AndyGortonsMatches

Didn't Jobbo score for Hull that night?

Jobbo was already here, i seem to recall it was Keith Edwards coming back to haunt us.....again.

I was at Norwich in 1994 too. On the coach on the way back, I remember looking at the teams we would play the following season and feeling a bit despondent at having to go to Grimsby.

 

There was a brief moment during that day where we thought we might pull off another great escape.... We needed both Everton and Ipswich to lose, with a goal difference swing on Ipswich of 4 goals.

 

At half time, we were 1-0 up, Everton were losing a home to Wimbledon 2-1 and B@stard Rovers were drawing 0-0 at home to Ipswich. A couple of goals from Blackburn and one more for us and we were there again.

 

In the event, Neil Adams [typical Latics] crossed to the far post for Rob Ullathorne to equalise for Norwich and what happened elsewhere was immaterial, although the Everton v Wimbledon match which ended 3-2 to the scousers was later placed under question as a betting scam with Wimbledon players being accused of throwing the game for financial gain.

 

I looked at Ian Marshall's Ipswich survive and our opening day loss to them [and his goal - typical Latics] as pivotal. Had we won that game, they'd have gone down, we'd have stayed up. However, our form since Mark Hughes' equaliser at Wembley was 8 games, 0 wins, 3 draws, 5 defeats, In the 8 games prior to the S/F, it was 4 wins, 2 draws, 2 losses. I still can't bring myself to look at Mark Hughes and not feel annoyed to this very day.

All correct, however (as we had scored more goals than Ipswich) only a 3 goal turnaround was needed on Ipswich, so a 2 goal win for us/loss for them or a 1 goal win for us/2 goal loss for them was needed.

However, once Hans Segers at Goodison started playing like Coco the Clown - the game was up.

My last Premier game was therefore the Spurs match at home 48 hours earlier, a dreadful performance by us at the wrong time and against the wrong opponents. In the final shake up 3 points there might have kept us up and sent Spurs down.

Didnt help we had to play 4 times in the last week of the season also.

there have been worse, but Chelsea in the FA Cup in January 1999 was a bad 'un - I remember this one as my new girlfriend came to Oldham for the first time that day, I promised her a big memorable day out - instead took her to BP .

We both sat in front of the police box in the uncovered Lookers stand, p!ss wet through and with hypothermia with only Paul Durkin's Hot Dog moment for entertainment - With her looking thoroughly miserable I thought that would be the end of that relationship - however now been married over 10 years !!

All goals from 89\90 season have been added now!

We were a bloody good side. At times scoring just looked effortless.

I still have the VHS for that posted video, a weird one as they left out half of the glory Cup matches....

When did Willie last turn out for us, he definitely was part of the title winning team/squad of '91 after Irwin left us and was in the squad after that i think. Wikpedia has his playing career ending with us in 1990?

First time I have ever seen a playback of the play off 2nd leg...

"Cecere scores the winner"... followed by defending the current team would be proud of.

...to prevent us doing the maths and asking pertinent questions on where exactly the money goes.

We all knew generally how much went 'missing' back in the early 90's as fees were published.

Or bending the rules to get round FFP?

If we are to lose a quality youth product for peanuts, then I would at least like to see them make a proper step up in class.., but Brentford?? With Wolves and Orient up there, they could easily still be in League One next season...

There Must have been SOME record broken yesterday. come on you stat freaks, get delving.

Winning a game after being 3 down must be rarer than rocking horse sh!t

24 September 1991, Torquay United (H) - Rumbelows Cup 2nd Round - 1st Leg

Latics won 7-1, the half time score was 1-0 to us.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXvMwz2ay3Q

Redfearn/Liddell, both in teams that got lots of penalties due to an attacking mentality.

Ritchies penalties at Blackburn ('91) and Reading ('97) were very painful along with Marshall's

thump down the middle to Bobby Mimms at Ewood Park ('92).

...somehow doubt that City will try and blow it in the 2nd leg like us.

3 down with half an hour to go....

Here's to a great 2014, KTF...

...a goal from only my 2nd ever Latics game in 1985..

RIP Wayne..

Any official source?

Need to give Sterling a flea in his ear for his season-ending tackle on M'changama.

Worst away day for me was Reading in 1997, awful ground, awful pitch, awful fans, awful weather

Going one-down - Ritchie having a late penalty saved - Reading then making it 2-0 and sending

us down to this divsion where 17 years later we still reside..

Up to that point I remained convinced that we still had the squad to soon bounce back to the Premier

League.

A long coach journey home and reality sunk in that the glory years and good times were gone.

Can't get BT Sport. Why can't ITV show it if it's on the goggle box? They show live FA Cup games and highlights, but do they have the rights for replays?

If you know someone with bt broadband just cadge their login details, you can then watch all their games via their web app.

I do this with my father in laws account...

Random memories for good and bad reasons..

- That Penalty in '91

- Being in the Chaddy End when Chris Price trickled a backpass into his own goal for Villa in the 1990 QF- the crowd

surge meant I was propelled 15 yards....

- 'Rudely' abusing the Blackpool away fans from the lookers stand forgetting I was stood in front of the police box... followed

by a long stern lecture.

- Taking my (now) wife on a 1st date back in 1999....which just happened to be Latics v Chelsea !! - In the Lookers un-covered cheap seats - how romantic.

- Andy Goram saving a penalty in my first ever match in 1982/3 v Crystal Palace.

- Standing on my seat in the Chaddy celebrating survival against Bradford and going @rse over t*t and being bruised for weeks.

- Winning at Maine Road in '99 and mercilessly ripping into their supporters on the Kippax.

- Being in the lynch mob calling for Sharpy's head on Sheepfoot Lane in 1997. We got what we wanted, we then got relegated and here we still are 16 years later !!

I almost choked on my cornflakes this morning when I saw the cheap handball penalty

he gave Spurs yesterday.

Compare that to the stonewaller he failed to award us at Goodison.

Still bitter ??......oh yes.

Might fire up Championship Manager on the PC, leading the Latics to more Champions League glory - was in season 2022/23 when last played.

..done

Latics 2-5 City - last game in the old first division if I remember rightly. A few weeks earlier I'd seen my first win, Latics 5-1 Luton. It was very entertaining if nothing else, I was only about 6 or 7 at the time.

That result bugged me, as if we had won we'd have finished 11th and in the top half and finished ahead of Spurs, Chelsea and Everton.

As it was, we finished 17th and the record books wrongly perceive that we struggled and survived relegation.

v Man United, home friendly, January 1985.

Lost 2-1 , Wayne Harrison bagged our goal.

Neil Redfearn, for giving me the most gut wrenching and then mind blowing moment that I will ever experience at a game.