When did football last made you cry with joy (or despair)?
Life. Love. Money. Sex. Power. Booze. Football.
The beautiful game has few rivals when it comes to weighing it’s importance. No surprise then that it evokes such strong emotions from its followers and turns rational, educated individuals into raging madmen.
It hit me, while I was watching Sunderland record a memorable last-gasp win over Tottenham, that surely there must be fans who would be moved to cry with joy (or despair) when a football match played out it’s final result.
The ‘99 or ‘05 Champions League finals. The ‘01 FA Cup final. The 2006 World Cup final.
History is littered with memorable and moving events for each club.
So today’s question is - when was the last time football made you cry with joy?
As a bonus, you can also tell when last football made you cry in despair.
Not sure if many people will answer this - it’s a shot in the dark and I know that a lot of people don’t want to talk about it, but hey, football does that to us.
when united loss to milan in the cl semi finals,
When Bury got thrown out of the F.A. Cup last season on a paperwork technicality that wasn’t our fault… oh, and every England penalty shoot-out for the past six major tournaments
1) When England lost to Portugal
2) When Italy won the World Cup (that was quite something…)
3) When United scored the 3rd and 4th goal against Fulham on the opening day last season.
4) When Sunderland beat Spurs
5) The Milan loss, probably, but I had given up on that game in the first half and was more angry than sad.
has been more than once, but the last time…it was the time MU were scoring goal after goal against the “mighty” ROMA team in the 7-1 victory
Cry for despair:
When Argentina lost to West Germany in the 1990 world cup final. I was 9. Piss off.
Cry for Joy (well almost):
When Trinidad & Tobago beat Bahrain to get to their first World Cup in 2006.
Wanted to take an atomic bomb to England:
When Peter Crouch pulled Brent Sancho’s (our defender) hair back to score the first goal after we held out against England for 83 minutes.
Crying for joy, it was United’s superb fight back against Everton, especially when I learned of Chelsea’s results.
Crying for despair, it was when United went out of the group stages of the CL two seasons back.
despair- englands shootout lose against portugal
joy- when spurs blew it against west ham and arsenal beat wigan
CRYING WITH JOY?
1. MAN UTD WINNING THE TREBLE
2. WEST GERMANY BEATING FRANCE 4-3 IN WC 82 SEMI
3. MAN UTD BEATNG ARSENAL IN 1999 FA CUP SEMI REPLAY
4. WEST GERMANY BEATING ARGENTINA IN THE WC 90 FINAL
5. LIVERPOOL BEATING AC MILAN IN TH CL FINAL 2005
6. BORUSSIA DORTMUND BEATING JUVENTUS IN THE CL FINAL 1997
7. GERMANY BEATING ENGLAND ANYTIME
8. TOTTENHAM 1981 FA CUP FINAL WIN ON VILLA’S MAGIC GOAL
9. WEST GERMANY BEATING FAVORED FRANCE IN 86 WC SEMI 2-0
10. WEST GERMANY BEATING HOLLAND IN THE 1974 FINAL
CRYING WITH DESPAIR?
1. WEST GERMANY LOSING TO ITALY IN THE 82 WC FINAL
2. WEST GERMANY LOSING THE 86 FINAL TO MARADONA’S GANG
3. MAN UTD LOSING THE 2005 FA CUP FINAL TO CRAPPY ARSENAL
4. MAN UTD LOSING THE 2007 FA CUP FIANL TO SHITTY CHELSKI
5. GERMANY CRASHING TO CROATIA IN 98 WC QUARTERS
6. ANYTIME UTD LOSE TO EITHER ARSENAL OR CHELSKI
7. ANYTIME UTD CANNOT COMPLETELY DEMOLISH AN EPL MINNOW
8. GERMANY LOSING TO ITALY IN THE 2006 WC SEMI FINAL
9. ENGLAND ALWAYS LOSING TO PORTUGAL IN CUP COMPETITIONS
10. THE DAY DAVID BECKHAM WAS SOLD TO REAL MADRID
Just Fucking now
That was for despair
2005 CL final
2007 CL final
wiv sadness wen west ham lost to liverpool on penalties in the 2006 fa cup final
Cry for joy:
1. I guess the whole Arsenal unbeaten season, but if i have to be specific the Gunner’s fight-back against Liverpool after half-time during that season.
2. Destroying Inter 5-1 at the San Siro during the CL season some years back. We came back from being 3-0 down!
3. CL Final 2005 (ok, ok i have a soft spot for the pudlians)
4. Arsenal beating Juventus 2-0 last year in the CL run-up
5. Henry scoring that amazing goal against Real Madrid at the Bernabeu in the CL! (Fucking Awesome!)
6. Beating Man Utd 2-1 (coming back from 1-0 down!) in January this year. Exquisite match to watch.
Cry of despair:
1. CL Final ‘06 - nuff said
gr8 time to ask for despair last night bro LAST fucking night could not sleep for gods sake mmanu what the fuck are we doing
Joy - United’s Treble
Despair - Milan game. Both upset than sad.
Upset - Pool’s comeback against Milan (reason I was upset was because I kinda prayed for them (not to get humiliated) at half-time)
Karl - you should never pray for Liverpool to not get humiliated - how else are we going to make fun of them?
Saddest Moment, Last game at Highbury, Being only 13 and knowing I would never see a game let alone the Whole stadium in one peice made me cry, the way Thierry kissed the turf, Amazing!
Unbeaten season was awesome, Beating Villareal at last Euro game at Highbury thanks to Lehmanns spot, Being a Gooner too many to list1
joy
united treble
united beating looserfools last season with a john oshea goal
united winning 4-2 at everton last season
despair
scholes losing a pen and viera blasting one past our keeper(fa final 05) at least we deserved to win that 1
I know Ahmed. Thats why I was upset. Just figured at the time it will look bad on the PL. Never expected the silly result..stupid me.
Sometimes a team that cam 5th in their league can do magical things
on the 5/5/05 liverpool were coming 5th with 55 points then went on the 5th CL final on the 25th wow
Pretty Creepy!! I Call it the 5times omen!!
That is pretty creepy. Never knew that.
1996 FA Cup Final when Eric scored against Liverpool to put a perfect end on his comback, and give us our second double in 3 years
Joy:
T&T qualified
Portugal beat England
And Italy winning world cup (i was wierdly happy)
well i was only 4 in 1996 so i cant remember
I’ve only cried three times for football, once was in 1996, I was four years old and Gareth Southgate was a cunt.
[England - Germany EURO '96 for those who don't know.]
Then again in 2000, European Cup final, France - Italy which fueled my hatred for Arsenal even more. [Wiltord, Henry]
Another time was Man Utd - Porto 03/04.
1st leg Porto 2-1 Man Utd
2nd leg Man Utd 1-1 Porto, with a last minute goal. [Man Utd would have gone through on away goals].
Porto won the tournament that year after meeting Lyon, Deportivo La Coruna and Monaco. We really could have done it, we were closer that year than in any other year since 99 IMO.
Never cried for joy for football, I went close on a few occasions.
Italy - France ‘06
Man Utd - Bayern Munich ‘99
Man Utd - Roma ‘07.
[I'm half italian, half english by the way.]
In recent time….It’s got to be Italy v Germany 2006 when Grosso scored in extra time when he did Tardelli’s famous celebration.
I think I was crying in despair like in the 85 minute when Man Utd played Bayern Munich in the Champions League final in 99, but then i was Crying for joy in stoppage time
when aussies got knocked out by a cheating dive by italy
in the world cup in 06
Yesterday, on the 3rd daggers goal, 3-2 up and being safe with the stags losing.