Highs & Lows of 2014

iDave

As it says on the tin.

Highs
The World Cup in general
Stephanie Roche
Anything Ronaldo did
O'Shea last minute equaliser against Germany
Athletico winning breaking the duopoly in Spain
Gerard slip
LVG slowly repairing the damage
Dramatic end to LOI season


Lows
Moyes sh1tting on a 20 year legacy
Scotland 1 Ireland 0
Athletico not holding out for Champs League win. And Simeone making an eejit of himself
Anything FIFA did
Poor season for Drogheda Utd
Roy Keane constantly in the news
Celtic no longer able to compete in Europe

kfallon

Purely from a financial point of view

High - Germany winning the WC

Low - Ramos equaliser in 3rd minute of stoppage time in CL final

gimmick

Highs
CCFCs heroic run to the last game of the LOI Season (for low see that games result)
Shelbourne remaining in the pit of LOI Division 1
Liverpools heroic run playing some of the best football the EPL has ever seen
The World Cup

Lows
Real winning the CL
Brazils demolition by Germany. It made me sad to see such a humiliation
Moyes sacking
CCFC not winning the league.

Highs

Liverpool last season
Moyes


Lows

Liverpool last season
Moyes

dreamers75

Highs
FAI Cup Winners
Away to Warsaw

Lows
Home to Warsaw

monkey9

Highs: Pat's winning the cup. Liverpool's title challenge.

Lows: Don't care about them.

RedemptionZ

High

Colombia in the World Cup
Liverpool shaking up the top 4

Low

Barcelona
Beginning of Real Galacticos dominance and Costa moving to Chelsea.
Suarez getting banned again.
Gerrard's slip, feel for the guy he deserved a PL medal.

n32

Highs:
the overall quality and entertainment of the world cup
the dramatic end to the premiership
a classic FA cup final
LOI coming down to a winner takes all game
seeing Ronaldo and Messi at their absolute best
john o shea equalising in germany
the end to the La Liga season

Lows:
the moyes era!
bayern continuing to pillage their rivals to create a one team league
atletico losing costa and courtois after a great season
FIFA & Blatter
scotland away

Hammer Archer

Highs
Fourth at Christmas (and deservedly so)
Beating Man City and Liverpool
Winning all our games in February to go clear of the relegation zone.
People finally talking about the LOI with the exciting finish.

Lows
6-0 against City
5-0 against Notts Forest
"Fat Sam Out" banner at WBA.
UCD getting relegated.

Dirty Dingus McGee

My low of the year is Joachim.

Skylinehead

Highs
FA Cup win, much needed and in true Arsenal style.
Alexis Sanchez.
A great World Cup
David Luiz holding up Neymars shirt like he died, then proceeding to give the worst defensive performance I've ever seen.
Brazil being mauled by the Germans in general

Lows
Liverpool and Chelsea defeats last season.
Injuries, always injuries.
First ten minutes of the FA Cup final :pac:

HalloweenJack

Highs
Atleti winning the title
Atleti's CL run

Lows
The CL final
Spain at the World Cup
Chelsea wasting a chance to win the league

dirtyden

Highs

World cup group stages
Costa Rica topping the their world cup group
USA at the world cup

Lows

Knockout stages of world cup (with a couple of notable exceptions)
Almost everything FIFA did during the year (in particular the response to corruption allegations)
UEFA's continued under response to racism

Intifada

Highs
Celtic getting to the L16 of the CL
Legia Warsaw making tools of themselves
Galway Utd getting promoted
The hilarious misery the new Rangers club are going through

Lows
Neil Lennon leaving
Celtic failing to qualify for the CL, twice

bad2dabone

Highs

FA Cup
A great world cup
La Decima
Bales goal where he put on the afterburners
A very poor Manchester United
Aaron ramseys 13/14 season
Germany whopping Brazil
German world cup winners
Alexis

Lows

5-1 at anfield, could've been 10
Getting one point from six off that very poor Manchester United
Ozil not living up to his ability
Realising Wenger’s time is up

rmchmufc

Highs
Moyes getting sacked
Finn Harps run to the FAI cup semi final

Lows
Moyes time in charge
Finn Harps getting battered in the cup semi final

brianregan09

Highs
Winning the FA Cup again
The emergence of the South American Teams at the world cup
the group stages of the world cup
Signing Alexis Sanchez
Suarez biting again proving he's an animal
Liverpools collapse against Palace

Lows
Failing again to mount a title challenge
Not making signings in key areas
Ireland vs Scotland
The poor knockout stages of the World Cup
The hammering at Stamford Bridge

MarkSRFC21

Highs:
Germany 7-1 Brazil
World Cup in general
Trevor Crolys sacking
Pat Fenlons appointment
Shamrock Rovers regaining European football
Athletics Madrid winning La Liga
Exciting end to 13/14 premier league.

Lows:
FIFA in general
European big clubs becoming more powerful; Bayern in particular.
Rovers poor league season
Rovers loss to Derry in fai cup semi
Trevor croly lasting so long
Borussia Dortmund losing best players and poor domestic form
Generally poor start to Premier League season.

thebaz

Highs -

The passion of the Argentina fans;

The persistent brilliant footballing brain of Perlo

Even as Evertonian , and despite the bites , the sheer passion and skill of Suarez.

the Lows

Unquestionably, after a long career, that lasted 2 years too long , finally hanging up the boots. Still hurts.

Green Giant

Highs:

• destroying Everton 4-0
• destroying Arsenal 5-1
• destroying the Mancs in their own backyard
• destroying Spurs 4-0
• the emotionally charged win over Man City and Coutinho's late strike
• the sense of anticipation before the World Cup
• James Rodriguez wonder strike v Uruguay
• McGeady's winner in Georgia
• O'Shea's equaliser in Germany

Lows:

• not only losing 2-0 to Chelsea, but the manner of it and Mourinho leapfrogging along the touchline at the full-time as if his own team had just won the league
• the Selhurst Park collapse
• Suarez biting Chiellini
• Irish clubs getting knocked out of Europe early
• Suarez being sold
• buying Balotelli
• 2014/15 in general
• the passing of Eusebio and di Stefano

Giggsy11

Highs:

RVP's hattrick in Champions league
Di Maria, Mata, Falcao, Blind signings.
Moyes getting sacked
Beating Liverpool 3-0.
Netherlands beating 5-1 against Spain
Real Madrid's amazing performance against Bayern.
Atletico Madrid winning the league.
Gerrard's slip vs Chelsea
Crystal Palace come back from 3-0 down.

Lows:
Losses against Liverpool, Everton, Chelsea, City.
Moyes
Neymar getting injured against Colombia.

DenMan

Highs
World Cup in Brazil
Got immense satisfaction seeing Germany thrash Brazil 7-1 (although was disappointed Brazil scored with the best goal of the game)
Pat's winning the FAI Cup after such a long time!
Being in a pub in Dublin and seeing Arsenal win the FA Cup (I was in a pub in Bolton the last time they won a trophy in 2005)
Arsenal signing Alexis Sanchez
Athletico Madrid winning the La Liga
John O'Shea's very late equalizer against the Germans

Lows
Coming out of teaching a grinds class pumped and then seeing Liverpool 4 Arsenal 0 in a pub! (was soul destroying) (5-1 in the end)
Ireland losing to Scotland (was very disappointed with that)

wadacrack

Highs

Smoking some lovely Weed
End of 13/14 PL season
Athletico Madrid winning La Liga
World Cup
League Of Ireland title race
John O Shea against Germany

Lows

Lack of Weed
Man United
Athlone Town relegation
World Cup final
Pl season 14/15 so far tbh

SherlockWatson

wadacrack wrote: »

Highs

Smoking some lovely Weed


Lows

Lack of Weed

Paully D

Main high for me would be the 'Great Escape' from Sunderland.

This was the table in early April, after Sunderland went to Spurs and were battered 5-1 live on Monday Night Football. That night, even those who had kept the faith all along (including the manager) started to accept that we were doomed:



After Spurs (A), their fixtures consisted of: Everton (H), Man City (A), Chelsea (A), Cardiff (H), Man United (A), West Brom (H), Swansea (H).

Defeat against Everton arrived courtesy of yet another own goal and we were 1-0 down to Manchester City after about 30 seconds. Somehow we went 2-1 up before gaining a point, broke Mourinho's home record at Chelsea, battered Cardiff and won relatively comfortably for a 1-0 at Old Trafford. A win against West Brom at home sealed safety. 13 points from a possible 15 and at the time it seemed like every single one would be needed. The table finished as below:



A miraculous escape really.

cj maxx

HIGHS
a few games to go and liverpool had the title
LOWS
After those few games

user2011

High

Watching Dundalk

Low

Watching United vs Fulham at home and trying to beat them into submission with crosses f@#king nightmare stuff.

Gavlor

Highs:

Finally seeing Everton win at old Trafford
Watching ireland score 11 goals in 2 games
Stevie g's battle with gravity

Lows:

The hours following Liverpool's win v man city
The amount of bandwagon football fans in this country
John Delaney
Getting an absolute roasting in my first game back for a over a year. Couldn't kick the ball out of my way

galwaylad14

RedemptionZ wrote: »

High

Colombia in the World Cup
Liverpool shaking up the top 4

Low

Barcelona
Beginning of Real Galacticos dominance and Costa moving to Chelsea.
Suarez getting banned again.
Gerrard's slip, feel for the guy he deserved a PL medal.

If Gerrard ever deserved a PL medal he'd have one in his arse pocket. Truth is he was never part of a team good enough to win one => he doesn't "deserve" one

Iused2likebusts

Highs
Liverpool beating city 3 2
Suarez
Burnley getting promoted
Being on the copacabana for the opening game of the world cup
Lows
What happened after the city game
Brazil getting hammered by Germany

googled eyes

Highs
Liverpools form at second half of last season
A great World Cup
Suarez for Liverpool
John O Shea's goal v Germany

Lows
Liverpools form this season
Suarez's antics at the World Cup.

Talib Fiasco

Highs
Winning the league again was nice
Every time I got to see Messi and Aguero play ball
Aguero's hattrick vs. Bayern
Atletico Madrid
Suarez last season
In fact seeing Liverpool last season, some of the stuff they played was incredible
Seeing Cork City back in there in LOI
The World Cup - some great games and goals scored
Seeing United absolutely crumble...4-0 vs MK Dons was a great laugh

Lows
Seeing how far Liverpool have fallen...it's another 2 horse race this year
The manner in which Brazil lost to Germany, it was nasty
The constant bickering between fans which is only getting worse. Having a light-hearted pop at rival fans is grand but some stuff is disgraceful
The fact Pepe and Sergio Ramos are still playing ball at a top level, wish they'd both f*ck off out of the sport, especially Pepe
Gerrard's slip - heart breaking, nobody deserves a winning medal more than him
Constant injuries that are ruining teams true potential, not just City's

upandcumming

High
My beloved LTFC getting promoted.

CSF

High
Probably my favourite Shelbourne team in memory
Villa staying up
Germany winning World Cup
Atleti winning La Liga

Low
Failing to gain promotion at the last minute
Villa in general
Atleti losing CL Final
The World Cup in general after the group stages (Germany v Brazil exception)

Oranage2

Highs -
Moyes
Gerrard slipping
FA cup


Lows -
Wenger not buying big in January when we could have had a real go at the Prem
Scotland

Dirty Dingus McGee

galwaylad14 wrote: »

If Gerrard ever deserved a PL medal he'd have one in his arse pocket. Truth is he was never part of a team good enough to win one => he doesn't "deserve" one

I think when people say a player in a team sport deserves a medal they tend to mean he deserved to be part of a team good enough to win something.

Not really Gerrards fault Liverpool haven't won the league.Much worse players than him have won a lot more.

RedemptionZ

galwaylad14 wrote: »

If Gerrard ever deserved a PL medal he'd have one in his arse pocket. Truth is he was never part of a team good enough to win one => he doesn't "deserve" one

Thanks for that. I think he does deserve one.