What's your most upsetting moment as a Wolves fan?

[Werewolf of Wombourne]

Reading the thread on Nuno got me thinking of how I felt when I heard the news and how that compared to other moments I've felt devastated as a Wolves fan. I narrowed it down to my top 5

5. FA Cup semi-final v Watford and Delofeu scores in extra time. You knew we weren't going to come back and our chance of winning the FA cup had gone. I honestly think we could have beaten City in the final
4. Wolves 4 Millwall 2. Last day of the 14/15 season. It wasn't the thought that we'd just missed out on the play-offs, it was seeing Sako doing a lap of honour with tears in his eyes and knowing I would never see him, Dicko and Afobe together again. They really were a magical front 3
3. Wolves 0 Bolton 2. No need to say more. It was the moment I realised I would never see Bully in the Premier League.
2. It's announced on TalkSport that Nuno will be leaving at the end of the season. God I loved that man!
1. 13 July 1999. If you know, you know, and you know why.

 

[wwbug]

Robbie Keane leaving .

 

[Sammy Chungs Tracksuit]

1976 Wolves 1-3 Liverpool consigned us to my first relegation

 

[Bill McCai]

Bolton play offs
Palace play offs
Announcement that Nuno was leaving (though it may have been the right time, it felt like the end of something).

 

[Mile End Wanderer]

2002 choke to the sparrows

Losing at home to grimsby knew it was messed up **** muscat

 

[lets all have a disco]

Wembley v Watford semi final , we've never been so close and Bolton in the play offs....nothing compares to those two......1976 my first game...

The choke season and the Albion play off game didn't hurt as bad because I was used to eternal mediocrity around then.... Wembley took the wind out of me..didn't speak hardly for 2/3 days...so close..and Bolton just killed the new found optimism from the bully years .. ...

 

[BlahBlah]

1. When Muscat elbowed the Grimsby kid and i knew we were going to blow a 10pt lead.
2. Getting home from Hillsborough when we'd blown it and seeing a town full of ****ed Albion fans

 

[Flump]

Also, watching Terry Connor's post-match interviews. Really decent guy, clearly didn't want the job, but was doing it to help his club.

 

[WolfLing]

Wembley v Watford semi final

Comfortably the worst/most upsetting moment for me. Followed by the worst train journey home.

 

[lets all have a disco]

Comfortably the worst/most upsetting moment for me. Followed by the worst train journey home.

Was on the train ....didn't go back on it ...the only words I spoke after the game was a quick phone call....can I AVE a lift home....just sat in back of the car totally numb .....couldn't face the train...

 

[Sephiroth]

It was the Norwich 2nd leg for me. Couldn't believe we didn't score the second goal.

Mick leaving also really upset me at the time. Possibly more than Nuno.

 

[Contrarian]

HAd been thinking about this recently. The three moments that gave me some kind of Wolves-related PSTD that still haunts to this day.

3) That Semi-Final v Watford. Couldn't think of anything else for days and still gives nightmares. A few days later, someone on the radio was talking about it and they said that in 100 years, this was the only time where the team 2 goals ahead on 78 minutes, didn't get to the final.

2) The choke season. Possibly worse than the semi-final, because it happened over weeks in slow-motion. Leaving the ground after an easy win against Gillingham (I think), the announcer reading the scores and saying that we were now 8 points clear of third. Everybody cheering, it felt like we were as good as up. Next match I went to was Grimsby ... and it was totally different. I thought the players didn't look right mentally, and always wondered if some didn't fancy a season being shown up in the Premier, so gave up. And if course, it would have to be *them* who ground out those 1-0s. As I recall, the number of times the report was that they were lucky, snatched a late winner. At least when Newcastle choked for the title, it was to Man Utd, not Sunderland!

1) The collapse from division 1 to division 4 in early 80's. Another first, probably. Whenever I hear talk these days of "record signings", "massive stadium rebuilds" and "club in it's best position for years", it often reminds me that's also how it felt around 1980/81.

It's all so fragile, my view these days is to make the most of the good times, because for all but those Sky 6, the good times will be short before normal service resumes.

 

[Rhoswolf]

1976 Wolves 1-3 Liverpool consigned us to my first relegation

Agreed, my second relegation

 

[SuperGran]

So many
Bolton playoffs
Choke season
Relegation down the divisions almost going out of business
Bully retiring
Dean Saunders
Semi final against arsenal
Semi final against Watford
Nuno leaving

 

[caradon wolf]

Losing to Leeds in the semi final. By the time Watford came round losing in FA cup semi finals was something I half expected.

 

[Teddy Ruxpin]

Like most on here, Bolton hit hard, really hard.

The choke season, cutting short my travels so that I could celebrate us going up, rather than staying out in NZ was really one of the stupidest decisions I have ever made

The FA Cup Semi Final, after going 2 nil up, I thought this was it, all the times we went on Cup runs in the 90s and all the time it seemed an impossible dream, I finally said (out loud too) that Wolves are going to the Cup Final! It hurt more as I was with my lad and it was his introduction to heartache that plagued my early years as a fan.

The 90s were very disappointing as a fan, after 2 fantastic promotion seasons and getting back to the second tier we then developed such big ambitions and we just couldn't live up to them time after time again.

 

[reanswolf]

Giving the Albion the South Bank then losing 3-0.

By far my worst.

 

[topcat99]

Bully retired. Came onto pitch in first game of following season to say bye to the fans.

Devastated

 

[Munich_Wolf]

Without doubt the FA Cup semi final Vs Watford
The play off defeat Vs Bolton
And for me the play off defeat Vs Aldershot

 

[Tojo the grass]

Even as a very young boy I was perplexed by Peter Knowles packing up football the way that he did.

 

[SuperGran]

No one mentioned Chorley yet

 

[Jamwolf]

An odd one but losing in the last minute 2-1 to Arsenal at Highbury in the FA Cup third round in 1978. In those days the FA Cup meant something and to go out early was always gutting.
Bob Hazell had marked Malcom Macdonald out of the game for 89 minutes, then got himself sent off. Macdonald scored from the corner.
ps Hibbitt's goal was spectacular.

 

[Boss Hogg]

The Raul fractured skull was an upsetting one for me - I thought he had actually died on the pitch.

Such a relief to hear a short time later he was ok and to see him make the comeback.

 

[Munich_Wolf]

It's all so fragile, my view these days is to make the most of the good times, because for all but those Sky 6, the good times will be short before normal service resumes.

You're not wrong. Been thinking about this recently now we're safe, but look at Leicester. Champions 2016, Champions League the following season and a cup win 2021 and consistently mid table/top half, all things we are hoping to achieve (minus PL champions). Now look at them

 

[WickedWolfie]

Reading the thread on Nuno got me thinking of how I felt when I heard the news and how that compared to other moments I've felt devastated as a Wolves fan. I narrowed it down to my top 5

5. FA Cup semi-final v Watford and Delofeu scores in extra time. You knew we weren't going to come back and our chance of winning the FA cup had gone. I honestly think we could have beaten City in the final
4. Wolves 4 Millwall 2. Last day of the 14/15 season. It wasn't the thought that we'd just missed out on the play-offs, it was seeing Sako doing a lap of honour with tears in his eyes and knowing I would never see him, Dicko and Afobe together again. They really were a magical front 3
3. Wolves 0 Bolton 2. No need to say more. It was the moment I realised I would never see Bully in the Premier League.
2. It's announced on TalkSport that Nuno will be leaving at the end of the season. God I loved that man!
1. 13 July 1999. If you know, you know, and you know why.

Took me 10 seconds to twig number one. Utter end of an era....

 

[glorybox]

Bolton, Bolton & Bolton.

 

[Bill S Preston Esq.]

All this time, i thought it was Nuno leaving - my wife broke the news weirdly. She used the same tone and tactic my mum did when she told me my border collie had died.

Thinking back though, July '99 for me. I was 20 years old and it was my only ever real hero to retire. I never cried, I was beyond upset. It numbed me, I didn't really care about anything for a while.

 

[EastDorsetWolf]

UEFA Cup Final 1972. The better team over 2 legs and would have given us a European trophy . I've hated Spurs ever since.

 

[JR WAS KING]

1976 Wolves 1-3 Liverpool consigned us to my first relegation

That was my first relegation and I couldn't believe it.
I started in 1967 when we got promoted and after that, I had only ever known Wolves to be in the top division

 

[Bondi Wolf]

August and September 2003 when we had waited so long to get promoted, were getting thrashed every week, and realising that it wasn't all we dreamt it to be. Sad that we had wasted so much money on dross players in the previous ten years and now we weren't going to have money to spend, except on Oleg Luhzny et al.

 

[Ponty]

Losing at home to Liverpool in 1976
Losing semifinal to Arsenal in late 70s
Bolton playoffs
SJH not investing when we finally made the Promised Land
Dean ****ing Saunders
Sacking Nuno
Bruno ****ing Lage - it soon became apparent he was clueless, Sa’s incredible first half of the season papered over huge cracks. He nearly undid 5 years work.

Onwards and upwards. Strangely the Watford semifinal was disappointing but given where we were in the league and how quickly we’d got there I was ok with it, perhaps the prospect of playing City in the final helped too!

 

[oldgolded]

The night I heard The Doog had died was the worst for me.

 

[ombyman]

Also, watching Terry Connor's post-match interviews. Really decent guy, clearly didn't want the job, but was doing it to help his club.

The double relegation is mine

 

[Supadavewolf]

Hearing a rumour that Knocker was packing it in ...

and then finding out (for once) that a rumour had become a fact .

 

[Wombourne Wolf]

Bolton - it was a real sliding doors moment at the time, seeing what Bolton (also Middlesboro & Blackburn) went on to achieve in a similar time span knowing that we would have done much better with a fully invested SJH - the image of Bully slumped on the floor at FT was how we all felt.
Nuno leaving.
Bully retiring.

 

[Ercall Wolves]

1976 Wolves 1-3 Liverpool consigned us to my first relegation

Was absolutely gutted that night
Remember singing in the North Bank We’re not going to Blackpool at half time, all went pear shaped second half

 

[Hoganstolemywife]

Nuno leaving was bad. Norwich beating us in the play offs despite a wonder goal from Cooper sticks in my memory.

Watching West Brom get promoted on the big screen at Mol also rankles

 

[Tring Wolf]

Comfortably the worst/most upsetting moment for me. Followed by the worst train journey home.

I’d agreed that I would give my Watford-supporting brother-in-law a lift home from Watford station after the game (we made the short journey up to Wembley together with my Dad and son).

He (understandably) stayed a while to bask in the celebrations so I had to sit, in a state of pure numbness, outside the station for about an hour as thousands of jubilant Watford supporters filed past me.

By far the worst I have ever felt over a game of football. Didn’t sleep at all that night and still felt numb for a good few days after.

Feel very guilty and embarrassed that my son saw me that depressed by a football result…particularly as 8-year old me vividly remembered my Dad being similarly silent on the walk back to the car having lost to Aldershot in the Play-Offs.

 

[Beijing Wolf]

The Watford penalty in the FA Cup semi final, my heart just sank. From then I knew we were going to lose.

Even worse is that the photo the press used of their Extra Time goal has both my father and I clearly in the centre of the image. We are both stood with our heads in ours hands.

 

[The Wolf In The North]

Bolton. Watford.

And Ronald Zubar back pass against Bolton to lose 1-0 at the death after Doyle had hit the post. So, so, so angry after that.