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Stand out top division victories
AFKABartram
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Spurs winning so clinically 4-0 away at the team that have been champions 6 of the last 7 years has got to be up there as one of the most stand out unexpected score lines I can remember.
Our 4-2 win at Highbury I think ‘scrapes’ into the category, but I suspect there are plenty more (and probably more standout).
QPR winning 4-1 at Old Trafford in 92 (Denis Bailey hat trick) when Man U were pretty peak.
Our 4-2 win at Highbury I think ‘scrapes’ into the category, but I suspect there are plenty more (and probably more standout).
QPR winning 4-1 at Old Trafford in 92 (Denis Bailey hat trick) when Man U were pretty peak.
Newcastle smashing Man U 5-0 at a rocking St James Park in 96 (Phillipe Albert chip) was also special.
What other stand out, so unexpected score lines / victories can you remember?
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I watched that Spurs game this evening. Absolutely amazing. I don't know what game they were playing, but it wasn't like any football that I've ever seen.0
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Coventry 4 Liverpool 0 - 1983
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Spurs beat City 4-0, Fulham lose 4-1 to Wolves.
Next week Spurs at home to Fulham, who would fancy predicting the score?1 -
First day of the 93/94 season...
Arsenal 0 Coventry 3
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The first top division game I went to was Liverpool v QPR at Anfield, both teams with a lot of classic players... QPR whooped Liverpool 3-1 which was most amusing (was with family, whoa re Everton fans!). Not sure it was an all time classic, but definitely a massive upset0
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Charlton 5 - 0 Southampton
22nd August 1998
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Leicester v Bolton 0-50
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Southampton 6-3 Man Utd.
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Never saw Arsenals 8-2 walloping at Old Trafford coming back in 2011. Their heaviest defeat since 1927!1
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Southampton 0 Leicester 9 25/10/19
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Not in terms of score line but Forest's win at Anfield might go down at the surprise of the season. Liverpool, in all comps this season have 15 wins, a draw at Arsenal and that defeat. As well as they have done, Forest's four other wins have been against teams in the bottom seven and if Liverpool carry on in this form then it will surely become the result of the season.0
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Before my time but there were some stand out results here, just two days apart. I can only assume that half of Fulham's first team were still out on the lash when the kicked off at Portman Road.
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Alcorconazo
Although it doesn't meet the strict criterion of of a "top division" match, the game between Real Madrid (who, at the time had won the Spanish title no fewer than 31 times, the Copa del Rey 17 times, and were Champions of Europe nine times over) and third-tier AD Alcorcón, who played in the third tier of Spanish football, alongside the Real Madrid reserve team, in a municipal, 5,100 capacity stadium.
This match wasn't just a daunting prospect for Alcorcón - it was a mountainous one. Founded in 1971, they had still never played against Real Madrid - or, in fact, any other Spanish top-flight side. Their salary budget was less than €1m. Real's was 110 times that. And Real had spent €254m on new signings that Summer.
Probably the statistic that best describes the difference between the two sides is that AD Alcorcón players' average salary was less than Cristiano Ronaldo was being paid by Real, per day.
The first leg of the tie ended with the astonishing scoreline of AD Alcorcón 4-0 Real Madrid.0 -
Stoke 6 Liverpool 1 in Gerrard's last game for Liverpool.0
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Liverpool 9 nigels 09
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……went past Perry Suckling.0
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We have a winnerguinnessaddick said:Liverpool 9 nigels 02 -
Our 1-0 win vs Man U at Old Trafford, in 1986, courtesy of a Mark Stuart goal in our first season back in the top division since the 1950’s, must be up there
And I was there - walked out ground at final whistle and I could not believe what I had just witnessed !!!5 -
Especially seeing we lost at Forest in the pouring rain 4 days earlier.Lordflashheart said:Our 1-0 win vs Man U at Old Trafford, in 1986, courtesy of a Mark Stuart goal in our first season back in the top division since the 1950’s, must be up there
And I was there - walked out ground at final whistle and I could not believe what I had just witnessed !!!
I went to both. Never seen a turn around like it .1 -
Same here. I was with 3 mates on holiday using a friends caravan in north wales somewhere, a huge storm blew in and during the night, the roof came off and the four walls folded like a pack of cards. Spent the rest of the night in the sites bar then in the morning persuaded my three non Charlton mates to divert via Nottingham for that game! The storm followed us and we got soaked in the corner on that open terrace.Lewis Coaches said:
Especially seeing we lost at Forest in the pouring rain 4 days earlier.Lordflashheart said:Our 1-0 win vs Man U at Old Trafford, in 1986, courtesy of a Mark Stuart goal in our first season back in the top division since the 1950’s, must be up there
And I was there - walked out ground at final whistle and I could not believe what I had just witnessed !!!
I went to both. Never seen a turn around like it .
Then Man U at Old Trafford. I went on a friends season ticket, when we scored I forgot where I was and leapt out of my seat. Next thing two coppers appeared from nowhere and threw me out for my own safety! TBF, they did walk me round to where our lot was and got me back in.
Eventful few days following Charlton.4 - Sponsored links:
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1983-84; Liverpool 0 Wolves 1
Liverpool won the title that season, while Wolves were relegated with only 29 points and a goal deficit of -53.
A young lad called Steve Mardenborough scored his only ever Wolves goal that day.
It was as much of a home banker that you could ever get in a league game.
Fun Facts;
Wolves had three players in their 11 who moved to Charlton shortly after; Tony Towner, John Pender and John Humphrey..
The attendance was only 23,000
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Middlesbrough 8 Man City 10
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Charlton 3 The Champions Everton 2
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Liverpool 1.2 Blackpool
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