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Lowlight of 2008

  • 01-01-2009 2:56pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,224 ✭✭✭✭


    Might as well have one of these too.

    For Shels it's gotta be that last minute goal against Limerick. I'll never experience what I did after that goal went in. The life that was sucked outta me.

    For Watford it would have to be the limp to the finish after such a good first half to the Championship season last season. Booked flights for Blackpool away, the last game, expecting it to be a game for us to get promotion. Ended up being fight to get into the play offs. We got in. And then Hull smashed us.

    What's yours?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 287 ✭✭Supermanscat


    Sligo's financial troubles, a league table with asteriks beside teams names.

    Evra getting that 4 match ban annoyed my ****e too!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,919 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Most City fans would say the 8-1 defeat to Boro but for me the warning signs came when we bent over and took a good arse raping from Fulham in the second half at the COMS. Elano at right back etc. Awfully depressing stuff and it was the beginning of the end for Sven.

    Waking up to see the Shels final day fuck up had me absolutely gutted as well.


  • Posts: 8,016 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Spurs vs Liverpool.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,366 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Eduardos broken leg, Horrendous. :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,206 ✭✭✭gustavo


    Our financial woes


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,315 ✭✭✭Jazzy


    not having the dream CL final of liverpool - man utd


  • Posts: 8,016 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Jazzy wrote: »
    not having the dream CL final of liverpool - man utd

    Naa to be honest.

    Too scary for both sides. I'd **** the bed.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,973 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Evra getting that 4 match ban annoyed my ****e too!
    Boggles wrote: »
    Eduardos broken leg, Horrendous. :(

    These 2, but obviously for very different reasons.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭thusspakeblixa


    Yeah the night after the Shels-Limerick match was my lowpoint.
    Also, Stuttgart losing to Freiburg for the 1st time in 10 years on the only time I made it over to the stadium last year was pretty crap.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,350 ✭✭✭Het-Field


    I realise that my love affiar with Shelbourne was put on hiatus in May 2001, after a seven year turbulent relationship, I could never imagine that I would have been as gutted as I was on November 15th. Tolka Park deserved a promotion that evening.

    With West Ham.....I am satisfied that we stayed up, and we still had Bellamy, Parker, Upson, Green and Behrami. 2009 could be a lot worse


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  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,352 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Losing the League One playoff final when we'd done all the hard work by coming back from the 15 point deduction.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    Sitting in a local pub watching the CL final and watching a quartet of grown men in full Manchester United regalia with thick Dublin accents physically & audibly running the gamut of emotions from despair to ecstasy as their favourite sports franchise scored some penalties or missed or whatever.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,461 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    Mark Hughes leaving Blackburn Rovers. I knew we would be in trouble no matter who we got to replace him. Luckily we now have someone who can rescue us from the nightmare of relegation.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭Highsider


    Champions league semi defeat to Chelsea.:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭abelard


    Easy.

    terry5_666x450_492361a.jpg

    :o


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,951 ✭✭✭DSB


    That Scanlon goal for Limerick aswell, yeah.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,815 ✭✭✭Charlie


    Newcastle United

    Where does one begin?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,919 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Newcastle Untied

    Where does one begin?

    With the correct spelling of the team name I suppose :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,890 ✭✭✭SectionF


    Playing UCD at Belfield.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,815 ✭✭✭Charlie


    Xavi6 wrote: »
    With the correct spelling of the team name I suppose :p

    :o


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,571 ✭✭✭✭Frisbee


    Losing both Flamini and Gilberto and the painful realisation no-one was being brought in to replace them...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,658 ✭✭✭kingshankly


    Utd winning the champions league


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 288 ✭✭Publin


    Kevin Hunt retiring (before he would have wished, due to personal circumstances).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,366 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Utd winning the champions league

    The Best team winning the competition is hardly a low light whatever side of the fence you sit on.

    If your a Chelsea fan losing it is a lowlight, United winning it is disappointing.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,721 Mod ✭✭✭✭dfx-


    Rijkaard's painfully slow demise only beaten by Scully's.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,658 ✭✭✭kingshankly


    Boggles wrote: »
    The Best team winning the competition is hardly a low light whatever side of the fence you sit on.

    If your a Chelsea fan losing it is a lowlight, United winning it is disappointing.

    believe me you it was a lowlight as a Liverpool fan an as a man who laid utd 500 at 5/1 that john terry Cnut cost me €2500


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,366 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    believe me you it was a lowlight as a Liverpool fan an as a man who laid utd 500 at 5/1 that john terry Cnut cost me €2500

    Oh right, fair enough I'll give you that as a lowlight. :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Shelbourne conceding in injury time vs Limerick 37.

    Then the Limerick 37 players and bench celebrating like they'd just won the CL.

    :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,046 ✭✭✭eZe^


    Easy peasy, from Jan 08 to Jun 08 was all a lowlight, but more specifically;

    - 4-1
    - Zambrotta's stupid error at Old Trafford
    - Rijkaard's and the team's faces when we lost to Man Utd


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,169 ✭✭✭ironictoaster


    Shelbourne v Limerick was a rough day. Felt sorry for the fans.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭shane86


    Naa to be honest.

    Too scary for both sides. I'd **** the bed.

    Can never understand that opinion. It was all set up to be probably the biggest grudge match since Holland v Germany in 88, one miskick by Arne Riise and it is shattered :( Utd in the CL is a strange one for me- I watch the games cringing hen they score but half hoping they win so they can meet Liverpool in the quarter/semi/final.

    Anyway, my lowlight (bar United winning) was watching the Dutch have a baffling loss of form vs Russia after stemrolling the opposition.

    Added to that at the start of the tourno I had them 20 quid at 14/1 IIRC, and from their first 3 matches they looked like they would batter anyone they came up against, including Spain and Germany. Stranglely though I was always worried about them meeting Russia, mainly because of Hiddink.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Scully and Rice - and some of the football - at Rovers

    Being turned over by Bohs

    The usual LOI disasters, including the news about E****m

    The Cristiano Ronaldo saga

    Eduardo's injury

    Paying into Croker to watch dull football, witnessed by a even duller crowd

    No real feelings for Shels, but I really felt for the fans, given the nature of the night.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,213 ✭✭✭✭therecklessone


    Pigman II wrote: »
    Sitting in a local pub watching the CL final and watching a quartet of grown men in full Manchester United regalia

    What, shirts, shorts and socks? Or the whole hog with the duvet covers and wallpaper and everything?

    Mine included Limerick's equaliser in Tolka Park, losing the penalty shootout in the UEFA Cup to PSV (made for a depressing three hour train journey back to Amsterdam) and the subsequent 7 months up to Ramos' departure.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    What, shirts, shorts and socks? Or the whole hog with the duvet covers and wallpaper and everything?

    No, just items of clothing that indicate ones preference of the Team Manchester franchise.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,518 ✭✭✭✭Rikand


    eagle eye wrote: »
    Mark Hughes leaving Blackburn Rovers.

    ^^ Definitely this!!







    and as a dedicated ABU, Terry's slip was a serious lowlight!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


    Spurs, every time we have reason to get a little bit optimistic BLAM straight back to earth.

    I think Keane and Berbs leaving left quite the sour taste in my mouth though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,056 ✭✭✭applehunter


    Being awakened to the news that Cork City was on the verge of extinction.:(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,315 ✭✭✭Tomthepost


    Traps Central Midfield Selection
    Keano packing it in (prematurely IMO)
    Villa failing to beat liverpool at villa park in the league.
    The credit crisis in the league of ireland


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,957 ✭✭✭The Volt


    Evertons loss to Fiorentina, inability to beat the Kopites and the continuation of the Kirkby saga. As well as having no money :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,134 ✭✭✭✭GBX


    CL Semi Final - Liverpool losing to Chelsea.
    Bobby Robsons decline.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 675 ✭✭✭poindexter


    the mess manchester was left in after the uefa cup final


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,483 ✭✭✭Töpher


    Scanlons' 93rd minute equaliser and the following celebrations. I wanted the earth to open up and swallow them all, or me. :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,905 ✭✭✭✭Handsome Bob


    Lowlight? It will be, and always will be for me anyway, the tabloid media. Oh how I smiled when I read the full transcript of Joe Kinnear's verbal abuse of Simon Bird.

    Joe: Which one's Simon Bird?

    Bird: Me.

    Joe: You're a ****.

    Bird: Thank You.

    :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,686 ✭✭✭✭PDN


    As a Drogheda United fan the entire year has been a lowlight.


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