Nostalgia! Your top three moments being a Wanderer

[m_taylor]

Birmingham Away in the FA Cup Semi Final - sat near the front where Chungy came to celebrate - amazing - can honestly say one of the best times in my life!!

One game that I remember was the 2-2 at home to Leicester City - we had Warhurst and Holdsworth sent off and came from 2-0 down to draw with our England Interntaional Michael Ricketts scoring in the last min - incredible!

The last one from me was Everton away on the 17th December 2005 when we won 4-0! We were 1-0 up then Vaz-te came on with 15min to go and he was amazing and we scored 3 goals including a Speedo pen which i recorded on my phone and must have watched 100 times on the train home.

[BWFC_Insane]

1-0 at home against Preston, to relegate them and promote us. It felt like the good times were finally coming back. But for this you could easily use Hull away!

The Reading game, I just can't imagine that not being there.

2-1 at Old Trafford in our first season back under Sam. It was just so unexpected and immense.

[Always hopeful]

1. 1994 FA Cup 4th round replay 3-1 win away at Arsenal. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlSoPjKyzjQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

2. Play-off final against Preston. (I can't find highlights anywhere on facetube )

3. Frank's wonder goal. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0z_arXZ8nM" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Happy days.

[bwfcdan94]

Birmingham Away in the FA Cup quarter Final - sat near the front where Chungy came to celebrate - amazing - can honestly say one of the best times in my life!!

One game that I remember was the 2-2 at home to Leicester City - we had Warhurst and Holdsworth sent off and came from 2-0 down to draw with our England Interntaional Michael Ricketts scoring in the last min - incredible!

The last one from me was Everton away on the 17th December 2005 when we won 4-0! We were 1-0 up then Vaz-te came on with 15min to go and he was amazing and we scored 3 goals including a Speedo pen which i recorded on my phone and must have watched 100 times on the train home.

corrected it for you

[thebish]

The Reading game, I just can't imagine that not being there.

oh aye!!

for me this was made so much more delicious in that in the following summer holidays we went camping in France. There weren't many english-speaking families on the site - so we hooked up a bit with the family 2 tents down - helped out with a bit of babysitting - played some boules etc... joined up to form a quiz team (which we won - thanks the the missus)..

anyway... the missus happened to mention that I was a Bolton fan... the bloke just (basically) went mental! apparently he had taken his dad to the final - and his dad was 89yr old or summat and had always dreamed of seeing Reading in the premiership - and now he NEVER would - and somehow it all became my fault!!

after that - if we did anything - it was Reading against THEBISH - boules - cards - whatever.... weird thing was - I'm not that good at boules - but I wiped the floor with him every fecking time - which just made him madder and more mental.

on the night before they left - his missus came to me and asked if i'd do her a favour... apparently she was sick to the back teeth of him ruining everything with his reading lunacy. she knew that we listened to R4 on LW - ropey reception, but how else did you keep up with the archers back in the 90s... she asked me to casually drop into a conversation that I had heard on the news that Jimmy Quinn was leaving Reading now that they had missed promotion - and Scott Taylor and a couple of others... she promised not to tell him it was a wind-up until AFTER they had gone..

it was awesome!!! he went even purpler than he had gone before when I casually dropped the bombshell - all innocently - and he ranted and raved about loyalty and effed and blinded...

thing is... he got a bit madder than his missus had anticipated - and she felt she had to tell him it was a wind-up before they left as he was in serious danger of some kind of fit or possibly heart attack...

she warned me she had told him late that night - and the following morning I actually had to hide until they were gone!

[Worthy4England]

For me, the 2-1 win at OT (not the one BWFCI mentioned, the one in 1979 where Worthy scored a couple). Couldn't get away tickets, so went in the Stretford End, it were grand.

Reading, for sheer excitement, and some big mouthed git who said on De Freitas entering the field of play - "that's it, might as well pack up and go home"

Atletico at home - probably the last hurrah of some great (now ex) players, especially when Stelios came on for Guthrie. Thought the atmosphere was crackin too.

[TANGODANCER]

Atletico at home - probably the last hurrah of some great (now ex) players, especially when Stelios came on for Guthrie. Thought the atmosphere was crackin too.

Met a load of decent Spanish lads on the station at Oxford Road for that one and helped them out with directions for Horwich Parkway, ie they had to catch the Blackpool North train and not the Glasgow one that stopped at Bolton and Horwich but not the Parkway.. I went home first because I had a ticket and was going with a neighbour. As you say, great atmosphere and a grand game. Think I still have the ticket stub somewhere.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

Atletico at home - probably the last hurrah of some great (now ex) players, especially when Stelios came on for Guthrie. Thought the atmosphere was crackin too.

Met a load of decent Spanish lads on the station at Oxford Road for that one and helped them out with directions for Horwich Parkway, ie they had to catch the Blackpool North train and not the Glasgow one that stopped at Bolton and Horwich but not the Parkway.. I went home first because I had a ticket and was going with a neighbour. As you say, great atmosphere and a grand game. Think I still have the ticket stub somewhere.

I had an Atletico fan with me that night if you recall. We nearly didn't get into Scotts due to his shirt though. Great match that.

[norm the jedi]

Newcastle in the third round at Burnden 3-3 my first proper big cup day as a lad.. 1970 summat
Arsenal replay.... still gutted for the Zico goal that never was.
Reading and the Branny pen save... when we began to believe we might turn it round.. I was goin home if the pen had gone in..

[Turkish Trotter]

April 1978 Blackburn A, 1 0 to the whites, Worthington winner and promotion to the top division for the 1st time since relegation in 1964.(my 1st season watching the whites)
The Reading play off final, has to be there for excitement alone, I too said "If this penalty goes in we're off home" !! Same as Norm the Jedi.
April 1979 Man U A. 2 1 to us and Worthington put both in, after being 1 0 down. I too was in Stretford end, same as worthy, paid on the gate .

Lots of other special memories, but these 3 take some beating.

[LeverEnd]

1. Hull 1993 away having to win and getting 2 late goals to win it with 10 men after Stubbs' handball and Julian Darby's switch from striker to centre half.

2. Cup replay win at Arsenal 94, Andy Walker making his comeback as sub and sealing the win.

3. 3-1 Div 2 win over Keegan and Newcastle in about 1982, first game I remember properly, Burnden stand with my Gran

[bw@bw]

Away @ Sheffield United in the 70's in the middle of a winter, frozen pitch & where we scored 3 (I think - it is a long time ago!)

That may even have been 4 we scored. Fckg, fckg, fckg freezing. Had problems opening the car door as the lock had frozen. We tried allsorts until, final chance, 4 of us pissed on the lock. Thankfully it opened, or we'd have been staying over as no-one was going to blow on it again after that.

IIRC It was Xmas period and we won 5-2. I was living in Sheffield at the time. Never been so cold at a match

Boxing day I think. Certainly that Christmas week. It was unbelievably cold. Big game tho.

^ It was 5-1

Genshaw seems closest: We won 5-1 at Bramall on Sat 14 Jan 1978.
Confusion may arise because we'd won 3-2 on our previous visit (Tue 28 Dec 1976).

It was the 1976 one - we should have won 5-2!!!
We were soooooooooo good that night

[Seamus' good leg]

76 it was :- a night time match with 2 from Whatmore & one by Steve Taylor who was bloody ace on the pitch.
have now incurred the wrath of the missus with 40 years worth of programmes to put back & tidy before the morning.

[Lord Kangana]

Thers too many really, but its worth a try..

1) Reading Play off final '95. You think Megson games were bad? Everyone seems to have forgotten the ineptitude we displayed in that first '45. Keith Branagan single-handedly turning the mood of the entire ground and the direction of the match. I like to think of it as his Neo (Matrix, Luddites) "No." moment. And then there was Fabian...

2) Munich Uefa cup 2007. Lisbon was more fun before and after the game, but you know, holding a European behemoth like Bayern in their own backyard with a bunch of reserves and a no-hoper in charge doesn't come around very often for a club like ours*. Pandemonium in the away end when Ricky scored, I couldn't even describe the mentalness when SKD (yes, that f*cking stump) smashed in the equaliser.

3) Birmingham away, 2011 FA Cup Quarter Final. Really. If you were there, and there were a few of us, our name was on the cup. And it was an absolutely cracking end-to-end cup tie. Obvious now that it was the high water mark, but we weren't to know that then.

*Sadly, the bunch of reserves and no-hoper in charge seems to be a default position of late.

[Gary the Enfield]

Thers too many really, but its worth a try..

1) Reading Play off final '95. You think Megson games were bad? Everyone seems to have forgotten the ineptitude we displayed in that first '45. Keith Branagan single-handedly turning the mood of the entire ground and the direction of the match. I like to think of it as his Neo (Matrix, Luddites) "No." moment. And then there was Fabian...

2) Munich Uefa cup 2007. Lisbon was more fun before and after the game, but you know, holding a European behemoth like Bayern in their own backyard with a bunch of reserves and a no-hoper in charge doesn't come around very often for a club like ours*. Pandemonium in the away end when Ricky scored, I couldn't even describe the mentalness when SKD (yes, that f*cking stump) smashed in the equaliser.

3) Birmingham away, 2011 FA Cup Quarter Final. Really. If you were there, and there were a few of us, our name was on the cup. And it was an absolutely cracking end-to-end cup tie. Obvious now that it was the high water mark, but we weren't to know that then.

*Sadly, the bunch of reserves and no-hoper in charge seems to be a default position of late.

Oh. Right. So meeting me in Madrid dressed in a Robin Hood outfit doesn't even get a mention? You heartless bitch!

[Lord Kangana]

All that effort wasted. Sorry.

[Gary the Enfield]

All that effort wasted. Sorry.

Sob.

[Gooner Girl]

Thers too many really, but its worth a try..

1) Reading Play off final '95. You think Megson games were bad? Everyone seems to have forgotten the ineptitude we displayed in that first '45. Keith Branagan single-handedly turning the mood of the entire ground and the direction of the match. I like to think of it as his Neo (Matrix, Luddites) "No." moment. And then there was Fabian...

2) Munich Uefa cup 2007. Lisbon was more fun before and after the game, but you know, holding a European behemoth like Bayern in their own backyard with a bunch of reserves and a no-hoper in charge doesn't come around very often for a club like ours*. Pandemonium in the away end when Ricky scored, I couldn't even describe the mentalness when SKD (yes, that f*cking stump) smashed in the equaliser.

3) Birmingham away, 2011 FA Cup Quarter Final. Really. If you were there, and there were a few of us, our name was on the cup. And it was an absolutely cracking end-to-end cup tie. Obvious now that it was the high water mark, but we weren't to know that then.

*Sadly, the bunch of reserves and no-hoper in charge seems to be a default position of late.

Oh. Right. So meeting me in Madrid dressed in a Robin Hood outfit doesn't even get a mention? You heartless bitch!

In tights?! Can we see a picture?!

[Owen_Coyle]

Is it safe to come back on here now ???

1. Genuinely the most emotional Ive ever been at a Wanderers match is Hierro's last match v Everton. Was in South Lower near his family and I'll never forget the scenes that day. Wasn't with us long but he was obviously much loved by the fans and his fellow players alike. And I've never seen a match stopped for 5 minutes while the whole team hugged him when he was subbed near the end of the game. And we won with 10 men !!

2. Play-off final v Reading. Remember saying to my 2 lads when Reading got the penalty; "If he scores this we're off home!". Branagan saves, and the rest is history !

3. Many others and I wouldnt like to pick one out. But 2 that stand out are the 6-1 (or 5-1) thrashing of Spurs when we were in 2nd Division (in 80's) in an early League Cup round, after we had beat Chelsea in previous round. And another that stands out, for some reason, is a 4-0 thrashing of Notts County at home (70s or 80s) when Willie Morgan ran the length of the pitch to score.

Happy times

[perthwhite]

1) drawing with munich in the uefa cup, never been so proud of the team in my life

2) carling cup semi final vs villa at the 'bok. great game, okochas free kick is still the best goal ive seen live

3) play off final 2001. enough said.