58 Years of Hurt, in all its awfulness

[Ron Manager]

Crikey that list is an exercise in masochistic nostalgia.As a kid I was convinced we were going all the way to Wembley in 68/69 having dumped out QPR and Southampton under the doc.And then we got Spurs away and went out narrowly.Bloody Tottenham always ended my dreams in the late sixties early seventies!

I remember that Spurs cup match very well. The first attempt to play it at White Hart Lane was called off due to the snowy conditions when we were half way down the motorway!. The second we gave it our all but Greavsie scored twice and that was that for another year.

[kippaxvilla2]

That West Ham defeat in 1980 took some getting over especially the manner of it.

[lennythekad]

Crikey that list is an exercise in masochistic nostalgia.As a kid I was convinced we were going all the way to Wembley in 68/69 having dumped out QPR and Southampton under the doc.And then we got Spurs away and went out narrowly.Bloody Tottenham always ended my dreams in the late sixties early seventies!

I remember that Spurs cup match very well. The first attempt to play it at White Hart Lane was called off due to the snowy conditions when we were half way down the motorway!. The second we gave it our all but Greavsie scored twice and that was that for another year.

Crikey that list is an exercise in masochistic nostalgia.As a kid I was convinced we were going all the way to Wembley in 68/69 having dumped out QPR and Southampton under the doc.And then we got Spurs away and went out narrowly.Bloody Tottenham always ended my dreams in the late sixties early seventies!

I remember that Spurs cup match very well. The first attempt to play it at White Hart Lane was called off due to the snowy conditions when we were half way down the motorway!. The second we gave it our all but Greavsie scored twice and that was that for another year.

Crikey that list is an exercise in masochistic nostalgia.As a kid I was convinced we were going all the way to Wembley in 68/69 having dumped out QPR and Southampton under the doc.And then we got Spurs away and went out narrowly.Bloody Tottenham always ended my dreams in the late sixties early seventies!

I remember that Spurs cup match very well. The first attempt to play it at White Hart Lane was called off due to the snowy conditions when we were half way down the motorway!. The second we gave it our all but Greavsie scored twice and that was that for another year.

That would have been my first ever away game. We were on the Harpers coach outside The Yenton, when the news came through.

[TopDeck113]

Man U (various), Liverpool and this years effort were painful but Wimbledon was the one that felt like the hugest kick in the bollocks.

Which one, there are 3 exits to Wimbledon, saw 2 of them first hand, the 0-1 loss at Villa Park when Allan Evans missed a penalty and the Plough Lane replay when Alan Cork popped up deep into extra time to send us home in the rain the bald bastard.

In the whole smörgåsbord of Cup exits that I've had served up to me by the Villa, a last minute extra-time defeat watched from the open terrace at Plough Lane in a January monsoon will always rank up there as one of the most miserable football-related evenings of my life.

[silhillvilla]

That West Ham defeat in 1980 took some getting over especially the manner of it.

Considering it was only a QF it was quite a hard one to take.

[Broughty-Villian]

was one of those wimbledon exits a replay. I travelled down for a midweek game but it was called off due to fog. then went down for the re-arranged fixture. was that a cup match i recall we lost

[TopDeck113]

We were drawn at home to Wimbledon on all three occasions.  As far as the defeats go:

89 was the first game at Villa Park.

91 was the last minute replay defeat at Plough Lane

93 was in the replay at Selhurst Park when we first got to realise that Kevin Richardson couldn't take penalties.

[The Man With A Stick]

Wasn't the replay played in mad fog as well?

Fucking Wimbledon.  All the hatred for MK Dons made me forget how much I despised those bastards 20-odd years ago.

[Richard E]

Wasn't the replay played in mad fog as well?

Fucking Wimbledon.  All the hatred for MK Dons made me forget how much I despised those bastards 20-odd years ago.

That 1989 game was the most thuggish performance from an opposition I can remember, worse than any game against Small Heath.

[usav]

Wasn't the replay played in mad fog as well?

Fucking Wimbledon.  All the hatred for MK Dons made me forget how much I despised those bastards 20-odd years ago.

That 1989 game was the most thuggish performance from an opposition I can remember, worse than any game against Small Heath.

Summed up by an interview with Vinnie Jones around the time where he said his job was to foul the toughest bloke on the other team as early as possible in the game.  When asked who that was on the Villa team, he said "Gordon Cowans".

[Damo70]

My earliest memory is as a nine year old watching the wrestling on World Of Sport when the West Ham score came up and we had conceded the late penalty goal. I was at the Oldham QF game in 1990, which was pretty grim but we still had the league to play for. The one that got to me the most was Liverpool in '92. Phillip Don was ref and gave us nothing. It didn't help that they went on to win the trophy by beating two average second division sides. Looking through all those games from 1980 onwards, strangely the only one I can't recall at all is Everton in 2009.

[dave.woodhall]

My earliest memory is as a nine year old watching the wrestling on World Of Sport when the West Ham score came up and we had conceded the late penalty goal. I was at the Oldham QF game in 1990, which was pretty grim but we still had the league to play for. The one that got to me the most was Liverpool in '92. Phillip Don was ref and gave us nothing. It didn't help that they went on to win the trophy by beating two average second division sides. Looking through all those games from 1980 onwards, strangely the only one I can't recall at all is Everton in 2009.

To those of us of a certain age 1992 was The One, not helped by Liverpool's ridiculously easy run to the final.

[Rioch is King]

Let's hope that the reaction to the Albion and Liverpool wins and the wembley turnout will be remembered when future managers ponder over how important the FA cup is.

[Holte L2]

My earliest memory is as a nine year old watching the wrestling on World Of Sport when the West Ham score came up and we had conceded the late penalty goal. I was at the Oldham QF game in 1990, which was pretty grim but we still had the league to play for. The one that got to me the most was Liverpool in '92. Phillip Don was ref and gave us nothing. It didn't help that they went on to win the trophy by beating two average second division sides. Looking through all those games from 1980 onwards, strangely the only one I can't recall at all is Everton in 2009.

To those of us of a certain age 1992 was The One, not helped by Liverpool's ridiculously easy run to the final.

I was at that Quarter Final, aged 8.  To me it Was The One.

[cheltenhamlion]

Portsmouth an Sunderland to follow wasn't it, for them ?