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The Difference A Goal Makes

LenGlover
LenGlover Posts: 31,651
in Other Football and Sports
Millwall and Mansfield missing out on the play-offs in their respective divisions today are two good examples.

Any more?

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  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,288
    edited May 2023
    Bristol Rovers achieved it last season, scoring the last goal that secured them promotion last season over Northampton what with having superior Goal Difference - Been some really tight margins in that regard of late.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,943

  • superclive98
    superclive98 Posts: 4,766
    Millwall missed out by a point not a goal. 
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,943
    Michael Thomas springs to mind too, winning the title on goals scored in the last minute.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    I should have mentioned the 1962/1963 season when I started following Charlton. We travelled to Walsall in our final game needing a win to send them down by goal average (forerunner of goal difference) and avoid relegation ourselves. We won 2-1 and survived.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    superclive98 said:
    Millwall missed out by a point not a goal. 
    They lost today 4-3. Had they drawn I think they would have been in the play-offs.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,618
    Good to see you posting Len
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,593

  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,288
    LenGlover said:
    superclive98 said:
    Millwall missed out by a point not a goal. 
    They lost today 4-3. Had they drawn I think they would have been in the play-offs.
    Nope a draw wasn't good enough with Sunderland winning
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,139
    edited May 2023
    The year we went up in 81 didn't Sheff Utd go down on GD to Walsall...ooops just checked it was 1 point. Amazing Rotherham won the league with what would be now 85 points.
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  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    ForeverAddickted said:
    LenGlover said:
    superclive98 said:
    Millwall missed out by a point not a goal. 
    They lost today 4-3. Had they drawn I think they would have been in the play-offs.
    Nope a draw wasn't good enough with Sunderland winning
    Got that wrong then!!
  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 13,159
    19/20 we were relegated when Barnsley scored a last minute winner against Brentford (having scored a last minute goal against Forest the game before) to survive. Up to that point Barnsley had been in the relegation zone since September and got out in injury time of their final game. Bastards.
    20/21 we missed out on the Play-Offs on goal difference to Oxford. There were plenty of moments you could point to along the way that were of our own making, including Stockley missing a penalty against Peterborough and us conceding a 96th minute equaliser against Crewe but the one that stands out the most is poor old Ronnie Schwarz missing a last minute penalty against Oxford, which probably would have given us enough of a cushion.
    And these happened to us just in the last few years. What a life.
  • superclive98
    superclive98 Posts: 4,766
    LenGlover said:
    ForeverAddickted said:
    LenGlover said:
    superclive98 said:
    Millwall missed out by a point not a goal. 
    They lost today 4-3. Had they drawn I think they would have been in the play-offs.
    Nope a draw wasn't good enough with Sunderland winning
    Got that wrong then!!
    You got that correct though!
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    edited May 2023

    Charlton Athletic 3 Blackburn Rovers 4, 26 April 1958

    One more goal for Charlton or one less for Blackburn would have seen us bounce back to the First Division at the first attempt. As it was we'd be out of the top flight for 28 years. Surely, no single goal was as defining of our history as Blackburn's winner that day.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,024
    Jon Fortune, a lifetime of happiness for those there.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    ElfsborgAddick said:
    Jon Fortune, a lifetime of happiness for those there.
    Happy days. We had no idea how things would turn out as we sang,  'We'll never play you again".
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,838
    Ah yes, what a difference a goal makes. 

    Many a time I've watched a game that would've ended 0-0 if it wasn't for one team or the other scoring and getting a 1-0 win. You just can't legislate for that.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,024
    Stig said:
    ElfsborgAddick said:
    Jon Fortune, a lifetime of happiness for those there.
    Happy days. We had no idea how things would turn out as we sang,  'We'll never play you again".
    That day has allowed me putting up with all the rubbish since.
    Dennis in the last minute was not a bad day/night out either!

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