Four years ago today

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Four years ago today

by Svlad Cjelli » 29 Sep 2011 19:51

Portsmouth 7-4 Reading

Oh dear!

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Re: Four years ago today

by PEARCEY » 29 Sep 2011 20:16

Svlad Cjelli Portsmouth 7-4 Reading

Oh dear!


..and also Fiji 38 Wales 34. I was a mizzy git that night.

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by Zammo » 29 Sep 2011 20:25

Svlad Cjelli Portsmouth 7-4 Reading

Oh dear!


My Brother bought me the DVD from Pompey on-line. Oh, how I laughed :evil:

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Re: Four years ago today

by grey_squirrel » 29 Sep 2011 21:43

Svlad Cjelli Portsmouth 7-4 Reading

Oh dear!


Shortly followed by Spurs 6 Reading 4

And we worry now! :o :lol:

Disclaimer: posted before the Boro game

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Re: Four years ago today

by Ian Royal » 29 Sep 2011 23:07

At least the Stelling - Kamara interchange that day was good, the rest of football certainly wasn't.


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Re: Four years ago today

by Arch » 30 Sep 2011 05:09

grey_squirrel Shortly followed by Spurs 6 Reading 4
That, at least, was an immensely entertaining game. The Pompey game was just dire.

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Re: Four years ago today

by The Real Sandhurst Royal » 30 Sep 2011 06:48

The Hog roast was good in the pub that day.

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by T.R.O.L.I. » 30 Sep 2011 08:20

TBF, the game's pretty much a blur for me now.

Andy RFC's Pompey Pub Crawl pre-match ("Fawcett Inn Cider, sir?"), back to the Fawcett post-match with Compo cranking up the jukebox with Tom Hark for the LOL's, train to Guildford to meat Mrs Butler and then last train back to Reading and a cab to the AD.

Battered!

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Re: Four years ago today

by Focher » 30 Sep 2011 09:05

i was on a 6 hour flight during this game. i used to get the orange goal text alerts, got to the baggage hall, turned my phone on, and for the next minute i went through more emotion changes than i have in my entire life. Words muttered included "yes", "no", "get in", "cunters", "Dave Kitson what a bargain", "after that result i think its time to get pissed".


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Re: Four years ago today

by Svlad Cjelli » 30 Sep 2011 09:20

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grey_squirrel Shortly followed by Spurs 6 Reading 4
That, at least, was an immensely entertaining game. The Pompey game was just dire.


And that Spurs game was a turning point in the season - we should have had a draw there at least, but after the referee's error (*) in allowing Keane's goal when he was encroaching at the Spurs' penalty at 4-4 we lost our heads and fell apart.

The rest is history, the season went downhill from there. (Similar to the Boro League Cup Quarter final in 1998, when one match turned a whole season.)

(*) I went to a presentation the following summer by PLMO Ltd (who manage the referees) where they showd how they manage referees' performance with ProZone. One of the two referees' errors they analysed in detail at this was this very one, where Spurs were given a goal they shouldn't have had.

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Re: Four years ago today

by T.R.O.L.I. » 30 Sep 2011 09:37

Svlad Cjelli The rest is history, the season went downhill from there. (Similar to the Boro League Cup Quarter final in 1998, when one match turned a whole season.)


Slightly disagree with that statement. It was the overriding contributary factor to us losing the next 7 league games however we subsequently won 3 of our next 4 (the loss being a decent performance at Anfield) and were pushing up the table.

We then failed to scored in our next 5 or 6 games (can't remember off the top of my head) - almost as if complacency had set in - our next goals coming at Pride Park.

So I think it's too simplistic to say the Spurs game turned the season.

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Re: Four years ago today

by heathrow royal » 30 Sep 2011 09:52

My brother left at 4-2 and when i returned to get my car afterwards it was only then he found out the full time score

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Re: Four years ago today

by SWLR » 30 Sep 2011 09:59

The Real Sandhurst Royal The Hog roast was good in the pub that day.


I picked up a curry from a street festival stand on the way to the station - stunk the train out!


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Re: Four years ago today

by purleyroyal » 30 Sep 2011 09:59

Svlad Cjelli ...after the referee's error (*) in allowing Keane's goal when he was encroaching at the Spurs' penalty ...


Defoe IIRC :?:

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Re: Four years ago today

by Svlad Cjelli » 30 Sep 2011 10:01

OK, agree it's too simplistic to say that specifically.

Although we were relegated for lots of reasons, I just can't shake off the feeling that before that match although we weren't doing fantastically we were safe enough and no-one was really worried about us, and even in that match we should & could have at least drawn it and maybe won it.

But that one incident of the ref getting it so wrong seemed to knock the spirit out of us, and after that everything was inexorably downwards, with no other real high spots that season. If you were to plot spirit, optimism and results throughout that whole season onto a graph, that decision would be the point where the lines all started going downhill together. Before that match we'd got 22 points from 19 games - in the remaining 18 points we got 13 points.

Exactly the same as the Butcher of Bootle in 98 - on that day in Jan 98 we were comfortably mid-table, in the QFs of the League Cup and still in the FA Cup. Then that decision went against us and from that point everything was downhill - in a scarily similar way before that game we had 25 points from 25 games and after it we got 13 from 21 games.

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Re: Four years ago today

by Svlad Cjelli » 30 Sep 2011 10:02

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Svlad Cjelli ...after the referee's error (*) in allowing Keane's goal when he was encroaching at the Spurs' penalty ...


Defoe IIRC :?:


You're quite right.

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Re: Four years ago today

by Wimb » 30 Sep 2011 10:44

Svlad Cjelli OK, agree it's too simplistic to say that specifically.

Although we were relegated for lots of reasons, I just can't shake off the feeling that before that match although we weren't doing fantastically we were safe enough and no-one was really worried about us, and even in that match we should & could have at least drawn it and maybe won it.

But that one incident of the ref getting it so wrong seemed to knock the spirit out of us, and after that everything was inexorably downwards, with no other real high spots that season. If you were to plot spirit, optimism and results throughout that whole season onto a graph, that decision would be the point where the lines all started going downhill together. Before that match we'd got 22 points from 19 games - in the remaining 18 points we got 13 points.

Exactly the same as the Butcher of Bootle in 98 - on that day in Jan 98 we were comfortably mid-table, in the QFs of the League Cup and still in the FA Cup. Then that decision went against us and from that point everything was downhill - in a scarily similar way before that game we had 25 points from 25 games and after it we got 13 from 21 games.


Craig F'Ing Hignett :evil:

Still, Morley needs to takes his share of the blame for that goal, as he was too busy arguing the point to focus on the game.

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Re: Four years ago today

by papereyes » 30 Sep 2011 10:46

We lost 7 or 8 on the trot at one stage that season.

The single worst thing about the Portsmouth result was people claiming we hadn't been hammered.

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Re: Four years ago today

by Svlad Cjelli » 30 Sep 2011 10:48

papereyes We lost 7 or 8 on the trot at one stage that season.

The single worst thing about the Portsmouth result was people claiming we hadn't been hammered.


Quite! It's almost as if there was an Icelandic Public Holiday that day because both Ivar & Bryn were utterly , utterly, rubbish.

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Re: Four years ago today

by T.R.O.L.I. » 30 Sep 2011 10:50

papereyes We lost 7 or 8 on the trot at one stage that season.


As I mentioned earlier - 8 in a row (in the league) starting with the 6-4 loss at WHL and ending with a 2-1 loss at home to Villa.

We did managed a 2-2 draw at WHL in the FA Cup 3rd round in that period (and lost the replay 1-0).

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