Games you'll admit you didn't bother going to

[ankeny]

Coventry in the simod cup semi in March '88.

Twas a mates 21st that day so was in a night club in Birmingham. Phoned home from the club around 11.30, (one of those payphones on a wall with a canopy over the top) to be told we'd won and were going to Wembley.

In my excitement, I jumped up and knocked the canopy off the wall, swiftly followed by 3-4 burly Brummie bouncers showing me the quickest way out onto the street.

Nothing before or since has beaten the feeling at a sporting event ,knowing we were going to Wembley,as that one.

[The Goat was fed]

Reading 0-0 QPR. Why go and see something you love slowly wither and die?

[nailseabiscuitman]

FA Cup Semi Final 1927

Shame, you missed a good game, thought we were unlucky.

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

although not strictly a "didn't bother going to" match as I was out of the country, the only game I missed at home in 12 month spell where we only won one home game was the sodding Blackpool game. I guess I had said I wasn't bothered about missing the game when I booked the trip.

The following evening I walked out of a pub at half time when Spurs v Wigan was on, on the grounds that the game was a bit boring, with Spurs 1-0 up. That ended 9-1.

[P!ssed Off]

Brentford away 2002 was my 9th birthday.
I was under the impression that Brentford was hours away, for some reason, so told the family that I didn't want to spend all of my birthday in the car so we didn't go.
Why nobody bothered to correct my false belief that Brentford was hours away I don't know.

[Samrfc01]

Reading 6-0 West Ham
I was having a bad day (s**t xmas) and just wasn't in the mood to go so spent all day in bed. Woke up to find we were 5-0 up. I was absolutely gutted!
Serves me right though I suppose.

[floyd__streete]

Cardiff play-off 2nd leg. I assumed we were going to get humped, so I saved the money and invested it in beer. I did a David Pleat when we scored the third - that is to say I ran across the pub arms waving, I didn't go kerb-crawling in celebration.

[Royalwaster]

I'm embarrassed to admit I did not attend a single game before 1970 as I was not born yet. After that I never missed a game ....

[Zammo]

March 2006 - Leicester City (away)

What are the chances we will get promoted that day......

I've been lucky enough to see the majority of the ones that mattered over the past 30 years. Watching the scenes from Leicester on Gillette Soccer Special in a pub in Twyford does stick in the throat, probably forever.

[Kitsondinho]

The final friendly at Elm Park.....couldn't be arsed with that........The defeat to Norwich was bad enough.

[BraisingsteakRoyal]

How early do you have to have left a game for it to count as a non-attendance?

[Big Foot]

Newcastle away 2013.

[Silver Fox]

21/12/85 - me and my tenage mates are as usual sat on the benches in Broad St smoking and spitting. "Shall we go to the game today lads?" "Nah, it's only Plymouth, nothing will happen"

That's probably the only notable "didn't bother" game but I have missed several moments through not being around, notably the home leg of the Wigan playoff and every game in 1995 from Bolton at home, which was the day I flew out to live in Tenerife safe in the knowledge that nothing would happen as we sat in 6th place, just outside the playoff positions

[Rawlie19]

Reading 6-0 West Ham
I was having a bad day (s**t xmas) and just wasn't in the mood to go so spent all day in bed. Woke up to find we were 5-0 up. I was absolutely gutted!
Serves me right though I suppose.

I was in York with a mate for new years that year and we both nearly didn't bother. It meant getting up at 7 to make it in time after turning in after 2am. "Shall we bother?" my mate asked me "Nah, it'll probably be boring... Oh wait, it IS West Ham, we'd kill ourselves if anything special happened." So it was that bleary eyed we drove down from York to witness the greatest Premier League victory in our history

[melonhead]

promotion at leicester. took the decision thinking wed go up the game afterwards.
slightly gutted while i sat at home listening to radio berks

[floyd__streete]

promotion at leicester. took the decision thinking wed go up the game afterwards.
slightly gutted while i sat at home listening to radio berks

There is something a little unjust about the fact that you - one of the most relentlessly cheerful and positive people about RFC ever - missed out on that gr8 day whilst I was there

[maffff]

All of them

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[maffff]

promotion at leicester. took the decision thinking wed go up the game afterwards.
slightly gutted while i sat at home listening to radio berks

There is something a little unjust about the fact that you - one of the most relentlessly cheerful and positive people about RFC ever - missed out on that gr8 day whilst I was there

You mean you didn't oxf*rd off down the pub at half time?

Makes a change...

[melonhead]

promotion at leicester. took the decision thinking wed go up the game afterwards.
slightly gutted while i sat at home listening to radio berks

There is something a little unjust about the fact that you - one of the most relentlessly cheerful and positive people about RFC ever - missed out on that gr8 day whilst I was there

agreed

but it serves me right for allowing my positivity to waver for that one decision
while fate rewards you for any uncharacteristic positivity involved in your decision.

[Barry the bird boggler]

promotion at leicester. took the decision thinking wed go up the game afterwards.
slightly gutted while i sat at home listening to radio berks

Plastic