The biggest game you missed.

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In line with the great threads on how many big games you were at.
Not necessarily the biggest, maybe just the game you rue missing the most and how/why?

Mine was the last Maine Road Derby. I worked on the turnstile at Maine Road for the last two seasons there (was at sixth form doing my A Levels, needed the money and couldn't afford my season ticket - best of both worlds really).
Anyway we had a box for my mates 18th birthday so I didn't go to 'work' as normal. Turned out it was complete fabrication from my mates girlfriend. It never happened and we went to the pub for it just before ko when we realised we'd been had over. Still hurts like fuck every time I see it.
 
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julio jordio said:
In line with the great threads on how many big games you were at.
Not necessarily the biggest, maybe just the game you rue missing the most and how/why?

Mine was the last Maine Road Derby. I worked on the turnstile at Maine Road for the last two seasons there (was at sixth form doing my A Levels, needed the money and couldn't afford my season ticket - best of both worlds really).
Anyway we had a box for my mates 19th birthday so I didn't go to 'work' as normal. Turned out it was complete fabrication from my mates girlfriend. It never happened and we went to the pub for it just before ko when we realised we'd been had over. Still hurts like fuck every time I see it.
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Bradford away promotion game.
 
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I've missed a lot as I haven't lived anywhere even close to Manchester since I was about 14. (I am now at my closest about 220 miles away and get to as many home games as I can with family commitments)
Followed a lot of them on TV but the game I was most disappointed at missing even on the box was the Gillingham one. I was living in the far east at the time and flew back for my sisters wedding which was on a sunday so it coincided exactly with the wedding down in London. No access to a TV or radio last I heard was that we were losing. A very pissed up blue arrived at the wedding and told me all about it.
 
qpr. saw match in town though but will always regret not being at the game to my dying breath. been watching city since 1967 and missed the most important game in city's history. still pissed off about it now.
 
The 5-1 and Chelsea in the cup was that at villa park?
 
yorkblue said:
qpr. saw match in town though but will always regret not being at the game to my dying breath. been watching city since 1967 and missed the most important game in city's history. still pissed off about it now.
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The first title you see won is always the most important, and I was at Newcastle in 1968 to see it. I was also at the QPR game, but don't remember being as emotional at Newcastle for some strange reason!

However, I couldn't get to Vienna in 1970 for the ECWC final, as I was on the dole at the time and was borassic. To make things worse, it was on live in every country in Europe, except England, as the Leeds v Chelsea cup final was on. 10 minutes after the final whistle, I was in the pub celebrating and getting pissed!
 
yorkblue said:
qpr. saw match in town though but will always regret not being at the game to my dying breath. been watching city since 1967 and missed the most important game in city's history. still pissed off about it now.
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I personally know ten people that walked at 2-1 and didn't see the glorious outcome, far worse. oh idiots!
 
Hudders 10-1. Only game missed that season due to a weekend in wales with my girlfriend. Asked a local taff how we had done and thought he was taking the piss...wasnt until hours later i had it confirmed.
 
Blackburn away. Can’t remember why I couldn’t go, but I watched it in the now defunct Terry Neill sports bar in High Holborn in London. Missed the Goat’s equaliser as well cos I went for a wizz. Came back upstairs to find the bar, which was full of Blues, bouncing!
In direct contrast to “Chris in London” I also missed the Huddersfield game, but in my case it was because I went back home to Exeter for the weekend from university oop North. I think it was the only home game I missed all season as well!
Also missed the crucial Everton away game in the 2014 run in, cos Mrs Exeter had booked me a “surprise” trip to Venice for my 50th. I fell on my sword well and truly that weekend, cos as well as having to give my ticket away, I heroically sacrificed watching it on TV out there as well, cos I knew I’d be in a vile mood if we lost, and it would spoil the weekend. Turned the phone back on later that evening in St Mark’s Square and did a one man happy dance as the texts dropped in!
 
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Chris in London said:
Me too. Home from uni for a weekend and our kid asks me if I wanted to go to the game with him. I said I had too much on.

Big mistake. Huge.
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I decided to go on a weekend piss up to Sheffield with a few mates, stopping at the house of another mate who was at Sheffield poly

Didn’t know whether to laugh or cry when

Man City 10 (ten) Huddersfield 1

Came up on the final score Tele printer

Only home match I missed all season
 
Easy one for me, the title-clincher at Newcastle in 1968. I was 13 so my parents wouldn't allow me to travel on my own and my dad was working on the Saturday morning. We didn't have a phone at the time and I found out on the Monday that a work colleague of my mum's had a spare place in his car but couldn't contact us on Friday night to offer me the lift. Talk about pissed off! And yes it still hurts!
 
chaddblue said:
I decided to go on a weekend piss up to Sheffield with a few mates, stopping at the house of another mate who was at Sheffield poly

Didn’t know whether to laugh or cry when

Man City 10 (ten) Huddersfield 1

Came up on the final score Tele printer

Only home match I missed all season
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Did you pull?
 
canyerdogputoutafire said:
I personally know ten people that walked at 2-1 and didn't see the glorious outcome, far worse. oh idiots!
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True story...I know an old fella who gave his son his ticket cos he’d seen us win the league in 68. He watched it in Mary d’s but at 2-1 couldn’t take any more and left to walk to town

When he got near Piccadilly he says there was a young bloke sat on the pavement outside a boozer crying his eyes out. He went up to him to try and console him and said “Don’t worry we’ll win it next year”. The lad looked at him and said “what u on about, we’ve just won it this year.. we’re the champions of England”
 
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