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The Ultimate Humiliation

What has been Spurs' most humiliating result of recent times?

  • Notts County 0-3 Oct 1994

    Votes: 1 2.0%

  • Man Utd 3-5 Sept 2001

    Votes: 6 12.0%

  • Blackburn League Cup Final Feb 2002

    Votes: 3 6.0%

  • Emirates Marketing Project 3-4 Feb 2004

    Votes: 14 28.0%

  • Bayern Munich 2-7 (seven) Oct 2019

    Votes: 4 8.0%

  • West Ham 3-3 October 2020

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Dinamo Zagreb 0-3 March 2021

    Votes: 9 18.0%

  • Saudi Sportswashing Machine/St Totteringham's Day May 2016

    Votes: 13 26.0%
  • Total voters
    50
Mikey10 said:
Lovely to have such a heart-warming story in the midst of terrible football-related pain. :D

Back on topic, let’s never forget the 1988 2-1 defeat to Port Vale in the FA Cup 4th round. I was a Sixth Former and had the tinkle mercilessly taken all day Monday.
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Just before my time so didn't register with me...I got in just in time for the ignimony of losing to Bradford in 1989 instead though!
 
Modric THFC said:
Losing to PAOK at home in the 2011/12 Europa and not even making it to the knock out rounds.
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Always felt as though we were doing our very best to get knocked out of the Europa that season! I think, we could still have qualified on final match day having won at Shamrock but PAOK obviously got something against Rubin Kazan to secure their place.
 
LemonadeMoney said:
Portsmouth semi-final? Blackburn final? Coventry final?
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Of course...how did I forget the Portsmouth Semi-Final. It was a humiliating loss though I equally feel a little cheated that a) the pitch surface was an utter brick bomb which clearly acted as a leveller and b) Crouch had a perfectly good goal disallowed at 0-1 so I dont feel this one was entirely self-inflicted.
 
DeanoAustin said:
Christ. It's amazing looking at that list how many more humiliations I can think of.

The Notts County one always makes me laugh a bit although the story is a bit grim. I was about 15 at the time and one of the few Spurs supporters in my school. I used to get even more upset about games back then than I do now. Anyway, the morning after, someone started a rumour that I tried to top myself by using my coat after the game. Lo and behold, the next day I was late into school for an unrelated reason so the rumour caught fire and most people thought I was in hospital because of us losing to Notts County. When I eventually showed up a few hours late, I was plagued with people inspecting my neck for the day...

I think the City one was spectacular. IIRC they hadn't won in about 10 games, were 3-0 down at HT and down to 10 men. There is no other club they could have won against that night except maybe themselves. Spectacular. For me the ultimate humiliation.

The Saudi Sportswashing Machine one runs it close though. We don't just fudging lose, we lose on steroids. To lose 5-1 to 10 relegated men ensuring we finished third in a two horse race and behind our fiercest rivals has Tottenham written all over it.

We don't do glorious failure, we do spectacular failure.
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You were a couple of years older than me. I'm pretty sure my story is just as bizarre as I was in the worst place in the world to receive the news of the half time score.....I was in the Arsenal away end for their league cup tie the same night at Boundary Park, Oldham! I remember my heart sinking at some Goon shouting as loud as he could "Tottenham are losing" and getting a cheer and then at half time the Oldham PA announcer trying to woo the Arsenal fans by bigging up the fact we were 2-0 down at half time and that Dumitrescu had been sent off.

Don't think I'd have been able to contain myself if Rick Holden's wing masterplay that night had resulted in an Oldham goal!
 
The Saudi Sportswashing Machine one I put a ton on them to win at 6-1 as a happy hedge, yesterday I put money on Zagreb to qualify at 27s on betfair but admittedly I did break the rule of happiness hedges and bottled it and cashed out 200 near the end.

The Liverpool at home hammering under AVB was a particularly bad one, other than Bayern one of the few games I think I’ve actually left before the final whistle.

I went for the City one though, I’m sure the odds on that feat would have been ridiculous. It wasn’t even like they were a top side then.
 
Danishfurniturelover said:
My ultimate humiliation involved two domantrix special in Soho. Despite both of them tinkling on me and an hour or spanking and wearing nipple clamps I just could not get an erection till one of them stuck their finger up my botty.

That was not humiliating nor was having to lick her finger clean afterwards. No it was when my phone rang during the session. It is a massive no no to leave your phone on. As I was tied down at the time I could not answer it and had a rather embarrassing ring tone at the time.
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I hate it when that happens.
 
I remember the Arsenal vs Spurs game in Redknapp's era. I believe we were leading then I can't recall correctly if anyone got a red card. However I remember us losing and the shame.

There has been quite a few which in my mind are balanced with great moments. However I deal with it by saying that is football unless I notice the players attitude during the game e.g. Saudi Sportswashing Machine away, United at home after making a lot of noise, the City and Liverpool consistent high scoring bearings etc

This thread is dark reviving painful memories. Damn
 
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spurs' magna carter said:
And so many more to add.

Losing to Grimsby, 6-1 at home to Chelsea (mid-90s), 6-1 away to City (2013) followed by 5-0 at home to Liverpool, 7-1 at Saudi Sportswashing Machine, 5-2 Arsenal two years in a row, 5-1 against Chelsea in an FA Cup S/F, 3-1 Stoke away 2008 (awful display that remember ended Ramos), 0-3 at home to Sheffield Wednesday (1998) etc. etc. etc.
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being 3-0 up at half time k the cup against Emirates Marketing Project when they were brick, little Joey Barton gets sent off, on the stroke of half time and we go onntonlose 4-3!
 
Seedy Ron said:
Last line from the commentator sums up the whole thread.
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Jesus, Austin was my favourite player back then. Thought he was a fantastic prospect up to the leg break in 1994. I wrote to him as a kid and he responded multiple times with signed photos and stuff, top bloke.

But in that game, like many looking back, he made Matt Doherty look like Cafu.
 
Arsenal winning the League at White Hart Lane, for the second time (2004). Watching Henry run to their fans wasn't as painful as Madrid (I cried my eyes out two days later, true footballing heart break), but it is hard to take still to this day. The only way I'd get over that is if we won the league at their place or beat them in a UCL Semi-Final at their place before winning it.

For me it's that. You can have all the games against minnows that ended in defeat, the big leads thrown away (5-3, 4-3, 3-3) and the absolute spankings (5-0, 6-1, 7-2, 7-1) dished out in the past but it's nothing in comparison to your arch rivals winning the League at your place. That's why Lasagne Gate when Arsenal pipped us to fourth after defeat to West Ham in 2006 and Munich when Chelsea won the Champions League (first and still only London club to do so) before qualifying for the competition is up there.

I'm surprised no one mentioned it... ;)

  1. Arsenal winning the league at our place 1971 and 2004
  2. Munich (the whole World laughed at us for that)
  3. Lasagne Gate (we actually shat our pants and was the first footballing meme).

Writing and editing this post has been like therapy, after all these years I know why I react to certain defeats the way I do.

I guess the biggest problem for us Tottenham fans is trying to compensate, let alone over compensate, for all the dissapointments these past 30 years (26 years for me).
 
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That arsenal game where we gave them a really soft goal after starting well, then somehow conspired to cough the ball up from the restart and let Fabregas straight through the team to score again within about 10 seconds. I think it was only 3-0 in the end but it was awful.

 
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