the worst football match you can remember seeing

hbk4894 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 22, 2012 10:31 pm

what is the worst football match you can remember seeing (in terms of quality and performance) it can be any football match doesn't have to include your team

my 2 choices are Bolton vs Middlesbrough in 2007 , finished 0-0 , can remember going to the game but cant remember anything about the game , it was that bad and Wigan 1-0 Bolton , just really terrible performance from us , we didnt turn up and deserved to get beaten by 10 men

ohjimmyjimmy · **Posted:** Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:31 pm

There's been so many.
Some truly dire encounters in the past, one that sticks in my mind was back in the 90s, for no oher reason that we scored in the first minute, and it finished 1-0, and in between the goal and the final whistle was garbage.

I forget opponent, but im sure Scott Green scored the goal.
Many other lower league wet tuesday night games of similar quality.

Too many crap games watched on tv over the years to even mention as well, so its not just Bolton !

Harry Genshaw · **Posted:** Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:45 pm

That would be Torquay OJJ when Greeny scored after about 19 seconds.

Before the law was introduced stopping keepers picking up backpasses, I can remember a few dire encounters with sides putting 11 men behind the ball and just rolling the ball back every time they were under any threat. A 2-0 win over Bristol Rovers springs to mind with us finally breaking through in the last 5 or 6 minutes. Gerry McElhinneys debut I think.

My dad took me to Wembley for the first time in 1982 when he got a pair of cup final tickets. As excited as I was to be going there, the game was a real dour affair. 1-1 between QPR & Spurs

Lord Kangana · **Posted:** Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:02 pm

Southend at home in '93, midweek, wintertime, about minus two thousand three hundred and seventy three degrees centigrade below zero, we lost 2-0, the crowd was the lowest for the season (about 7k ish) we were shit, they were rubbish and still won.

Something like that. I've erased the Phil Neal games from my mind.

Bruce Rioja · **Posted:** Mon Apr 23, 2012 9:32 pm

0-0 at home against Souness's Blackburn. I remember coming out saying that that's the worst game I've ever seen, then questioning as to whether I'd still think that way upon sober reflection of 30 years watching. I have, and it still is!

bobo the clown · **Posted:** Mon Apr 23, 2012 9:34 pm

The 1-1 at home to Stoke about 3 years ago takes some beating. Certainly the first half was the most turgid waste of time ever, without any beating.

a1 · **Posted:** Mon Apr 23, 2012 9:47 pm

bolton verses liverpool at anfield this season.

fuvk

ohjimmyjimmy · **Posted:** Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:04 am

Harry Genshaw wrote:

That would be Torquay OJJ when Greeny scored after about 19 seconds.

Before the law was introduced stopping keepers picking up backpasses, I can remember a few dire encounters with sides putting 11 men behind the ball and just rolling the ball back every time they were under any threat. A 2-0 win over Bristol Rovers springs to mind with us finally breaking through in the last 5 or 6 minutes. Gerry McElhinneys debut I think.

My dad took me to Wembley for the first time in 1982 when he got a pair of cup final tickets. As excited as I was to be going there, the game was a real dour affair. 1-1 between QPR & Spurs

T'was indeed Torquay...came back to me last night

P.O.S. · **Posted:** Tue Apr 24, 2012 2:02 pm

There have been some badduns since we came back up, under Allardyce we would grind our way towards some of the worst draws ever seen at home - you know the kind we would have loved to have seen this season. I remember one, a 1-1 draw with Sunderland I think Phil Babb scored an own goal, it was during a midweek in Winter and it was horrific.

I walked out of many games though early-mid 2000's and said thats the worst game Ive ever been to. How I wish I could turn back the clock, give myself a slap and say you aint seen nothing yet!

jimbo · **Posted:** Tue Apr 24, 2012 4:50 pm

Was a neutral at a City-Blackburn game in about 2005 which finished 0-0 without a shot on target in the game. It was also absolutely freezing.

boltonboris · **Posted:** Tue Apr 24, 2012 4:58 pm

jimbo wrote:

Was a neutral at a City-Blackburn game in about 2005 which finished 0-0 without a shot on target in the game. It was also absolutely freezing.

Stuart Pearce special?

jimbo · **Posted:** Tue Apr 24, 2012 6:09 pm

boltonboris wrote:

jimbo wrote:

Was a neutral at a City-Blackburn game in about 2005 which finished 0-0 without a shot on target in the game. It was also absolutely freezing.

Stuart Pearce special?

Yup. Cole and Vassell up front who offered the best part of bugger all between them.

Ianmooreslovechild · **Posted:** Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:49 pm

Bolton 0 Darlington 3 tho its run pretty close by the time I travelled down to plymouth when charlie wright was on a roll and we lost 02 and it snowed

Bruce Rioja · **Posted:** Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:42 pm

Ianmooreslovechild wrote:

Bolton 0 Darlington 3

On a wet, wet Bommy night. I remember it well. :hang:

Ianmooreslovechild · **Posted:** Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:57 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:

Ianmooreslovechild wrote:

Bolton 0 Darlington 3

On a wet, wet Bommy night. I remember it well. :hang:

Yes and I missed the fireworks for that.Grim doesnt cover it. Might even have been a friday night and possibly a record low attendance. Certainly felt like it.

Raven · **Posted:** Wed Apr 25, 2012 12:06 pm

Arsenal vs QPR, early 80's I think, Wilkins was playing for QPR and think they were either relagated or scrapping to stay up, never seen a team so negative, never once attacked or even wanted to try, haev disliked QPR ever since

Zulus Thousand of em · **Posted:** Wed Apr 25, 2012 12:24 pm

Imagine asking a Bolton Wanderers fan about the worst game he ever saw. The list is endless.

I remember seeing us in an FA Cup semi final at Wembley not too long again. The details are hazy. That's how I am wired up to cope with trauma.

LiOC · **Posted:** Wed Apr 25, 2012 12:32 pm

Zulus Thousand of em wrote:

Imagine asking a Bolton Wanderers fan about the worst game he ever saw. The list is endless.

I remember seeing us in an FA Cup semi final at Wembley not too long again. The details are hazy. That's how I am wired up to cope with trauma.

I don't even remember coming home. Just arriving, sitting shell shocked and then I was back home...and I hadn't even been drinking!

That's got to be pretty high up the list of worst ever games.

TANGODANCER · **Posted:** Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:28 pm

Seen some bad games but for sheer comedy and thrills our water polo Euro game takes some beating. Impossible to pass it on the deck and keepy-uppy and head tennis were the order of the day.

bobo the clown · **Posted:** Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:12 pm

TANGODANCER wrote:

Seen some bad games but for sheer comedy and thrills our water polo Euro game takes some beating. Impossible to pass it on the deck and keepy-uppy and head tennis were the order of the day.

Made up for by a large number of stunnigly good looking Russian women.

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