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What Has Been Your Most Miserable Sporting Experience?

1994 Coca Cola Cup final, losing to Raith Rovers on penalties
1998 Scottish Cup semi final replay at Ibrox, losing to Falkirk in the pissing rain
Any time we've lost out in the last minute/on goal difference etc
 
tommers said:
One for all the depressives out there.... a kind of one upmanship of misery... your worst sporting experience...

There have been plenty but the one that sticks out is standing in the uncovered away end at Stockport County, in the pissing rain. Watching west ham get beat 2-1 in the league cup, via an absolutely masterful dowie header in the wrong end.

And then having to walk back to the station past all the stockport kids taunting, laughing and shouting. :(

Absolute nightmare of a night.

However, I'm sure others can do better. ;)
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Vancouver making it to the Stanley Cup finals, then losing the cup in game 7.

That's why we had the riot.
 
Mine involves swimming, me swimming, or rather, failing to swim miserably, a bit like Eddie - but at least I was only 11 years old and it wasn't the olympics...

Still, swimming diagonally - back stroke - and then hitting the wall with my head rates high in my personal scale of humilliation and embarrassment... :eek:

I know people here are mentioning things they were watching rather than personal disasters, so let's have more personal disasters, they're more fun!
 
Ireland's Mick McCarthy era fiasco.

My Gaelic football playing years. Wind, rain, and violence.

My PE teacher making me chuck javelins because my brother was a national champion and that meant I should be good at it too. I never got it further than about 10 feet.
 
Arsenal losing in the Champs League final last season,our 10 against Barca's 11, 1-0 up,Henry 1 on 1 with their goalie to make it 2-0 and then blowing it,god that would have been a sweet victory:( ,also losing 3-1 to Spurtz at Wembly in 1991 semi final,blowing the title in 2002-03, we coulda been celabrating 3 in a row title wins
 
Manchester United 9-0 Ipswich.

Any defeat to Norwich.

And of course the playoff semifinal defeats......it aint easy being a tractor boy!
 
being in the crowd in Porto watcing England lose, feeling like the only Englishman in Portugal.

Personally, scoring three tries in a single game, and all being disallowed. The ref said all of them were 'the wrong side' at the corner. They weren't, they were all good genuine tries.
 
Kenny Vermouth said:
Cliff Richard singing in the Wimbledon downpours of yesteryear.

Truly depressing, that.
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Is he there this year? I hope your weather gets better soon if he is!
 
Wycombe vs Colchester 1991 in the conference


fluke wind assisted goal from the colchester goalkeeper gave colchester a 1-0 victory . The true signifiicance of that goal wasn't felt untill the end of the end of the season where colchester and Wycombe both finished 21 points ahead of the 3rd place with colchester winning promotion on goal difference :mad:
 
Termite Man said:
Wycombe vs Colchester 1991 in the conference


fluke wind assisted goal from the colchester goalkeeper gave colchester a 1-0 victory . The true signifiicance of that goal wasn't felt untill the end of the end of the season where colchester and Wycombe both finished 21 points ahead of the 3rd place with colchester winning promotion on goal difference :mad:
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agony for you, hilarious for everyone else :D
 
u-11 newcastle city cup final.

I was playing in goal and it was 1-0 to the opposition, Lee Clark was in the crowd. Somebody took a speculative long range shot, rather than get my body behind it I tried to catch it in a rugby fashion sideways on. Unsurprisingly it then spilled out of my hands and trickled over the line. I was devastated.

We eventually lost 3-0 and my football career never recovered.
 
From a playing perspective getting beaten 106 nil in a school rugby match was probably the worst. Total humiliation compounded by our no8 kneeling on my face and relocating my nostrils to somewhere near my left ear.and then deciding that he could put them back again himself.

"Just hold still it'll be OK................"
 
During a 24 hour mountain bike race, a 10 mile lap starting at gone midnight, torrential rain, mud like the Somme. It took me over two hours. For quite a lot of the lap neither of my wheels would go round so I was literally dragging my bike through the mud. I think I was able to ride the bike for less than 2 miles. It wasn't fun.
 
Probably Wales 0 - 1 Russia, 2nd leg of the Euro 2004 play-off. I was clinging onto the chair for comfort during the game, I'm glad I wasn't in the ground.
 
Chelsea 1 Aston Villa 0 - FA Cup final 2000. Losing was bad enough, but to lose in such dismal fashion, barely having created a chance in the whole game, was gutting.

Germany beating England on penalties in the 1990 World Cup and 1996 European Championship semi-finals was galling. :mad:

On a personal level, losing 147-0 at rugby to some posh public school where they probably fed the kids steroids for breakfast was a bit annoying. :)
 
the 1989 FA cup Final I could take (because of larger context & the fact we did well even to get to extra time), but the 1986 one was a killer--we had the RS at half-time, and their goal to get back in it was off-side. What I did at the end was savour the scene, & then order my memory to fully wipe the game from memory--largely succeeded, in a visual sense. Mind you, any pain was erased by that classic 4-4 draw that cost 'Smiler' Dalgleish his job :) :) .
 
Wales 1 - 2 Romania; Cardiff 1993.

Bodin missing a penalty when a draw (IIRC) would have meant qualification for the USA 1994 World Cup Finals. Probably the best Welsh team of the last 25 years. Would have got dicked in the States but getting there would have been sweet.

Spectator getting killed by a distress flare at the end of the game made it far more horrible.
 
Arsenal versus Wimbledon on a cold, wet, foggy, rainy Tuesday night in February, back in the heydays of Georgie Graham's grind-em-down management.

Scoreline 0-0, no shots on target that i remember, no structure to the play, just 2 teams content to pass the ball back to their goalie who then hoofed it upfield, 2 bounces, biff baff bosh, ball goes to other goalie. Who hoofs it upfield and so on. Absolutely terrible game.
 
hammerntongues said:
Losing 4 - 0 to Forest in the `91 F.A Cup semi at Villa Park , Tony Gale being sent off for doing nothing , game over . West ham fans singing Billy Bonds claret and blue army for the entire second half without pause.

I was crying:( :mad:
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Do you know in a weird sort of a way that was one of the most uplifting sporting memories I have. To be able to count myself amongst a group of supporters who felt so passionately for their team and even in the most dire of circumstances carried on singing in support of their team. I was proud to be a Hammer that day!
 
Going to Barnsley away. We got rogered 7-1, then I had to spend an evening in the pubs of the town, being introduced by my Barnsley supporting mate by leering the words, "this is my mate, he's an Huddersfield fan.....", then waiting for the big cheer, the head rubbing and occasional aggressive chanting in my face.:( Smashing eh!

To make it even worse, the last words I said to him as I went in the Away end - "Don't sulk when we've beaten you!"
 
Going all the way to Milan on a coach trip to see Villa against Inter in the UEFA Cup (1990, I think). We had a (totally deserved) 2-0 lead from the first leg, so hopes/confidence was high. This was the first year that English clubs were allowed back into Europe after the Redscouse got all the English clubs kicked out because of Heysel.

Anyway, the idea was that we'd get the afternoon out in Milan before the game, but the Italian police held us up for so long that we just managed to make it into the San Siro in time for kick off. No alcohol had been allowed on the coach since we crossed the Italian border, and none was available in the ground.

Inter then proceeded to beat us 3-0, with one of their goals being scored after the ball had been crossed from behind the goal line. (However, I can't deny they were easily the better team.) Then after the match, we had to get straight back on the coach, and it wasn't allowed to stop until we made it back into France.

What a fucking great trip that was!
 
Nearly every single PE lesson at school.

I was good at hockey and swimming, but painfully crap at track and field and netball and everything else.

I hate sports.
 
I forgot about going to see west ham play wimbledon.... my mate was a wimbledon fan and he was in their end. We had a bet going - pint a goal for after the match.

At half time we were 3-0 up. I was so tempted to ring him and start gloating but, luckily, I didn't....

cos they scored 4 in the second half. :(

and then I had to buy the smug bastard a pint. :mad: :D
 
tommers said:
One for all the depressives out there.... a kind of one upmanship of misery... your worst sporting experience...

There have been plenty but the one that sticks out is standing in the uncovered away end at Stockport County, in the pissing rain. Watching west ham get beat 2-1 in the league cup, via an absolutely masterful dowie header in the wrong end.

And then having to walk back to the station past all the stockport kids taunting, laughing and shouting. :(

Absolute nightmare of a night.

However, I'm sure others can do better. ;)
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Not getting beaten by Northampton over 2 legs then (2-1)? Lampard and co couldn't beat us over 180 mins, i remember WHU beating Liverpool 1-0 the weekend before this league cup game! :)
 
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