Gaudino said:I never leave early since Wembley, NOT Gillingham '99, but The Full Members Cup Final '86 (?) versus Chelsea! We left at 5-1 down, legged it to tube/train, and had no idea of the comeback. It was the days before mobiles, and as we got off in Piccadilly, still didn't know that we pulled it back to 5-4, and had it gone on just a little longer, we would have most likely equalised too. So, as we walk through the station, the first Blues back, a copper says 'Hard luck lads, close finish uh?' We muttered something along the lines of him being a p*ss-taking rag, until he told us the score........
Since then NEVER left a game til the final whistle. Paid off on returning in '99.
blue62 said:Gaudino said:I never leave early since Wembley, NOT Gillingham '99, but The Full Members Cup Final '86 (?) versus Chelsea! We left at 5-1 down, legged it to tube/train, and had no idea of the comeback. It was the days before mobiles, and as we got off in Piccadilly, still didn't know that we pulled it back to 5-4, and had it gone on just a little longer, we would have most likely equalised too. So, as we walk through the station, the first Blues back, a copper says 'Hard luck lads, close finish uh?' We muttered something along the lines of him being a p*ss-taking rag, until he told us the score........
Since then NEVER left a game til the final whistle. Paid off on returning in '99.
I also left at 5-1 Chelsea, found out at a service station on the way home. Didn't the great Mark Lillis get a hat-trick? How can you go to a game a miss a hat-trick of goals? Lesson learned that day.
blue62 said:Gaudino said:I never leave early since Wembley, NOT Gillingham '99, but The Full Members Cup Final '86 (?) versus Chelsea! We left at 5-1 down, legged it to tube/train, and had no idea of the comeback. It was the days before mobiles, and as we got off in Piccadilly, still didn't know that we pulled it back to 5-4, and had it gone on just a little longer, we would have most likely equalised too. So, as we walk through the station, the first Blues back, a copper says 'Hard luck lads, close finish uh?' We muttered something along the lines of him being a p*ss-taking rag, until he told us the score........
Since then NEVER left a game til the final whistle. Paid off on returning in '99.
I also left at 5-1 Chelsea, found out at a service station on the way home. Didn't the great Mark Lillis get a hat-trick? How can you go to a game a miss a hat-trick of goals? Lesson learned that day.