Emerson Thome Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 Quote I came on at half-time and was out there for about a minute. There was no malice in my challenge, genuinely, but I caught Reda Johnson with my elbow as I went for a header and Lee Probert, the referee, came across straight away and said, “Smithy, that’s a red card.” I couldn’t believe it. I think Smith is kidding himself here. He certainly didn't go in for the header - he has had no intention of playing the ball, and indeed got nowhere near it. You could argue if it should have been a straight red or a yellow and a very stern warning, but to say there was no malice is completely wrong - the only intention he had was to leave one in on Johnson, so he can hardly of been shocked when the ref sent him off. He tried to be dirty and got caught. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark1948 Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 1 minute ago, hirstyboywonder said: Disagree. He carried the main attacking threat in 98/99 and when he first came he forged a surprisingly good partnership with Booth. We went downhill after Wilson saw him off. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I lost count of the times that he caused the Hillsborough Hush. The sound of the ball rippling against the knots in the goal net after one of his many errors still grinds to this day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
punkskaphil Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 47 minutes ago, Paddyowl said: The 7-1 defeat at Highbury was hard to take, we were still in the game after an hour, never seen a team crumble like that so quickly. Sat directly behind the Arsenal fans as well, got a little heated as you can imagine. Up until then I'd only been to Selhurst Park and the old Den, but my dad's an Arsenal fan so he was excited to be taking me to a 'proper' stadium. We were on the away terrace and because I was so small we were right down the front. I remember the final whistle going and turning round to see all the miserable faces (of those who'd stayed until the end) and my dad in the middle of them unable to decide whether he should be smiling at his team's victory or feeling bad for his devastated son. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 4 minutes ago, mark1948 said: I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I lost count of the times that he caused the Hillsborough Hush. The sound of the ball rippling against the knots in the goal net after one of his many errors still grinds to this day. Player of the year 1998-99. Guess you were in the minority. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
areNOTwhatTHEYseem Posted February 5, 2021 Author Share Posted February 5, 2021 8 minutes ago, Nostalgic Owl said: The 5-0 at home to Blackburn was bloody miserable. I was oddly optimistic travelling over for that one, as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkNChance Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 Got beat 7-1 at home by Forest. Pearce scored for them and then Woan, Bohinen , Roy and Collymore absolutely tore us a new one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkNChance Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 54 minutes ago, Manwë said: We beat Leicester 7-1 in the Cup in the early 90's. We did remember coming out out of the ground and Leicester fans saying well what did we expect they had 11 full internationals playing. Bob Booker scored for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dooogs Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 9 minutes ago, mark1948 said: I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I lost count of the times that he caused the Hillsborough Hush. The sound of the ball rippling against the knots in the goal net after one of his many errors still grinds to this day. I think both can be right - Beni often did carry the team and also, he did often lose the ball at just the wrong time/place. The frustrating bit for me in terms of fans' attitudes was the amount of fans who expected him to be a 25-goals-a-year player rather than a classic No 10. Along with Wilson's crap man-management, the thing that did for us in 99-00 was replacing the two Italians with De Bilde and Sibon. Bring in a non-stroppy, productive No 9 and it could have been a very different season. I don't think it would have made a massive difference in the long-term, though - the club was so poorly led in the late 90s and early 2000s that I suspect we would have gone down and stayed down in 00-01 or 01-02 anyway. (sadly, that's very much how I feel right now)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkNChance Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 1 minute ago, Nostalgic Owl said: That was a cracking Forest team they had for a few years. Bohinen was a class act. He was Remember Kanchelskis doing similar for Everton at our place, that was a 5-2 defeat from memory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dooogs Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 6-0 at Reading around 2007 or so always sticks in the memory - especially all the defenders watching the highlights on the bid screen after the final whistle! 4-0 at Colchester too (the game that got Sturrock fired) - it really could have been 6 or 7 that night: we managed to make Greg Halford and Karl Duguid look like Messi and Ronaldo... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torryowl Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 8-0 at boro is the worst I've seen though we left after the 5th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dooogs Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 4 minutes ago, Nostalgic Owl said: That was a cracking Forest team they had for a few years. My mate at uni was a big Runcorn fan. Forest had signed Woan for a pittance but with a good sell-on clause and he was convinced Runcorn would make a fortune when Woan was sold on. Tragically, Woan stayed at Forest and Runcorn went bust a few years later... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harrysgame Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 We have had some shockers, seems more than other clubs most of them when in the top flight. After 4 goals i just go numb and stop counting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pablo Bonvin Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 The 8-0 away win at Aldershot in the cup in the late 80s. If i recall we were playing cr@p in the league at the time so even beating a fourth division side was not a given, let alone stuffing them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manwë Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 8 minutes ago, Dooogs said: 6-0 at Reading around 2007 Wasn't that "train-gate"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickjj Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 6 minutes ago, torryowl said: 8-0 at boro is the worst I've seen though we left after the 5th Part timer I was foolish enough to stay till the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 14 minutes ago, Nostalgic Owl said: That was a cracking Forest team they had for a few years. Bohinen was a class act. He was a decent player but he only scored about 15 goals in his time in England and about 14 of the must have been against us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickjj Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 Back in the sixties I remember watching us beat Chelsea 6-1 and Burnley 7-0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dooogs Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 3 minutes ago, Manwë said: Wasn't that "train-gate"? I missed that one - what happened? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marconi Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 Earliest ones I can recall are three home matches in the seventies Five goals conceded against Arsenal, Bristol City, and Luton with a hat trick for Malcom Macdonnald. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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