What is the worst British sports match you’ve ever watched?

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orgaxoid_x@reddit

Helsingborg vs Aston Villa 1996.

UEFA Cup 1-1 draw at Villa Park. 0-0 in Sweden. The camera feed went out for the second half. It was a blessing.

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Nuthetes@reddit

I remember the Liverpool v Man Utd FA cup final in I think 1996 being fucking awful.

And The Sun doing a competition to win the DVD of the final a couple of days later which me and my dad laughed about because we couldn't imagine a worse prize.

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Ok_Chipmunk_7066@reddit

The white suits and Cantona's goal from only one of only shots on target are core memories for me

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Choccybizzle@reddit

I remember the build up to it thinking how amazing that game was going to be!

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Nuthetes@reddit

I think it was the first FA Cup I watched. I had only got into football that year and my dad hyped up how good the FA Cup was and how Liverpool and Man Utd are big rivals lol

Then we got that.

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HibeesBounce@reddit

Liverpool players in those awful cream suits as well.

Was a terrible game

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Pmyers225@reddit

The Sun, Liverpool and Football Matches... That is a cursed combination... I think its fair to say probably no-one in Liverpool entered that

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PaulWhickerTallVicar@reddit

Second prize 2 copies, third prize 3 copies…….

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catfordbeerclub@reddit

Southampton 0 spurs 0 on a freezing cold boxing day in the late 90's. Absolute turd of a game.

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David Haye vs Nikolay Valuev. Haye barely threw any punches, spent the majority of the time ducking, weaving and backing away from Valuev. It was excruciatingly boring to watch up until the 12th round when Haye had him wobbling after a left hook. Even then, Haye was so scared of getting into a brawl he hung back and let Valuev survive to the final bell.

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Internal-Climate-847@reddit

Raith rovers v Alloa a 0-0 draw in January in freezing temperatures and I don’t think either team had a shot.

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Commercial-Royal7086@reddit

That play off final yesterday was fucking horrific.

Sure there was one shot on target until the 85th minute and it was straight at the keeper?

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Waste_Ad4554@reddit

It was so bad I turned it off at half time. Sitting and staring at the wall was more fun.

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I_done_a_plop-plop@reddit

It was dire. I had to second screen it and do a video game grind at the same time. I booed both sides. And the the fella took his shirt off after winning and I just thought about sports bras.

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lionmoose@reddit

Non league finals day last week was worse. Two games, no goals.

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PeterG92@reddit

As a Southend fan that was one of the worst games I've ever seen us play. And I'm a season ticket holder of 20 years so I've seen some shite

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lionmoose@reddit

Highlight of the game was when they said no extra time, just penalties.

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PeterG92@reddit

I was very glad about that. Another 30 minutes of that would have been torture

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lionmoose@reddit

Absolutely. It was nice to win something but honestly dragging the family to that was felt like poor value for money

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WhalingSmithers00@reddit

At halftime they were so bereft of highlights they showed a 25 yard shot and called it a chance.

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Gavzilla18@reddit

As a Boro fan, I couldn't agree more. The only thing is that yesterdays performance was no different to every home game since the start of the year....

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bighairynipples79@reddit

Went to watch Hibs away at Kilmarnock on new year's day by myself because I was drunk. Hangover kicked in on the train and I started regretting it. It was freezing, it was nil nil and our best midfielder broke his leg. On the way back I fell asleep, woke up in an empty carriage apart from a guy sat right next to me. Asked him what he thought he was doing and it turned out the guy was blind.

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jnpesquire@reddit

It was very nearly England Vs Slovakia, dreadful for a whole 95 minutes

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Deuce03@reddit

England's firsr game against South Africa in the 2007 Rugby World Cup. (Their fame against South Africa in that yeae's cricket WC was also poor).

They were defending champions, and played like a schoolboy XV on their first outing. Just dreadful stuff.

I remember England's draw with Algeria in 2010 as a low point too. Yes, there were horrors to come in later years, but the combination of the unreal media hype, the embarrassing football played, Rooney's petulant response to the fans' dissatisfaction, added up to make it thoroughly dismal. It was almost satisfying to see Germany take that team apart in the R16, like lancing a boil.

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Realistic-Peak9389@reddit

This afternoon at Spurs comes close

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lopinguino@reddit

All Arsenal games this season. I think I’m getting downvoted by the Arsenal fans here but fuck it - replies turned off

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Affectionate_Crow327@reddit

The thing about Arsenal, is they always try and walk it in

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StocktonDC@reddit

What was wenger thinking bringing Walcott on that early?

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ATSOAS87@reddit

He was kind of forced into it after Eriksson selected him for England without even playing for Arsenal.

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ATSOAS87@reddit

Not anymore.

We get set pieces.

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peahair@reddit

These days, with the rest of the team to accompany it..

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ATSOAS87@reddit

Why do you keep watching the games?

If you support another team, you'd only need you watch Arsenal twice.

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MeatGayzer69@reddit

You can't blame arsenal because teams put all 11 men on the edge of their own box. Teams do it to all the top teams now

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FireWhiskey5000@reddit

As an Arsenal fan…yeah we’ve not been a great watch for a lot of this season. But I don’t think this is a uniquely Arsenal issue. The prem had the same core 17 teams for 3 years in a row. They’ve all had time to spend the premier league riches and the middle order teams are all a-lot better than in previous seasons. I think i saw some stat that games won by a 4+ goal margin are at their lowest level for years this season.

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Hefty_Tip7383@reddit

Algeria v England has to be up there.

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PabloMarmite@reddit

That was my first thought too. Was painful to watch. And then Rooney being a little bitch about it at the end.

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Equivalent-Good-7693@reddit

We had every right to boo Wayne,you were f***ing dreadful

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dweedman@reddit

Nice to see your home fans boo you. That's what loyal support is.

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omnishambles1995@reddit

The 2010 World Cup was horrendous as a neutral. Honkin football. Ten men behind a ball no one could strike properly. Vuvuzelas drowning everything out like a mild torture method. Even Spain's relentless possession football was boring.

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Luton_Enjoyer@reddit

And watching North Korea get me thrashed just made me feel bad for them!

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FireWhiskey5000@reddit

Even the final. The “narrative” is that Spain played total football and the Dutch played total destruction. But my memory was the Spanish were just as bad as the Dutch. True they were not bulldozering their way around, but they were committing snide fouls and constantly hitting the deck all the time.

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omnishambles1995@reddit

It was just so slow and monotonous to watch. Effective, yeah. They were utilising the best players in the world at the time at what they did well. But from a neutral standpoint, they just sucked the life out of games.

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Guilty_Ease8140@reddit

Germany were better to watch than Spain at that tournament

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FireWhiskey5000@reddit

Death by a 1,000 passes.

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Sir-Chris-Finch@reddit

Glad someone agrees with me. Loads of people have fond memories of that world cup but for me it was by far the worst one i can remember

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ALA02@reddit

The vibes around it were immaculate with the first African world cup, the songs, the atmospheres at the stadiums. But yeah everyone forgets how shit the football was.

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Sea_Photograph_3998@reddit

Well it was nice to see Diego Forlan be a boss and take a massive underdog side to the semis. Also the France mutiny was absolutely gorgeous, magnificent, beautiful! So fucking hilarious and satisfying.

That’s it though. Two real standout things.

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yajtraus@reddit

Forlan was a hell of a player and that World Cup got him the respect he deserved after his United spell.

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Sir-Chris-Finch@reddit

I agree with both of these things

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yajtraus@reddit

It peaked with the Tshabalala goal in the first game

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dave_gregory42@reddit

I think a lot of it is to do with whichever is the first WC you can really remember getting into as a kid. For me is was France 98 (which was objectively amazing anyway) but for people who are now in their early 20s, it was probably South Africa.

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Sir-Chris-Finch@reddit

Yeah think thats probably true in fairness. I can remember 2002 and 2006 so by the time 2010 rolled around i already had 4 very good tournaments (Euros included) to compare to

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byerz@reddit

Diego Forlan could strike it properly

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alfienoakes@reddit

Came here for this. Just awful.

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magincourts@reddit

Remember the bird that sat on the goalposts for a while?

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Sea_Photograph_3998@reddit

I was gonna’ say when England beat Japan in a friendly ahead of 2010 without scoring any goals, because Japan scored two own goals. That was pitiful, but it was hilarious.

Yeah 0-0 with Algeria would be it. What really pissed me off is that England made it out the group stage in 2010. They did not deserve that, they were dogshit. Thankfully they got the rude awakening they deserved in 2014.

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FireWhiskey5000@reddit

I was sat on the floor of a bar near Glastonbury (I was working at the festival). The game was so bad we cheered every time someone went to the toilet. Shocker.

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franki-pinks@reddit

I spent 5 grand going to see that. Terrible.

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Hefty_Tip7383@reddit

Well, it’s a story to tell the grandkids.

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lidlberg@reddit

This was goong to be my answer. It was so boring it was somehow memorable

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firpo_sr@reddit

Genuinely, there are certain events I will never forget where I was when I witnessed them. 9/11, obviously. And somehow that Algeria game

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Hefty_Tip7383@reddit

I can tell you the pub and exact company, where we stood. The mate I was with wasn’t into football but was trying to bond over the world cup. Poor bugger.

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El_Hembo@reddit

Saw England v Hungary at Wembley a few years ago. There were a fair few paper aeroplanes that evening. Could probably apply that to most England matches in recent years though.

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Uqunt@reddit

I'm Everton fan, where do I start....

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Consistent_Ad6426@reddit

I saw and England cricket match once… never again

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WhySoIncandescent@reddit

Most of Liverpool's game this season.

On a real one tho, Liverpool v Spurs champions league final. Shit game.

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thewednesday1867@reddit

In person, day 3 of the England v India Test at Trent Bridge in 2014. We only had day 3 tickets. I watched days 1 and 2 on TV. I knew we were in big trouble when on the morning of day 2, the ball almost bounced twice before getting to the wicket keeper. The pitch was appalling, completely dead. I think Nottinghamshire might have even been fined by the ICC because the pitch was so bad.

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welsh_cthulhu@reddit

It was yesterday actually. Championship playoffs final. Hull vs. Boro. Words cannot adequately describe how utterly and unrelentingly shit it was from start to finish.

Loads of empty seats too.

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mesonofgib@reddit

Gotta be honest, this is how most football matches feel for me (as a non-fan)

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Visible_Grand_8561@reddit

Wembley 1996. Kevin Keegan brought on the Honey Monster. "Thats football, Kev!"

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BoopSquad@reddit

Everyone raves about Cristiano’s header against Sampdoria but Honey Monster’s is a class above.

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Visible_Grand_8561@reddit

And he pulled of a scorpion kick in goal for Newcastle.

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BoopSquad@reddit

How much would he go for in today’s market?

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Visible_Grand_8561@reddit

I don't really know, but he's worth his weight in honey.

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mrpithecanthropus@reddit

I once saw Oxford United v Newcastle in the old second division. It was a bottom of the table clash and both teams were shite. To make matters worse, it was so foggy that, from the end I was in, you couldn’t see more than a third of the pitch. There were seven goals that day and I saw none of them as my team lost 5-2.

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jazzyjeffdahmer@reddit

David Hayes Vs Klitschko 2011

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pajamakitten@reddit

Spurs vs. United for the Europa League was a crime against sport.

For Formula One, the Russian Grand Prix and the most recent revival of the French GP are definite winners. I will also controversially say that Monaco is generally one of the worst races on the calendar. It is an historic track but it is pretty much always a snoozefest.

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sjr0754@reddit

At least Monaco has the best qualifying session of the year though.

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MattyFTM@reddit

Should just do qualy followed by a 2 lap sprint race then call it a day.

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langman17@reddit

Russia 2021 was fantastic

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deltree000@reddit

Belgium 2021 wants a word. Absolute farce that you could see coming a mile off.

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pajamakitten@reddit

Shame, because Spa is one of my favourite tracks.

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Infernode5@reddit

Belgium 2021 has to be up there.

What a waste of time.

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Thingisby@reddit

Not an F1 fan but saw the start of Monaco one year and remember one of the commentators said needs to pass on this first bend or it's all over.

didn't manage to pass and checked the results afterwards and everyone had stayed in the same position more or less.

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deltree000@reddit

Don't worry it gets worse! Last year (maybe I completely blanked it) the Williams of Albon backed the cars up behind so Sainz could get a free pitstop. Then Sainz backed everyone up so Albon could get a free pitstop. Then Russell realised the trick and started doing the same to everyone behind him. It was a joke.

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yajtraus@reddit

Didn’t Van de Ven do a ridiculous overhead kick goal line clearance in that match? Worth watching for that alone.

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Wiltix@reddit

Monaco GP is dog shit. Do qualifying and save everyone the torture of the race and declare the qualifying results the race results

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desertcanyons@reddit

One of the most sickening displays I've ever seen as a United fan

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Pmyers225@reddit

The more rexent French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard sucked so bad

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ihathtelekinesis@reddit

And yet the 2021 race was arguably the best of the season and a definite modern classic.

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hairychris88@reddit

I will also controversially say that Monaco is generally one of the worst races on the calendar.

Nothing controversial about that. It's almost always shit now.

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Hefty_Tip7383@reddit

It looks good though.

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itshanito@reddit

UEFA Nations League 2019 England vs Switzerland in the third place play-off. Absolutely dreadful watch

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Timcatgt@reddit

England losing to Iceland 10 years ago is the only time in history that I have ever been angry since I started watching the beautiful game.

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HibeesBounce@reddit

Well, some of us enjoyed that

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Repulsive-Side-8165@reddit

Weirdly I loved it

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PeterG92@reddit

I still remember Steve McLaren's deep sigh on Sky when they scored their 2nd.

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Ok-Discount3131@reddit

That England team looked like frightened little boys on the pitch.

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one_pint@reddit

I still have a residual hatred for Hodgson after that game and tournament.

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cheeseley6@reddit

Tottenham.

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franki-pinks@reddit

Most matches involving Manchester City over the past few years. They are such a boring team to watch.

Live I went to South Africa to watch England v Algeria. An incredibly boring match then that potato headed cunt Wayne Rooney kicking off after the match saying “it’s nice to hear your own fans booing you”. Sorry Wayne I just spent £5000 coming to watch you and your mates put no effort in and then complain about 5 star prisons. Excuse me showing my disappointment in you.

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Ok-Set-5829@reddit

🎺 do do, do do de do do 🥁 oh fuck off

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BestFriendWatermelon@reddit

Beat me to it. Everyone plucking their club team's mediocre performances but forgetting there was a whole decade during the noughties where England just made you want to die. Somehow they were even worse than England of the 90s.

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Sea_Photograph_3998@reddit

No the noughties IS a decade. You mean the 10’s?

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BestFriendWatermelon@reddit

No, I mean the 00s... From roughly 2001+2010, the ironically named "golden generation" of Beckham, Rooney, Gerrard, Lampard, etc. Over and over England would cruise through qualification, then get their teeth kicked in by a team 50 places lower in international rankings.

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MttWhtly@reddit

02 knocked out by Brazil, 04 and 06 both penalty losses to Portugal, 08 didn't qualify, 2010 knocked out by Germany. If you want to push it to 2012, lost to Italy on penalties.

The golden generation, and the one immediately after it, underperformed but we weren't getting knocked out by nobodies.

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Nifelheim_UK@reddit

As a City fan, i'd argue we aren't a boring team, but in the last couple of seasons teams have figured out the way to beat us is to sit deep with everyone behind the ball and play the low block then hit us on the counter. This results in City endlessly passing the ball around trying to find an opening.

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Tricky-Reporter-5246@reddit

Thus being a boring team.

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franki-pinks@reddit

I’ll be honest I’ve always found Peps teams boring. Even his Barca team. Pass pass pass pass pass foul foul foul pass pass pass pass. It’s like watching a snake slowly crush something.

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TomAtkinson3@reddit

I remember watching that Algeria match in a bar in Amsterdam, was it the one Heskey did step overs in slow motion?

Absolute dross though, your boos were perfectly valid

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DRJT@reddit

You made me remember Fabio Capello picked Emile Heskey for the 2010 World Cup

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Mc_and_SP@reddit

And then Heskey fell on top of Rio in training to rule him out for the tournament...

And then Ledley King did a Ledley King and got injured too.

(But Heskey did redeem himself with the assist for Gerrard I guess?)

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Sir-Chris-Finch@reddit

Rooney was out of order but one thing you can not criticise him of is putting effort in

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jlo1989@reddit

In City's defence, half of the league shows up in a 9-1-0 formation while employing every single time wasting tactic they can think of.

People will pay however much for a ticket and a train ride to the Etihad, watch their team do absolutely nothing and then claim with a straight face that Guardiola ruined English football.

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Andyrhyw@reddit

Rugby League World Cup semi final 2013. Australia vs Fiji. Australia won 64-0. Not an inherent problem, and I honestly had to look that scoreline up.

The problem was, it was the 2nd game in a 'Double Header', boths semis, same day, same venue (Wembley), one after the other.

This was the 2nd game of the day, and had to follow on from England vs New Zeland. Which New Zeland won in the dying seconds.

I just had no interest in the 2nd game, especially as I had nabbed a ridiculously low priced ticket to the World Cup Final just before tje semis, so knew I would be there to watch, not England. Also it was November sp chilly, but of course I didn't feel the cold until that disappointing finish.

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stefancooper@reddit

1996 fa cup final. The only fa cup final I've been to. Man united 1 Liverpool 0. I fell asleep in the stadium.

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Opening-Tea-257@reddit

Might not be definitively the worst but I remember at uni in 2007 I was at my girlfriend’s house and I basically forced them all to watch the FA Cup final between Chelsea v Man Utd (I don’t support either team by the way).

0-0 until extra time when Drogba scored so they didn’t even get to watch penalties.

I was not popular in that house for a while.

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Ok-Set-5829@reddit

A friendly between England and Ireland at the of the 2014-15 season that no-one could be arsed with. It was actually quite compelling how dire it was. End of match highlights consisted of a pass played towards that drifted out of play.

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Accomplished_Mess243@reddit

I went to the Forest Huddersfield play off final a few years ago. Awful match, and I was taking a leak when the only goal went in.

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Anaptyso@reddit

The worst one I ever saw was the Reading-Huddersfield play off final in 2017. Dreadful football, horribly tense to watch as a fan, hardly any chances, and then my team - Reading - lost on penalties to maintain their 100% record of losing play off finals.

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eventworker@reddit

I remember going with school to day 2 or 3 of a test cricket match - I think at Headingley - in the late 90s.

It rained all day and we got about 45 mins of play. IIRC we got free tickets to the next day, but couldn't use them as it was a school day.

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Choccybizzle@reddit

Anytime Audley Harrison fought anyone remotely competent he just became scared to throw punches.

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Guilty_Ease8140@reddit

2007 FA Cup Final Chelsea 1 Manchester United 0 (after extra time)

Considering the quality of players on both sides (Terry, Robben, Drogba, Rooney, Ronaldo, Giggs) you'd at least expect a decent encounter. Instead we suffered two hours of the most lifeless, dullest, soporific, tedious dirge it's possible to imagine. I'm a neutral with no dog in that fight and it was utterly chronic.

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Duberry17@reddit

Scotland v Hungary, Euro 2024. We passed the ball about at a snails pace in a game we needed to win to progress, then chucked everyone forward in the last 10 mins before conceding a goal in the last minute.

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No_Flight7872@reddit

90% of the Newcastle matches this season

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cambino1882@reddit

Champions League final 2019

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MoneyAd5007@reddit

I was at the Reading vs Huddersfield play-final. Two sides who didn't want to win and happy to take their chances in the penalty shoot out. Which happened after 120 minutes excrutiating goalless minutes. Neither winner would have deserved it. (It was Huddersfield by the way). It was anti-sport and football was never the same for me after it. About 5 years later, one of the football statistic companies presented the cumulative win/loss ratios over the prior 5 years. 91st and 92nd were Reading and Huddersfield.

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UnclePeter1976@reddit

Surprisingly few Spurs fans on here

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Jadwers@reddit

Liverpool v Tottenham in the 2019 champions league final has to be up there, I'm even a Liverpool fan but this match was just such a disappointment after both of us pulled off historical comebacks in the semi finals, one of the single most boring games I think I've ever witnessed

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Shoddy-One-2064@reddit

England losing to a scandinavian fishing village in 2016

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Dazzling-Lab2788@reddit

As a fellow Englander I found it completely hilarious. Up the stinky fish people.

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Shoddy-One-2064@reddit

I am not an Englander but when my nationa inevitably gets rekt in group stages, I cheer for England. After all, I live here and want England to do well but I will admit, I found it hilarious as well, mainly because of all the hype generated in the media. Win a game - England the best. Lose a game - they get torn to pieces. And don't get me started on Gary Neville. The absolute loose stool water he secretes from his piehole, that people charitably call "analysis" almost makes me root for England's opponents.

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RevStickleback@reddit

The 'England are the best' thing is largely myth. People just seem to object to the excitement hype that follows England about, and always take it to mean massive confidence rather than just excitement at doing well. It's true that the media coverage is rather moronic, but even then people insist that claiming England could win is confidence that they will.

People talk about the song Three Lions as proof of English arrogance, yet it probably the most negative football song there's ever been. The entire theme of it is 'we know we won't win, but we dream anyway' and somehow that's overconfidence. Mind you, if you ever meet anyone from England who thinks the line "it's coming home" is about winning, then it handily tells you that person is an utter clueless bell end.

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Tricky-Reporter-5246@reddit

What does it mean then?

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RevStickleback@reddit

It was just a reference to Euro 96 being played in England. It had no meaning beyond that.

This idea that it meant "bringing the trophy home" came after, and was largely a media invention.

The kind of people who think Three Lions is about confidence are the sort of people who think "Every Breath You Take" is a romantic song.

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Lynvor@reddit

I'd say it was England vs USA for 2010 world cup I think.

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Rez1009@reddit

I was going to suggest this from my sketchy Worldcup memory. England v USA normally provides for drab viewing.

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Mc_and_SP@reddit

That tournament gave us some great panel show comedy though

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peasy28@reddit

I’d say that was one of the best British sports matches I’ve ever watched.

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FaithlessnessLive937@reddit

Are you Scottish?

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peasy28@reddit

How did you guess?

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I_done_a_plop-plop@reddit

Palace vs Rotherham twentyish years ago. 0-0 and freezing cold in April.

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ARobertNotABob@reddit

"Did you see that display last week? Disgraceful."

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Wooden-Bookkeeper473@reddit

England v Bulgaria Wembley 1999. A very drab nil nil. Only one shot on goal and that accidentally bounced of Andy Hinchcliff's head.

I even stayed afterwards to see the team and David Beckham was incredibly rude as was G Neville. Histo Strockov was the Bulgarian manager and he was great though, came out the gates and shock everyone's hands. A true legend.

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Small-Test7452@reddit

Hristo Stoichkov was not the manager and it was in 1998. Hinchcliffe wasn't even playing you liar!!!!

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Wooden-Bookkeeper473@reddit

It's was the qualifying for Euro 2000 so just presumed the year. But it was October 1998 after a quick Google. And he was the manager. Feel free to apologise.

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DeaconBlueDignity@reddit

Liverpool 0-0 Leeds, New Year’s Day this year. May as well have got 60,000 people to sit there in the cold and listen to the shipping forecast for how exciting it was

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yajtraus@reddit

Arguably any Liverpool game this season where there wasn’t a last minute goal

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iNobble@reddit

That god awful Champions League final between Liverpool and Spurs

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matthewgoodwin1@reddit

1st minute….good
90th+ minutes….good

The whole 88 minutes in between was some of the most boring and tiring football I’ve ever seen

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yajtraus@reddit

Any time watching Divock Origi is great, I don’t what you two are talking about

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595659565956@reddit

Only game worse was the Europa league final between Spurs and ManU

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Arsewhistle@reddit

That final was worse I reckon.

I'm still convinced that the winning goal should have been given as an own goal, and that Spurs won without having a single shot on target

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595659565956@reddit

Don’t care. One of the best days of my life

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Rodge6@reddit

Like today being one of the worst days of your life

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Arsewhistle@reddit

You're the person who suggested that final as a terrible game, which it was. Both Spurs and United were abysmal

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595659565956@reddit

the game was absolute tripe. Still class though

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jlo1989@reddit

Yeah that was grim. Felt like nobody told Spurs it wasn't a 2 leg game.

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Daewoo40@reddit

Was coming for this one.

The build up to that match had it set to be similar to the Bayern vs PSG match early in the month.

What we got was a terrible poster for the EPL. Would sooner see Liverpool get beaten by Madrid again than that.

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DeaconBlueDignity@reddit

My favourite game I’ve ever been to in my life

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justmycup0ftea@reddit

There was a Leeds v Burnley 0-0 last season in the Championship. It was so boring, the Leeds United highlight reel was just the whistle blowing for kick off, and the whistle blowing for full time

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stevemillions@reddit

Chelsea getting hammered by Nottingham Forest a few weeks back. A full strength Chelsea, at home, get smashed by a team resting 8 players for an upcoming European semi-final. A semi-final where they in turn then got smashed playing their full strength team. I’ve watched Chelsea a lot over the last few decades. That’s the worst I’ve ever seen them play. And this season, that is saying something.

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Passchenhell17@reddit

Worst I've seen us play was against City under Conte in his second season. We only lost 1-0, but the players were completely checked out and even the City players knew it.

There was one moment that really sticks out to me, where David Silva was on the ball just standing there with Fabregas a few feet in front of him not moving, and they just stayed like it for what felt like an eternity. Truly awful viewing experience. This was the year before they smashed us 6-0, and I still think this game was worse.

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achnisch@reddit

Remember that one too, never seen anything like it before

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MerrieEnglandCartoon@reddit

An ice hockey match. What utter drivel. And you can't even se the puck most of the time..

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ignatiusjreillyXM@reddit

Swindon Town v Cheltenham Town on the Saturday after Christmas.

90+ minutes in which precisely nothing at all happened.

I imagine that all the players and possibly both managers too were hungover.

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SeoulGalmegi@reddit

As a season ticket holder at Cambridge we were playing some even lower league side in one of the tin pot cup competitions and the game was so bad during extra time we were cheering any attack coming towards our stand - home or away - just to get the game over.

I seem to remember the game did, of course, end up with penalties. I think we won, but no doubt went out in the next round.

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Horse_and_Fart@reddit

I made sure I didn’t miss a game under Calderwood in his last season. He was so shot it was entertaining. Good to see him getting dogs abuse before the game kicked off.

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Extension_Pickle_581@reddit

The England cricket team in Australia had its own section in this category with a few honourable exceptions.

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ServerLost@reddit

90% of Eddie Jones' England tenure. Long kick, slow chase, get scored on, rinse and repeat.

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JubJubBouvier@reddit

Just the final 2 years, in fairness. They were horrendous. The first 5 years were outstanding though. 3 Six Nations in 5 tournaments. RWC final. One of the best performances I've seen against New Zealand in the semi-final. Equaled the record for most wins in a row that was set by a NZ team, who are in the discussion for best sports team ever. Eddie might be a bit of a prick but he did brilliant things with that team when he first came in!

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EugeneHartke@reddit

Wales Vs Hungary February 5th 2005 at the Millennium stadium.

I was a friendly and neither team wanted to be there. They just passed the ball about amongst themselves. Half the crowd left in the first 10 minutes.

I paid £10 for my ticket and still felt ripped off.

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Elliott_Ness1970@reddit

Basically any England football game from the last 10 years.

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BCircle907@reddit

Late 90s, in the period between Xmas and NYE. Barnet 0 - 0 Macclesfield. Sitting in stone steps at Underhill, frozen to the bone. Absolutely miserable

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Shakermaker555@reddit

Man Utd vs Liverpool - Red Monday - 2016

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Hamking7@reddit

First ever football match, taken by my uncle around 1984. East Fife v Kilmarnock. We were supporting East Fife. Kilmarnock won. I think we had bovril. It wasn't nice.

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TriturusGCN@reddit

Euro qualifier at Old Trafford in 2006 - England 0 Macedonia 0. Pretty fucking rank.

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NewActuator2170@reddit

I'm a Southend fan and we set a new record a few seasons ago playing Borehamwood when the ball was only in play for around 25 minutes in total for the entire game.

And we lost one nil, honking game

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2Harold2Furious@reddit

The first Old Firm of this season was absolutely terrible.

Brendan Rodgers' Stoppable Force vs Russell Martin's Moveable Object.

2 shots on target, 9 shots in total. Zero goals.

Generally, even the bad Old Firm's are exciting because they get scrappy and are high tempo. This game had absolutely nothing.

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jimmyboogaloo78@reddit

Fa cup final about fifteen or so years ago. Chelsea versus Manchester United. Drogba scored the only goal at around seventy minutes, I questioned my life after watching that game..

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MattyJMP@reddit

Wales v Italy in the Six Nations in March 2024. I went as part of the a stag do and it was the most uneventful spectacle I have ever seen.

I'm a football fan but will watch pretty much any sport - I'll occasionally stick snooker or cycling on and get into it. I've also been the the Millennium stadium before for a football game and said it is a better stadium than Wembley.

How rugby fans managed to make the entire place feel like a library is beyond me. So weird. Nobody their seemed to actually be watching the game...

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dapperdan8@reddit

Unfortunately that’s mainly due to wales just not being as competitive in recent years. I went there for the Champions Cup final (rugby equivalent of Champions League), Northampton vs Bordeaux, and the place was absolutely rocking. One of the best atmospheres at any sports event I’ve been to.

Even go back a few years ago to say 2019 when wales were competitive with England, and the atmosphere would’ve been incredible.

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MattyJMP@reddit

I mean, the match was dreadful. But even besides that, none of the fans seemed to care about what was happening...

I've been to some pretty dire football games (Hereford FC season ticket holder for my sins). But even when we're playing poorly people get excited about goal opportunities, cheer and shout, get worked up when things go against us. People watch the game and react to it.

I think Wales came back to 21-28 near the end after being 20 something down at HT, so it wasn't a whitewash. But no one seemed to react when a try was scored. People also seemed to just amble around through the entire game - arriving 10 minutes late, getting up multiple times during play, etc. It was like sitting on a park bench and there just so happened to be a game of rugby going on 'over there'.

The closest other experience I had was I once went in the hospitality section at a football game and it was clear that literally no one there cared remotely. Everyone was just there for the food, drink and corporate stuff; the fact a game was happening at the same time was entirely coincidental.

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carl84@reddit

Prawn sandwich brigade

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BlokeyBlokeBloke@reddit

Cambridge v Oxford rugby match. Absolute shambles of a game.

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stevedore82@reddit

Niche answer but, Saints v Oldham late 80’s or early 90’s. Absolutely turgid game. Neither team could string a pass together, pitch was shite. At the Dell. Saints won I think, I was only a nipper.

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Krakshotz@reddit

Yesterday’s Championship Playoff Final between Middlesbrough and Hull City.

Boro’s attacking strategy is absolutely awful

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WiggyDiggyPooPoo@reddit

Ive yet to watch back the highlights but I had the BBC sport website open at 90mins, then Hull scored but then I was watching the stoppage time just keep going up. According to the website it started at 2 mins but finished at 16 mins!

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andyjellyfish@reddit

Yesterdays WSL match between Charlton and Leicester. Football season winding down, welcome to hell.

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DarkStanley@reddit

I can’t think of a specific game but Allardyce when he was managing Newcastle, god could that man kill a game of football.

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Dazzling-Lab2788@reddit

We loved him down the road of course. Big Fat Sam’s Red’n’White Army.

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Thingisby@reddit

Went to a match 20ish years ago. Can't remember if Souness or Allardyce. Might even have been Roeder. But it was so boring that up at the top of the Leazes people were making paper planes and seeing how far they could reach.

In my memory one managed to get all the way to Shay Given and got the biggest cheer of the day.

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BeneficialDonut3126@reddit

Manchester United vs Chelsea in the Champions League final - all English finals are always boring in Europe ( Man City vs Chelsea comes to mind too) but this one was genuinely the most boring UCL final I have ever seen.

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Aggravating_Pen5110@reddit

Nah have to disagree with you there. The 08 CL final was a good watch.

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Recognition_Content@reddit

United vs Chelsea, first FA Cup final at the New Wembley. Drab.

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rjcanty@reddit

This was going to be my answer. Think it was 2008?

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Recognition_Content@reddit

2007- Portsmouth won in 2008!

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Passchenhell17@reddit

Personally I had a great day out

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Ok-Variation-4113@reddit

Football

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Aggravating-Web9863@reddit

Arsenal games wasting time and begging it for corners rather watch Sunday league

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MJ-Franklin@reddit

The 8 - 2 Arsenal/Man U game will live forever in my mind. I got so much shit for weeks after that!

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Common-Spend5000@reddit

I've been to a lot of very depressing Newcastle Falcons / Red Bulls games over recent years, presuming this thread is about sport in general in the UK and not just soccer

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InteractionOk4616@reddit

Algeria v England in 2010 World Cup

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GrumpyOik@reddit

Yes! I was at that game and the only thing that made it worse was Rooney's reaction to the boos.

(Well, that and the Vuvuzelas - but they ruined pretty much all the games)

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InducedChip89@reddit

God this one gave me nightmares

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richie-m_@reddit

Spurs.

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jlo1989@reddit

Bradford Bulls vs Whitehaven in the Rugby League Championship, September 2021.

I used to watch rugby league every week during the 2000s and it was my favourite sport for a while. I'd gone to a 3rd tier (League 1) Bulls game around 2017 and had a great time.

But this game was a stark warning about how much damage Covid had done to the lower levels of rugby league. 2nd division rugby looked like a pub league. Fitness and skill levels were horrific.

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Accomplished_Unit863@reddit

Oldham 0 Grimsby 3 29th October 1996

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omnishambles1995@reddit

I watched Forest v Liverpool hungover on a train back from my stag do in February this year and my mate and I agreed it was probably the most boring game we could ever remember subjecting ourselves to. The 96th minute MacAllister winner obviously livened it up right at the end but the preceeding 95 minutes were woeful.

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guhj12345@reddit

My beloved West ham. Every week.

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Brave_Pain1994@reddit

As a Spurs fan, I feel your pain. Rest assured we will make it easy for you as we can to stay up today.

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guhj12345@reddit

At least this season both of our awful football has led to some empathy/respect between the fans. Both sets of us suffering week in week out haha

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glibandshamelessliar@reddit

Big day today. Where are your confidence levels of getting the combination of results needed to stay up? As on outsider looking in I very much hope you do.

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guhj12345@reddit

I think we'll battle, but Leeds are in good form. I think it would be the most spurs/West ham thing ever we drew and they lost. Leaving us relegated. 😂

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karma3001@reddit

Did you say West Ham?

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EVEILpilot@reddit

Battle or Bramall Lane. As an 11yr old Albion fan, leaving the stadium that day and getting back to our car amongst the aftermath was... memorable

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Haytham_Ken@reddit

UCL final between Liverpool and Tottenham. It was a snooze fest.

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JimmyBallocks@reddit

My dad never took me to a single football game so the first time I ever went to one was aged about 18-19 with a mate.

We went to see Reading play at the ramshackle old Elm Park ground, it might have been against Chester or Charlton. Or maybe Blackpool. Or Bournemouth. I can clearly no longer remember.

What I do remember was that it was freezing cold, wet, windy, utterly miserable, and finished 0-0 with barely a single shot on goal.

I considered for the first time that perhaps my dad had in fact been doing me a favour. It was some time before I went to another game.

Oh hang on I have another, maybe the time a friend from South America said he wanted to watch a cricket match so we drove from Brighton to Trent Bridge to watch England v West Indies and it got rained off about five minutes after it started.

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hairychris88@reddit

I've seen my club draw 0-0 at home to Newport on three separate occasions. All three games were within about four years of each other.

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buy_me_a_pint@reddit

Nearly all the Sheffield Wednesday home games this season, the only highlight winning in the last match and that small pitch invasion against Coventry

on television England grinding out a 0-0

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stubbywoods@reddit

I watched the Oxford Vs QPR game in January which was possibly the worst 90 minutes of football I've seen.

Torrential rain so the pitch was shit and zero quality. It wasn't even a good 0-0 I don't think there was a single good chance

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Ok-Muffin-3864@reddit

Newcastle vs Derby, some time around Christmas in 2009, 10, something like that? Can tell it was that amazing if I can’t remember the details. Most boring 90 minutes I’ve ever had to endure, only made slightly tolerable by chanting against Robbie Savage. Newcastle had a last minute corner so of course they played it short rather than get it into the box… ref blew his whistle before they could even cross it in 😂

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Disastrous_Big_329@reddit

Barnsley 0-3 Port Vale on October 14, 1989. Surely I'm not alone in thinking that?

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You_moron04@reddit

Wales Vs Iran in 2022 was pretty dross

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NoWest7670@reddit

It was a women's football match on TV last year.

I can't remember if it was international or one of the big 6 Premier League teams. Specifically the passing accuracy was quite low compared to what I expected from the male counterpart teams and speed of the ball when passed was very slow - it didn't have that thump when the ball was kicked and the ball seemed to take a while to get to the targets and often missed.

These things made the pitch feel very large and gave me an appreciation of the men's game where they blast the ball across the pitch extremely accurately.

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Secure-Property4926@reddit

Watching my own team live and in person: Chelsea vs Fulham this year. Perfectly good goal that might have given us the victory chalked off and PGMOL later apologies. A few years ago West Ham vs Fulham. Good awful stadium. Nightmare to to get into and get away from. Terrible view and atmosphere. 2 goals given to West Ham despite the scorer handling the ball

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hoverside@reddit

The only match I've ever walked out of early was Fulham vs Sheffield United in the League Cup. I think it must be the single worst starting 11 the Blades have ever put out and still took an hour before Fulham started scoring against them. The only interesting thing I missed was Sheffield United getting two red cards in the final minutes.

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HutzMcClure@reddit

Gorleston vs Wroxham, two days after Christmas. Freezing cold, stadium with a running track so you feel miles away from the game, and not even a sniff of any action whatsoever for the entire game. May have singlehandedly killed a Christmas local football tradition in my household.

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Vanblue1@reddit

I’ve been to loads of 0-0 football games over the years, they also tend to be a wet or cold day too.

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KingPing43@reddit

I was on stag do in Glasgow in February a few years and the best man had arranged for us to go a Scottish FA cup match between Celtic and some 4th division side.

We were very hungover and it was cold as balls. Celtic played their D team, the atmosphere was dead and the football even worse. Also none of us realised you can’t buy any alcohol at all in football stadiums in Scotland. We ended up leaving shortly after HT

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peahair@reddit

The only game I ever went to with my dad was Port Vale vs Crewe Alexandra in about 1983, it ended up 0-0 at full time and both sides were lucky to get nil. It cured me of any residual thoughts of watching lower league football, not that top tier footy escapes the bore draws but yeah..

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EyeAware3519@reddit

I watch 2 or 3 football matches a week. The vast majority of them are completely forgettable, that's what makes the great games stand out.

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inside12volts@reddit

The Championship play off yesterday is the most recent worse match.

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Opening-Fortune4@reddit

Arsenal vs Burnley at Emirates. 0-0, soooo boring

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matthewgoodwin1@reddit

Went to the most boring 0-0 draw in a pre season game. Gillingham v Crewe Alexandra. TBH, that was on me. Should have known what to expect

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CrustyHumdinger@reddit

Most Bristol City games

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MarkCrystal@reddit

United vs Spurs in the Europa league final has got to be up there, that game was woeful!

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uhhsociety@reddit

Was in attendance, sitting by myself, for this

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Present-Swimming-476@reddit

Any england mens world cup football matches - utter shite

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vasior@reddit

A 0-0 draw at Wolves a few years ago vs I think Villa.

Big drunk man stood in front of me most of the match, it was drizzling and what I can remember, around 0 shots were on target.

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