Not if they knew you like I do, old mate... many on here would be amazed if they knew what a jolly japester you were back in the day (and probably still are)!

COYP

These posts show how many games there have been where the results have been particularly hard to take, yet some of those league games that leave us feeling angry and frustrated often mean diddly-squat at the end of the season. I’m hoping that will be the case with the last two games and come May we’ll be celebrating our PL survival. If on the other hand, we go down by 2 points...

I remember the Forest match referred to by the OP when that saved penalty at the end cost us a point. I think Forest’s keeper was sent off for the foul that resulted in the penalty and he was replaced by their reserve keeper who was only about 18 and he saved the retaken kick. Even if it had been scored we would still have needed that result at Stockport in the last game.

Not a defeat but a goalless draw, one game that I remember clearly was back in March 1996. We had been trying all game to break down a resilient Portsmouth side when at the very end Andy Roberts slammed the ball into their net. The ref disallowed it because he claimed he had blown for time before Roberts kicked the ball. We still went up at the end of the season, so the result didn’t matter in the end.

"Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt."
Mark Twain.

Southampton fa cup semi final, was 11 , and getting relegated at charlton was hard to take ! Think the two fa cup finals are next but the excitment of the day and playing the biggest team in the world, where you expect to lose but hope for some luck wears you down and the loss is kind of numbed with adrenalin , booze and tiredness!

I think if a Pardew led WBA send us down with a last-minute goal in the last game this will be exceedingly hard to take.

Yes, forgot about that, and the giving liverpool our european place when we finished third and they were banned was another injustice!