Which game still hurts the most

[The Bloop]

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Blackpool was a missed opportunity, but we've been promoted twice since which has lessened the pain of that day.
Getting so close to winning both cups will hurt for longer, as I can't see us getting that close again any time soon.

[City123]

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Blackpool
Liverpool
Portsmouth
Reading

We probably would have lost to Swansea in the PO final, to lose in those circumstances means Liverpool hurt more than Portsmouth. Blackpool hurts far more than all of them though, likely would have prevented all the red nonsense

[Der Kaiser]

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Portsmouth.

[Armitage Shanks]

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I would say our cup finals Portsmouth and Liverpool.

One in a generation/ Lifetimes rather than playoffs

[2b2bdoo]

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Straight away before seeing the options Blackpool jumped into my head.

Cup finals felt we have it ago, another day/bit of luck we could have won them but we played teams with better players.

Stoke was the next one that popped into my head.

[cantonboy]

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Hamburg
Because I was in my teens and even had enough money saved to get to the final, then it all came crashing down and hurt so much.
I accept Blackpool had much more impact on the club, but Hamburg is still raw to this day.

[Former Labour leader]

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Blackpool. Relegated 40yrs of Hamburg pain to 2nd place.

Pretty well organized my trip to Rotterdam(I think) for the final. That bloody Bob Wilson. Horrible night.

[Moodybluebird]

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Three spring to mind, all of which have already been mentioned, the Hamburg, Stoke and Blackpool games.

It was such a privilege to reach the two major cup finals, I didn't feel gutted when we got beat but when I saw the Portsmouth victory parade the following day, that hurt.

Of games I didn't go to, the 5-1 defeat by Sheffield United left me quite distraught.

[Maurice Swan]

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Pretty well organized my trip to Rotterdam(I think) for the final. That bloody Bob Wilson. Horrible night.

Yes....that is my choice also....(was at the game0....I had virtually made travel arrangements.....closely followed by the 5-1 hammering at Sheff Utd....I was there and cold not believe what was happening.. .

[J R Hartley]

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Blackpool. From that moment I knew that Dave Jones would never get us promoted. Playing Kelvin Etuhu as a target man to replace Bothroyd was utter madness, as bad as not starting Ramsey in the FA cup final.

As others have said, I think that side would have comfortably survived in the PL. We got promoted with worse sides but better managers. For all the great memories there are of Jones's time with us, we'd always slip up at the last. He did the same with Wolves.

He got Wolves promoted to the PL in one of his two full seasons in charge. Hardly "did the same with Wolves".

[Don Corleone]

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Only ever one answer here and that’s Blackpool. Tan was just starting to get involved in the club. With the team we had then and additional investment from him we may well have survived in the Premier league and would have been fun seeing what Chopra, McCormack and Bothroyd could do together in the premier league but the biggest thing is if we’d won that game he probably wouldn’t have considered switching to lucky red and ripping the heart of the club and its fan base

[goats]

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Play off V Blackpool
Play off V Reading
FA Cup final
Carling cup final
Other

For me it’s the reading game. I wanted the Swansea play off final so bad

Blackpool by a mile….the rent-a-crowd they had that day making losing even worse

[Pedro de la Rosa]

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Blackpool, felt like I'd be gut punched for days after that.
Liverpool
Pompey
Reading

[Mr Soul '68]

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[QUOTE=Eric the Half a Bee;5489876]Blackpool. From that moment I knew that Dave Jones would never get us promoted. Playing Kelvin Etuhu as a target man to replace Bothroyd was utter madness, as bad as not starting Ramsey in the FA cup final.


Blackpool for me as well. I spoke to a couple of Blackpool fans in the pub pre match and said that we'd we'd comfortably win 4-2. Once Bothroyd went off and was being replaced by Etuhu, I turned to my daughter and said to her ' we've lost this'. I just had that sinking feeling.

[Tuerto]

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Blackpool, by a mile. ****ed up a fair portion of the summer.