***Official English Football Season 2021/22***

[Lillian Thomson]

David Moyes and the dicks at West Ham clearly not animal lovers. He should be removed from society along with the revolting culprit. At least Dagenham and Redbridge had the decency to suspend his prick of a brother who took the video.

 

[sledger]

Souness having a go at Zouma for the cat kicking but prefacing this by implying it would have been ok if "the cat had done something wrong" is one of those really odd self owns

 

[sledger]

six years to the day that Welbeck scored his last minute winner against Leicester

where does all the time go

 

[Uppercut]

six years to the day that Welbeck scored his last minute winner against Leicester

where does all the time go

That game felt like a decade ago after about a month. It felt like Arsenal had laid down a marker and shut down Leicester's title challenge. The falsest of false dawns.

 

[sledger]

That game felt like a decade ago after about a month. It felt like Arsenal had laid down a marker and shut down Leicester's title challenge. The falsest of false dawns.

it's weird how such a great (at the time) moment has come to represent something so altogether dire in my memory tbh

 

[GIMH]

On the train to Brum on Saturday we were reminiscing about our win at Brentford in 2013. It made us clear promotion favourites with 17 games to go.

We lost 11 of those games, winning maybe 2 or 3, and before long we were in the Conference.

it's weird how such a great (at the time) moment has come to represent something so altogether dire in my memory tbh is an absolute perfect summary of that

 

[sledger]

it's a weird one actually, because although I consider that season to be a massively blown opportunity for Arsenal, in some ways I think the Leicester game was less significant than was/is often made out

I mean Arsenal undoubtedly had to win that match if they were to have any chance whatsoever of winning the league, but the fact that they did neither really gave me the confidence that they would go on to win it, nor did it leave me feeling like Leicester had totally blown it

I think I actually had more confidence in them winning the league in the seasons between 2008-2011 than in 2015/16 - at least in those years they actually lead the table for a considerable period before their inevitable horrible collapse(s)

in 2015/16 despite having a strong squad they never really seemed to get into top gear or ever really look like winning the whole thing from what I remember (even though on paper they really really should have)

 

[Pothas]

On the train to Brum on Saturday we were reminiscing about our win at Brentford in 2013. It made us clear promotion favourites with 17 games to go.

We lost 11 of those games, winning maybe 2 or 3, and before long we were in the Conference.

it's weird how such a great (at the time) moment has come to represent something so altogether dire in my memory tbh is an absolute perfect summary of that

Still remember the feeling after the game that you were just that bit better and would probably go up.

Beating Sunderland in the FA cup definitely our one of these. DJ Campbell got sold later that month, we didn't go up and got relegated the next season.

 

[duffer]

All these repressed memories coming back to me now.....

 

[sledger]

All these repressed memories coming back to me now.....

sorry

 

[duffer]

sorry

Don't worry man, I have a good Dr on call

 

[sledger]

Don't worry man, I have a good Dr on call

Only one? I admire your optimism

 

[duffer]

Only one? I admire your optimism

Haha, this one specialises in PTSD

 

[sledger]

Haha, this one specialises in PTSD

haha do you have any particular triggers? (apologies again for making you recall them)

this might be an interesting topic to open up to everyone else in the thread actually

off the top of my head my most triggering moments/moments that make me feel angry or just generally dire would include:

- Bergkamp missed penalty against Man Utd in FA cup semi final
- unbeaten streak ended at old trafford via cheating and dire reffing
- loss to chelsea in CL semi-final second leg at highbury in 2004
- loss to Barcelona in CL final in 2006 (though this one is so bad that I have mostly blanked it from memory)
- that Adebayor goal after his transfer to man city
- Eduardo leg break
- Ramsey leg break
- Carling Cup final loss against Birmingham after Chesney and Koscielny ran into eachother
- Bentdner missing an open goal in the nou camp in the last minute

 

[sledger]

repeatedly getting our ass handed to us by John Carew in the early 2000s also massively annoyed me at the time

 

[duffer]

haha do you have any particular triggers? (apologies again for making you recall them)

this might be an interesting topic to open up to everyone else in the thread actually

off the top of my head my most triggering moments/moments that make me feel angry or just generally dire would include:

- Bergkamp missed penalty against Man Utd in FA cup semi final
- unbeaten streak ended at old trafford via cheating and dire reffing
- loss to chelsea in CL semi-final second leg at highbury in 2004
- loss to Barcelona in CL final in 2006 (though this one is so bad that I have mostly blanked it from memory)
- that Adebayor goal after his transfer to man city
- Eduardo leg break
- Ramsey leg break
- Carling Cup final loss against Birmingham after Chesney and Koscielny ran into eachother
- Bentdner missing an open goal in the nou camp in the last minute

Heh, I didn't witness the first one live but had the pleasure of experiencing the rest as they happened.

There's more, many more. William Gallas crying, a million Gael Clichy and Eboue related incidents.

Bendtner and Adebayor fighting each other on the pitch was pretty funny though. Like, it still makes me laugh.

 

[Uppercut]

Aguero vs QPR is the obvious one, but it's not as bad as it would've been if we hadn't won the league the following year.

Losing to Mourinho's Porto when Tim Howard threw one in in injury time after the refs had ****ed us over. Without that, maybe Mourinho doesn't end up at Chelsea. Such a clean route to winning it that season too.

There aren't too many. When we were good our seasons usually ended well, and since we've been **** we've been far too **** to get close enough to winning anything that it really hurts when we don't.

 

[sledger]

Gael Clichy

don't get me started

 

[GIMH]

I’m sure Grecian and flibberty will agree with me that there’s no trauma quite like your first conference home defeat to a club you’d genuinely never heard of until the fixtures.

That was Boreham Wood in August 2015 for me. Some nice symmetry in the fact it was them we beat to escape that shithole

 

[Lillian Thomson]

I’d forgotten Shrewsbury had a non league season. We had two last ditch escapes a decade ago after almost becoming extinct.
Plenty of disappointments of course, but I’m not prone to suffering years later. My worst experience at a match was the 2016 League 2 Play-Off Final. We barely got out of our own half and literally had no attempts on goal at all.