Nottingham Forest, in a league cup match, end to end for 90 minutes, cracking atmosphere under the floodlights at the Goldstone. In trying to find the date of the match, I discovered that Stuart Pearce's brother was one of the linesmen, whilst Stuart Pearce was captaining Forest on the pitch. 24th September 1986 by the way.
I was at that game, having stolen the evening away from doing school work (it was my A-Level year). Gerry Armstrong put a brilliant header into the south goal, only for it to be disallowed, inexplicably as I thought. I still can't remember why it was disallowed. We lost 3-0 at the City Ground in the second leg, with the usually hard Stuart Pearce going down in a heap to win a penalty from a challenge by Steve Gatting.
I felt pretty confident/enjoyed the 0-0 first leg of the play offs at Selhurst in 2013.