Biggest 21st-century Disappointment?

[Jebus_lives]

We drew that one...

The 2-3 after leading 2-0 was the year before at St James Park.

Oh yes. Absolutely right. Just too many bad memories all rolling into one.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Luis Boa Morte

 

[Cork Evertonian]

The way we failed to build on that 72 points season, under Martinez was very disappointing.Although to be fair we were unlucky against Man United, in that 2016 fa cup semi final.You can't legislate for things, like your best striker going missing on the day, and missing chance after chance.There was a beatable Crystal Palace side in the final as well.Blowing a two goal aggregate lead against Man City in that years league cup semi final, was all down to Martinez's incompetence and ineptitude though.

In terms of that first season and what was promised, our hopes and expectations etc, the Roberto Martinez era turned out to be one massive disappointment.Then there was Ronald Koeman.He had a decent first season, before both himself and Steve Walsh, signed a load of crap during that infamous summer of 2017.We are still paying the price for that.Blowing the 2012 fa cup semi final against our neighbours, when on form we were the better side, was another massive dissapointment.

 

[carlos21]

We've had a lot of them, but which one hit you personally the hardest, still to this day?

Wayne leaving for me: here we finally have our own homegrown genuinely world-class outfielder, looking for all the world like he's gonna be one of the all-time greats...those collective gasps of excitement everytime he got hold of the ball were incredible. Then he leaves us at merely 18 to chase glory with a bigger club.

He went on to become England's & Man U's all-time top scorer yet it still feels like he didn't properly fulfill that early insane potential.

Him coming back after he's given his best 12 years to Utd just felt so small-time...rubbing salt in the original wound. Maybe i'm just bitter.

Have you got a greater disappointment than that burning a hole in your blue heart?

Good evening mate hope you are doing well today hopefully get my internet connection sorted tomorrow again it keep coming in and out why is that happening.

 

[KaiserEFC]

The feeing we all felt when we knew we were inevitably going to sign Tom Cleverley and did.

The feeing we all felt when we knew we were inevitably going to appoint Marco Silva and did.

The feeing we all felt when we were suddenly in for BFS.

The feeing we all felt when we started Alcaraz over Stones in the Kiev game.

I could go on.

That horrible sinking feeing that we’ve had to endure all too many times and probably more than the good feeling of actually achieving something is my big disappointment.

 

[degsy]

Finally having a world class player, then he left.
Thinking that with the Rooney money. Moyes would use it to kick start a Shankly-esque revolution.
When we finished 4th and didn't invest that money - little did I know back then it was already gone.
72pts
Finally having a world class player, then he left.

Basically - false dawns
Decades and decades of false 'kin dawns.

 

[OneTrueLegend]

For me it's got to be the champions league, if we could have got in there it could have been a sliding doors moment for the club and brought real investment. It could have gone the other way of course and we could have done a Leeds lol

 

[Mitch Ward's Minder]

Fiorentina. If we'd just got past them then PSV, Rangers and Zenit were in the way of a european trophy. Imagine if we'd won that and then played the Super Cup vs United and won that too. We might've attracted players we missed out on and who know's we could've done a Sevilla and won a few on the bounce...It's the nearly theres of cup routes that hurt me the most.

It certainly would've given our club more of a bigger mentality and might've preventing the usual getting turned over on away grounds and falling at semis / final.

 

[Johnny Barton]

Finally having a world class player, then he left.
Thinking that with the Rooney money.
When we finished 4th and didn't invest that money -

We didn't get any money for Rooney.
Kenwrong accepted the deal be spread over 4 years and in succesive transfer windows we got Neville, Howard, Saha, Gibson and about 10 quid.
Oh yes, Moyes was being well controlled by his master, then got his promised reward when his contract was up with Everon.

 

[AsiaAsia82]

The way Game of Thrones ended

 

[Joeharper07]

Fiorentina. If we'd just got past them then PSV, Rangers and Zenit were in the way of a european trophy. Imagine if we'd won that and then played the Super Cup vs United and won that too. We might've attracted players we missed out on and who know's we could've done a Sevilla and won a few on the bounce...It's the nearly theres of cup routes that hurt me the most.

It certainly would've given our club more of a bigger mentality and might've preventing the usual getting turned over on away grounds and falling at semis / final.

There’s a huge amounts of what ifs in that mate .

 

[Cameron Manning]

Lot of heartbreakers there but the CL robbery had the most devastating impact on the club. Still can't stand the sight or mention of that man.

Still don’t think there was any ambition by those who ran the club, going by the poor or hardly any signings in the that close season we qualified.

 

[Cameron Manning]

This. And always will be.

Reason being we were by far the best team in the tournement. Yet we went to Fiorentina with no gameplan and let them fire pot shots from distance, and they scored 2. That away leg performance was criminal given the players we had.

We absolutely battered them at Goodison. Could have been 7 or 8 nil easily. Instead we lost on pens.

Rangers and an Arshavin inspired Zenit played the final.

I honestly think we would have won the whole thing had we won that penalty shoot out. But it was lost in Italy with cowardly tactics.

Other moments have been more painful (Collina the **** and the cup final loss).
But that Europa League was in our own hands and no one should have stopped us that season.

Absolutely correct, Moyes didn’t have any plan at all, for a man who always went for a draw first and foremost in most away games he had no plan whatsoever, big games away from home were Moyes’s nightmares.

 

[daza_1973]

Not sacking Bobby before the cup semi with Utd was annoying, but Colina is up there with Heysel and Clive thomas.

 

[McMagicT]

Building a marvellous ground on the mersey, and in doing so it being the 8th biggest ground in the Prem, and as good as saying we are the 8th best team in the Prem and we are happy with it. I think we should have a count up, see how much we owe, build on the land behind the Stanley Park End & re-build the
whole ground to suit (I reckon 60 to 65 thousand) and ask the 'Rich Boys' if they want to stay or not, if no tell them to buggar off.