GMT
My 4 darkest moments: 1) Losing 1 nil to Vale in the Auto Glass area final 2) 7-nil to Birmingham. 3) Getting royally screwed by Styles at Gillingham in the playoff semi-final. 4) when the floodlights went out at Swindon. Now that was dark.
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Post by Gaz on Oct 28, 2014 16:15:08 GMT
When my daughter came home from school with a Man Utd scarf on. Thankfully, after some years of psychotherapy she's now off footie altogether and plays tennis and handball, but it was a close thing.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2014 16:17:40 GMT
Stand blowing off (and taking the good times with it) Lou leaving then Steino going just a couple of days after Coates taking over again and bringing Pulis back (ah come on, it was hardly a 'yeay, happy days' moment was it). Brian Little.
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Post by greystokie on Oct 28, 2014 16:29:55 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.
So true. The start of a long decline........is the Brit insured, by the way?
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Post by onionman on Oct 28, 2014 17:30:47 GMT
The time Jason Dozzell scored against us for Northampton.
By that stage I'd given up hoping Stoke would avoid embarrassing themselves, and I had resigned myself to a crap result, so I just spent the whole match hoping Dozzell wouldn't score, as I had a personal grudge against him because he had let my fantasy league team down very badly during his Spurs days. Right at the end he scored in front of the Boothen End and peeled away with a big surprised grin on his face. What a bastard moment that was.
I had purposely set my bar exceedingly low so that it was practically impossible for me to be disappointed, and yet Stoke still found a way to squirm under that low bar like an incompetent worm.
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Post by mywaydesolzan on Oct 28, 2014 17:43:40 GMT
Southampton defeat last game. As much as I think about everything that has gone before, if we come of a losing weekend then that is always the rawest in my mind.
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Post by blurtonstokie on Oct 28, 2014 18:17:02 GMT
For m it as to be losing to the Vale think it was the 2001/2002 season. Walsh scored for them. Was dating a Vale fan at the time. Wasn't a great couple of following days. The lack of fight and passion in that derby display was hard to take. How the fook we managed get promoted that season I dont know. We were poor fir large parts of the season. We seemed and looked like a side who wasn't up for a scrap for promotion.
The 0-7 tonking off brum was a dark day. However it set the wheels in motion for change. Every cloud as a silver lining. God it was a bad season. So many games that season. Fookin losing to Tranmere and the twat with the long throw 3-1(dave challinor?).if memory serves me right they did us for all 3 goalswith tha bullet. We lost at home to Crewe for the 1st time that season. We lacked fight passion and were fookin clueless that season.
Theres so many dark moment's. But God I pitty these glory hunting twats who have never tasted them. They will never know how much it meansto beat the shit, chelsea,arsenal and fookin liverpool( I hate tha club). Wouldnt change our path and the memories this club have given me.
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Post by metalhead on Oct 28, 2014 18:49:59 GMT
There's been a few to be fair:
Birmingham 7 nil Man City cup final wasn't as much dark, but just thoughts of what could have been Relegation at home to Man City Nuneaton Borough
All felt very dark.
One that hurt which is lesser known is Wycombe at home when Brian Little was in charge. There were just 6000 of us in the Brit which must be one of the lowest attendances we've ever had. Surely a record? We still had an outside chance of making the playoffs with a victory and perhaps a decent run of form. Wycombe were in the relegation zone... I think? Not sure. Either way they played much better than us, and we played shite. They took the lead and we equalized with a goal from Razer and then took the lead midway through the second half. David Oldfield it was who scored I think. All we had to do was hold on and perhaps we could creep into the playoffs. I seem to remember once we took the lead, we absolutely dominated, they couldn't get out of their half and Kav got clean through and hit straight into the keepers body.
Now my memory is foggy at this point, I think it's like a repressed memory due to the psychological damage that took place: so please help me out if you were there... with about 30 seconds to go, their winger or full back, I forget, absolutely smashed it across the box, somehow it hit the referee in the fucking bollocks or something like that and the ball inexplicably bounced back across the box and fell to Sean Devine who rolled it in to level with almost no time on the clock. They had hardly any fans in the ground so the few that were there were going absolutely mental and I sat in disbelief at what had just happened.
My memory becomes very clear after that. I looked around the ground, thousands of empty seats, just drawn with a club about to get relegated (so we thought), playoffs now very unlikely, conceded a ridiculous goal, I seem to remember walking out in tears.
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Post by borat on Oct 28, 2014 18:53:58 GMT
AWAY games under Pulis especially in the Premiership, they were dark!
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Post by banksy on Oct 28, 2014 19:00:42 GMT
Losing to Blyth Spartans in the 70s ?, I ripped up my season ticket outside the Vic. I too was at that debacle. Sitting just a few seats along from me was Jimmy Greenhoff. He sat there with his head buried deep in hands.
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Post by vintagestein on Oct 28, 2014 19:07:39 GMT
The Birmingham hammerin 7-0 1997-1998 season. Saved my pocket money to attend and remember ripping my posters down in a rage when I got home. Swore that day I would never ever step foot in the ground again, only to return to watch us win the following week against Bradford!
I knew then, as I do now, that will always be a Stokie
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Post by onionman on Oct 28, 2014 19:15:22 GMT
There's been a few to be fair: Birmingham 7 nil Man City cup final wasn't as much dark, but just thoughts of what could have been Relegation at home to Man City Nuneaton Borough All felt very dark. One that hurt which is lesser known is Wycombe at home when Brian Little was in charge. There were just 6000 of us in the Brit which must be one of the lowest attendances we've ever had. Surely a record? We still had an outside chance of making the playoffs with a victory and perhaps a decent run of form. Wycombe were in the relegation zone... I think? Not sure. Either way they played much better than us, and we played shite. They took the lead and we equalized with a goal from Razer and then took the lead midway through the second half. David Oldfield it was who scored I think. All we had to do was hold on and perhaps we could creep into the playoffs. I seem to remember once we took the lead, we absolutely dominated, they couldn't get out of their half and Kav got clean through and hit straight into the keepers body. Now my memory is foggy at this point, I think it's like a repressed memory due to the psychological damage that took place: so please help me out if you were there... with about 30 seconds to go, their winger or full back, I forget, absolutely smashed it across the box, somehow it hit the referee in the fucking bollocks or something like that and the ball inexplicably bounced back across the box and fell to Sean Devine who rolled it in to level with almost no time on the clock. They had hardly any fans in the ground so the few that were there were going absolutely mental and I sat in disbelief at what had just happened. My memory becomes very clear after that. I looked around the ground, thousands of empty seats, just drawn with a club about to get relegated (so we thought), playoffs now very unlikely, conceded a ridiculous goal, I seem to remember walking out in tears. I remember that. I don't remember exactly how it happened, but I remember Devine peeling away celebrating. I always remember them peeling away celebrating. It had to be Devine as well, didn't it. The player we could have signed a year earlier but chose Kyle Lightbourne instead. I also remember walking despondently back to the car. That's one thing the Brit has over the Victoria Ground: you can always remember the despondent walk back to the car after you've lost. You get a good 20 minutes of silent walking to mentally digest the awful thing you've just witnessed, just long enough for it to burn its own spot in the part of your brain that stores bad football memories.
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Post by riponstokie on Oct 28, 2014 19:20:00 GMT
When Ric left...
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Post by basingstokie on Oct 28, 2014 19:22:48 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 remember that one. I think the Arsenal cup game was the previous Sunday. I think my low point was losing to Palace away in 02-03, with just 1 game to go I thought that result had relegated us as I couldn't see us getting anything v Reading on the final day
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Post by GeneralFaye on Oct 28, 2014 19:39:47 GMT
I think I cried during the Birmingham 7-0 disaster and haven't shed a tear since.. must've been the darkest moment.
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Post by boothenpotter on Oct 28, 2014 20:09:31 GMT
i remember having to go to work after that 7-0 game (i was at m&s at the time) and not really doing very much and just sitting in a corner sulking
boothen potter (twitter: duane_barrett)
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Post by hoopty on Oct 28, 2014 20:20:09 GMT
For me it has to be the Leicester loss in the play-offs. We were on a roll after many dark years and it sucked the life out of us.
Amidst this sea of melancholy can I just point out for the record that we are in such a good place now.
Top Chairman, well respected, established Prem side etc. The days when we could pluck disaster out of the ether seem distant.
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Post by mickstupp on Oct 28, 2014 20:27:10 GMT
Another game from the atrocious 1998/99 season from me. This time it's the 2-0 defeat against 9 man Milwall in the dying embers of the Brian Little reign. This one simply has to be, given the standard we were at, the worst ever Stoke City performance of all time.
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Post by jonselscfc71 on Oct 28, 2014 20:41:07 GMT
Telford away in the Cup 1991/92
Same season, losing 0-1 at home to Chester which if I remember rightly killed off any hopes of automatic promotion and meant we faced Stockport in the playoffs...
My first ever away game vs Barnsley in 1987/88. Steve Agnew ran the show and David Currie (gypo) scored 2 I think. Ended up 5-2. The journey home seemed to take forever
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Post by Fenparkpotter on Oct 28, 2014 21:39:47 GMT
Losing 6-1 to Wigan was a bleak night..
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Post by k on Oct 28, 2014 22:15:37 GMT
My absolute 'what-am-I-putting-myself-through-this-for' moment was the Bescot play-off disaster. Same for me. The 0-7 Birmingham was bad. Relegation that season was hard too. Thrashings at home to Bristol Rovers and a few others are up there. But, after the walsall away play-off game I was as down as I've ever been. It was made worse by the injustice of the season before vs Gillingham.
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Post by Davef on Oct 28, 2014 22:25:08 GMT
Some of the replies in these kind of threads make me laugh. No disrespect to our young fans who've only known top end Championship/Premier League football, but you've had no dark moments.
Dark moments following a football club are when you genuinely see no light at the end of the tunnel. Even after some of those play off defeats, you still knew that we'd come back the following season and have a decent crack at promotion.
The truly dark moments are the 0-4 defeat at Wigan, the 0-7 humiliation at home to Birmingham or some of the complete and utter dross we witnessed towards the end of Little's time here in front of an empty Britannia Stadium.
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Post by Ayupshag on Oct 28, 2014 22:25:52 GMT
Watching us spend £500000 on Kyle fuckin lightbourne
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Post by mickstupp on Oct 28, 2014 22:28:28 GMT
Losing Vs Torquay fuckin Utd 1 0 .... I lived in Torquay, life was shit...!!! 28th March 1992... funny thing is, im now married and the wife's birthday is, yes the 28th March...!!!! this game was notable only for the one and only appearance of Junior Bent
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