Personal for me.
Exeter City 1 Cambridge United 0 2008 Play-off
https://youtu.be/sdJwQnGtHp4
Controversial, but for context you have to know how much I utterly despised and hated the time in the Conference, lost the year before, and started the year poorly, thought we would never get out of the ****ing nightmarish hell.
In the end it felt like the end of a narrative too, we were so close to going out of business when we were relegated, that getting through to this point was salvation.
Exeter City 3 Leicester City 1 1981 FA cup fourth round replay
https://youtu.be/9dQ2zoNhWjQ
Never a penalty looking back at it, but who gives a ****. On that tape you can hear clearly someone say "that's the winner" before the pen goes in, he was stood just behind me, and I remember being in shock for a fraction of a second that someone was tempting fate so. We went onto beat Newcastle, but I wasn't there as my dad wouldn't allow me to go, because he said the fans were animals in the first leg. Lost to Spurs in the quarters, not bad performance considering it was the Ossie-Ricky-Hoddle team, two defenders scored on set-pieces after we helde them for a long time. This run was huge, back when the Cup was probably the biggest comp in the country, we were on TV a lot. remember they used to show division 3 and 4 games on match of the day, think we had a Millwall 5-4 shown, in front of a packed crowd, as we were giving out vouchers for the Newcastle game I think.
Plymouth Argyle 0 Exeter City 3 1993
https://youtu.be/9N8mC1gpX8g
Yes I had to have a parochial one in here, basically a match between world cup winner Alan Ball, and World Cup loser Peter Shilton, who amusingly said when we beat them in the first match 2-0 he didn't have a save to make, well he could have saved the two that went in, and the three, yes count them three disallowed goals we had chalked off. It's one of those matches that if everyone that said they were there was there, it would have been 20 k in the away end, but I was there, watching the most hideous away kit ever produce a macnificent result. Think Plymouth eyes may have been scorched by the pure awfulness of that strip.
If it had been up to me, I wouldn't have been there, on the drive down to the road-to-hell (no tickets sold themadays), it started bucketing down, real biblical stuff, so being a genuine fair-weather fan me and the other passenger wanted it turned around, but the driver did not acquiesce thankfully. Interesting with all the die-hard Exeter fans that said they were there one was not really a football fan, and the other (the driver) a Man U fan, but hey we all had fun on the day.
Man U 0 Exeter City 0 2005
Said Man U fan was at this match too, but not at our end. Yeah we all know it was a weakened United side and United were going through a crap run, but who gives a ****. Started out just happy to be there, was quite happy that the ref wasn't going to call every time flack challenged someone a foul, which did happen with loads of refs, clumsy apeth that he was, but allowed us to retain some possesion. Was quite cheery at half-time that we had held them, my bro said something about how we could hold them, i laughed openly in his face. I was still relaxed up to about 60 minutes, then I started thinking, well maybe? but it was only about 70 minutes that i grudgingly started to believe and the last 15 minutes went as slow as double maths lessons in my youth.
Of course Dean Moxey's goal should be remembered to get us there was a blinder, and we beat 2 League teams to face United. Second leg and anti-climax except for this of course
https://youtu.be/IUc-8Jg5oWo
Torquay United 1 Exeter City 4 Play-off semi final 2008
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYCvggFExI8
Obviously I like to not give the chip-nickers the time of day, let alone call them rivals, but this was fun. Paul Buckle was their manager, he'd previously been a **** midfielder and assistant manager for us, the guy that scored first in the match Tim Sill practically admitted to play-acting to get our centre-half sent off in the Plainmoor match where he scored the winner after, was a bit of a panto villain in Exeter for awhile. We utterly battered them in the first leg, but some howling defensive mistakes meant somehow we were 2-1 down coming into this match, we then went 1-0 behind, as we had at Oxford in the same situation in the play-off semi the year before (a much better performance against a better team, but it was for nought, so doesn't get in here), we then tore them a new one, four goals, pulsating football, and gulls leaving like they had just had the bins thrown out at Macdonalds, Bliss.
Thank you for not bothering to read this self-indulgent piece of badly written nonsense.