Which defeat hurt you the most?

[SteveO 35]

Looking back through all your years of supporting the Arsenal which single game during that time hurt you the most?

For me, it is still the QF CL defeat against the Chavs in 2004. I'd built up in my mind that we really did have the team to win the cup with the Big Ears that year - we had star quality throughout the side, nobody could beat us domestically and that was back in the pre-Mourinho days when Chelsea couldn't buy a win against us, and we'd banked a goalscoring draw in the away leg with the likes of Monaco and Porto still in the hat. I was in the North Bank that night and I've never ever felt so numb after a defeat. I just stood there in shock afterwards and didn't want to move

Back in the 80s when "I were a lad" the shitty defeats to the likes of Walsall and York used to hurt like fuck because of all the ribbings I got from those wonderful Mickeys supporting smug little bastards growing up in Saarf London, while they were winning everything in sight.

The CL final defeat in 2006 I suspect will be the low point for most but somehow it didn't feel as bad to me as losing to the Chavs. Firstly we'd reached the final at bloody last, the team put up a great effort with 10 men and we were underdogs to start with. Also had a fantastic two days on the lash in Paris, and had some great memories of the whole experience.The Birmingham defeat last year was hard to take - I've never seen 40,000 odd Gooners so quiet on the walk back from the stadium afterwards....but at the end of the day it was the Beer Cup

[flash gunner]

Of the games i went to for me it was the Cup Winners Cup Final of 1995. I went to the Parc de Princes and after having a fantastic day getting pissed in Paris and having a laugh we went to the ground only to play shit and then have that fucker do Seaman right at the end. Also by the end of the game i had a raging hangover as id started sobering up and i had to go into work the next day to face the chavs and scum fans taking the piss. It was a long way home that night On the up side when we then won the double in '98 as me and my brother stood in the newcastle end as Adams lifted the cup i put my arm round his shoulder and said 'remember the night in Paris' I think you have to experience the bad to fully enjoy the good

The European Cup final of 2006 hurt and after winning for so long to have Almunia fuck it up for us hurt like a fucking knife through my back. I said to my wife afterwards (and i meant it for a few short minutes) that i regretted my dad ever getting me into football

[Yankee_Gooner_Dandee]

CL Quarter Final 2nd leg at Anfield. Cheating fucking *word censored* and cheating fucking ref.

That team had the last real chance to win something like the CL.

[franksav63]

The 3-1 defeat against the scum in the F.A. cup semi-final in 1991, we dominated the game (this was overlooked in the reports after the game) and I hate Gascoigne with a passion... also not a defeat but the 4-4 against Newcastle, if any one game typifies Wenger's last 7 seasons it's that one.

[swimmer1]

Arsenal 1-2 Derby County 1988/89

Thought we lost the league that day remember crying in the clockend and Shilton had a cracking game and saved almost everything .

But all ended well .

[Vinny1967]

'99 Semi Final replay.

Needed therapy after that

[frankbutcher]

Emirates Cup Final 2010.

[stg]

Difficult to pick one when I think about it, there are 3 that stick out in my mind.

York away in the FA cup, typical Arsenal performance but to go all the way up their in the snow and watch Steve Williams tug the player 5 yards out side the box and for him to fall in the box was a joke.

The Chelsea CL QF the only game I felt like crying at just stood there numb at the final whistle I was one of the last to leave the clockend that night. I could not belive what I had just seen, gutted would be an understatement.

The L'poo FA cup final Owen scores 2 that and the Chelsea game above are the only 2 games I have never seen the goals from again. I can't even type how I feel about that game.

Which one hurt the most in hindsight it would have to be the Chelsea game if we had won that I think Arsenals history since would of been so different.

[rigsby]

Chelsea QF 2004. Arsenal should have been European Champions that year, no question. Best team by a mile, everyone good had been knocked out. It baffles me how we lost to them. We rocked them in the first half, and in many ways the worst thing to do was score. Still gutting.

[SWLGooner]

Chelsea in 2004 was the first truly crushing defeat in my time as a Gooner. At that time living where I do I could lord it over them at every opportunity. That was when the tables began to turn and I actually thought of that game last Saturday.

Liverpool away in the CL was gutting. Totally fucking robbed over those two legs.

Spurs 4-4 was pretty rough but only a short term one as had no trophy based significance.

Birmingham CL was hard to take. Newcastle 4-4 as well felt really fucking terrible. Pissed it away.

But of all the games, the angriest I have ever felt, not sadness just pure, pure hatred and anger was Eboue shoving that Liverpool player in the box in the 1-1 draw. Summed up the post-2004 Wenger era and I just wanted to smash my brains to a pulp against the wall after that. Frothing at the mouth

[Block_5_Gooner]

The 3-1 defeat against the scum in the F.A. cup semi-final in 1991, we dominated the game (this was overlooked in the reports after the game) and I hate Gascoigne with a passion...

Agreed. First game that sprang to mind.

[rodders999]

The 1988 Littlewoods Cup final

Honorable mentions go to the cup semi in 99, the UEFA cup final, Michale Owen's cup final when we slaughtered the victims and somehow lost, Paris 06 - why Titi WHY??!! and the night Kaba Diawara hit the post 47 times against Leeds

I was just a kid in 88 and that's why it's the one that stands out I reckon.

I cried for days after it, those bastard Stein brothers, that bastard Gus Cesar and Nutty's penalty. We should have destroyed them. I still vividly remember running out of the room when they went 3-2 up and locking myself in the toilet to ball my eyes out

Haunts me to this day.

[officepest]

'95 Cup Winners Cup. I chucked a chair through a screen door and was subsequently evicted (watched at home on the telly). Took me an age to get over that feeling once I realised Nayim's (spit) effort was going in.

I really miss the CWC though, since its discontinuation the UEFA cup has been devalued and the European Cup ain't the same either.

[Dan_85]

Nayim 95. Sickening.

[donaldo]

Cup semi v Utd in 1999.If DB10 had scored that penalty no treble no Giggs goal

Luton 88 still cant believe how we lost................ oh yeah Gus

And i am old enough to remember Swindon 69

And they werent defeats but they damn sure felt like them.Birmingham 2008 and Newcastle 4-4