Fans proved instantly wrong

[Darren]

That great moment when someone shouts something derogatory from the crowd and within second are proved to be talking utter bollocks.

Two examples:

1. My dad in the last minute at Rotherham in April 1984 as the ball is played to Bob Atkins on the edge of the box with his back to goal "don't give it to him he's hopeless"

2. Me, early in the second half at Southampton in Jan 1992 as, as United build up a promising attack, Mike Lake gets the ball and sizes up a shot from 35 yards out "don't shoot, don't waste it!"

More?

 

[Billyblade]

When Dean Saunders did this:-

As he picked the ball up my mate shouted "Throw it off t'keeper!"
My reply went something along the lines of "As though he's gonna do that, Kev, yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssss!"

 

[Revolution]

On the day we lost to Chelsea in the Cup in 1992, two of my (sadly misguided) mates went to Highbury to see Wednesday play Arsenal. With 20 or so minutes to go, with the score 1-1, one of them turned to the other and said "I think we might sneak a win here"

As many will fondly recall, Arsenal scored 6 times in the next 20 minutes.

 

[Bristol Blade]

Against Leeds in the League Cup in 2002:

"Don't shoot from there!"

2 minutes later:

"For God's sake Peschi, just play for extra time and keep it in the corner!"

 

[blade too long]

when forest went 2-0 up in the play off semi second leg 2 of my mates got up and left ,thats it weve blown it , had enough, how little they knew ,we did blow it 3 weeks later , but on the night they missed a treat

 

[georgebernardshaw]

"Are you taking the family to Wembley?"

"Yes"

 

[Darren]

My son (then 16) who has little or no interest in football heroically agreed to come with me to the game against Oldham at the Lane last season in place of my dad, who was ill.

At half time and us coasting at 2-0 up the misguided youth uttered the memorable words "it's like United are bullying a bunch of schoolkids".

I still blame him for us not getting promoted last year....

 

[Melbourne Blade]

I do seem to recall me yelling like fuck when we won the free kick when 2-0 down against Forest in the play off semi 2nd leg which Michael Brown eventually scored from. It seems to take hours for something to happen and I was getting well frustrated and Brown's continual remonstrating (or gamesmanship). I think from placing the ball to scoring it was 20-30 seconds until the ball hit the back of the net and I was getting well angry at Brown for dicking about. Yep, proved wrong!!

 

[raul]

"Kabba, you **&(&&^^^%% $*&&^%%&, you've just cost us %$^&^£""" promotion you soft %$$£((*&& what the $%^$%£$ did you th.......YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

 

[Sensiblade]

Any time Monty scored or completed a pass, millions were proved wrong

 

[Ted Danson]

Any time Monty scored or completed a pass, millions were proved wrong

Twice then

 

[TAMUS]

On the day we lost to Chelsea in the Cup in 1992, two of my (sadly misguided) mates went to Highbury to see Wednesday play Arsenal. With 20 or so minutes to go, with the score 1-1, one of them turned to the other and said "I think we might sneak a win here"

As many will fondly recall, Arsenal scored 6 times in the next 20 minutes.

They did like to stuff it up the Grunters in those days . I loved it .

 

[bladeinspaceandtime]

On the day we lost to Chelsea in the Cup in 1992, two of my (sadly misguided) mates went to Highbury to see Wednesday play Arsenal. With 20 or so minutes to go, with the score 1-1, one of them turned to the other and said "I think we might sneak a win here"

As many will fondly recall, Arsenal scored 6 times in the next 20 minutes.

I was at Parson Cross College in those days. Much mirth was had on the Monday morning after that game!

 

[Revolution]

I was at Parson Cross College in those days. Much mirth was had on the Monday morning after that game!

I was at University at the time and only had one Owls fan to wind up the day after, sadly. More productive was their 6-1 drubbing at home by Leeds, which i think happened out of term time when I had more people to make fun of, and of course ITV showed it live, allowing all right thinking people to enjoy the spectacle.

 

[Grecian2000]

The bloke in front of me:

"Don't shoot from there you twat" as the ball rolled to Tri Dellas in the dying seconds against Pompey.

 

[Trigger Blade]

The old chap who sat next to us in the family enclosure in the South Stand decided he'd miss the traffic by leaving the 6th Round Cup replay v Blackburn in 1993 about 10 minutes before the end to miss the traffic. We were 2-0 down at the time........ he certainly achieved his goal, by about an hour if I recall.

 

[Darren]

The old chap who sat next to us in the family enclosure in the South Stand decided he'd miss the traffic by leaving the 6th Round Cup replay v Blackburn in 1993 about 10 minutes before the end to miss the traffic. We were 2-0 down at the time........ he certainly achieved his goal, by about an hour if I recall.

Sorry, but we were 0-1 down and then 1-2 down in that match

 

[bladeinspaceandtime]

I was at University at the time and only had one Owls fan to wind up the day after, sadly. More productive was their 6-1 drubbing at home by Leeds, which i think happened out of term time when I had more people to make fun of, and of course ITV showed it live, allowing all right thinking people to enjoy the spectacle.

I remember watching the Leeds game on ITV, it was notable as being one of the few games ITV showed that did not feature at least one of Manchester United, Arsenal or Liverpool (usually with Jimmy Greaves, when asked who his man of the match was always replied "it's gotta be Barnsey!" irrespective of whether Barnes had had a good game or not). Piggy's only goal came from a swan div in the box with no Leeds player anywhere near if I remember.

 

[bladeinspaceandtime]

Not a case of fans being proved wrong, but when Haidong came on as sub against Colchester in an FA Cup match (4th round 05-06? Was that the last time Kabba scored for us?) some wag behind me in the South Stand kept shouting "I'll have a number 17 with chips". The other thing that stood out was a minor fracas that broke about before the game as someone in the row in front of us was sat in the wrong seat

 

[sheffielder]

Danny Wilson should be ok at this level...

 

[stannyblade]

Arsenal at home when Veart scored as they kicked off the match I said "we're never going to score with him up front".

Mind you at half time at the Leeds game I said we would win 2-1
When Jags scored I then went on to say we would get another in normal time.

 

[Darren]

Arsenal at home when Veart scored as they kicked off the match I said "we're never going to score with him up front".

Mind you at half time at the Leeds game I said we would win 2-1
When Jags scored I then went on to say we would get another in normal time.

In the same vein, just before we played struggling Northampton in March 1982, as promotion rivals Wigan and Bradford had both hit 7 in games in the previous few weeks, I said we would get 7 against the Cobblers. We won 7-3.

 

[Wapping Blade]

I'm sure we've had a thread like this before but mine is Jags Vs Boro in The Prem "don't ****** shoot from there...yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay"

 

[Darren]

Arsenal at home when Veart scored as they kicked off the match I said "we're never going to score with him up front".

Mind you at half time at the Leeds game I said we would win 2-1
When Jags scored I then went on to say we would get another in normal time.

In the same vein, just before we played struggling Northampton in March 1982, as promotion rivals Wigan and Bradford had both hit 7 in games in the previous few weeks, I said we would get 7 against the Cobblers. We won 7-3.

 

[bricktop]

The day we got relegated from the Premiership in 2007.

I was telling all and sundry, not to worry as there was no way we would go down as long as i've got a hole in my arse.

 

[bricktop]

The day we got relegated from the Premiership in 2007.

I was telling all and sundry, not to worry as there was no way we would go down as long as i've got a hole in my arse.

 

[Darren]

Arsenal at home when Veart scored as they kicked off the match I said "we're never going to score with him up front".

Mind you at half time at the Leeds game I said we would win 2-1
When Jags scored I then went on to say we would get another in normal time.

In the same vein, just before we played struggling Northampton in March 1982, as promotion rivals Wigan and Bradford had both hit 7 in games in the previous few weeks, I said we would get 7 against the Cobblers. We won 7-3.

 

[Grecian2000]

Ahh, if we're throwing in "bullshit" that wasn't instant, I've got two.

Robson's first game as manager whereby I stated "I think Hendrie could be the catalyst for us this season" and, although I know I'm far from being alone in this, after Brian Howards 15 minute debut cameo "My God, we've signed a player here".
WRONG, WRONG, WRONG . . . . . . . .

 

[JohnDenver]

The day we got relegated from the Premiership in 2007.

I was telling all and sundry, not to worry as there was no way we would go down as long as i've got a hole in my arse.

In the Premiership, leaving the Watford match after a 1-0 victory, a random bloke in the street said "we're safe now - no way we can go down". What's more, he said it, like a promise, to his kids.

I should have pushed the bugger into traffic.

 

[Darren]

In the Premiership, leaving the Watford match after a 1-0 victory, a random bloke in the street said "we're safe now - no way we can go down". What's more, he said it, like a promise, to his kids.

I should have pushed the bugger into traffic.

Re the conversation about God in the other thread, if there was previously no proof that God didn't exist its proved conclusively by the events that contrived our three extremely unlikely last day relegations in 1981, 1994 and 2007, not to mention the contriving to lose a penalty shoot out when the opposition missed their first three.

How any United fan cannot be an atheist is beyond me

 

[Kenilworth]

My son, who has little or no interest in football....

I was tempted to say that this was a clear case of seriously bad parenting.

Then I thought of the pain I have actually put my lad through

My bad