If you could go back and re watch any LEAGUE game in our history.What game would you pick?

Final game of the 97/98 season deserves a shout - the other Oxford promotion game. For once a "win it and we're up" situation that went to plan and was actually pretty comfortable and stress free. After the trauma and ridiculous highs and lows of the previous season, not to mention a lot of anger, it was properly cathartic to get back straight away.
 
I would go April 1974 v Sheff Wednesday when we celebrated winning the title with an 8-0 win.

Souness scored a hat-trick and Mills, Murdoch, Hickton and Foggon (2) getting the others.

Team: Platt, Spraggon, Craggs, Maddren, Boam, Armstrong, Murdoch, Souness, Foggon, Mills & Hickton. Sub: Harry Charlton.
 
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Would probably be a match from the 96/97 season for prime Juninho alone, we were so spoilt watching him every week, everyone feared him, I supported us from 1990 onwards so was really spoilt but some of those home games were great, we ripped teams apart, the Derby, West Ham, Coventry and Sheffield Wednesday games were fun. That Villa one with the last minute penalty too, thought we'd pull it off and stay up.
 
Assuming I could go back without any knowledge of what was to follow, I would love to be at the Brighton match again, best atmosphere I've ever experienced.

Would also have wanted to experience promotion with Charlton's Champions or the 1986 match at Hartlepool.
Both of those would only be matches I'd go back to watch if I could experience them as if I was a fan at the time with all the knowledge and feelings of the time.
 
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liverpool in the cup. albeit i would just go back for the 1st 5 minutes.

steaua too. what a night

and the brighton atmopshere was unreal
 
Boro 0 Charlton 0
Think it was a Sunday in 2002-03
Watching the carrier bags being blown accross the pitch - wondering which would get accross first
 
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Hazzinho said:
Would probably be a match from the 96/97 season for prime Juninho alone, we were so spoilt watching him every week, everyone feared him, I supported us from 1990 onwards so was really spoilt but some of those home games were great, we ripped teams apart, the Derby, West Ham, Coventry and Sheffield Wednesday games were fun. That Villa one with the last minute penalty too, thought we'd pull it off and stay up.
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I nearly said that Coventry game. I thought we were going to be at the top end of the league after that one and I would have laughed at anyone that would have suggested we would be relegated.
 
1974/75 season under big Jack I think Newcastle at home with the crowd ‘declared’ at 40,000, my first league game in the top division in a capacity Ayresome Park, you could cut the atmosphere with a knife, it was rammed and it was special, no doubt about that.
 
2004/05 season, last match against Citeh. European football riding on the result, Schwarzer saves Fowler’s last minute penalty. I’d chucked the radio across the floor when we gave the penalty away and stormed out of the house, only for my Misses to lean out of the window and call, ‘you should have been less impulsive, don’t you want to know what’s just happened….’
And that Oxford result in 98. I was visiting friends on the Gower and that result added a sheen of joy to the whole weekend.
Of the matches I’ve attended, the first match of the Riverside era against Chelsea was pretty cool. Non league wise, I know it’s not in the brief, but the Liverpool semi final and with Branca was pretty special. Best atmosphere I’ve experienced before the corners of the stadium were filled in. Also, Steaua was beyond incredible.
 
Chutney said:
Final game of the 97/98 season deserves a shout - the other Oxford promotion game. For once a "win it and we're up" situation that went to plan and was actually pretty comfortable and stress free. After the trauma and ridiculous highs and lows of the previous season, not to mention a lot of anger, it was properly cathartic to get back straight away.
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I'm not sure it was stress free. Not until the second half anyway.
At half time we were 0-0 and Sunderland were beating Swindon. We had definitely blown it. I was ill. No way were we going to score. Typical.

But my god when those goals started flying in. I've never known relief like it.

Then a couple of weeks later Mendonca & Co. put the icing on the cake. And Mickey Gray the cherry 🙂
 
A great thread, and I would choose the 1967 home game with Oxford Utd, which was a fairy tale end to an exciting season coming back from a disastrous relegation and poor start.
I was 15, at Boarding School in Redcar and unable to go to the game. At least the prefects came to the dormitory after “lights out” with the score flashes. It would have been great to have been there though.
 
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