Aaaaaaaaand it's gone

[hepta]

For a while it felt like every step forward was a prelude to some horrible piece of bad luck.

With Arnesen it really felt like we were finally heading in the right direction and with one swoop it was taken away by a club I detest and felt like it was just to derail our progress.

Then lasagnegate just seemed like the sort of thing that could only happen to us at a pivotal moment.

To top it off the whole Chelsea winning the CL and taking our CL place just left me feeling empty about football.

On a side not...I’m sure for a few years in a row we just kept having the most ridiculous decisions go against us at old Trafford...that always felt like what’s the fucking point.

 

[ralvy]

The day we sacked AVB. I was as angry at him as anyone when Liverpool battered us, but sacking him (and subsequently hiring Sherwood) made me feel like I never wanted to watch football ever again.

Chelsea winning the CL was also a very dark day (and not only because it was cloudy as fuck that day).

 

[topper]

When I saw its title I assumed the thread was about Chelsea's new stadium!

 

[pinner_spur]

The game vs. Man City where Balotelli stepped on Scott Parker's head, suffered no repercussions, then scored the winning penalty. I'm not sure whether or not you can say that was the beginning of our slide in 2012, but in hindsight it feels like a watershed moment.

Defoe not being 6 inches taller in the same game...

 

[rossdapep]

The day we sacked AVB. I was as angry at him as anyone when Liverpool battered us, but sacking him (and subsequently hiring Sherwood) made me feel like I never wanted to watch football ever again.

Chelsea winning the CL was also a very dark day (and not only because it was cloudy as fuck that day).

It did feel like it was our final 'false dawn' and that it just wasn't meant to be. We'd never crack it.

I remember waking up and feeling pretty numb about everything and just deciding at that point I wasn't going to invest anymore belief that we'd become a top team and just try to enjoy the small victories.

Along came Pochettino to make it all stressful again!!

 

[felmani26]

Lasagne-gate and Chelsea's Champions League win were dark days when it could have been so radically different in the space of 90/120+mins.

Let's just say Jack Daniel's was my best friend on those nights!

 

[popstar7]

Semi-final replay defeat to the goons in 1987. I was at Highbury for the first leg, WHL for the second but couldn't make the replay because it was a school night. Listening on the radio and having to leave the house to walk round the block several times, absolutely distraught, at the end. Knowing school the next day was going to be sheer misery. Ridiculous thing to say but it really felt like someone had died.

David Pleat gave George Graham a lift home to Cockfosters after the game.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2007/jan/24/newsstory.sport9

 

[popstar7]

• When I saw the team sheet for Dortmund away in the Europa League semi (midfield of Carrol and Mason )

That was a good medium force kick in the bollocks. I was just in sight of the stadium and nearly got run over checking my phone for the team news. Heart sank.

 

[sammyj]

Judas unbelievable dreadful feeling and will never forgive or forget

 

[werty]

The summer we sold Keane and Berbatov. It was the middle of us struggling to keep hold of any of our tops players. Instead of appreciating and enjoying our best players at the time I started to feel nervous when they were playing too well and thinking they would be gone in the summer. Still struggling to shake that feeling.

 

[JerryGarcia]

Losing to Portsmouth in the FA Cup semi, that was such a good chance to win a big trophy and we didn't turn up.

Berbatov leaving and being replaced by the crap Fraizer Campbell.

The signing of Grzegorz Rasiak as a deadline day signing.

Tim Sherwood (but then it's always darkest before the dawn)

 

[Gassin's finest]

Losing to Newcastle in the fa cup semi final at old Trafford... That's the most upset I've been from watching spurs. Didn't help i had to get a train full of drunk geordies home.

 

[werty]

• When I saw the team sheet for Dortmund away in the Europa League semi (midfield of Carrol and Mason )

That was a last 16 match, not a semi. And we were in the middle of the title race with Leicester at the time, so it was somewhat understandable.

 

[max cady]

When we were relegated I always believed our great club would never suffer that fate.

When Campbell joined the woolwich mob

When Bill called it a day

 

[spursgirls]

+1 to BMJ getting the sack. Wasn't it a Euro game, and everyone knew he had been sacked, including himself? I recall him looking like a broken man in the dugout. That was hard to take. The worst kept secret meeting outside of MJ12 was a right humdinger too.

Losing Carrick, Modric, Berbs and Keane in a fairly short period were tough times. Almost started to wonder what the point was.

Captain Bellend and Ade saluting each other has to go down as most embarrassing moment.

3-0 up at half time vs Utd......you know the rest. Choker.

I think everyone else knew before him. I had a text from a friend and obviously a lot of other people got similar ones and the news spread like wildfire.

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

George Graham. That fucking hurt

 

[leelee]

93 semi final

 

[parj]

For me it was Redknapp not shutting down England rumours and telling the media we be lucky to keep Modric. This was the upward curve being turned upside down.

And Kings knee

 

[Sevens]

In the past week, we've seen the fortunes of clubs potentially go to shit in the blink of an eye. Whether it be ZZ signing off, Roman downing tools or Salah 'popping out', the respective fans of Real, Chelsea and Liverpool have all seen their hopes crumble in a way none of them can have expected literally minutes before.

As a Spurs fan, my sense is that this feeling is not an uncommon one for us. Steed trying to clear off the line. Howard Webb giving that undeserved penalty against Gomes. Hearing that Sugar and Venables had fallen out. Or finding out that Keane was a boyhood Liverpool fan. There have been countless moments on and off the pitch where I've sat there and thought 'And now we're fucked.'

Probably the one that sticks most in the craw for me was the resignation of Pleat. We were superb in the one full season we had under him and I thought we were going places fast. Sadly, he went places slow and our long, steady decline into the 90s started. Reading the news that morning was probably the time when I've felt most certain that everything had gone tits up. Literally. But what about you? What Spurs-related moment do you recall when you sat there and thought...

He inherited a very good squad. Bought shite (other than Gough), alienated the old guard and Hoddle left. And most of all he was persuaded by the players to play 4-4-1-1 (called 4-5-1 back then) with Hoddle playing number 10 after Claesen flopped so badly and it was the 4-4-1-1 that brought us unexpected form (after a very slow start to the season playing 4-4-2, 5 defeats in our first 14 games, only 2 wins from our first 6 games). And we basically blew the FA Cup. We couldn't have picked an easier route to the final. Arguably our hardest game in the entire competition that year (including Coventry in the final) was Wimbledon at home. Coventry should have been comfortably dispatched. But to be honest we blew up at the end of the season anyway. We lost four of our last seven league games, so the FA Cup defeat didn't come as that much of a shock.

 

[kcfiifotk]

1989 Alain Prost left McLaren and we sold Waddle to Marseilles on the same day. Pre internet there were no rumours, just a headline on the back page of the Express "£4.25m Waddle to Marseilles". I'm still devastated now. For a week we had Waddle, Gazza and Lineker. We were going to score for fun and the league was ours. And then it was gone