Heaviest home defeat you've witnessed either at Maine Rd or the Etihad

[Crucialc]

It was on a Saturday at Maine Road if we're talking about the 5-1 in 2003

You are quite right. I was getting a 0-4 loss from Weds April 11 2001 mixed up with the 1-5 loss on Sat Feb 22 2003.

 

[Bez]

Yep that Liverpool game was a real shocker - men v boys ..my old man as a football fan liked going to those games in particular even though there was a period where we were their real whipping boys - Dalglish scored more against us than any other team. Loads of record broken as they battered us at home...always

Remember it well. Sitting in the North Stand with my Dad. Wave after wave of red shirts. One of the best Liverpool teams I've seen. There was a guy behind me who kept shouting "garbage", but Liverpool were on fire that day

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Remember it well. Sitting in the North Stand with my Dad. Wave after wave of red shirts. One of the best Liverpool teams I've seen. There was a guy behind me who kept shouting "garbage", but Liverpool were on fire that day

They were fantastic in the late 70’s and 80’s.

They got Dalglish/Rush/Hanson/Sounness for a combined £1.3m

When you think we paid £1m for Steve Daley and £750k for Michael Robinson.

Bonkers.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

1970, West Ham beat us 5-1, the day Ronnie Boyce scored that goal from Corrigan's kick out. Think that was the low point of Joe's career.

There's been similar cock ups since. I remember Joe kicking that ball out and then turned round, back to the play, ball straight to Boyce who lobbed it back over his head. Yer have to see those incidents to believe 'em.

 

[Blue warrior]

Bloody hell, all the years just passing by.
Did they beat us again at maine road.
I remember a goal was like a over hit cross, high in the air but it eventually landed to an oldham player he squared it for a tap in.
I'm obviously getting the games mixed up.

I could be wrong but I think they beat us 1 nil might have been a cup game.

 

[BlueRockape]

Gotta be arsenal at Maine road. Absolute destruction. Remember us cheering for arsenal they were that good. Middlesbrough away was a proper thumpin aswell.

City fans singing it's .....only five one

 

[laserblue]

The biggest home defeat I can remember was 1-6 v West Ham in 1962-63, a season that ended in relegation. Bert Trautmann was so incensed at West Ham's 5th goal being given that he had a rush of blood and booted the ball with full force into the referee's arse as he was jogging back to the half way line. No surprise that Bert was sent off. Alan Oakes went in goal and only conceded one more.

 

[laserblue]

There's been similar cock ups since. I remember Joe kicking that ball out and then turned round, back to the play, ball straight to Boyce who lobbed it back over his head. Yer have to see those incidents to believe 'em.

Actually Boyce didn't lob Joe. Joe turned his back after kicking the ball out. Boyce controlled it with his chest and hit a low shot that ran along the ground. The crowd at the scoreboard end were screaming at Joe to turn round but he just looked bemused. Then he looked even more bemused as the ball rolled past him, still with his back to it, into the net. It was an absolute farce but it wasn't funny at the time.

 

[Lost in space]

It wasn't the heaviest but there was a game v Charlton around New Years where we got spanked 4-1 which felt like a nail in the coffin for us that season. Remember Robbie Keane rocking up a goal or two for every team he came with around that time too, the tw@

 

[jaymcfc1968]

Moore def renowned as best english centre half ever ,but Colin Bell led him a merry dance at the Boleyn ground in our 4nil win 69/70 season I think.
Moore was asked to msn mark Bell and he dragged him out of posistion all over the pitch,made him look a carthorse.

As far as best English defender is concerned I always felt Kevin Beattie at Ipswich,when fit,was a close 2nd to Moore rugged tough defender but very skilful too and would often carry the ball stylishly out of defence and could play long accurate 70 yard balls.... ,and score goals,something Moore wasn't renowned for..

Back on topic, the Oldham defeat August bank holiday ,under Keegan,iirc 1-4 was hard to take, no one on the Kippax that day would have believed we'd go up after that beating...but we did.
Roger Palmer and a certain Ricky Holden did the damage that day
Holden slung in high arching crosses from the left to the back post where Palmer rose like a salmon to head in. Palmer hat trick.

I was at the Maine rd arsenal defeat and remember clapping them off half time and full, they were different class....and went easy on us after 20 mins,thankfully. 1- 5 ,butcoukd have been so much worse.

I think Mel Machin would have been the manager when Oldham beat us in 88/89 not Keegan.