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I was out walking the dog last night and thinking about one special moment in my time of following STFC and the memory that will stay with me till my dieing day will be...The sound of the ball clipping the post from Craig Maskells shot in the play off final, That "Ping" still sends shivers down my spine.So come on folks what was your one special memory of this great club that WE love?

One memory for me was at the manor when turbo scored those goals...with it being a local derby, the fights, the passion, the celebrating and taunting...

Winning our very first Championship away at Mansfield in the 80's and Mansfield playing we are the champions for the 3,000 travelling Swindon fans and Lee (chunky the monkey) Barnard baring his arse in front of us!

Fuck me...in nearly 35 year I have had too many to list, great days.

Fallon at Brighton in the PO's I loved - obviously it all went heartbreakingly wrong but my god what a moment.

The whole game was like that other than for the result. We were all over them don't look like nicking a goal and SSP scores to level things - fucking superb. Then Fallon one on one seems to take an eternity to hit the net, but when it does the celebrations were unforgetable- unfortunately so to was the result. We should have gone on from here to kill the game off and not waste time

Play off final, and Beasts goal last season to send us up, but too many to list.

Top times.

For stiking in the mind the Maskell in off the post has to be a winner.  For a moment I remember with the fondest of thoughts, between Mcloughlin's deflected goal in 1990, the post match celebration at Tranmere in 1993 or watching the Stoke fans doing a massive conga around the Bank in 1988/89 when we stiffed them 6-0 with Bamber getting an OG no his return.

A miraculous win away to West Ham, they absolutely dominated the whole match and somehow Nicky Hammond, who had the game of his life kept them out. Steve white comes on late to win a penalty which is despatched cooly by Paul Bodin.

The West Ham fans were fuming after the match and I took a couple of punches on the way back to the car!

AWESOME!!!

Bollocks to that.  Be angry...very ****ing angry.  We're not dead yet.  Suggest we leave our reminiscing until the future of the club has been secured.

Now is the time to start piling the pressure on to Wills and Diamandis.  If the majority can't see the way these men have been using the club for their own ends now, then they never will.

(The Maskell goal was more of a crack, I thought.  Once I had the bizarre, and slightly macabre, idea that I'd like the sound of it playing on a loop in my coffin.)

Charlie Henrys goal v Wigan at home in the play offs - the echos of Charlie Charlie Henry around the ground will stay with me forever

the comeback v Birmingham and the 2 play offs finals of course - I too remember that Ping on the post from Maskell

our first win in the Premiership was pretty good too!

Wasn't that against the Jills? I'm sure Wigan at home was a 0-0 draw after we'd won 3-2 at their place.

Anyway, as Ardiles says, now's not the time for reminiscing - now's the time to fight to save the club from these bastards.

In my memory I do actually hear the ping of the board going in off the post for Maskell's goal, although I know I was at the other end of Wembley, which was packed with nearly 80,000 screaming people, so there's no bloody way I heard it except on video afterwards.

However, that's not the moment that really sticks with me.

That comes from earlier in the Hoddle promotion season during the period when the team were really playing fantastic football. It was just after the best 0-0 draw I have ever seen, the Newcastle away game that was televised. We had Southend at home and we're playing  great passing, attacking football. About 10 minutes in and we're 2 nil up, thanks to Dan Maskell.

Then about half way through the 1st half, we're attacking the Bank, Kerslake has possession on the right, and Ling is backing up moving through midfield. Kerslake turns, and rolls the ball back to Lingy who's in space. In my mind's eye he's just outside the centre circle, but he's probably about 25 yards from goal. As the ball is rolled to him at pace from Kers he gets his toe under it and chips it up like a kid setting himself up in a game of "headers and volleys", and smacks it. Top corner 3-0 up.

Of course we stopped playing in the second half and were lucky to hang on for a 3-2 win but that goal from Lingy is one of the things that replays in my mind when I think of the good old days.

my fondest memory was Mcloughlin's deflected goal in 1990.
Sitting on a bus full of pissed up town fans back to Burford and proudly showing the picture of Ossie from inside the programme to all Leicester fans as we passed them out of london.

Also returning back to Burford again in 1993 but this time on a de-tour of Oxford city centre.
We had horns and singing all the way through the town. fucking brilliant

I agree with Ardiles, it ain;t over yet...

But several things stick out for me.

Birmingham 6-4
Invincibles goal v posh
that 5/10 minutes when we were in the play-off final in Brighton, until they equalised
west brom away on 9/11, when we played them off the park and lost 2-0

too many to mention, which is why we can;t give up.

I remember that trip to Newcastle...Oh my, all crammed in that shitty little corner but what a great game and atmosphere!

You're thinking of the Gillingham game. It was the end of my 1st full season following Swindon and the first time I went on the pitch after scaling the old cage in the Town End. It was that game and that season that hooked me.

Sitting here thinking that this is it after 20 years is making me sad and above all angry beyond belief.

Yeah youre right .. getting so old my mind is going .. all i remember is him vollying it into the top left corner .. BRILLIANT!

If only Seton Wills would read this thread and realise how much the club means to people. He's in his own deluded little world and thinks we'll happily drop it for another hobby. I don't think the man realises what he is doing and the lives he is affecting

Ardiles, I never said that it was over, i am just trying to get people to put down ther best moment.

Do you honestly think he would care if he did realise?

Seton Wills and his cronies have treated all those for whom STFC is more than a business with utter contempt. The man is a shyster of the highest order.

climbing over the fence in the town end after that gillingham game.

and the 4-6, in brum i was living there at the time. fucking lorded it.

The Danny Invincible goal that kept us up. Ending Wigans 8 game unbeaten run. "Gary Teal is a fucking paedophile" in the Nationwide, these could all be linked but the drugs did work and I'm not quite sure. Whatever happened to the 90's?  :D

The 90's were like a sketchy uncle shitting in your mouth whilst sucking your dick. And we all loved it.

Now that was a class moment.

I'll offer Rory Fallon's overhead kick against City a few seasons back ... another send you mental moment.

Joey Beauchamp being sent off against the Pox,
Fallon's Overhead kick against Brissle
Of course all the obvious ones like Vs Leicester, Chalky getting the pen.
I too heard the ball hit the crossbar.
Best of all tho was Vs Sunderland at the CG. Stood on the Stratton Bank, behind the goal. hoddle gets the ball, does a shimmy & gets it in the top corner.

i feel left out.

Not been following the Town for long so limited choice really.
For me though it has got to be the best atmosphere as opposed to the best result I have experienced, which, strangely enough coincided with relegation. Bristol City away at the end of 04/05, got to the ground at 2 started singing almost as soon as we got in and didn't stop till 10 mins after the final whistle. Couple that with 'Oxfords in the Conference' at half time and it made for an awesome afternoon, and a dodgy voice till Tuesday.
Yeah we were relegated, but as a gruop of fans we went down in style.

You must have had a special moment sonic?

stoke away to clinch a play off place was just awesome.obviously the play offs are the winners.
also up old town post the leicester play off match and the whole of victoria road was blocked off with thousands of people on the lash,singing etc.
we swindon fans were spoilt back then.its been shit ever since for the most part

Living in Kent,I loved the play-off final when we dicked Gillingscum 2-0 at Crystal Palace

Sonics favourite County Ground moment is when he got the score wrong on the scoreboard  :wink:

The Sunderland play off final in 1990 was awesome. Still remember my dad picking me up when we scored.

Go mental moments:
Fallon v City
Invinible v posh

Comedy gold:
Tea towel being sent off v Yeovil

Play off final wins were great but I was too young to drink back then so just not the same

I was talking to Alan Mac about this a month or two ago, I mentioned the deflection from Bennett

"Deflection??" He said looking rather puzzled "I hit that sweet as a nut and it flew in the net"

He's got some good stories he has, nice bloke to boot.

christ, reading all these special memories has given me a bit of a stiffy.

 :shock:  :soapy tit wank:

I think during these depressing times you're allowed that bit of excitement.

I got a stiff neck.

Must be at the Hawthornes against Burnley to get to Wembley. And then perhaps travelling back home after beating Arsenal ...
Or seeing the Town do West Ham in the FA Cup replay.
Or even when beating Liverpool 2-0 at the County Ground..  
Magic moments...

you bastard top trumper Robinz

seing my six year old brother get punched by an old git of about 70 in the shrivy road end. collateral damage he got in the way of some muppet trying to run from the town end and jump in the shrivy. down to 9 men inside 30 mins at brentford bodin clean thru with minutes to go at 0-0 and he scuffed it. 6-4 at brum taylor got his usual bang on the head went off and came on and scored with a taylor bullet header. hoddles first game home to watford got beat and got soaked on the bank. my boss having some of the old cg floodlights to light up the spray booth at work.

has to be bodins penalty in the leicester play off final...the reaction of the fans was immense, i hugged so many people that day! it was fantastic, a day i will never forget for the rest of my life. one of the best games of football ever to be played at wembley, fantastic.

Hoddle's goal from 30 yards on the opening day of the '92-93 season, where he sent the Sunderland defender,and the whole of Stratton Bank, the wrong way with a great dummy...and the goal he scored at Wembley in the Play-off final, where the ball was thrown out by Digby to Bodin, who did a cross field ball to Summerbee, who crossed the ball to Maskell, who held the ball up, then backheeled the ball to Hoddle, who passed the ball into the net.

No Leicester player got near the ball. if a Brazilian scored that goal, they'd have been raving about the goal for years.

true!

The Gillingham play off at the CG when Charlie Henry scored.  The atmosphere was electric that night.

Also, the 9 man Brentford game at Griffin park and the game against Brizzle City at Ashton gate when they missed a penalty and failed to make the play offs.

Oh, and the Arsenal league cup QF.  In fact there have been a lot of great moments...........

Wembley 93 was ace, I was pretty young so the whole thing seemed so massive, but Oxford away when we did them 2-0 was just awesome, loads of my mates at the game, and it just electric down there.

So many memories on thius thread lads, sounds silly but got goosebumps down my body

Griffin park 0-0 was my first ever away game, what a battling performance was hooked from then

The wembley game of 93 was amazing, my mum had some wine on the bus and was a bit tipsy which meant I could do what I wanted.  On the way into Wembley these drunk Leicester fans stopped our bus and as we couldnt get through they stopped a bus that pulled alongside us, it was only the town players - we were all 13 and went mental singing, what a day

The 2-0 win away at Oxford when we played them off the park

Hoddles goal against Sunderland has been replayed in my mind thousands of times

The main memory I will have is the people I have met, the group of lads I go with I hope if the dreaded thing happens stay together as to be honest, as sad as it seems, they are closer than a family to me

So many I could go on all day

They can take our club but never our memories