Jubilation and Heartbreak

[Borbokisfreekick]

There's a good post over on bladesmad about the most heartbreaking goals you've witnessed as a blade.

I'm more inclined to try and add a positive note, so which goals have given you the most jubilation and most heartbreak as a Blade??

Mine:

Jubilation: It would be Peschisolido's against Forest in the Play Off Semi. Went mental and fell down two row's of seat's at the back of the Kop (who says all seating is safe!), ripped my jeans, but just didn't care - probably the biggest high I've had at a game. (Ndlovu against Leeds and Brownie against the Pig's the same season are up their / also Asaba's header at Hillsbrough in 2001, took an age to go in!)

Heartbreak: There have been plenty! I would have to pin-point Mark Stein's away at Chelsea whilst we were all sat in that horribly steep stand. I was only 9, and as it went in my cousin who was 5 years older than me burst into tears, I held it together until we go outside the ground and then the floodgates opened. Cried all the way down Kings Road, then on the tube, then in the car - fell asleep - then cried when I woke up!

David Hopkin's at Wembley is a close second - still makes me feel sick everytime I think of that curling in the top corner.

Bright's at Wembley for the pigs was tough - balled my eye's out then as well walking down Wembley way!

 

[blader]

Jubilation: Beattie v pigs.
Pesch v forest
Ndlovu v Leeds
Flynn v villa!!!!

Heartbreak: any time we concede at home to fucking gillingham, yeovil, Crewe etc

 

[BouncinBlade]

Jubilation: Micheal Bowns volley against the pigs!

Heartbreak: David Hopkins 89th minute goal when Palace beat us at Wembley in 1996. I was just 10

 

[ShropshireBlade]

Jubilation: Pesch vs forest, Jags vs Leeds in league cup, Flynn vs Villa

Heartache: Hopkin for Palace - cried for about a week after Dad telling you it's only a game doesn't help either.

 

[blader]

Jubilation: Pesch vs forest, Jags vs Leeds in league cup, Flynn vs Villa

Heartache: Hopkin for Palace - cried for about a week after Dad telling you it's only a game doesn't help either.

Nowt worse than people saying 'it's just a game'. Ex-bird said that to me after we lost 1-0 at pigs other year. We broke up a week later. Coincidence?

 

[Mousey]

Nowt worse than people saying 'it's just a game'. Ex-bird said that to me after we lost 1-0 at pigs other year. We broke up a week later. Coincidence?

I broke up with a lass for saying that. If a lass says that, it's not meant to be anyway.

 

[mattbianco1]

Jubilation:
Peschisolido vs. forest
Browns volley vs. pigs
Beatties free kick vs. pigs (last minute)
Djaffo vs. pigs
Akinbiyi vs. pigs
Tonge free kick vs pigs
Tonge vs. Liverpool
Hulse vs. Liverpool
Jags vs. Middlesbrough
Webber vs. Cardiff

Heartache:
Reda or Madine to make it 2-2 other year.
2nd Stevenage goal in play offs
Simonsens penalty
Final whistle at MK dons after Ched got sent down
Unsworths penalty

 

[Guesty]

For going mental it's hard to beat Holdsworth's equaliser against Coventry. I was a little kid so I stood on my seat from corners, the guy behind me sent me flying down the cup when we scored.

 

[lawlessdan]

Colin Kazim-Richards goal has always stuck in my mind as a great moment against Bolton.

 

[ShropshireBlade]

Nowt worse than people saying 'it's just a game'. Ex-bird said that to me after we lost 1-0 at pigs other year. We broke up a week later. Coincidence?

I broke up with a lass for saying that. If a lass says that, it's not meant to be anyway.

"it's just a game" and "there's always next year" are phrases that should just never be used!

 

[Patrick Suffaux]

Jubilation: Either Brown's volley against the pigs or Unsworth's winner against Hull.
Heartbreak: Hopkins for Palace in 96. I was only a little lad and I sobbed my heart out,

 

[Bayingblade]

Heartbreak:

As others have said, Hopkin at Wembley, stood right in line and it was in as soon as it left his foot. Time stood still as it arked into the top corner.

Jubilation:

Deano vs Port Vale in the (old) 3rd division. Late winner to keep us in prime spot for promotion

Deano vs Leicester, the 2nd goal that seemed destined never to go in despite numerous efforts prior to Deano tapping in from a yard. Madness!!!

Pesch vs Forest.

Kabba vs Forest

Whitehouse and Deano vs Piggies at BDTBL, 11 years 10 months and 22 days (if memory serves) after the BDM.

Whitehouse (again) and Bobby Davisons double in the return at S6. Sat at the top of the Leppings Lane end on an isle seat and nearly finished in the bottom terrace for all 3!!!

Bob Atkins at Millmoor.

 

[Trafford]

Jubilation - Dane Whitehouse v pigs in our first top league game against them for honks

Heartache - that a Don Givens penalty

 

[Endcliffe Blade]

Nade vs Arsenal.

Rolls Toure on the halfway line and goes through to beat Lehmann. Not the most prolific striker but that one was special.

 

[Deadly_D'Jaffo]

Jubilation (that hasn't been mentioned)

Unsworth vs. Hull 3-2. Possibly the most topsy-turvy game of football I have ever witnessed. We were just recovering from a wobble in form and Leeds covered some ground on us. From 2 nil up, to 2-2. Kabba finds some space in the box and fires a tame shot that keeper parries out wide. I am sat in the South Stand cursing and hating on Kabba for effing up our chances when a goalmouth scramble is thumped home by Unsworth. Promotion wasn't guaranteed mathematically, but for me it was the pivotal result.

Guesty mentioned this but the FA Cup Quarter final with Coventry. St. Patricks day and Alan Kelly was magnificent and when he saved the final penalty (Aloisi?) the stadium went mental.

Heartbreak

Wigan 06/07. Cold, wet and generally miserable day. I left £30 hanging in a bank machine night before, had a hangover on match day and a kid behind me spilled lemonade down my back and drenched my boxer shorts. At full time I went straight home, turned phone off and went to bed. Woke up, turned phone back on and sighed at every vibrating buzz the phone made knowing it was another message from a pig fan gloating.

 

[Bladesman]

Heartbreak:

- Seaman's save at Old Trafford in the FA Cup

- Jagielka trying to catch the ball in our penalty box against Wigan on the very wet day D'Jaffo describes. Oddly enough I knew on the way to the match we would not get the result we needed.

- Hoskins goal at Wembley because that goal alone sums up our sort of luck.

 

[Billyblade]

Heartbreak:- Again, for me, Hopkin. As mentioned in another post, time stood still as the ball sailed towards the net and all I could think was "keep going ball, keep going" because I knew that if the ball kept on flying it meant it had missed. If it stopped, there was only one thing that was gonna stop it and that was the net cos Tracey was beat all ends up. As we all now, the little round bastard stopped. As did my heart.
It was my first taste of a play off final and we had had a brilliant weekend on the South coast in the lead up to it. To lose in the last minute of such an important match is heartbreaking

Jubilation:- Our 4th goal at Leicester on May 5th 1990. Wilf Rostron, out of the zone lashed one in from outside the area. About 4 mins in here:-

<iframe width="640" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/VazbY8KZCBs?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

The crowd reaction behind him in the low stand is amazing to watch and I was right in the middle of that. Myself and my Brother had spent a fortune following the Blades everywhere that season and it came down to the last day. As most of you know, we went 1-0 down and Newcastle could still catch us. I said to my Brother "that's it, all we've gone through this season and we're gonna fuck it up at last minute".
Then the goal-fest started. When Wilf's went in I seriously didn't know what to do with myself, it's a good job I was only 19 or I think I would have had a heart attack!!! I was jumping up and down but couldn't cheer, I was making some sort of strangled high-pitched whimpering noise
And the rest, as they say, is history.

 

[IOM Blade]

David Hopkin's at Wembley is a close second - still makes me feel sick everytime I think of that curling in the top corner.

It was unbelievably hot and we'd been in the sun for about 8 hours straight. I remember thinking in the 89th minute, 'I don't think I can take extra time'......bang.

I blame myself

 

[Borbokisfreekick]

We were sat up towards the back of the stand so managed to miss the sun, remember saying to my Dad something about extra time and then bang.

That "glad all over song" the Palace fans sang still haunts me to this day, can feel a lump in my throat every time I hear it!

Thing is, after that game I thought, we'll get our day one day just like them (they had lost in the last minute to Leicester the year before) and we're still bloody waiting 18 years on!

 

[Coily]

One which was very high on the wentabsolutelyfuckingmental-o-meter was Asaba's goal at WBA in 2000.

We'd got nothing from the referee all day and then Shane Nicholson got himself sent off with 15 to go. WBA pressed on as they were near the top of the league but we held out, and then in injury time Pesch went on a slalom run from our half, chipped the keeper and the bugger hit the post. But there was Carl to follow up and bundle it home in front of us. Shredded shins and shit-eating smiles all round as we left the ground to mingle with baggies who were even more miserable than usual.

 

[Darren]

One which was very high on the wentabsolutelyfuckingmental-o-meter was Asaba's goal at WBA in 2000.

We'd got nothing from the referee all day and then Shane Nicholson got himself sent off with 15 to go. WBA pressed on as they were near the top of the league but we held out, and then in injury time Pesch went on a slalom run from our half, chipped the keeper and the bugger hit the post. But there was Carl to follow up and bundle it home in front of us. Shredded shins and shit-eating smiles all round as we left the ground to mingle with baggies who were even more miserable than usual.

It was 8th December 2001

As I recall, the ball hit the bar and it was a diving header from Asaba that knocked in the follow up.

On the misery front. The game at Orient on 22/10/11. We went 1-0 up when Porter scrambled one in with about 5 mins left. Come 90 mins, the ref signals 6 mins of injury (Williamson had got carried off with a bad injury). As the six mins came round, Maguire committed a needless foul on one of their players in the centre circle. Orient pile everyone into our box and pump it forward. They win the first header and the ball loops towards the edge of the six yard box. Maguire has it covered but Simmo decides to come out and try to punch and only succeeds in punching it about 6 feet straight to a Orient player who whacks it into the goal in the 7th minute of injury time.

Had we won that game, we would have gone into the last game at Exeter ahead of Wednesday.

 

[Wapping Blade]

It was 8th December 2001

As I recall, the ball hit the bar and it was a diving header from Asaba that knocked in the follow up.

Deffo hit the bar and looped up slowly, Sabs had to fall forward to head it and I think he was on his knees when he made contact.

 

[Darren]

Deffo hit the bar and looped up slowly, Sabs had to fall forward to head it and I think he was on his knees when he made contact.

I have a vague memory of a pic of him virtually horizontal in the air as he made contact.

 

[pommpey]

Jubilation

Tongy's brace against Liverpool. The second one - see you later Carragher - was awesome
Sheff Utd 5-0 Arsehole. Currie sits on ball
Cov penalties. Listened to it on the radio
Leics 2-5 Sheff Utd Nuff said. I was duty in Gosport

Sadness

Relegation from old 1st Div in the 70s
Relegation from the PL 90s
Relegation from the PL 2008
Cup Semi Finals - too many to mention - Dave Seaman's save from Pesch
Selling of key players
Play off disasters - Wembley and Millennium
The current tale of shitness and misery

So, on balance ...

pommpey

 

[Wapping Blade]

I have a vague memory of a pic of him virtually horizontal in the air as he made contact.

You're mistaken m'lud

 

[Reedy1889]

Jubilation:
Michael Brown's volley at home against Sheffield Wednesday
Paul Peschisolido's goal vs. Nottingham Forest
Phil Jagielka's worldy against Leeds
Danny Webber's goal away at Cardiff
Rob Hulse's goal against Liverpool.

Heartbreak:
Losing to Crystal Palace in the playoff final - I was only a youth, it broke my heart seeing us lose.
Steve Simonsen's penalty miss against Huddersfield
David Unsworth scoring a penalty against us.

 

[Kenilworth]

Heartbreak for me was BDM and the years and years in between the next time we played them in the league.

Jubelles was the revenge double that year in the first divvy when Whitehouse and Deane got the goals at home and Whitehouse and Davison got them at the Sty. After 11 or so years that was so sweet.

Other stuff has been shite and great (more shite than great to be fair) but that kind of sums it up to me - there's always the prolonged bouts of utter tripe and despair to contend with and then once in a while, just fleetingly, every decade or so they give you the slightest glimmer of hope......


........ and then piss on yer chips agean.

 

[Bladesman]

Jubilation:
Michael Brown's volley at home against Sheffield Wednesday
Paul Peschisolido's goal vs. Nottingham Forest
Phil Jagielka's worldy against Leeds
Danny Webber's goal away at Cardiff
Rob Hulse's goal against Liverpool.

Heartbreak:
Losing to Crystal Palace in the playoff final - I was only a youth, it broke my heart seeing us lose.
Steve Simonsen's penalty miss against Huddersfield
David Unsworth scoring a penalty against us.

That wasn't heartbreaking for me because I knew as soon as it went to penalties we had lost. Being ahead on the penalties to begin with didn't help before Simmo eventually skied it.

 

[Rossb123]

Jubilation for me has to be when we beat Wednesday away 2-0 Asaba and D'jaffo scoring, this was the first time I had ever seen us beat them at Hillsborough and what a day it was.

 

[Shalalalafenoughty]

I was jubilant when the very popular Willie Carlin, a real favourite of mine, smashed a twenty-yarder into the roof of the net at the Shoreham Street end to seal a 2-0 victory over Brian Clough's Derby County in August 1968. It soon turned to heartache when a few days later Clough had a £60k bid for Carlin accepted and I well remember a mournful Kop singing (to the tune of Baby Come Back by The Equals, which had been Number One earlier that summer) "Willie Come Back" at the game with Fulham the following week. Derby went up as champions that season whereas we finished a poor ninth and Willie Carlin played a big part in their success. I went to the FA Cup match at Derby the following year and it nearly broke my heart to see him have a fine game as they beat us 3-0. At the age of 11, these things hurt.