Didsbury Dave said:
fbloke said:
I was going to try my level best to get tickets for me and dad for this but now I just cannot get up for it.
Will I regret not trying harder to get there, very,very probably.
Don't miss this fbloke. Really really don't. Sorry to hear what I think you are saying mate
My situation is different, is not deserving of sympathy and I'm also sorry to read what fbloke has said there. However, I've also opted to miss this one.
As soon as we won the semi I had a text and then an email from my mate I've known for about 30 years. When we were in our teens, I started going to the match with him (plus a couple of others) and standing on the Kippax, rather than going in the seats with my dad. The same mate and I in our sixth form and university years used to go to away games together too.
Back then, he and I had two City ambitions. To travel away together to see us in European competition and to watch us together in a major final. We've done the frst, but the closest we got to the second was the play off in 1999 - a truly vital game that took a truly incredible turn of events, but it hardly qualifies as a major final.
My mate lives and works in the Middle East now, and he's going to Wembley. I've decided not to - there are practical reasons I won't go into here that make it very inconvenient, and I have a lot of outgoings at the moment wich mean I could do without the cost. It was a big wrench to say no though, and I'm sure I'll live to regret being sensible about it.
One thing that is a consolation, though, is that with the way our club is set now, I don't expect a 30-year wait until the next final: I'm confident that there'll be more in the relatively near future. I'll make one of those instead, and, for me, that one will represent the achievement of my old ambition instead.