Memory Lane Memorable matches for different reasons

[Napster]

Macclesfield away maybe 2001?. I can still see 1) The Hound knocking on a pub door at 10am demanding to be let in and 2) Scriven stacking it and falling down the terrace. **** game, great day out.

 

[Mad Cyril]

The you go.
Full game. Cracking away kit as well. Jason Lee's best game for us.

What a game!

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

I wasn't at that game and never went to Somerton Park, unfortunately.

However, it can get lonely in pedant's corner, and I'd like to suggest the unusual spelling of Derrick for DP's forename.

If we're talking about pedantry Rob the game was at Roots Hall.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Best away win - 4-1 beating Millwall on the opening of the New Den.
Best ever Southend performance - 1-0 loss to Everton in F A Cup, we played brilliantly,outplayed them but lost to a Peter Beardsley goal - scandalous!!

Ha! had a ticket for that game and was supposed to meet a good mate there.Having caught the milk train up from Bristol, where I was staying at the time, ran in to a few Lions at the Hole in the Wall pub in Waterloo and decided to take off for Fulham instead.

 

[Rob Noxious]

If we're talking about pedantry Rob the game was at Roots Hall.

Ah - and talking of pubs (apropos your post just above this one) - I'd spent a bit too long at the Farmers Arms here in PZ yesterday (with a few great pints of Landlord) to notice that it was a home game in the original post.

 

[hlane17]

For all the wrong reasons.

Rochdale (A) in 2019. Last away game of the season. A win would see us essentially safe before the end of the season.

We were hardly in that match and lost 1-0. Southend fans fighting in the away end, some idiot also held onto the ball while we were chasing the game. A toxic atmosphere to say the least.

End of the game Dale fans invade the pitch (as it guaranteed their survival) and throw pyros into the away end.

Get out of there onto the coach, I recall Dale fans throwing some stuff at the coach and following it for a bit before we got out of there.

Long miserable coach ride home and got back in the early hours of Sunday morning.

 

[Leeboy]

Blackburn at home first home game of the season only a couple of years back. Cox and Kightly. Best performance in years really thought we had a chance after that game…..
Oh and Mulgrews free kick wasn’t bad for them on his return to the Hall

 

[Leeboy]

Macclesfield away maybe 2001?. I can still see 1) The Hound knocking on a pub door at 10am demanding to be let in and 2) Scriven stacking it and falling down the terrace. **** game, great day out.

Chelsea away 2009 - Barry Harris doing the same at that pub near Earl’s court tube station

 

[Tommy2holes]

Chelsea away 2009 - Barry Harris doing the same at that pub near Earl’s court tube station

Went in the same pub after the game and it was carnage

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

Blackburn at home first home game of the season only a couple of years back. Cox and Kightly. Best performance in years really thought we had a chance after that game…..
Oh and Mulgrews free kick wasn’t bad for them on his return to the Hall

There you go.
Time fly's. It was 5 years ago. Doesn't seem like it.

 

[ShrimperJim]

Best away win - 4-1 beating Millwall on the opening of the New Den.
Best ever Southend performance - 1-0 loss to Everton in F A Cup, we played brilliantly,outplayed them but lost to a Peter Beardsley goal - scandalous!!

Fat Nev was outstanding in that game, and his save from Andy Ansah was like how the hell did he save that. If Ansah had scored, could have been a different result.
Outplayed Everton and out sung their fans.

Think Dave Webb handed his notice in after that game aswell.

 

[Richard Hearn]

The Boxing Day game versus Franchise FC at the Hockey Stadium (can't remember exactly when).

I don't believe that I have ever been as cold in all my life, before or since.

And we lost.

To the ****ing Franchise!

 

[Leeboy]

West Brom away in the Championship - we drew 1-1 with Matt Harrold scoring (!!) and they sacked Bryan Robson after !!

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

West Brom away in the Championship - we drew 1-1 with Matt Harrold scoring (!!) and they sacked Bryan Robson after !!

There should be a thread just on managers getting sacked after we play them!
Didn't it happen to Ardiles with The Toon?

 

[Crowstone Crevette]

There should be a thread just on managers getting sacked after we play them!
Didn't it happen to Ardiles with The Toon?

No, well not directly afterwards anyway.

Our 4 - 0 win against Newcastle was New Years Day 1991 (which interestingly fell on the 1st January). He was sacked in February after Newcastle's 5 - 2 defeat to Oxford United at the Manor Ground.

 

[dbailey3]

The Boxing Day game versus Franchise FC at the Hockey Stadium (can't remember exactly when).

I don't believe that I have ever been as cold in all my life, before or since.

And we lost.

To the ****ing Franchise!

2-0 I believe? You're right it was absolutely freezing. Horrible game.

 

[Richard Hearn]

2-0 I believe? You're right it was absolutely freezing. Horrible game.

2-1, I think.

As I remember (before my brain froze) Sean Goater put us one up before it all went tits up.

(I may be wrong, though. As I have said, it was very, very cold)

 

[ColinMorrisWalksOnWater]

I'm going to nominate Blackburn away when we drew 2 all, with Speedie robbing us of the win with a last minute winner


We.stood up against the Dalglish/Hartford Combo, gave as good as we got.

One of if not the best SUFC away performances l have seen and l include Everton away in that.

 

[basilrobbie]

My first visit to Rootes Hall was in (I think) around 1979, when we were coming to terms with being in the third tier for the first time. I seem to remember you had a big open end then (to our left). About twenty or so of us were in the paddock and had to be escorted back to our coach by the police. And we lost 4-0.

The second was "that game" in 2019. I think your fans who travelled must have felt like gatecrashers at a private party.

 

[Lincoln Shrimp]

There you go.
Time fly's. It was 5 years ago. Doesn't seem like it.

It seems longer than 5 years ago for me!