Most heartbreaking match seen

[Dommotyger]

Has to be Bromsgrove away when we thought we had won the league only to find out that was it Farnborough had won......was really gutted!

[RegCubit]

The Salisbury game end of 96/97, especially after the 0 - 0 draw with Atherstone on the Thursday night, meant we missed out on promotion and Cheltenham went up.

[Neil]

Eastleigh is still fresh in the mind!

Gloucester City are good at heartbreak :(

[Simon]

The Salisbury game end of 96/97, especially after the 0 - 0 draw with Atherstone on the Thursday night, meant we missed out on promotion and Cheltenham went up.

Definetly.

I was actually a mascot at that game and was taking shots against David Coles in front of the T-End, a great moment :)

However the match was awful, at the time, being only 7 I didn't fully appreciate what it actually meant, until about 2 or 3 years later I discovered how big that day was and that has to be, along with the Bromsgrove game, one of the most heartbreaking matches in the history of the Football club.

The 7-1 defeat against Bedworth has to be up there too and the defeat against Eastleigh in the FA Cup too.

[Dommotyger]

Forgot to mention the Salisbury game - how could I forget it was my sisters wedding day as well!

[gloucester4life]

aylesbury in the fa trophy burnsy changed the squad around if he hadnt we would of won im sure o well

[Neil]

I must say that I have sympathy with Will Steadman for that game and the red card that he received. Kezie Ibe, the striker who he tangled with turned out for Tiverton a couple of years later and played both here at MP and away. I've never seen an attacker to use his arms to fend off a defender as much as Ibe did and he must've been as bad in that game. Yet Super Will touched him once and he went down like a sack of **** and the rest is history....

[gloucester4life]

if memory serves me right we won the game b4 and then he dropped steven chipps and lee smith and played karl bayliss in midfield and will at the back so the team lost losts its shape,great day out mind just a shame we had beaten 2 conf teams then lost 2 them errrrr

[Smudge]

The Aylesbury trophy game was a real disappointment, most supporters thought that we had a good chance to win that one, but going 2 down so early in the game we never recovered. I remember that the Police held us all in the car park after the game for well over half an hour so that the troublemakers could board their coach and be on their way, this action only made for a frustrating afternoon.

However, the most disappointing game for me was the Salisbury game, I remember now how after the final whistle virtually every City player was laid flat on their back on the pitch, totally exhausted from playing so many games in the final couple of weeks, and of course gutted that we had won nothing despite all that effort. Not to mention who was promoted despite not winning the league.

[IJD]

Two games stick in my mind and they are Dag & Red in the FA Trophy. To get within touching distance of Wembley and have it snatched away from us by a dodgy lino in the 2nd leg at MP when we were 1 up (it was our throw) and then to lose the replay after being 1 up as well.

The last 7 minutes at Ninian Park were pretty hard to bear as well

[Noah]

Everyone's selection is a good shout. I was just too numbed by the Bromsgrove business, as we all were.

I took the Trophy semi-final defeat at Slough very much to heart. Just think if we had run out at Wembley. I don't think the result there would have mattered to me had it gone against us. At least we would have had all the razamatazz.

The Salisbury game wins it every time. A club robbed in the Trophy semi-final fights back against everything that luck can throw against us, playing eight games a week, etc. etc. is still destined to come good on the last afternoon. Our rivals for promotion are already celebrating because they think that winning at Burton Albion will be a formality. I know that's not to be the case, and that they won't do it. And of course they didn't get the win they thought that they needed.

And then the pain of what happened in the Salisbury match. It felt like a fly must feel when a small boy destroys it by taking it to pieces. And it's all because the fly is so very tired from playing eight games a week. It was a gruesome occasion.

[weston branch]

That Salisbury game wins it for me. But only cause I wasn't at either the Bromsgrove game or the Semi final replay( only game I missed in the trophy that season, how guilty have I felt ever since). Seem to remember it was another game against Salisbury a few seasons later that got us relegated, that one comes close as it was the only time ever (fingers crossed) that I've seen city relegated.

[Matt]

The Salisbury match was one crazy afternoon. I seem to remember some big guy in a Glos City shirt chasing the ref round the pitch, a fight at the other end and a police helicopter. (that right?)

I didn't really realise what it all meant then. As disappointing as it was I thought there is always next year. But everything went pear shaped from then on. We had to play a ridiculous amount of games in the last few weeks and we were just very unlucky.

The Aylesbury game was gutting as well. Burnsie made some changes to the team that seemed baffling and it just never happened. Think Andy Hoskins missed a great chance to equalise tho. After beating Southport and Woking we lost to a team we really could have beaten.

Agree with Neil - Glos City FC is very good at heart break!

[Simon]

Wasn't that Police Helicopter at the Halifax Town game in the FA Trophy in that season?

The Aylesbury game was such a let down, after we had beaten Woking and Southport - Aylesbury didn't look that difficult to be honest. It just showed how much we progressed in that particular season. That Andy Hoskins miss, it would have been easier to score wouldn't it. The game against Ilkeston when we messed it up on teh final day was hard to take, even though it wouldn't have mattered if we had won because Redditch had won at Cirencester I believe.

City are the perennial heart break club aren't we.

[RegCubit]

Think you're right about the helicopter, it was the Halifax game, when their fans started kicking in the walls of the chicken run, wasn't that the game Leroy played in goal as well.

Gary Bloxsome was the infiltrator on the pitch at the Salisbury game, to be honest he was trying to do waht a lot of people wanted to do, the ref didn't have a great game that day.

[Neil]

No, Leroy played in goal against Kingstonian.

[Matt]

I'm sure there was a helicopter at the Salisbury game as well. If my memory serves me right some City 'fans' went down the other end and beat up a few Salisbury fans. The police were called and one guy climbed the wall and ran away. Anyone else remember that?

[Matt]

Does Mr Bloxsome still attend any games? Don't wish to condone anyone running on the pitch and chasing the ref - but, hey, it wasn't half funny!

[bobcarolgees]

Salisbury was the biggest dissapointment for me and I honestly believed that it would be our day that morning. Going down to 10 men after a very dodgy red card didnt help and then it all went pear shaped. It was going so well at half time. The farce at the end of the game with the salisbury fans being attacked and people running onto the pitch to try and stop the game only made matters worse. From what I understand the trouble started when a group of the Salisbury supporters started singing Cheltenham songs (their game at Burton had finished by that point). No excuse though.

Dagenham at meadow park was a sickener, a minute away from wembley but also because they brought about 200 fans and made no noise whatsover. Its worse to think they'll be playing in the football league next season. The replay at Slough again was terrible, with Watkins being sent off for next to nothing. How come we played at Slough anyway? Stevenage and Woking played the other semi replay at Watford who were in the premier at that time. Think we got the short straw there!!!

Aylesbury was also a major dissapointment as I didnt think they were a great team then and beatable, also Thames valley police showed that their service was about as good as it was at Slough if anyone remembers that!

[Neil]

Does Mr Bloxsome still attend any games? Don't wish to condone anyone running on the pitch and chasing the ref - but, hey, it wasn't half funny!He did come to a few games two seasons ago and said it was one of those things that he'd rather not have happened and was a bit embarrassed about it.

[Pablo]

I didn't really realise what it all meant then. As disappointing as it was I thought there is always next year. But everything went pear shaped from then on. We had to play a ridiculous amount of games in the last few weeks and we were just very unlucky

Yes, I thought that we would just go up the next season, as I had only been a fan for about 2 seasons and only really seen home games, I had only really seen us winning!

[Spraggy]

I think that the only game in the race is the Bromsgrove one as in all the others mentioned at no time did we think we had won anything or actually been promoted............... however at Bromsgrove we were all on the pitch at the end ....firm in the belief that we were at that moment a Conference team .........just imagine how that felt when the news filtered through the crowd and to the players and directors who were above us in the stand.
If you wern't there you just could not imagine how that felt.

[Neil]

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[nigel]

I had to go out of that game at half time to move my car, announcement on the tannoy, how embarrassing and i left it the 2nd time in a garage I think. Parking was a nightmare on the day.i travelled on my own and I left for home not long after the final whistle to make sure that the car was o.k.

I got to the start of the M32 just coming into Bristol before the radio announced we hadnt gone up !
I probably thought we had got promoted longer than anyone else. . .

Couldnt quite believe it

[DCM]

Matt, the helicopter was at a Salisbury game when the cover on the TEnd was officially opened. I know this as the lady wife was one of the supporters who went for a trip around the City while I watched the game! In those days the club house we have now was the preserve of the great and good and not for the likes of me. That day she became the first Miller family member to set foot on the hallowed carpet! I have a photo of her and the other winners in an old copy of the Pink Un somewhere.

Heartbreak. Cant disagree with all of the above, but seeing the 18's loose the Glos Cup final on penalties at Tuffley a few years back was hard. Dave saved two penalties and the ref let neither save stand. A few days later a certain Liverpool keeper moved a whole lot more than Dave, saved a penalty and his team were crowned champions of europe. Funny ole game!

[ItmustbeCity]

Mine would be Eastleigh in the FA Cup, if ever anyone wants the nightmare football away day that would be it

I still wish i'd been around for the Bromsgrove, Dagenham, Salisbury games though just to take in what it meant at the time

[t-towel]

Can't beat any of those already mentioned, that defeat to Salisbury was the worst, just - mainly because of what we missed out on, but also because of the Dagenham defeat that went before, the side who went up instead, and also the sheer unfairness of it - I think we had a far better side than the scummers that year.

That Trophy semi-final replay defeat was awful, and only City could have contrived the events at Bromsgrove. I can remember giving Dave Mogg my scarf when we thought we won the title and grabbing it back when I heard we weren't. In my defence I needed it to cry into :o

I'm surprised more people haven't mentioned some of our several FA Cup last qualifying round defeats. We were probably prepared for defeat at Bishop's Stortford, but I remember long painful journeys back from Worthing and Wisbech when we probably should have won. It's been far too long since we graced the competition proper.

[Noah]

That Trophy semi-final replay defeat was awful, and only City could have contrived the events at Bromsgrove. I can remember giving Dave Mogg my scarf when we thought we won the title and grabbing it back when I heard we weren't.

I got into a great position to slap their backs as they climbed the stairs to celebrate having won the league. Then, by the time they came down again, I had turned on my heels and was leaving in disbelief. I have always regretted not staying to commiserate with the players but, then, would they have wanted that ?

[Don Caster]

Well I'm going to throw another one in, FAC 4Q Replay away vs Wisbech.

Having driven all the way across to East Anglia on a mid week night, 2-0 up at half time, opponents down to 10 men and we throw it away in the last 20 minutes....oh and their reacist scum supporters abusing Mings, Johnson and LeRoy. The local police were there, saw what was going on and did nothing (makes the police at Trowbridge for the golf ball throwing incident look active). he Wisbech club chairman also decided to do nothing after I reported this to him during the game.

Not a pleasant drive back.

[city supporter]

aylesbury in the fa trophy burnsy changed the squad around if he hadnt we would of won im sure o well

Why, or why did Burnsy do that ? I think the reason was to give Karl Baylis his last memorable game. How on earth you could put someone with arthritic ankles mid-field and leave out Mr. Chipps from defence, WAS BEYOND ME......#

It cost us dearly !

[Neil]

Apparently this thread makes hilarious reading for a bunch of ****ers on another forum. They are people who'll never understand what it's like to stick with a football club through thick and thin. Scum.

[Noah]

Am I bovvered ? I saw the potential for such a response, and rise above it.

[t-towel]

Apparently this thread makes hilarious reading for a bunch of ****ers on another forum. They are people who'll never understand what it's like to stick with a football club through thick and thin. Scum.

Nah, people like that will never get relegated, never see their side choke and never really understand football. Could anyone care less what they think? :p

[darrenb]

The worst has to be Dagenham in the semi finals of the trophy when we were 2 minutes from getting to the final.

The last day of the season when the scum went up was also hard to take as was the defeat at Eastleigh earlier this season :(