Freak results

[Hampshire Blade]

Did I imagine it or was there a Warnock game where we had enough red cards and injuries to get below the minimum number of players needed on the pitch to get the game stopped....or did that only almost happen ?

 

[Silent Blade]

That was 1988-89 Bassett promotion season from Div 3 I think.

1989-90

 

[CarlingBlade]

1989-90

Correct, 89/90 season:

 

[Revolution]

Correct, 89/90 season:

One of my favourite games ever. that was nuts. I remember how sick I felt when their 4th went in, and the unbridled joy after Francis' winner.

We went top as a result of that win, and stayed there until early December I think.

 

[Blade56]

Losing 3-2 at Chelsea at the end and West Ham coming from 3-0 down with 3 penalties (I think) to get us religated.

 

[Bladepicker]

Revolution beat me to it with the 'Udders one - Duffield's second was a cracker from the corner of the box smashed into the goal.

Another freak one is the game I was reminded of in the comeback thread at the Withdean under Warnock.

Weird day all round. Had to park and ride to the ground and go straight in as it was in the middle of some posh suburb and the locals didn't want us ruffians around (you got the park and ride tickets on your match ticket).

The ground itself was basically the same as Woodburn Road Athletics stadium, with a small permanent stand and then uncovered temporary stands built around the running track. Blades were housed in one to the side of a goal by the round netting where they did the hammer throw.

To add to the strangeness the players got changed in temporary portakabins to our right. Brighton were towards the bottom but we seemed affected by the surroundings and just didn't turn up.

We went deservedly two nil down and it looked like we just wanted to get back home - it was destined to be one of those awful away days under Warnock where the team was unrecognisably awful (Coventry and Stoke spring to mind).

Brown scored out of nothing with about 15 minutes to go and Brighton just crumbled - we scored three more including 2 pens (Asaba got a hat trick I think) and we won 4 - 2 in a game that we only turned up in the 70 odd minute.

 

[Bladepicker]

Losing 3-2 at Chelsea at the end and West Ham coming from 3-0 down with 3 penalties (I think) to get us religated.

If you mean 94 then too many Pork Pies have done for your memory function Mr Jolly

Everton came back from 2 nil down at home to Wimbledon (thanks to some, ahem, weak goalkeeping from that cheating cunt Segers) and West Ham scored in the last minute to draw 3 all with the Saints but the Shammers were safe - had Southampton lost they would have gone down.

Of course the other freak result was us going 2-1 up with under 15 minutes left only to somehow lose 3-2. It was a freak day all round.

 

[BanbridgeBlade]

Did I imagine it or was there a Warnock game where we had enough red cards and injuries to get below the minimum number of players needed on the pitch to get the game stopped....or did that only almost happen ?

Google “battle of Bramall Lane”

 

[Revolution]

If you mean 94 then too many Pork Pies have done for your memory function Mr Jolly

Everton came back from 2 nil down at home to Wimbledon (thanks to some, ahem, weak goalkeeping from that cheating cunt Segers) and West Ham scored in the last minute to draw 3 all with the Saints but the Shammers were safe - had Southampton lost they would have gone down.

Of course the other freak result was us going 2-1 up with under 15 minutes left only to somehow lose 3-2. It was a freak day all round.

There was another result that went against us: Ipswich drawing 0-0 at Blackburn when defeat would have relegated them.

 

[Punk Blade]

What about the cup semi against Hull? An 8-goal thriller at Wembley and us scoring three (or at all!) there were both pretty unusual.

 

[Silent Blade]

There was another result that went against us: Ipswich drawing 0-0 at Blackburn when defeat would have relegated them.

Blackburn should have had a penalty when Dave Lineghan handled

 

[Mad Mick]

Beating Ipswich at the lane, was the score 7-1 or 7 nil? Biggest score I've ever seen in person there.

 

[I should coco]

A couple of games that stick in my mind are firstly when we played Scunny off the park but lost 0-4 at home and around 1980 ish when we scored 4 in 5 minutes just before half time at the Lane end and did bugger all for the rest of the game.

Another home game, either the one just before or just after, we beat Plymouth 4-0.

Having totally undeservedly lost 0-4 to Scunny, the Plymouth gamne was the exact opposite and we shouldn't have won.

Only game I can think of under CW was last season's 1-0 home win over Bristol Rovers. They were all over us and had chance after chance and I expected them to finish in the Top 6.

 

[grafikhaus]

Beating Ipswich at the lane, was the score 7-1 or 7 nil? Biggest score I've ever seen in person there.

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[Selly]

Blades 4-4 Birmingham

2-0 down in no time, gareth Taylor got one back before half time, before Walker got two and Taylor another in the second half.

Then we went back to sleep and Birmingham scored twice in the last 10-15 mins.

Left the ground not sure whether I should be happy we had drawn or peed off we hadn`t won.

 

[elgoog44]

Ask Adkins! he will say all the bad results against us during his tenure, were Freak, as Dean Hammond was running the show, but Adkins was a Cunt.

 

[BushBlade]

Blades 4-4 Birmingham

2-0 down in no time, gareth Taylor got one back before half time, before Walker got two and Taylor another in the second half.

Then we went back to sleep and Birmingham scored twice in the last 10-15 mins.

Left the ground not sure whether I should be happy we had drawn or peed off we hadn`t won.

Didn't Kelly get lobbed for one of theirs? Was that the one? Early in the season, maybe first home game?

 

[blade too long]

Remember beating Leicester 4-1 on opening day .The score really really flattered us.
In the season we got relegated darius came back from injury we had what seemed like 175 attempts at goal and Henderson should have had 30 for the season in that one game but they broke away in injury time to snatch a 2-1 win

 

[Geordie Blade]

the game I always mention in this context is our 5-1 win over Huddersfield in March 1989.

Was that Simon Tracey's debut? I have a half-memory of some sort of goalkeeper fact from that game.

 

[Revolution]

Was that Simon Tracey's debut? I have a half-memory of some sort of goalkeeper fact from that game.

It was his league debut for us. He'd played in the Johnstones Paint Trophy or whatever it was before that.

Bizarrely, his other 2 games up to that point that season were in the Charity Shield (Wimbledon lost 2-1 to Liverpool) and the first division (Wimbledon lost 5-1 to Arsenal at home and never risked Tracey again)

 

[Revolution]

Didn't Kelly get lobbed for one of theirs? Was that the one? Early in the season, maybe first home game?

I remember The second goal - MikeNewell bent the ball in at the near post, fooling Kelly completely.

Jonathan Hunt scored Brum's fourth from the penalty spot.

 

[N20 Blade]

I remember West Ham beating us 2-0 at the Lane during the 2nd promotion season under Bassett and we absolutely battered them; something like 28 corners in the game and old Phil Parkes was like a 21 year old. That little wanker Mark Ward scored both their goals and I think Dicks nearly broke the crossbar with a 2nd half penalty too. Was that our first defeat of the season?

 

[Selly]

I remember The second goal - MikeNewell bent the ball in at the near post, fooling Kelly completely.

Jonathan Hunt scored Brum's fourth from the penalty spot.

 

[Revolution]

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  Ah, the penalty was the third...my memory!
  
  That fourth goal was some strike.
  
  You can see Kachouro celebrating some of our goals. He came on as sub and then was substituted: that wasn't the last time that happened.

 

[Bladepicker]

Good find - I remember the game and the Newell goal but not much else - though it's all come back to me now.

Bit of an unusual one - the first four Birmingham players mentioned in the commentary on that clip, all later went on to play for us!

 

[Bladepicker]

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  Ah, the penalty was the third...my memory!
  
  That fourth goal was some strike.
  
  You can see Kachouro celebrating some of our goals. He came on as sub and then was substituted: that wasn't the last time that happened.

Wasn't he substituted as a substitute on his debut at Edgeley Park in a night match? It definitely happened there I just seem to recall it was also his first appearance.

about 5 minutes after he went off a plane flew over from nearby Manchester Airport and some wag commented that he hoped it was 'going to fucking Minsk and taking that useless chuff with it'

 

[spongebobblade]

Talking of 4-4 draws.......
November 1980 away to Walsall at a freezing Fellows Park. We were in complete control of the game leading 2-0 then 3-1 with about 15 mins left. We then decided To hand out Christmas presents early and let them back into it at 3-3. No need to worry as Bob Hatton made it 4-3 in the 90th minute. We were still celebrating when they equalised again. Not only a freak game but when you think of how the season finished it wasn’t just the return home game that cost us. A bit of composure this day would never have lead us to that last day scenario

 

[Silent Blade]

Good find - I remember the game and the Newell goal but not much else - though it's all come back to me now.

Bit of an unusual one - the first four Birmingham players mentioned in the commentary on that clip, all later went on to play for us!

Three of Birmingham scorers went on to play for us

 

[WalkelyFan]

One that sticks in my mind is when basets side battered west ham with about 28 corners in one half and Mark ward scored twice for them to win 2-0
40 yr old Phil Parkes had a ten out of ten that day

Never to be forgotten - the day we moved into this house. I am sure I am correct in thinking it was also the first game we lost that season. And the month was October.

 

[Bladepicker]

Never to be forgotten - the day we moved into this house. I am sure I am correct in thinking it was also the first game we lost that season. And the month was October.

May have been first home game but I'm sure our first defeat was away at Newcastle, fat scouser Mickey Quinn scored. Revolution and Silent Blade will again confirm!