I genuinely don’t think I watched that goal back until last year
Long story (not actually that) short on this one.
My Dad, god rest him, was in the final stages of prostate cancer at the time. He was going to bed around 6/7pm at the time so he said he’d record it and watch it in the morning. We agreed I wouldn’t tell him anything about the game, win or lose.
Anyway, we score, I go mental. Jump around the room (I lived in the Middle East at the time) windmilling my cock around at my wife. I was soooo happy and then all of a sudden it’s disallowed and we lose.
I knew full well my Dad would have been so happy with the goal and then heart broken when it was VAR’d and I couldn’t let him go through that - I expected it may even end him. I even posted a thread on here right after the game asking for advice on it.
Eventually, a couple of hours after the game I sent him the longest text apologising for ruining the game and result but explaining that we’d been robbed by a handball and then marginal call and that I didn’t want him to go through the pain. With that I went to bed for a fitful sleep and woke to a message from him saying he’d not been able to get to sleep so he’d watched it live and that he’d experienced the whole thing as it happened but thanked me for the message and yes he was heart broken.
The whole thing was appalling. He passed away the next Feb. When the final whistle went in Istanbul, my first thoughts were not how happy I was, but about that goal robbing him of seeing our first European Cup victory.
Happy days eh.
