Worst game you've seen

[noughtyforties]

The general consensus on the bus home and at the game was that it was just about as poor a game as it its possible to watch with 2 seemingly doomed teams generally working hard but producing very little in the way of entertainment.

But was it THAT bad?

What was the worst game you've EVER seen?

My personal favorite was a 4-0 home defeat to Gateshead at the fag end of 1983 which was so bad John Froggatt resigned straight after and only 600 odd turned up. It sticks in my mind as it was my Grandad's funeral the next day and the game matched my mood.......

 

[Pete Brooksbank]

Ebbsfleet is definitely right up there as one of the worst games I've ever seen, but I still think that goalless draw at Gloucester a couple of seasons ago just about edges it.

The "worst" games for me aren't necessarily heavy defeats. For example you'd think Fylde 9, Boston 2 would rank up there in my top five but actually Fylde were bloody good that day and were a good watch. Plus we did score first!

No, for me the worst games are the kind where you feel your enthusiasm for football ebbing away as you watch two hapless sides failing to produce anything of any merit, and literally nothing happens.

My list has one solitary goal:

1. Gloucester 0, Boston 0 (21/22 I think). Absolutely diabolical game of football. Mood not helped by Johnny and Chris B telling me they'd paid half what I had for their train fares using this new fangled thing called "split tickets"
2. Ebbsfleet 0, Boston 0. Largely similar to the Gloucester game. I have nothing good to say about it. Ebbsfleet is an extraordinarily bleak place, too. Didn't help. Friendly staff though.
3. Ecuador 0, England 1. 2006 World Cup. Drove (or at least Adam Upsall did) all the way to Germany to be rewarded by one of the most dire England performances in living memory. Beckham scored so we did at least win but my God it was crap.
4. Oxford United 0, Boston 0. Back in the old Evans days. Just a shockingly bad game, devoid of any real action. I somehow managed to write a match report about it though: http://www.bufc.drfox.org.uk/N221005.html
5. England 0, Holland 0. Villa Park. 2004 or 2005 or something like that. Nothing happened. There was some kind of charity shirt on display.

[John C]

Gresley 1 BUFC 0 1998.
I think the goal was a penalty, terrible pitch, terrible game, small crowd. I think the one game I can ever remember thinking I might give up going even though I could afford to carry on. Evans came shortly afterwards - at the time we thought this was a good thing. Be careful what you wish for etc

[joshb]

Gresley 1 BUFC 0 1998.
I think the goal was a penalty, terrible pitch, terrible game, small crowd. I think the one game I can ever remember thinking I might give up going even though I could afford to carry on. Evans came shortly afterwards - at the time we thought this was a good thing. Be careful what you wish for etc

My first away game. Things I remember from that day are
Me and dad getting refused into a pub as they didn't allow kids
Same day di canio pushed the ref over after getting sent off
Having to sheepishly ask dad for more money as I brought too much from the snack bar!!!
Their main stand being so thin

[joshb]

Worst games
That Gloucester 0-0 just after Elliott sacking. Dire

A 2-0 defeat to brackley, think we mustered about 2 shots all game they never got out of 2nd gear and arguably the flattest atmosphere at a bufc away game for a long time. No songs

Saturday ran them very close mind. Might have even lowered the bar

[Burgh Boy]

So many goalless draws! I can remember one game, which had all the signs of being a pre-determined result before kick-off, was the 0-0 draw v Doncaster Rovers at the end of the 2003-04 season. Doncaster brought a big crowd and had already clinched the old Division 4 title so the result mattered little to them and Boston were happy just to not lose the game. Although this match was over 20 years ago, if by some miracle this game was still in progress, nobody would have had a shot on goal yet!

[scottbufc]

Saturday was terrible, felt dull and like people above have said two teams working hard showing next to no quality or cutting edge.

Worst game for me is probably Hyde away, 2008. I hadn't been driving too long, drove myself and Matt Dixon and had the sat nav set to shortest route instead of quickest. It took us on some horrible roads through the Lake District which I was not comfortable driving on. Got parked up about 30mins after KO, got into the ground and we're 1-0 up...game we're expected to win as Hyde were no great shakes that season. Of course we concede two second half and go down 2-1. All we saw were the two Hyde goals! Kens report... http://www.bufc.drfox.org.uk/N260408.html

[scottbufc]

So many goalless draws! I can remember one game, which had all the signs of being a pre-determined result before kick-off, was the 0-0 draw v Doncaster Rovers at the end of the 2003-04 season. Doncaster brought a big crowd and had already clinched the old Division 4 title so the result mattered little to them and Boston were happy just to not lose the game. Although this match was over 20 years ago, if by some miracle this game was still in progress, nobody would have had a shot on goal yet!

I remember this. They had completely packed out the Town End and they had chairman at the time John Ryan on the pitch with his what would now be called 'Turkey teeth' gleaming fist pumping the crowd, they made a huge noise and it completely drowned out some awards we were giving out at the time. Was it really over 20 years ago, crikey time flies!

[Pilgrim86]

they had chairman at the time John Ryan on the pitch with his what would now be called 'Turkey teeth' gleaming fist pumping the crowd

I believe his company was responsible for providing Page 3 girl Melinda Messenger with her enhanced assets...


Cammell Laird 0 BUFC 0 was rotten during the Steve Welsh "era".

[noughtyforties]

Gresley 1 BUFC 0 1998.
I think the goal was a penalty, terrible pitch, terrible game, small crowd. I think the one game I can ever remember thinking I might give up going even though I could afford to carry on. Evans came shortly afterwards - at the time we thought this was a good thing. Be careful what you wish for etc

My first away game. Things I remember from that day are
Me and dad getting refused into a pub as they didn't allow kids
Same day di canio pushed the ref over after getting sent off
Having to sheepishly ask dad for more money as I brought too much from the snack bar!!!
Their main stand being so thin

Well remembered John, an absolutely dire game, we'd been to Congleton a week or so prior to this too, that was no better. Congleton does have the redeeming quality though of the seeds being sown for the birth of BUSA on the way back. Christ that was a grim time to be a Utd supporter. 

[brummie exile 1960]

United 1 Gloucester 0 about 2011/12. Pearson scored the goal about 10 minutes from time from a corner. I barely noticed. I was in some sort of catatonic trance from the previous 80 minutes. My mate looked at me and said "I think we've scored". To which my reply was "Are you sure?".

UTP

[Pete Brooksbank]

I feel like I should have given an honourable mention to the second leg of the play-offs at Ferriby: this was quite eventful as a football match but was certainly one of the worst Boston United *performances* I've ever seen (yes, worse than Fylde). But I guess these kind of games are a bit different to your Ebbsfleet type matches where so little happens you end up gazing up at the sky wondering why you're wasting your life.

[Imp Stalker]

Hartlepool 0-0 Boston in the FA Cup.

So cold - accidents all the way up the A1.

90 mins of being battered and showing no attempt to play football

I guess Adam Boyd hoofing his last min penalty into the North Sea to get us a replay might disqualify it...

[Burgh Boy]

Hartlepool 0-0 Boston in the FA Cup.

So cold - accidents all the way up the A1.

90 mins of being battered and showing no attempt to play football

I guess Adam Boyd hoofing his last min penalty into the North Sea to get us a replay might disqualify it...

I was on THAT coach where we were stuck on the A1 for ages and had a kickabout on the hard shoulder! I think we arrived at the match after 40 mins had been played. We were all listening to the radio for updates as we approached the north-east. Saw 50 mins of dire action and then back on the coach for a smooth ride back. Waste of a day!

[Dipdodah]

Got to be a pre season friendly at Stamford ( do friendlies count ) It was 2007 we had just got relegated from the league.  Most of our players had departed, and we had a hotchpotch of very poor trialists on show.  It was a nothing game, but my feeling of down right negativity and being totally outclassed, definitely made it one of the worst games I have attended.