The biggest game you missed.

The 6-1 at the swamp, due to work commitments i’l never get enough points for a ticket there, must have been an amazing day for those lucky enough to have been there
 
Schalke away.
Via Amsterdam on a bus was a long drive. Supposed to be picking ticket up at ground but the ring of steel security wouldn't let me anywhere near. Very annoyingly i'd scored a ticket for me mate in a boozer in Gelsenkirken in the afternoon. Got lost on tram and ended up in away fans boozer watching on telly.
 
Bill said:
the ballet on ice, bastard bus didn't turn up.
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I remember the 53 buses from Gorton stopped running due to the weather, so we all started sprinting down kirkemsulme lane towards Maine rd,it was well worth it.50 year's ago in December wow.
 
Bradford away promotion game. Didn't have a ticket and stories of police preparing to turn fans back on the motorway. It was a few weeks after Hillsborough so we knew the police would be anxious to keep ticketless fans away.
Oh, and the Boro 8-1.
 
FA Cup away at Spurs when we won 4-3 with ten.

Offered a ticket, didn't fancy it as traveling the next day, listened on the radio instead.....:(
 
Wembley 99
Aged 13 booked on a school football trip to Holland that left that evening and didn't even think about the possible play off clash.
Now I'm older and wiser I won't book to go anywhere until I check fixtures first.
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
It was a shambles of day anyway. You didn't miss much.

Bradford away promotion game.
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I missed Bradford too choosing to watch Macclesfield Town at Wembley in the FA Trophy final
We had three games left to promoted FFS typical City

Also give me ticket away for the 6-1 as I hate the fucking place, said I’ve never go again after I saw us win there! I have since buckled and I go again but still despise the place
 
I was 11 and a City were in the quarter-final of the FA Cup and were facing a home replay against Everton. I did not know it at the time, but my dad had secured a couple of tickets to the game for me and him (he wasn't nearly as bitter towards City in those days).

Then fate intervened.

A couple of days before the game the headmaster summonsed my mum into school to talk about my disruptive and attention seeking behaviour, following which, as a (cruel and unusual) punishment I was simultaneously made aware of the existence of the ticket and the fact it was being denied to me.That probably explains the extent of my football supporting recalcitrance going forward. If mum had got the call a couple of days later, it would have been a different story, of course, but thems the breaks

I've heard that, atmosphere wise, it was one if the great Maine Road nights and I simply would have loved to be there. It's one game I've always been upset about not attending, but sometimes life deals you a particular hand and you've got to live with it.

On the plus side, I've not engaged in any disruptive or attention seeking behaviour ever since.....
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
I was 11 and a City were in the quarter-final of the FA Cup and were facing a home replay against Everton. I did not know it at the time, but my dad had secured a couple of tickets to the game for me and him (he wasn't nearly as bitter towards City in those days).

Then fate intervened.

A couple of days before the game the headmaster summonsed my mum into school to talk about my disruptive and attention seeking behaviour, following which, as a (cruel and unusual) punishment I was simultaneously made aware of the existence of the ticket and the fact it was being denied to me.That probably explains the extent of my football supporting recalcitrance going forward. If mum had got the call a couple of days later, it would have been a different story, of course, but thems the breaks

I've heard that, atmosphere wise, it was one if the great Maine Road nights and I simply would have loved to be there. It's one game I've always been upset about not attending, but sometimes life deals you a particular hand and you've got to live with it.

On the plus side, I've not engaged in any disruptive or attention seeking behaviour ever since.....
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Mods! GDM's account has been hacked.

Again.
 
My brother was an international sailor at youth level and missed both the QPR game and the Arsenal 6-3 because he was at sea.
 
The 4-0 against the rags at the Etihad, lay on the sofa after an op to have some teeth out and missed one of the best derby goals and celebrations SWP's corker and his robot afterwards
Every game since the Stuart Pearce and 10 home league goals season, although I was back home for Robinho away at Newcastle
 
Semi v Rags
1-0 Kompany v Rags

Only time since 1946 my old fella hasn't been Wembley we've played there was Gillingham 99
 
xgorton said:
I remember the 53 buses from Gorton stopped running due to the weather, so we all started sprinting down kirkemsulme lane towards Maine rd,it was well worth it.50 year's ago in December wow.
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We were in Newton Heath so couldnt do that. Stood on daisy bank corner waiting for the 25 or the 76 bus.neither turned up. :(
 
Missing the Stoke FA Cup win was gut-wrenching (I was on a mountain climb), but then missing the title winner against QPR the next year was even worse. Tried to make up for it by going to the the Wigan Cup Final the year after that...

Made it to the Wigan/Gillingham Play-Off games and the FA Cup Semi-Final against Utd at least.
 
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