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Theres plenty of them out there.  Basically, no matter how many times you watch them, they make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.
I'll get the ball rolling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKDvtnEhLP0
Beckhams free kick against Greece.  The moment couldn't have been anymore perfect - needed an equaliser to qualify for the Word Cup finals, virtually the last kick of the game, Beckham had played a brilliant game and deserved the goal.  I remember watching it down the pub, everyone was going mental.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1othQAZl6Ts
Geoff Hurt's winner against Germany - I wasn't even born, but it's still great to watch.  Completing a hatrick in the last minute to win the World Cup for your country against Germany.  Surely there is nothing in the world more special than that?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcaUkvZG2AU
Out of the Swindon videos I could find, this one stuck out the most.  Coming back from 2-0 down to 3-2 in the last 15 minutes is always something to remember

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOj-GNY5XSU (not very good quality)
It would be rude not to put this one in.  This was just before I really started supporting Swindon.  I just hope that I will be able to witness a game like this one in my lifetime

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYl72YeR968
Steven Gerrard vs West Ham in the cup final - "Take a bow son!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnXuZiRixpQ
Man Utd Vs bayern Munich.  As much as I love to hate Man Utd, I can't help but love those last few minutes, and the cream on the cake of watching Germans crying

That day at Wembley was the best day of my life!

I was celebrating promotion at half time, then bricking myself when they came back.

Chalky White is a legend.

Fact!

Wembley: The noise Craig Maskell's goal makes when it goes in still has that effect on me.

I swear it echoed around the stadium.

I've got no links or owt but I would say that not much could beat being at Parkhead just before a big European game and the whole crowd are holding their scarves aloft and singing 'You'll Never Walk Alone'. Same goes for Anfield I guess.

Similarly, being crammed in like sardines at the CG back in the mid '80's for various midweek games and 'Lou Macari's red and white army' bouncing backwards and forwards between the Shrivvy Road and Town End was pretty special also.

Get on with your homework you tax dodger 8)  

Good call with Maskell.  Football heaven - FACT!

i remember watching the playoff final game on tv, i was only little!


as for other games that send a shiver down my spine, the champions league final 2 years back, liverpool vs milan, watched it round a mates house, avid liverpool fan, he was so gutted at half time, then liverpool scored... bloody awesome match.

I've always regretted the fact that I didn't go to Wembley. Had a cricket committment and didnt feel that I could let the team down. I recorded it and watched it in its entirity later that evening not knowing the score. Bloody superb !

NMH

All those mentioned were fantastic. Some of them were before my time though or i was too young to appreciate fully. In more recent times Danny Invincibiles goal against Peterborough in the last home game of the season which in the end kept us up was very special. I just remember going mental and running on the pitch.

Whenever Man U or Chelsea fans i know rip me for supporting Swindon I always tell them, you can sit at home or in the pub watching your team win the league every year and winning in European cups, but you will never be a true football fan. You will never understand the feeling of 2 minutes in to injury time facing relegation and one of the best volleys ever hitting the top corner and experiencing that buzz. That is what football is all about. Its moments like that, that make the many bad years worth while!

I was there although to young to fully appreciate it all. But that noise it made when it cracked off the post i will remember for ever!!!

That, and me stood on my chair at the end of the game waving my flag singing 'We are going up' and the miserable git behind telling me to stop waving my flag.

Did it actually make that 'smack' noise at the time or have we seen it so many times since on video when obviously ITV had a microphone right in the goal that that's influenced our recollection of the actual event?

Hmmmmm?

Interesting idea don't you think?

We'll never know the answer of course :shock:

Dont ruin the dream, there was no microphone, just pure ball against post.

On another note, do you remember the first leg of the semi finals against Tranmere. The opening minutes was possibly the best in history. Going 3-0 up so quick was pure amazing. Steve Vickers at fault for all 3 (with help from a cheeky bobble in front of the keeper for the 2nd), he must have been suicidal at half time.

That was one of the worst feelings I have had in my life, felt sick to my guts after that match - total deflation, only matched by the play-offs.

I remember the play offs, it was around that time i started to follow swindon, i used to go to games before then but this was the point i started to support them

Looking back at it i dont remember any of the goals apart from bodis penalty and i remember my dad doing the gardening outside and i kept running to the window and telling him what was happeing.

I remember the United V Munich games too, great stuff, top draw comeback

it was more a hollow ting when it hit the post rather than a smack.
i was 14 at the time and i remember it if it was yesterday.

i also remember the 1990 final as if it was yesterday :cry:

Who could forget THIS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfNoELP39Bc)?

I particularly like the bloke that jumps 3-4 rows of seats in the TE. 8)

I was only 9 when we played Leicester but remember it very well - especially the way home and my usually reserved dad singing "We are Premier League " and honking the car horn all the way home.

For two years I was in the same group in uni as Tamsin Greenway (who plays Netball for the England senior squad these days) - She's a Leicester fan who went that day and we had interesting conversations about the BLATANT Steve White foul ;)

I lived in Germany in 1990 - my dad wanted that to be my first Swindon game but it wasn't to be.

Don't think i'll ever experience the tension and fear of that Bodin penalty when watching any Swindon side again. You never know, but the whole day, the way the match went and the setting will never be surpassed.

I think 1990 was the best game I have ever whitnessed live 'in the flesh'.

It was perfection and we could and should have won 5-0 not 1-0.

Best comeback ever was against Birmingham. 4-1 down to win 6-4. I would love to have been there!!!

I was at that that game and its the best i have ever been to.Shaun taylor with his bandage and glenn hoddle producing the best performance i have ever seen in a swindon shirt

Definitely not the worst game I've been to 8)

My earliest football related memory was the 1996 play-off final, leicester vs palace. Being in a pub in leicester, full of leicester fans and i can still  remember my whole family going loopy. Still looking back, it brings back good memories

Champs league final 99 and 05 Great comebacks by both teams. Invincible goal against Peterborough and Fallon Overhead kick. The Scots beating the french at Hampden was spinetingling. Zidane volley against Leverkusen at Hampden. That is about it really.

Fucking eh! I can still watch that over and over again.

I saw Fallon in the Plymouth starbucks the other day with some other Plymuff players... I've never seen a group of men at lunchtime on a Wednesday looking so tarted up!

wycombe away when we won 3-2 has to be my best memory of a game i've been to. The last 10 minutes, the weather and the town fans going mental after the winner

Love that goal. Such a great strike and I think part of it was the occasion too as I had never seen a full CG before. That raor when it went in was unbelieveable!

Scoring my first ever goal for Eldene U12's, and with my left foot, was a spine tingling moment i will never forget!!

I'll never forget that cold and wet day on pitch 4 at Mannington!

That was your last goal as well wasnt it??? :soapy tit wank:

Well if we are taking it down this route....scoring a 25 yard free-kick against FC Chippenham counts for me! Of course it was deliberate  :--

Nope, my most recent was a penalty when i played at the millennium stadium (for the 2nd time) so ha!

 :soapy tit wank:

I was there. The fact remains we were shit for 50 mins and went 4-1 down. Their fans were going mad singing "shit on the villa" and all that. It was so funny when Mitchell stuck in the 6th and the ground just emptied!! Brilliant.

Oxford United being relegated and after the final whistle seeing the scummers crying whilst orient fans chant ORRRRRRRRRRRRRRIEENNTTT, ORRRRRRIEEENNNNT in the background!  :soapy tit wank:

The 3-2 Wednesday game was the best for me.  Brought 2 people that night who haven't been before, one Leeds fan and one Torquay.  Towards the end they had a good laugh at us then we came back and won and they were stunned.  Sat in Town End and it went mental.  Fond memories.

"3-2 and you're getting wet"  :soapy tit wank:

Playing in a Friendly for Ajax Cape Town reserves for me.

non playing wise... Scotland wins over Holland and France were fantastic as was winning the last Auld enemy game at Wemberlee

Correction we were not shit for 50 minutes, didn't two of their goals come when Shaun Taylor was being stitched up in the changing room (or just after).  The atmosphere that day was the best I have ever experienced the brummies were fucking loud at one stage and fucking quiet at another.

6-4, I was buzzing after that match, especially as one lad who was meant to come along decided against it!

Whenever Liverpool Sing You Never Walk Alone sends shiver down my spine.

Been going since 1981 so many many memories. The 2 wembley finals stick out for obvious reasons, along with the games that led up to them.
The 6-4 at brum....The leeds cup game even though we lost...Too many to mention really.
The town end was at its best when we won the old fourth division under lou right the way through that season.

Happy days

And what is so beautiful, is that no matter how many times I've watched that game on video, I still close my eyes and put myself back in my seat at Wembley and see it from the same angle I did that day.

Glorious :D

That night in London we met a load of Werder Bremen fans celebrating winning the Budesliga for the first time in 70 odd years by holidaying in London.  We had a great time, superb, what a day.   :beers:

Best day of my life, bar none.

For great moment, Heskey's goal against Germany was priceless for so many reasons...

Donkey

Gazza's goal against the Sweaties. Oh yes.

For sheer emotion, it would take a lot to beat the feeling I got seeing Stuart Pearce's reaction after scoring a penalty at Euro 96.

FUCKIN' GET IN!!!!!!!!!!!

Turbo's 2 volleys at the Manor ground in 2001.

Does anyone have the video of these by any chance?