The worst hammering you've seen

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Cus Geezer
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The worst hammering you've seen

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With regards to last night's early leavers.

I can't relate to those who leave early.

But at the same time I can't relate to watching an Arsenal game and being on the receiving end of a hammering.

My first ever game in 1985 came a week after losing 6-1 to Everton but I'm really lucky in that the worst hammering I've seen was losing 3-1 to Newcastle and in this respect it was 1-1 until about 83 minutes so not really a hammering at all.

So what is the worst hammering you've seen boys?
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4-1/4-0 v everton dont remember it much as i was really youg at the time so cant really say if i was *forced* to leave early or not as i was about 10-12.
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5-0 vs Chelsea at home in the Worthless Cup
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Post by stearmaster »

tonysaunders wrote:5-0 vs Chelsea at home in the Worthless Cup
What cup? :-D
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When we lost to Manure 6-2 in the league cup '90-'91 season
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Post by I Hate Hleb »

THE WORST HAMMERING I'VE SEEN WAS WHEN TRYING TO PUT SOME NORMAL NAILS IN A CONCRETE WALL IN ORDER TO PUT SOME PICTURES UP!! FOR SOME REASON IT JUST DOESN'T WORK WITHOUT BENDING THE NAILS!!

BEING SERIOUS FOR A MINUTE, IT WOULD HAVE TO BE THE .... GULP..... 5-0 BEATING WE TOOK AT THE LANE IN 1983!!
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Post by charliegeorgewhocanhitem »

My worst one has to be Spartak Moscow at home about 82, they murdered us that night, think the final score was 2-5 and they got a standing ovation off the pitch from everyone at Highbury. A worse scoreline was the 6-2 at home to the manc vermin but thet did'nt outclass us in the same way that Spartak did.
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Post by I Hate Hleb »

CHARLIE,

WAS GOING TO WRITE EXACTLY THE SAME THING IN MY LAST POST AS AN EXTRA MEMORY TO MY SPUDS EXPERIENCE.

IT WAS IN SEASON 1982/83 AND AFTER LOSING THE FIRST (AWAY) LEG 3-2, WE THOUGHT WE WERE FAVOURITES TO PROGRESS. ALAS IT WASN'T TO BE AND WE GOT STUFFED 5-2. IT WAS THE FIRST TIME AT A MATCH THAT AN OPPOSITION SIDE HAVE TAKEN MY BREATH AWAY WITH THEIR PERFORMANCE AND THE QUALITY OF THEIR FOOTBALL.

THE LESSON IN FOOTBALL WE GOT THAT NIGHT STILL LIVES WITH ME AS A MEMORY MORE THAN 25 YEARS LATER.
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Post by northbankdamien »

ok I may be wrong (if so im sorry) but can anyone remember us getting battered about 7-0 buy somone in a pre season frendly in the early 90's cant remember who or where it was
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Post by OT02 »

the worst hammering ive seen "live" was probably Charlton at home in 2001/2002 season. they went 4-1 up.

4-1!
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Post by Chunky The Gooner »

[quote="flash gunner"]When we lost to Manure 6-2 in the league cup '90-'91 season[/quote]

Mine too !
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Post by Rilo II »

tues for me.
Before that (i think) the worst was 3-0 home to coventry, with a hattrick from micky quinn. It's not often I've seen us lose
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6-2 Manure. I was gutted!
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Post by Gimp_mask »

I'm with OTO2, Charlton being 1-4 up at half time was a joke, it was my first visit to Highbury that season too.
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Post by charliegeorgewhocanhitem »

I Hate Hleb wrote:CHARLIE,

WAS GOING TO WRITE EXACTLY THE SAME THING IN MY LAST POST AS AN EXTRA MEMORY TO MY SPUDS EXPERIENCE.

IT WAS IN SEASON 1982/83 AND AFTER LOSING THE FIRST (AWAY) LEG 3-2, WE THOUGHT WE WERE FAVOURITES TO PROGRESS. ALAS IT WASN'T TO BE AND WE GOT STUFFED 5-2. IT WAS THE FIRST TIME AT A MATCH THAT AN OPPOSITION SIDE HAVE TAKEN MY BREATH AWAY WITH THEIR PERFORMANCE AND THE QUALITY OF THEIR FOOTBALL.

THE LESSON IN FOOTBALL WE GOT THAT NIGHT STILL LIVES WITH ME AS A MEMORY MORE THAN 25 YEARS LATER.
They seemed like they were from a totally different footballing planet did'nt they. All their players could play with the ball at their feet, move pass, create space etc etc, basically, everything that we could'nt do at that point in history, we had Lee Fuckin Chapman in our side at the time and that says it all. At that time if we were getting a bad beating at home by another English club I would probably have gone to the green hut at the back of the north bank to get a beer but they were so good I just stood there mesmorised. As you sa, IHH, that night still lives in my memory as well and until I go old and senile (next year sometime) I always will.
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