Worst ever XI

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

No idea who the ref. was. Wonder if turned out to be Knight, or Riley ??

What, Zat or Joe?!

Soccerbase says the ref for Bolton 2-3 Leeds on Sat 18 April 1998 was Jeff Winter. Was that the first day we played 3-5-2?

Branagan, Cox, Bergsson, Fish, Todd, Jiminho (Salako 70), Frandsen, Sheridan (Giallanza 82), Thompson, Blake, Taylor. Unused subs Jaaskelainen, Taggart, Johansen.
Goals: Thompson 56, Fish 89; Haaland 16, Halle 34, Hasselbaink 85
PA report

[midlands exile]

I'll add in Gaetano Giallanza......not sure on spelling...

His 'goal' against Leeds would have kept us in the Prem that season.

I didn't see anything wrong with it...

I'll throw Ian Marshall into the mix.

There WAS nothing wrong with it. A ball cut back from the by-line which he headed cleanly in & he was given off-side. The ref & linesman later agreed that it was an error as, of course, a pass backward cannot be an offiside. Two games from end of the season & we went down on goal difference.

Nothing that goaline technology would alter of course.

No idea who the ref. was. Wonder if turned out to be Knight, or Riley ??

I feel sick just thinking about that disallowed goal, we used to get mullered with loads of "big club biased" decisions.

[Leyther_Matt]

I think the 'goal' that wasn't given against Everton that season was a far bigger injustice, especially as we'd have got two extra points from it.

Also remember we had two goals disallowed in a 1-1 draw with West Ham - one of them took so long to disallow that they'd even already played the epilepsy-inducing 'goal' graphic that they used on the screen at the time.

[Verbal]

Allan Johnston was ace!

^

scored a brilliant goal against Sheff Utd at the 'Bok. Sadly, that game will mostly be remembered for Dean Holden's leg getting snapped poor Dean.

[bobo the clown]

I think the 'goal' that wasn't given against Everton that season was a far bigger injustice, especially as we'd have got two extra points from it.

Also remember we had two goals disallowed in a 1-1 draw with West Ham - one of them took so long to disallow that they'd even already played the epilepsy-inducing 'goal' graphic that they used on the screen at the time.

I think the Leeds one hurts me most as it was simply a ballsed-up decision with utter disregard to the rules & was inexplicable whereas the Taggart one was an at-speed error.

Also, we did have 37 more games to sort that out,. The Leeds one was with about 2 left so sort of irrecoverable.

[David Lee's Hair]

People claim that Elmander was our most expensive mistake... he wasn't that honour goes to Steve McAnespie.... In todays market we'd have paid around the £10m mark for him... £900k for the biggest pile of shite I have ever seen...

Stevie Fulton surely deserves a mention as well... signing the rising star of Celtic's midfield... to discover he smokes 20-a-day just to piss off your disciplinarian manager... allegedly....

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

People claim that Elmander was our most expensive mistake... he wasn't that honour goes to Steve McAnespie.... In todays market we'd have paid around the £10m mark for him... £900k for the biggest pile of shite I have ever seen...

Shite he was, but those maths imply that the previous summer's £1.5m signings of both Chris Fairclough and Gerry Taggart would have set us back north of £30m.

[David Lee's Hair]

Shite he was, but those maths imply that the previous summer's £1.5m signings of both Chris Fairclough and Gerry Taggart would have set us back north of £30m.

Piss on my bonfire why don't you.... That said I'd have paid that for Gezza.... if i had it.... which i don't