What is the most spectacular

[frankiegth]

Come back or collapse you have seen your team make?

A few seasons ago we were in a relegation dogfight at the bottom of the unibond premier and our opponents were Frickley who were enduring a similar sort of season. So it was a real six pointer.

Phil Starbuck had been in charge for a few games and was slowly turning things around.

The game had been a typical points more important than performance job with the goals being cheered with relief as much as delight. Anyway we found ourselves in the position of having a 3-1 lead with 90 minutes on the clock.

I can't remember the style with which Frickley scored now but what can't be denied ('cos it's in the record books) is by the time the ref blew up with 93 minutes played it was Hucknall town 3-4 Frickley athletic

You could here a pin drop as we walked out the ground in a state of total shock.

We did avoid the drop despite being in the relegation zone at Christmas.

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[Giggy of Telford]

Comeback, last year we were 3-1 down away at Rocester (were 1-0 up down to Free Kick), we brought on substitute Carl Tranter and he scored a hat-trick, game finished 5-3 to us.

As a reletively new supporter I haven't seen many big throwaways, biggest I've seen was 2-0 at home to Wakefield-Emley at half time, our captain Sean Parrish was sent off and we lost 3-2. Also at home to Frickley we only had a one goal lead but lost 3-1 after our keepr broke his ankle, we had centre-forward Darren Alexander in goal, he did well when in goal last season for Rossendale but didn't rise to the occasion this time, though I don't think we can blame someone for that when they're not even a goalkeeper.

[davetscfc]

Best I can remember is going back a bit to 1996. Salisbury at home to Gloucester in a midweek match at our old Victoria Park ground. We were new to the Southern Premier, Gloucester one of the top sides, and we were 3-0 down and getting absolutely hammered. Our striker Gary Manson then scored a hat trick in the last 4 minutes to get us a 3-3 draw. He also hit the bar in between scoring his 2nd and 3rd goals.

The following Saturday we also came from behind to draw 3-3 with Cheltenham, though not quite as spectacularly.

[Col ISIHAC.]

There's two - most certainly not the most spectacular in the club's short history, but the most satisfying I have witnessed. Both at home, both against Tiverton.

Now. I've enjoyed every second of football we've played against Tivvy down the years. I like yellow, for a start and they are a good, solid side, hard to break down - Oh yeah! And there's this bloke called Nathan Rudge. His duels at centre back, against James Taylor NEVER left you wanting more. Often with both bloodied, but unbowed, a handshgake at the end. Quality stuff. For 90 minutes, Rudge would be the devil incarnate - then you went back to respecting him ;D Both Supes and Rudge were ideal (Still are) for football at this level. Supes scored a lot of goals for us, and Rudge got Tivvy out of jail on many occasions!

Twice in successive seasons we were trailing with about 10 to go. The first time, to a goal very early on by, guess who! The Devil himself. Daishy is about to make a change up front - the legend, albeit a slowing, somewhat ponderous caricature of his former self, Dave Leworthy is, we all assume, about to come off. I'll let Rich Self, who does our match reports do the rest....

What was becoming an immediately forgettable performance from the Hawks turned on its head in the 78th minute. Out of nowhere the Hawks drew level, and less than sixty seconds later robbed their guests blind with an amazing display from Leworthy. Substitute Jamie Ford started the comeback with a superbly played throughball that cut through the Tivvy defence and allowed Leworthy to run in from the left and bury the ball. Before the celebrations had died down, he scored a second, a beautiful header from a Poate cross that just tipped over Paul Edwards and into the net.

It was a double blow for Tiverton, winded for the remainder of the game bar one close effort from Everett batted away by Kerr on the line. An amazing sense of symmetry pervaded the end result, some revenge taken for Tiverton’s two minute, three goal blast in August that destroyed the Hawks’ slender one goal lead. Many will say the hosts didn’t deserve the win, but Leworthy certainly deserved the fans’ adulation at the final whistle as he once again proved worthy of the nickname Legend.

That was 19th April 2003. You'll note that they had done the same to us earlier on that season, down at Ladysmead. We went mad.

then, on 4 October 2003, it happened again; only this time we were 2 - 1 down with 10 to go.

Richard Pears had scored twice for the visitors, before this happened...(Thanks Rich!)


Pears continued his afternoon with a yellow card, also awarded to Wilkinson after an altercation between the pair several minutes later, and then Holloway followed them into the book as Tiverton’s aggressive tackling continued. Ten minutes from time, substitute Dean Blake made his late arrival count with some trademark dancing runs on the left wing. One took him to the edge of the box, where Winter tripped him. Blake took his own free kick, lofted it high with an immaculate curl, and seconds later it was in the back of the net. Who actually scored the goal could be debated for hours. It was awarded to Blake at the time, some say own goal, and the result as published says Eribenne. Regardless, the Hawks were back in the game for the second time.

Three free kicks in as many minutes, two awarded unsurprisingly for further fouls by Owen on Eribenne, came to nothing and sighs breathed heavily from the stand as Masson towered high again for a header that drifted wide. Substitute Steve Ovens saw a chance for Tivvy stopped, and yet more free kicks took the game into injury time. Eight minutes in, with most players on the pitch tapping the ball disinterestedly as if they expected it to be the last of the game, Eribenne squared a long ball to Town who took it away from goal across the edge of the box. Turning for a shot he scooped it as much as fired it, lifting it gracefully over Fraser’s arm and somehow just inside the near post. It was a moment of sheer joy, one of those precious unexpected rarities that make watching football so totally exhilarating. The visitors were down on the pitch, totally broken, but the final whistle lifted the Hawks even higher, and into the top seven of the table.

Twice against the same team.


Weird!

[pies]

Best comeback? Probably Ford United away 3 seasons ago. 3-1 down a minute before half-time, 4-3 up 10 minutes after half time. We conceeded 2 sloppy goals early on, pulled a goal back to make it 2-1 with a goal from Danny Bolt, however soon lost that advantage when Ford went 3-1 up. Just before half-time, Nick Bailey (I think) headed in a 2nd for the U's to make it 3-2. Just after the restart, that man Bailey was at it again, with exactly the same scenario resulting in an equaliser. 10 minutes later Matt Gray put Sutton in the lead for the 1st time in the game, 4-3, and Ford were to shell-shocked to equalise.
Special mentions go to Dagenham at home in 1998, Purfleet at home in 1999 Chesham at home in 2002 and Bishop Stortford at home in 2002

Worst throwaway, was probably Bishop Stortford at home the season after, where the U's were leading 2-0 in the 85th minute having scored a penalty a minute earlier to make it 2-0, but still let in 2 stupid goals meaning Stortford left with a point.

[samd]

Just this January, we were one nil down home to Ossett Town just before half time and they were all over us - they should have been out of sigh. Thankfully though our striker went past several of their defenders before firing in our equaliser. Second half we ran riot and scored three more goals to gain a 4-1 lead.....seven minutes to go and they pull one back.

A couple of minutes left and they reduce our lead.......injury time they equalise and it finishes 4-4 .

[ambersalamander]

namesareforidiots has just covered all the Sutton ones that sprang to my mind, but I thought I'd mention one a few weeks ago that I watched as -almost- a neutral (snigger) between Cambridge City and St Albans City.

St Albans were 3-1 up and the cambridge fans were getting really, really pissed off There was a lot of talk of doom and gloom, which soon stopped abruptly...

Cambridge won 4-3. It was an absolute cracker of a game.