FFS…..'Typical Latics'

[oafcprozac]

on from Harry's thread 'Typical Latics' could be construed as the following - many of the examples below are the reasons why we are proud to be Latics fans, because you really do not know what you are going to get...

 

FFS! Typical Latics:-

 

September '86 Not conceding a goal in the first 6 games of 86/87 before letting in their first goal at Huddersfield….quickly followed by another 4 - losing 5-4

May '87 Finish third in Division 2, when in pretty much any other year, we would have been guaranteed promotion!!!!!!

May '87 Going 2-0 up in the last minute of the Play Off Second Leg v Leeds (2-1 on agg) and whilst still celebrating, Keith Edwards waltzes through to nick the tie on away goals

September '88 Darlington bottom of the entire football league by some distance, they beat us 2-0 in a League Cup tie

May '90 Away form had eluded us all season and ultimately cost us a Play Off place, then the penultimate away game at play off favourites Sunderland, we go and win 3-2

Sept' 91 1-0 up at Luton at the death, manage to concede two late, late goals to lose 2-1

Sept' 93 3-0 down after 7 mins at White Hart Lane

Oct '93 1-0 up at Anfield going into injury time, we lose 2-1

April '94 1-0 up with literally seconds remaining at Wembley

September '94, dominate the game, two disallowed goals but lose to a late, late Ricky Otto strike at Southend

January '96 Real chance of a decent cup-run especially when playing third tier opposition….nooopppeee a last minute winner sends Swindon into the FAC 5th Round

Feb '97 Vital relegation battle at home to doomed Grimsby, we lose 3-0

Feb-May '98 Fourth at the Beginning of Feb, then a run of 2 wins in 15 sees us panicking a bit at the end of the season

August '00 Destroy Port Vale 4-1 on the opening day, then go 10 without a win

August '00 Singing we are top the league at Walsall with us 2-1 up and 5 minutes left, we lose 3-2…

September '00 2-0 down after 3 minutes at the Madjeski (Lose 5-0)

Jan '02 2-0 up at CHesterfield with about 20 minutes left, we lose 4-2 - chief instigator is our own player - Allott!!!

Mar '02 Big play-off clash with Cardiff, we lose 7-1

Jan -Feb '05 Beat Man City then win two of the next 14…

Mar-May '06 Finally get into the Play Off positions after beating Blackpool 3-1, then go on to record NO WINS in the final 7 games….

Feb-May '07 Secure top spot after a good win at Swansea, 15 seemingly straight-forward games left to confirm our promotion - including the Play Off games, we win 4 out of 17

Jan '09 Promotion chasing team roll into Hereford, bottom and looking doomed - we're 4-0 down at half-time…

Oct '10 Go 2-1 down against 10 man Plymouth

Feb '11 onwards - Squad is strengthened, Hartlepool destroyed things looking up for auto - fast forward five weeks and the team are 15 points away from 6th…..

 

Typical bleedin' Latics….

 

Nov '87 Team's been struggling all season, go to the home of the Champions (Everton) in the Littlewoods Cup and have the audacity to take the lead before unluckily losing 2-1

Nov '89 Champions of England arrive at Boundary Park, "Let's no keep it respectable…" Nah, feck it, let's play like Real Madrid and destroy 'em 3-1….

Feb '90 Semi-Final's are tight affairs…..

May '91 2-0 down, the title's gone. West Ham's name is engraved on the trophy…oops…

Aug '91 Fortress Anfield, the new boys turn-up…takes them 5 minutes to make their mark

Sept '92 2-0 down at home to Leeds, yet still nick a point

Feb '93 2-0 down with the time almost up at Goodison, playing pathetically - somehow we nick two goals to draw 2-2

Mar '93 Bottom of the League, Man Utd roll into town….

May '93 8 points adrift three games to play…..

Dec '94 Big spending Wolves roll into town - despatched 4-1

Apr '95 Promotion chasing Bolton arrive, we've nowt to play for - we batter 'em 3-1

Nov '95 Promotion chasing Wolves away, we're struggling yet destroy them 3-1

Mar '96 Increasingly in trouble we beat soon to be promoted Leicester 3-1

Dec '96 Billy Big Bollocks City (Kinkladze an' all) arrive at BP, take the lead, miss a pen yet the most useless strikeforce ever in Ormondroyd and Banger seal a win

Mar '97 Not a hope in hell, QPR away……..we win 1-0

Jan '99 All star Chelsea arrive, for 70 mins a team of kids and journeymen struggling to avoid relegation manage to not only hold out but are the better side

Mar '99 City win 6-0 at Burnley, we look doomed the following Saturday we meet at Maine Road - Stitch's rag, tag and bob tails win 2-1

May '99 Down to 10 men and needing a win against Stoke to take it to the final day we nick a 1-0 win

Jan '00 Wigan unbeaten all season, we are massive underdogs despite being in the same division - we win1-0

Apr '00 Wigan unbeaten away all season…..oops

Nov '02 Go to West ham and win

May '04 Stay up relatively comfortably despite the heart being ripped out of the team in the previous summer's firesale

Jan '05 All-star City despatched in the FAC

Sept '06 Poor start to the season, we go to Forest and win 2-0

Jan '08 Consecutive away games at Leeds and Everton, we win them both….

Aug '08 3-1 down with less than 20 minutes to go on the opening day of the season….we win 4-3

Edited March 16, 2011 by oafcprozac

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[laticsmad]

on from Harry's thread 'Typical Latics' could be construed as the following - many of the examples below are the reasons why we are proud to be Latics fans, because you really do not know what you are going to get...

 

FFS! Typical Latics:-

 

September '86 Not conceding a goal in the first 6 games of 86/87 before letting in their first goal at Huddersfield….quickly followed by another 4 - losing 5-4

May '87 Finish third in Division 2, when in pretty much any other year, we would have been guaranteed promotion!!!!!!

May '87 Going 2-0 up in the last minute of the Play Off Second Leg v Leeds (2-1 on agg) and whilst still celebrating, Keith Edwards waltzes through to nick the tie on away goals

September '88 Darlington bottom of the entire football league by some distance, they beat us 2-0 in a League Cup tie

May '90 Away form had eluded us all season and ultimately cost us a Play Off place, then the penultimate away game at play off favourites Sunderland, we go and win 3-2

Sept' 91 1-0 up at Luton at the death, manage to concede two late, late goals to lose 2-1

Sept' 93 3-0 down after 7 mins at White Hart Lane

Oct '93 1-0 up at Anfield going into injury time, we lose 2-1

April '94 1-0 up with literally seconds remaining at Wembley

September '94, dominate the game, two disallowed goals but lose to a late, late Ricky Otto strike at Southend

January '96 Real chance of a decent cup-run especially when playing third tier opposition….nooopppeee a last minute winner sends Swindon into the FAC 5th Round

Feb '97 Vital relegation battle at home to doomed Grimsby, we lose 3-0

Feb-May '98 Fourth at the Beginning of Feb, then a run of 2 wins in 15 sees us panicking a bit at the end of the season

August '00 Destroy Port Vale 4-1 on the opening day, then go 10 without a win

August '00 Singing we are top the league at Walsall with us 2-1 up and 5 minutes left, we lose 3-2…

September '00 2-0 down after 3 minutes at the Madjeski (Lose 5-0)

Jan '02 2-0 up at CHesterfield with about 20 minutes left, we lose 4-2 - chief instigator is our own player - Allott!!!

Mar '02 Big play-off clash with Cardiff, we lose 7-1

Jan -Feb '05 Beat Man City then win two of the next 14…

Mar-May '06 Finally get into the Play Off positions after beating Blackpool 3-1, then go on to record NO WINS in the final 7 games….

Feb-May '07 Secure top spot after a good win at Swansea, 15 seemingly straight-forward games left to confirm our promotion - including the Play Off games, we win 4 out of 17

Jan '09 Promotion chasing team roll into Hereford, bottom and looking doomed - we're 4-0 down at half-time…

Oct '10 Go 2-1 down against 10 man Plymouth

Feb '11 onwards - Squad is strengthened, Hartlepool destroyed things looking up for auto - fast forward five weeks and the team are 15 points away from 6th…..

 

Typical bleedin' Latics….

 

Nov '87 Team's been struggling all season, go to the home of the Champions (Everton) in the Littlewoods Cup and have the audacity to take the lead before unluckily losing 2-1

Nov '89 Champions of England arrive at Boundary Park, "Let's no keep it respectable…" Nah, feck it, let's play like Real Madrid and destroy 'em 3-1….

Feb '90 Semi-Final's are tight affairs…..

May '91 2-0 down, the title's gone. West Ham's name is engraved on the trophy…oops…

Aug '91 Fortress Anfield, the new boys turn-up…takes them 5 minutes to make their mark

Sept '92 2-0 down at home to Leeds, yet still nick a point

Feb '93 2-0 down with the time almost up at Goodison, playing pathetically - somehow we nick two goals to draw 2-2

Mar '93 Bottom of the League, Man Utd roll into town….

May '93 8 points adrift three games to play…..

Dec '94 Big spending Wolves roll into town - despatched 4-1

Apr '95 Promotion chasing Bolton arrive, we've nowt to play for - we batter 'em 3-1

Nov '95 Promotion chasing Wolves away, we're struggling yet destroy them 3-1

Mar '96 Increasingly in trouble we beat soon to be promoted Leicester 3-1

Dec '96 Billy Big Bollocks City (Kinkladze an' all) arrive at BP, take the lead, miss a pen yet the most useless strikeforce ever in Ormondroyd and Banger seal a win

Mar '97 Not a hope in hell, QPR away……..we win 1-0

Jan '99 All star Chelsea arrive, for 70 mins a team of kids and journeymen struggling to avoid relegation manage to not only hold out but are the better side

Mar '99 City win 6-0 at Burnley, we look doomed the following Saturday we meet at Maine Road - Stitch's rag, tag and bob tails win 2-1

May '99 Down to 10 men and needing a win against Stoke t take it to the final day we nick a 1-0 win

Jan '00 Wigan unbeaten all season, we are massive underdogs despite being in the same division - we win1-0

Apr '00 Wigan unbeaten away all season…..oops

Nov '02 Go to West ham and win

May '04 Stay up relatively comfortably despite the heart being ripped out of the team in the previous summer's firesale

Jan '05 All-star City despatched in the FAC

Sept '06 Poor start to the season, we go to Forest and win 2-0

Jan '08 Consecutive away games at Leeds and Everton, we win them both….

Aug '08 3-1 down with less than 20 minutes to go on the opening day of the season….we win 4-3

 

8 points adrift with 3 games to play? I don't think we were ever 8 points adrift. Maybe 8 points behind crystal palace but they weren't 5th from bottom 3 games before the end of the season! I stand to be corrected!

[oafcprozac]

8 points adrift with 3 games to play? I don't think we were ever 8 points adrift. Maybe 8 points behind crystal palace but they weren't 5th from bottom 3 games before the end of the season! I stand to be corrected!

 

Sheff Utd won at Forest on Saturday 1st May, taking them above Palace. We were then 8 points behind 17th placed Palace out of 20. With a game in hand (Villa) We beat Villa to go 5 points behind Palace, we beat Liverpool but Palace drew 0-0 at Maine Road that same night meaning we were still three points behind Palace with a game to play but with us having scored many more goals and a slightly inferior GD in fact going into that final Saturday we were -12 Palace were -10…..

 

it ended up with us on -11 Palace -13

Edited March 16, 2011 by oafcprozac

[laticsmad]

Sheff Utd won at Forest on Saturday 1st May, taking them above Palace. We were then 8 points behind 17th placed Palace out of 20. With a game in hand (Villa) We beat Villa to go 5 points behind Palace, we beat Liverpool but Plaace drew 0-0 at Maine Road that same night meaning we were still three points behind Palace with a game to play but with us having scored many more goals and a slightly inferior GD in fact going into that final Saturday we were -12 Palace were -10…..

 

it ended up with us on -11 Palace -13

 

 

Thankfully le tissier didn't quite manage to spoil the party with his hat-trick on the final day of the season. At 4 - 1 up with the mexican wave in full flow I said to brother, it's abit early to be celebrating! Thankfully I was proven wrong.........just! ;)

[oafcprozac]

Thankfully le tissier didn't quite manage to spoil the party with his hat-trick on the final day of the season. At 4 - 1 up with the mexican wave in full flow I said to brother, it's abit early to be celebrating! Thankfully I was proven wrong.........just! ;)

 

Biggest cheer of the day was Le Tissier's overhit cross in injury time, Dowie had a stormer that day too…Milligan should have conceded a pen for handball too!

[rudemedic]

Sheff Utd won at Forest on Saturday 1st May, taking them above Palace. We were then 8 points behind 17th placed Palace out of 20. With a game in hand (Villa) We beat Villa to go 5 points behind Palace, we beat Liverpool but Palace drew 0-0 at Maine Road that same night meaning we were still three points behind Palace with a game to play but with us having scored many more goals and a slightly inferior GD in fact going into that final Saturday we were -12 Palace were -10…..

 

it ended up with us on -11 Palace -13

 

Its very rare that anyone catches you out, but timestamp is right. Sheffield United won their last 3 games, like us, beating Forest 1/5/93, Everton 4/5/93 and Chelsea 8/5/93,

see http://www.soccerbase.com/teams/team.sd?team_id=2328&comp_id=2#teamTabs=results

 

Since the Blades ended up finishing 3 points above us, they were only ever 6 points above us thanks to the different days the fixtures were on. Going into the final game we could have caught the Blades, Ipswich and Palace but the first two would have required a massive goal swing.

see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FA_Premier_League_1992-93 and http://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=1993-05-08

[GlossopLatic]

Jan '08 Consecutive away games at Leeds and Everton, we win them both….

 

Somethingelse that should be addeed here is that either side of those 2 games we plaed Walsall at home before Leeds and lost 2-0 Michael Ricketts did us and we wawful! and the game after Everton didn't we throw away a point to draw 1-1 against a side at the foot of the table with 10 men may have been Bristol Rovers not sure. 2 of our worst performances sandwich our 2 best of that season.

[Harry Dowds Green Shirt]

Its very rare that anyone catches you out, but timestamp is right. Sheffield United won their last 3 games, like us, beating Forest 1/5/93, Everton 4/5/93 and Chelsea 8/5/93,

see http://www.soccerbase.com/teams/team.sd?team_id=2328&comp_id=2#teamTabs=results

 

Since the Blades ended up finishing 3 points above us, they were only ever 6 points above us thanks to the different days the fixtures were on. Going into the final game we could have caught the Blades, Ipswich and Palace but the first two would have required a massive goal swing.

see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FA_Premier_League_1992-93 and http://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=1993-05-08

 

Whilst we were never more than 6 points ADRIFT of Sheffield Utd, our goal difference was inferior to the tune of at least 9 goals over those last 3 games so on the Tuesday night when Sheffield Utd won 0-2 at Everton, we couldn't catch them. Technically whilst they were in the equation when we beat Villa on the Sunday (2nd May) they were out of reach on that Tuesday night. Most people realised when they won at Forest on the Saturday (1st May) they were, due to their superior goal difference, virtually safe.

 

So Palace were always the team we were chasing. On the 1st May (Saturday) they beat Ipswich 3-1 to go to 48 points. We had 40, before we played Villa on the Sunday hence the 8 points deficit. (At that point we were 7 points short of overhauling Sheffield Utd due to goal difference.) We clawed 3 points back by beating Villa and Palace picked a point up at City on the Tuesday to go 6 points clear but with a slightly better goal difference than us but meaning victories by any margin for us agaianst both Liverpool and Southampton coupled by any Palace defeat at Highbury would see us safe.

 

I know where you are coming from but everyone in the club knew that Palace were the team realistically in our sights during those last 6 days and that we had to literally focus on 1 game at a time and make sure we picked up 3 points.

 

Cheers,

 

 

 

Harry

 

P.S. don't try and destroy legend. We have precious little to cheers us up in recent times

[rudemedic]

Whilst we were never more than 6 points ADRIFT of Sheffield Utd, our goal difference was inferior to the tune of at least 9 goals over those last 3 games so on the Tuesday night when Sheffield Utd won 0-2 at Everton, we couldn't catch them. Technically whilst they were in the equation when we beat Villa on the Sunday (2nd May) they were out of reach on that Tuesday night. Most people realised when they won at Forest on the Saturday (1st May) they were, due to their superior goal difference, virtually safe.

 

So Palace were always the team we were chasing. On the 1st May (Saturday) they beat Ipswich 3-1 to go to 48 points. We had 40, before we played Villa on the Sunday hence the 8 points deficit. (At that point we were 7 points short of overhauling Sheffield Utd due to goal difference.) We clawed 3 points back by beating Villa and Palace picked a point up at City on the Tuesday to go 6 points clear but with a slightly better goal difference than us but meaning victories by any margin for us agaianst both Liverpool and Southampton coupled by any Palace defeat at Highbury would see us safe.

 

I know where you are coming from but everyone in the club knew that Palace were the team realistically in our sights during those last 6 days and that we had to literally focus on 1 game at a time and make sure we picked up 3 points.

 

Cheers,

 

 

 

Harry

 

P.S. don't try and destroy legend. We have precious little to cheers us up in recent times

 

Technically it was 4 days from the Tuesday night when Palace were the ones in our bullseye (with Ipswich in the distance and the Blades virtually out of sight). Going into the last saturday it stood

P Points GD GS

Blades 45 49 -1 51

Ipswich 45 49 -6 48

Palace 45 49 -10 48

--------------------------------------

Us 45 46 -12 59

 

So a 3-0 win for us and a 3-0 loss for Ipswich (or the equivalent) would have meant we would have finished above them, when they were 2-0 up after 52 minutes that dream ended. But maybe it was the naivety of youth that made me think we still had a chance of cathcing both the Blades and Ipswich when we played Villa away.

 

I can remember two things about that game against Saints, the goal from a corner by Pointon and spending the last 10 minutes not being able to watch.

 

Even if the Blades had lost their last two games we still would have needed to get 7 points from the last (or 6 and give someone a hiding) that would have equalled our best record of the year- the previous record including when we beat Wimbledon 6-2 when it was alledged by the courts that we were only playing 9 men. That still would have been a massive achievement, the fact we went 1 better was even sweeter.

[oafcprozac]

Somethingelse that should be addeed here is that either side of those 2 games we plaed Walsall at home before Leeds and lost 2-0 Michael Ricketts did us and we wawful! and the game after Everton didn't we throw away a point to draw 1-1 against a side at the foot of the table with 10 men may have been Bristol Rovers not sure. 2 of our worst performances sandwich our 2 best of that season.

 

The Walsall game was before the Leeds and Everton games (28/29th December after drawing 0-0 with Forest of Boxing Day), thus why us winning both was such a shock. We were awful that day. The 1-1 draw was at home to Brighton, the week after the Cup win at Goodison, Hughes scored a goal out of nothing before Brighton scrambled a last second equaliser - our susceptibility to set-pieces rearing its' head again. Ironic that Trotters was part of that team too. I still maintain if he'd played at Goodison we would have been battered instead two defenders with a (usually) cool heads in Stam and Hazell helped us immensely. As promising as Trotman was back then we tightened up at the back after he'd gone with Rubes and Stammy forging a very effective pair and from him coming into the team in mid-October, to him leaving at the end of January, we failed to win ONE home game...

[Lee Sinnott]

 

Cheers,

 

 

 

Harry