As we're unlikely to see terraces again at football, this is the virtual equivalent where you can chat to your hearts content about all football matters and, obviously, Arsenal in particular. This forum encourages all Gooners to visit and contribute so please keep it respectful, clean and topical.
DB10GOONER wrote:There's been a few bad ones (all listed on this thread) but for me the worst was Paris 06. The minute Lehmann came running out I knew we were fucked. Then when Sol scored I believed we could do it. I have waited my whole life for that fucking trophy and even though it is totally devalued to me since they let in 2nd, 3rd and 4th place teams into it, for me it is still the big one, and a club of our magnitude simply must win it.
And I had actually got a ticket and was at the fucking thing! A dream come true. All the celestial forces had aligned, we made it to the final for the first time in our history, I had a ticket and we were about 15 minutes from winning the bastard!!
Then when they equalised I just knew we would lose. It was sickening, heartbreaking. I felt desolate, just gutted. When the second went in I actually just felt like crying TBH... still don't know how I kept the tears in. Afterwards as we walked back to meet up with less fortunate members of our party without tickets I felt the emptiest I've ever felt leaving a football ground.
I think I would've just gone back to the hotel and got obliterated at my minibar in a darkened room by myself only our mate Trish McGarry decided no, we were Gooners, we were gonna get lamped in every pub in Paris and go out with pride. She kept us all going that night and we drank until 7.30 or so the next morning singing our songs with pride and if I'm honest it was the best away trip ever.
Poor Trish died about a year later in a terrible accident at 33 years of age. We buried her in her Arsenal jersey. A wonderful girl and a great friend and I'll always owe her for saving us all that night in Paris.
I think the most emotionally drained i have been was after Anfield, I was still on my knees in the road infront of the house as Babel dived for that penalty....
Nayim
Unied 6-1
Liverpool in 2001
Keowns miss in the Uefa Final!!
Still, every team has ups and downs and Arsenal have had a lot more ups than most teams
Bendtners Drinking Buddy wrote:Still, every team has ups and downs and Arsenal have had a lot more ups than most teams
Very true!
Premier League titles, FA Cups, European Cup finals and defeats , history making sequences, great players, and plenty of good and bad memories.... those massive ups and downs beats the mundane tedium at most clubs.
We're bloody lucky to support this great club
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I still think that considering it was 'just' a Premier league away game in February, that the Birmingham game at St Andrews in 2008 is right up there with the disappointment and emotion of losing major cup finals to Zaragoza, Galatasaray, Barca and Liverpool.
Bendtners Drinking Buddy wrote:Still, every team has ups and downs and Arsenal have had a lot more ups than most teams
Very true!
Premier League titles, FA Cups, European Cup finals and defeats , history making sequences, great players, and plenty of good and bad memories.... those massive ups and downs beats the mundane tedium at most clubs.
We're bloody lucky to support this great club
why does bdb try to come on here and cheer everything up when were perfectly happy being miserable.
F.A. Cup 1980 v west ham had to endure alot of pisstaking fm teachers and other kids at school as used to live in a heavily populated spammers area at that time!
1978 FA Cup Final. Trounced by Ipswich having given it 'large' in the build-up. Mind you it taught me a lot. But leaving Wembley that afternoon, was the closest I've come to being in a losing army, at the end of a war.
In forty years following our glorious club i have many bad games,most between 74-77 i think more bleak was the end of Terry Neill's reign who took over from the great Bertie Mee and transformed our fortunes from relegation candidates to getting into Europe,he brought through the likes of Brady,O'Leary,Rix etc .
Leeds FA cup Final 72
Ipswich FA cup Final 78
Valencia CWC final 80-lost on pens
Zaragoza CWC final 95-fucking jammy goal
Galatasaray CWC final 2000-pens again!!!!
and of course 2006 C/L final but like i said many,many others like York,Wrexham etc just can't....bear....to......remember
Walking out of Wembley 1991 after losing 1-3 to Sp*rs was pretty shit, especially as it came so soon after getting stuffed 1-3 by Benfica.
And then there was the 1-3 against the Mancs in the CL last season. There's something about that scoreline.
The 2006 CL Final in Paris was awful but at least we'd had 71 minutes to get used to defeat, after Mad Jens lost the plot.
But my worst has to be the 2-2 against Bolton in April 2003 because I've always despised that fat *word censored* Allardyce and that was the day that I knew we'd failed yet again to retain a League Title. And to make it worse, I knew that Fergus-scum would probably have retired if they'd gone another season without the Title.
But on the HIGH - LOW scale, no low has ever been the equivalent of the high on 26th May 1989. When my life flashes before my eyes on my final day - I'll have a big old grin as I recall THAT moment!!
Paris was unreal, I just started a new job and on the second day I got an email from Arsenal confirming I had a ticket for the final...
We drove over, good trip about 5 of us. Plenty of boozing around paris before the game.
I was in about the 3rd row, great seat..Sol put us 1-0 up and I really thought we could do it.
With about 20 mins to go I REALLY beleived we could do it...when the equaliser went in I knew that was it, they'd come on strong and finish us off..
Coming out of the gound was like a blur, I was numb. We had to fight our way into the train station to get a train back to CDG where we had parked, we must have been the only Arsenal fans on the train was sickening..
When we got to the car park, "The Show Must Go On" by Queen was playing in the car park !! I thought fuck me this is a joke right...
We got back to Calais hoping for an earlier crossing on the EuroTunnel...no such luck. Sat in the car for 3 hours till 6am.
When I got home I was still gutted...on the saturday morning, my mate phoned me, "Al, you gotta watch champions league weekly on Sky" "Why the fuck do I want to watch it again I said"
"Trust me Al, just watch it and after Sol scores have a butchers..."
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, history making sequences, great players, and plenty of good and bad memories.... those massive ups and downs beats the mundane tedium at most clubs.
...and 1:3 against manUre couple of weeks ago, that was low, man... 
