Didsbury Dave
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Took her once to the match, Bolton Away, we won 1-0 and Barton scored. We sat in their end, at the front, it pissed it down and there was fighting around us after we scored.
She has no interest and will never go again, although it always touches me a bit that she keeps an eye on the score when I go and always knows it.
The only game she ever watched on telly was the QPR game, and it's a family legend that when Aguero scored she screamed "Yesss!" and was running around. Her Mum who was there always says "I would never have believed it if I hadnt seen it".
I know how you did it, Scareye. Good work mate, but I've got no chance. She hates football.Scareye said:Didsbury Dave said:Chris in London said:I made a tactical decision over Christmas. We had family/friends functions on boxing day and at the weekend, which is when we had the dippers and palace at home. Normally this involves a frank exchange of views about whether my presence is necessary but this year I traded those two games in in for some brownie points. there is just an outside chance we will be in two cup finals in May. I may need those brownie points :)
Haha - Total sympathy about the frank exchange of views as to whether your presence is neccessary. I've got three nippers, am a mad keen angler (including long-stay carp fishing) and have a busy social life, so I have to do some juggling, but my wife's really good.
After a few fallouts when the kids were babies, we have a deal. I'm honest about which games are "big" if there's a clash. At Christmas I traded off Liverpool for Palace and was happy with that. Cup finals, semis, home derbies etc I wouldn't miss and I'm very careful with booking holidays, trips etc these days. I assumed the 24th May was after the season when I booked it. When I realised I made a schoolboy error and said "Oh shit, it's the day of the champions league final" and started trying to negotiate. She was adamant "You can't let me fly with four kids (a friend is coming and they are 5-7). Promise me" and all this.
I took the strategic decision to agree rather than have a row over a 10% chance. IF by some miracle we do get there I have strategies up my sleeve, the main one being 'sadness and upset" rather than 'anger and indignation'. She probably won't be able to resist that. I even have a trump card as a last bastion of hope: her mum could go as it's a villa holiday, and I fly out straight from Lisbon on the Sunday.
Man City. Ruining families since 2008.
This is why I brainwashed my wife all those years ago mate!
Took her once to the match, Bolton Away, we won 1-0 and Barton scored. We sat in their end, at the front, it pissed it down and there was fighting around us after we scored.
She has no interest and will never go again, although it always touches me a bit that she keeps an eye on the score when I go and always knows it.
The only game she ever watched on telly was the QPR game, and it's a family legend that when Aguero scored she screamed "Yesss!" and was running around. Her Mum who was there always says "I would never have believed it if I hadnt seen it".