What moment still haunts you?

[DannyThomas_1981]

Hamer’s equalizer at Wembley - the perfect goal at the perfect time. Haunts me as one of the best moments of my life - and with my family there it could not have been more special. I suspect though that we have great things ahead of us though!

 

[SkyBlueCharlie9]

Would it though? It would have made it 2-2 on aggregate. I don't think away goals was in play was it?

Not 100% sure but at the time I remember 1 goal was all we needed.

 

[Skyblueabo1111]

This is going to sound really random, but there's no accounting for the moments that stick in your mind.

Stan Bowles scoring a very late winner against us in the FA Cup for QPR in 1974. Was at a party listening on the radio and we all had a drunken breakdown. Time has healed things a bit .

I was there, on my dad's shoulders. Free kick from memory, last ( or almost) kick off the game.

 

[Shannerz]

Haworth's effott barely made it to the goal.

He was terrible.

I'll never forget that game at Barnsley where our forward line consisted of him and Kyle Lightbourne.

If there was a 'games that really annoyed you and still rankle decades later' thread, that would be right in there.

 

[Mercian In Anglia]

Last season at Norwich as well, 1 v 0 after 90mins and still end up losing

still too soon...

 

[olderskyblue]

What about when you got bummed in Wood End in the 90’s?

ffs hill, live and let live….

 

[fernandopartridge]

In terms of footballing moments one that has stayed with me and always made me appreciate when things got better for us was watching rochdale fans laugh at how bad we were and i knew we were going to league 2 .. they were cheering when we had a shot etc , several hundred coventry fans , i sat in total disbelief at what was happening to us

I know robins was manager that day , but he wasnt the cause , and i think thats why i loved the bloke so much as manager because he gave us it all back .

Sad but true

I always bring it up , its always stuck with me , for me our lowest moment

Living locally I had the indignity of seeing us play at Oldham, Rochdale and Bury in the same season and go into each game with no hope and losing all three.

That 2016/17 season even if a league higher than where we ended up really was us hitting the bottom.

 

[fernandopartridge]

Nothing will ever eclipse Torp's goal being disallowed, you just don't get such a switch of emotions like that.

At least with Dabo or any penalty shootout you believe it to be at best 50:50, with Torp as far as we were concerned he'd scored and it was given on the pitch. Fuck VAR.

 

[Covcraig@bury]

Catching my ex wife with my neighbour wife in my bed and making me join in for over 2 years bloody hard going and nearly finished us

 

[long way home]

Sheff Utd QF, soon as Roland let that ball under his boot to give a last minute corner away i knew we were doomed... Felt the worst i have ever felt leaving a ground even leaving wembley in the play off final.

Roland was an all time great for us and think only mistake i seen him make.

 

[MusicDating]

Yup, Sheff U 1/4 final too. Only game I missed in that season's cup run. Listened to the pen shoot out on the radio on the way back to my mate's from Walthamstow dog racing of all places and was just devastated.

Shout out for the Charlton game two seasons later after leading 2-0. Think they were the league below like SU.

Oh and the Man C last min winner in the cup a year later. Though the following riot was a handy distraction from that loss

 

[jmorr]

We’d have been relegated anyway that day even if we’d won I am lead to believe as Derby beat Man Utd at Old Trafford

Yes that’s right. Even when we were winning 2-0 at half time I was more concerned with Derby beating Utd.

 

[jmorr]

Sheff Utd QF, soon as Foland let that ball under his boot to give a last minute corner away i knew we were doomed... Felt the worst i have ever felt leaving a ground even leaving wembley in the play off final.

Roland was an all time great for us and think only mistake i seen him make.

Yeah that day was the worst I have felt when leaving a match. All the Sheff Utd fans were trying to goad us and I just didn’t care.

 

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[Tommo1993]

Nothing will ever eclipse Torp's goal being disallowed, you just don't get such a switch of emotions like that.

Like getting home to the Mrs telling you you’ve won the euromillions and letting you go barmy for a minute, only to say she’s joking, and instead you’ve received a fixed penalty in the post and she’s punched you in the dick and you fallen down the stairs as a result.

It’s because we were put through celebrating the goal. Personally smothering my old man screaming WE’VE DONE IT!! at him.

The flag goes up immediately and we don’t go all through that, we don’t feel as bad. That level of comedown is not healthy!

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Like getting home to the Mrs telling you you’ve won the euromillions and letting you go barmy for a minute, only to say she’s joking, and instead you’ve received a fixed penalty in the post and she’s punched you in the dick and you fallen down the stairs as a result.

It’s because we were put through celebrating the goal. Personally smothering my old man screaming WE’VE DONE IT!! at him.

The flag goes up immediately and we don’t go all through that, we don’t feel as bad. That level of comedown is not healthy!

Every official in the ground thinks a goal should stand, why does a goon in a studio playing around with lines get to overrule them?

 

[Skybluefaz]

Finding out Robbie Keane had gone.

Immediately thought we'd be in the shit.

 

[Skybluedownunder]

Watching Brad Collins let in 4 howlers against Portsmouth and thinking to myself why the hell has he not been subbed off his confidence is completely shot and then we continued to play him after that match.


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[GC1976]

Still Remember watching Highfield Road being demolished near the ticket office through some fencing and talking with a group of random people. Little did we know then.

 

[SBT]

It’s because we were put through celebrating the goal. Personally smothering my old man screaming WE’VE DONE IT!! at him.

The flag goes up immediately and we don’t go all through that, we don’t feel as bad.

There’s a part of me that is at least glad that we got to celebrate that goal for as long as we did. It was one of the most special moments I’ll ever have at a game.

 

[thezunigadream]

Yup, Sheff U 1/4 final too. Only game I missed in that season's cup run. Listened to the pen shoot out on the radio on the way back to my mate's from Walthamstow dog racing of all places and was just devastated.

Shout out for the Charlton game two seasons later after leading 2-0. Think they were the league below like SU.

Oh and the Man C last min winner in the cup a year later. Though the following riot was a handy distraction from that loss

The pompey home riot gets all the headlines around that time, but Man City away was absolute carnage. They broke into our end then waited for us outside, bottles and police horses everywhere.

Simms hitting underside of the bar and ball bouncing out in ET of the fa cup semi gets overlooked btw

 

[SBT]

The pompey home riot gets all the headlines around that time, but Man City away was absolute carnage. They broke into our end then waited for us outside, bottles and police horses everywhere.

Never seen anything like it. Didn’t a load of Cov fans invade the Man City family/wheelchair section or something?

 

[Ccfc_Addy]

The pompey home riot gets all the headlines around that time, but Man City away was absolute carnage. They broke into our end then waited for us outside, bottles and police horses everywhere.

Simms hitting underside of the bar and ball bouncing out in ET of the fa cup semi gets overlooked btw

Omg I remember Simms seeing the replay during the break and getting all hyped! Great moment

 

[thezunigadream]

Never seen anything like it. Didn’t a load of Cov fans invade the Man City family/wheelchair section or something?

It started up to the right of the Cov fans after the goater goal I think, remember no stewards and two sets of fans charging at each other. Not sure what area of the city fans that was.

Took a while to get under control and then if you think of coronation street, but with missiles and horses, that was the scene after.

 

[Shannerz]

Every official in the ground thinks a goal should stand, why does a goon in a studio playing around with lines get to overrule them?

This is it, isn't it. If you have to bring it down to studying millimetres between imaginary lines on the ground, then the things that you are looking for don't matter. No advantage has been gained. Football is worse for doing this.

It puts me in mind of zealous letting agencies; you leave a flat and they are down on their hands and knees looking for grains of dust so they can claim you've left it in a mess.

 

[Legia Sky Blue]

It started up to the right of the Cov fans after the goater goal I think, remember no stewards and two sets of fans charging at each other. Not sure what area of the city fans that was.

Took a while to get under control and then if you think of coronation street, but with missiles and horses, that was the scene after.

I was very near it. There were a load of gobby Manc youths in the stand near us who went a bit OTT after the late winner (unsurprisingly I guess). Being near the end of the game the Police had disappeared to control outside, leaving only a few stewards, who were quickly overwhelmed by our mob who charged over. While they Man City fans in that stand weren't exactly ultras it is a false narrative to say they were just kids & wheelchair users. I remember one of the exacerbating factors was Huckerby going apeshit in front of our support, which definitely wound up a lot of fans around me and never seems to get mentioned when this subject is brought up. I had travelled with my brother in law and my 2 young nephews so as soon as it started we headed for the exit and got out before the Police took action to keep our fans in, which ironically allowed the Man City fans to get organised to attack our fans outside the ground.

 

[Donato's Truncheon]

This is it, isn't it. If you have to bring it down to studying millimetres between imaginary lines on the ground, then the things that you are looking for don't matter. No advantage has been gained. Football is worse for doing this.

I agree with the sentiment of this, and although I get negative reactions for saying that Haji really was offside at Wembley, I’m merely referring to the rules as they are now applied. Whether the rules should be changed, or VAR should be abandoned, is an entirely different debate.

The most acceptable technical solution I can imagine is if offside decisions can be automated and almost instantaneous (e.g. using those vests they all wear and treating that as the relevant body part?). In that case the main downside of VAR (the delay) would not be an issue. Nobody argues with the automatic goal line calls do they, regardless of how close they are? That’s because it doesn’t actually even matter whether the tech is 100% perfect, the point is that decisions are instant, totally impartial and not subject to conspiracy theories.

 

[SBT]

The most acceptable technical solution I can imagine is if offside decisions can be automated and almost instantaneous (e.g. using those vests they all wear and treating that as the relevant body part?). In that case the main downside of VAR (the delay) would not be an issue. Nobody argues with the automatic goal line calls do they, regardless of how close they are? That’s because it doesn’t actually even matter whether the tech is 100% perfect, the point is that decisions are instant, totally impartial and not subject to conspiracy theories.

The instant goal line technology would be pointless if the tech wasn’t 100% perfect. It only works because people trust that it is.

The tech simply isn’t there for VAR offside decisions so it’s just an exercise in performative objectivity, the whole thing is just theatre. Should have been scrapped years ago, it will eventually ruin the game.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

I agree with the sentiment of this, and although I get negative reactions for saying that Haji really was offside at Wembley, I’m merely referring to the rules as they are now applied. Whether the rules should be changed, or VAR should be abandoned, is an entirely different debate.

The most acceptable technical solution I can imagine is if offside decisions can be automated and almost instantaneous (e.g. using those vests they all wear and treating that as the relevant body part?). In that case the main downside of VAR (the delay) would not be an issue. Nobody argues with the automatic goal line calls do they, regardless of how close they are? That’s because it doesn’t actually even matter whether the tech is 100% perfect, the point is that decisions are instant, totally impartial and not subject to conspiracy theories.

Under semi automated VAR that goal stands.

 

[Donato's Truncheon]

The instant goal line technology would be pointless if the tech wasn’t 100% perfect. It only works because people trust that it is.

Your two sentences are contradictory? I agree that trust is everything - with the goal line tech how can anyone even know whether it's 100% perfect? It measures where a moving ball is to within a millimetre or something. Even if happens to only be 98%, if it's exactly the same for both sides and beyond challenge, it's trusted as the instant impartial decision-maker and nobody has to agonise over it.

 

[Donato's Truncheon]

Under semi automated VAR that goal stands.

Genuine question here - what is the difference with that tech and why would it make Haji onside? I'm not being confrontational, just curious.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Genuine question here - what is the difference with that tech and why would it make Haji onside? I'm not being confrontational, just curious.

No sure, I didn’t think you were being confrontational. The technology is able to process frame rates at a much faster speed than the broadcast cameras used for ‘manual’ VAR, there’s 30 different cameras to analyse the decision from and the relevant players themselves are captured by loads of tiny dots to form the image. The tech also decides the ‘kick point’ though it can be changed by a human.

From what I understand, the gap between Wright and whichever defender it was would now fall below the threshold for triggering the review. Happy to be corrected though.

https://www.thefa.com/news/2025/feb/27/emirates-fa-cup-semi-automated-offside-explainer-20252702

 

[Donato's Truncheon]

Just looked up the semi-automated thing on the FA website. It speeds things up a bit, but makes no difference to the outcome.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Just looked up the semi-automated thing on the FA website. It speeds things up a bit, but makes no difference to the outcome.

That’s what it says, while then also saying it improves consistency and reliability. Which tells me that the manual way of doing it isn’t as good.

Don’t forget the famous ‘ah this line looks about right’ audio.

 

[Donato's Truncheon]

No sure, I didn’t think you were being confrontational. The technology is able to process frame rates at a much faster speed than the broadcast cameras used for ‘manual’ VAR, there’s 30 different cameras to analyse the decision from and the relevant players themselves are captured by loads of tiny dots to form the image. The tech also decides the ‘kick point’ though it can be changed by a human.

From what I understand, the gap between Wright and whichever defender it was would now fall below the threshold for triggering the review. Happy to be corrected though.

https://www.thefa.com/news/2025/feb/27/emirates-fa-cup-semi-automated-offside-explainer-20252702

Your link says:-

"Will SAOT rule out more goals for offside?

No – SAOT will not affect the accuracy of the decision making or change offside calls. In the Premier League this season, offside calls have been adjudged to be 100 per cent correct.

It will enhance the speed and efficiency of the process. The expected average reduction of decision time in close offside calls with SAOT is approximately 30 seconds."

Edit: our posts are crossing over a bit