I can't forgive and I can't forget

Worst non penalty "decision" I've ever seen was at home to Swindon in our promotion season of 1980

They were in the mix for going up and we had a shot that one of their defenders dived full length to turn around the post for remarkably a corner

The ref must have thought it was their goalkeeper flying through the air....fortunately justice was done as we scored from the resulting corner to take the lead but had they gone on to get a point or even win it, that would have proved to have been one of the worst decisions ever

Thank you for bringing this shocking incident back to me I was there but had erased it from my memory, although seeing it again has got steaming about the useless officials that have appeared at BP throughout the decades I have followed the Mariners.

I, too, knew exactly which incident i would be.  I was only 10 at the time, but for a long time afterwards I could remember what happened clearly.  Am I correct in thinking they finished below us in the play-offs, in 4th, and lost to Tranmere?  I think we followed Cambridge and Southend up.  Wow, how times have changed.

Quoted from Dan

I'm still fuming about that one.

Chris Herd probabily forgot and indulged in some Aussie rules footy for that one.

WOW that is terrible. That Watford 1, I forgot about that (i was there that day aswell). Crazy!

Quoted from JonnyK

I, too, knew exactly which incident i would be.  I was only 10 at the time, but for a long time afterwards I could remember what happened clearly.  Am I correct in thinking they finished below us in the play-offs, in 4th, and lost to Tranmere?  I think we followed Cambridge and Southend up.  Wow, how times have changed.

Yep, we went up on goal difference (both 83 points, us +32, them a paltry +14).

brian hill not giving a foul and a red card still upsets me to this day, i remember going crazy in the main stand and always gave brian hill plenty of stick from that day onwards.  much like i do with that other* referring helmet, clattenburg

*although there's plenty more too, like that tosser who reffed one of the many 0-1 defeats at home to darlo, can't remember his name though

Yep we beat Exeter  in the final match of the season  to finish above Bolton on goal
difference. It just shows what effect that decision - probably the worst I can remember
in well over sixty years at BP - might have had on our season.

It was only the week before that Exeter game that we were all locked in at Stoke for
over half an hour following their pitch invasion.

Plenty going on in them days !

But weren't they great times.

Quoted from Denby

brian hill not giving a foul and a red card still upsets me to this day, i remember going crazy in the main stand and always gave brian hill plenty of stick from that day onwards.  much like i do with that other* referring helmet, clattenburg

*although there's plenty more too, like that tosser who reffed one of the many 0-1 defeats at home to darlo, can't remember his name though

Paul Taylor? (who also did the Millennium debacle)

yeah, taylor, he was so bad he's probably reffing in the premier league now