Best/worst cup game?

worst
Watford at home, 1986, FA cup second replay. Paul Power went bonkers when we won the toss to get us back to Maine Road after the first replay at Vicarage Road, home advantage would surely count in our favour? They battered us 3-1.
West Ham at home in the QFs about 10 years ago, apart from the Luton game in 83 possibly the most disappointed I've ever been a match. Middlesbrough in the SF if we won, what could possibly go wrong?
Blackburn away in the QFs 7-8 years ago, spineless gutless performance.
2013 final.

best
all obvious, but.....
SF vs the shite
SF vs Chelsea
2011 final

And, this isn't the best but an honourable mention for an FA cup match vs Coventry about 15 years ago. They absolutely battered us at Maine Road but we managed a late winner - I do like it when we win a match we don't deserve to.
 
Worst - Only including ones I went to, not just bad results, take your pick from:
Bury (A) League Cup 72-73? 0-2
Lincoln (A) League Cup 90s first leg 1-4
Lincoln (H) League Cup 90s second leg 0-1
Barnet (A) League Cup 90s 0-1 though at least we got through on aggregate
Wycombe (A) 0-0 through on aggregate
Midget-land UEFA Cup 0-1
Forest (H) FA Cup 0-3

Best:
Ipswich semi-final 81 1-0
Rags semi-final 2011 1-0
Rags League Cup 75-76 4-0 - and don't bother getting on your high horses about Bell's injury as we didn't know how bad it was at the time
Milan (H) UEFA Cup 78-79 3-0
Stoke FA Cup final 2011 1-0 - first time I'd seen us win the FA Cup live.
 
Again ones I went to....

Worst
Oldham away FA Cup a few years back, lost 1-0
Wigan home FA Cup Qtr Final 2014 lost 2-1 - I reckon that we would have done the Treble that year but for that

Best
Stock FA Cup Final 2011
 
creed said:
Ha ha. You might well be right.

Funny, I was saying to someone the other day that I can remember games 30 years ago much more clearly than I can those much more recently. Don't know if it's because that's when I was first going or because I'm getting older. Probably both.
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Me too. Though I think it's mainly cos I don't have to remember as many goals back from games in the 80s-00s!
 
DiscoSteve said:
Again ones I went to....

Worst
Oldham away FA Cup a few years back, lost 1-0
Wigan home FA Cup Qtr Final 2014 lost 2-1 - I reckon that we would have done the Treble that year but for that

Best
Stock FA Cup Final 2011
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That Wigan home defeat was horrendous. Not only that, Arsenal went on to win their first trophy for some time. They were in awful form when they played Wigan in the semi and only just beat them. I am sure we would have beaten Arsenal that day.
 
Guardian report if Halifax said we stood on terraces caked in mud. As I recall it was just a bank of earth. Worst defeat but Spurs at home and the pitch invasion was worse experience; my mate never attended again.

Best - probably Everton semi final in 69 if only for tommy booth's late winner, but United semi (we just talked yesterday about balotelli's wink), Vienna in the rain, or I remember Blackpool (Monday night?) at home in the early 60s with a Mike Doyle header I then drew in art at school!)
 
I saw The Guardian article too and it brought back a lot of memories. It was my 25th birthday, I had man flu and if I recall the weather was terrible. The terrace was open and muddy too. The 2013 Cup Final probably exceeds this for misery though.
 
I remember a home tie against Lincoln City when we were back at Maine Rd. we lost 2-1 I think. A young Gareth Ainsworth was playing for them and played very well. We were still sinking at that point. I think we were a Championship team at that point about to sink a bit further.
 
Before the Champions League FA Cup used to be some of the biggest games of the season with the best crowds. And always rubbish pitches away from home in the 3rd round. Used to look forwards to the 4th Round draw immediately afterwards. Putting in on a Monday night spoils it a bit. Saturday or Sunday after the games
 
Worst game 81 cup final replay.Only went through default because my older brother got caught wagging it a few days before. I was 8 Years old and was paraded in assembly in lily lane the morning before the game and boy I felt a right ****! No fucker else was going though so I did have a element of Charlie big spuds about me. Head was a big Blue so made a big thing of it. Wish I wouldn't of bothered, I got hit on the back with what I think was a can of beer, cried most of the way home, eventually fell asleep but pissed myself!! Ive hated spurs with a passion since. Best game obviously Stoke to win cup closely followed by beating vermin game before..fuck it!! Beating vermin pisses on Stoke!!!
 
Schalke at home 1970 ?

5 - 1 An absolutely wonderful performance by a wonderful team agin a very good German team managed by their National Team Manager.

Now....if that could be bottled !!

A privilege to be there.
 
Worst.
Back in the 70s I lived on the south coast and we had drawn Brighton in fa cup. Couldn't get ticket so decided to visit my mum back in manc that weekend. Drove 5 hrs back north on fri evening. Met up with some mates fri who had a spare ticket, as I had the only car drove back down south sat morn to Brighton where we got spanked 4-0. Got pissed wet through and had another 5 hr drive back. On sunday had to drive back down south home. Shit weekend.
Best
Beating scum at Wembley only one thing better than that was to beat them in the final
 
Easy - best vs Stoke in May 2011 as we won the bloody Cup and it's the only time I've ever seen us do that.

Worst - Wigan May 2013 as a team fielding Tevez, Aguero, Toure, Silva and Nasri as a front 5 couldn't muster a shot at goal.
 
Vic said:
Guardian report if Halifax said we stood on terraces caked in mud. As I recall it was just a bank of earth. Worst defeat but Spurs at home and the pitch invasion was worse experience; my mate never attended again.

Best - probably Everton semi final in 69 if only for tommy booth's late winner, but United semi (we just talked yesterday about balotelli's wink), Vienna in the rain, or I remember Blackpool (Monday night?) at home in the early 60s with a Mike Doyle header I then drew in art at school!)
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Spot on mate it was a Monday night I was stood at the old scoreboard end,unusual for a replay just 2 days after the first game.Think the game was about 66,always remember the name Green the bloke who scored for them in the 1-1 on the Saturday,don't ask me why,50 year's ago unbelievable Just checked up it was January 1966 over 53,000 for the 3rd round replay,also in the next round Leicester home over 57,000 I was sat in the Platt Lane that afternoon,and the home game with Everton the Quarterfinals we had a full house 63,000,think the fa cup meant a lot more in those days.
 
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xgorton said:
Spot on mate it was a Monday night I was stood at the old scoreboard end,unusual for a replay just 2 days after the first game.Think the game was about 66,always remember the name Green the bloke who scored for them in the 1-1 on the Saturday,don't ask me why,50 year's ago unbelievable.
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I was also at the scoreboard end on that Monday night in January '66. Seem to remember we beat them 3-1 and Bally tried to pick a fight with big George Heslop.
Also went to the first tie at Bloomfield Road. Remember it was bloody freezing but the atmosphere was fantastic. It was a great result for us to get a 1-1 draw because they were a Division 1 side and we were still in Division 2. There is an old photo somewhere of the City players celebrating the draw in the dressing room afterwards! That's how important the FA Cup was in those days.
I'm sure Glyn Pardoe scored our equaliser that day but the records show Johnny Crossan.
 
Len Rum said:
I was also at the scoreboard end on that Monday night in January '66. Seem to remember we beat them 3-1 and Bally tried to pick a fight with big George Heslop.
Also went to the first tie at Bloomfield Road. Remember it was bloody freezing but the atmosphere was fantastic. It was a great result for us to get a 1-1 draw because they were a Division 1 side and we were still in Division 2. There is an old photo somewhere of the City players celebrating the draw in the dressing room afterwards! That's how important the FA Cup was in those days.
I'm sure Glyn Pardoe scored our equaliser that day but the records show Johnny Crossan.
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I didn't make the Saturday game but the following season when we got back in the first division I went to Bloomfield rd and we won with a Johnny Crossen penalty.
 
billfromthehill said:
Notts county 91 away Fukien lost shit ref icy cold horrible day totally the worst away for me.
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Nowhere near the worst for me! We played quite well that day and even after they scored in the 89th minute (Gary Lund - I was working with his uncle at the time!) we still hit the woodwork!

For me it was Lincoln away 4-1 defeat, think it was league cup.
My first ever game, Southampton away in a Milk Cup replay, circa 1982, Graham Baker, ex-Saint was playing for us, we hit the post in the first 30 seconds and battered them all first half, yet went in 1-0 down. We lost 4-0 and it absolutely pissed down, at least it was only 20 minutes to home for me, felt sorry for the lads and lasses that made the trip down!

Also September 19th 1989, losing 2-1 away to Brentford in the League Cup, I went to the Portsmouth-yoonited game the next night too, rags were 3-0 up at half time (finished 2-3) and singing 'City, you are next, City, City you are next.... we all know what happened on the following Saturday (plus we beat Brentford 4-1 second leg iirc!)

Best, probably spuds away, 3-0 down, Sir Joseph of Barton sent off at half time and coming back to win 3-4....Macken!!! The semi vs the rags, how quick did they empty the stadium???!!! Sunderland League Cup Final was great too just for the sheer quality of Yaya and Samir's goals.
 
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