Leaving games Early

On saturday I got up and left in a huff at about the 87th minute when I saw another 6 yard pass go astray. I regretted it as soon as I had left the ground.

 

Back in 68 I attended a match , the home team were 1-0 down and crap , few minutes to go and the friend I was with wanted to leave .
I said no , you never know , equalised 30 seconds from time .
Never leave early even if yer goals down , you may miss the best goal you'll ever see .

 

And even worse people who don't want to leave have view blocked by people passing in front of them. The same people then get to the top of the stairwell and stand there blocking other people's view

 

Exactly this. Annoying as many people left when we we're on the attack. At least leave when we're defending.

 

Same for us. We sit at side of gangway.

 

Lets just lock everyone in and force their eyes to bleed instead!

 

Did it Saturday for first time in yonks. I hate seeing things I love suffer.

 

In the 70s I left Oakwell with Barnsley leading ‘I think’ Northampton Town 2 - 1. I tuned to Sports Report and found we had scored another three in
the five minutes I’d been away.

 

I've left two games early in the last year. I can't remember the last time I did that, even when we were losing 5-0 and 6-0 I have always stuck it out to the end.

Last season I left as soon as Ryan Kent stuck our fourth past the Rotherham keeper - only because I had a train to catch.
On Saturday I left with about ten minutes to go, immediately after the hundredth (or so) pass had gone into touch or to nobody. Three reasons why I did that: I wanted to get ahead of the Leeds hordes who would be heading home the same way as me; I had Sky Sports on my phone so could watch it to the bitter end while walking back to the car; I was too cold to hang around any longer.

I didn't like doing it but it seemed like the correct decision at the time. I know that Ryan Hedges briefly lit things up a bit in those last few minutes but the result was a foregone conclusion. I won't be making a habit of it though like plenty do, for whatever reasons they might have. I want my moneysworth and that includes seeing every minute of every match, however painful it might be to watch.

Look at all those QPR fans last night who practically emptied the ground and missed their team get two goals in the last two minutes of injury time - bet they were "proper gutted, and no mistake guvnor".

 

It was a flippant response to an exagerrated post. As it happens I left when the ball went out of play but on the flipside some people still refused to stand to ease my exit so it works both ways.

 

One Tuesday night back in 1996 we were at home to Millwall. My friend who I'd gone to the game with was on nights and as the game entered the 90th minute and with the score 1-1, he asked if we could leave early so he wouldn't be late. I didn't like it, but as I didn't want him to lose money, I reluctantly agreed. We'd only just got out of the ground when, surprise surprise(!), we scored to make it 2-1! We hadn't got to the end of Grove Street when we scored again to make it 3-1! I was in full sulk mode, with a huge helping of self pity on the side! I told him in no uncertain terms that it would never happen again, so not to bother asking. It didn't.
I think Andy Liddell & Andy Payton may have scored our goals.

 

Remember that game well - they did score the goals and I think Liddell might have got the other one. It was bloody freezing too.

 

Word got round Stocksbridge steel works and my phone never stopped ringing the following day from so-called friends(!) taking the mickey out of me!

 

Always gets me the lack of respect some people have for others that support the same team as them, so I agree with you. Want to still watch the match? Stay sat in your seat. Don't want to watch the match no more? Go down the stairs and leave. What you shouldn't do is stand by the gangway which apart from blocking views with your own selfishness, is also a health and safety hazard from blocking a fire exit. It won't stop though because stewards never do anything about it. All they do is watch the match or the pointless phase 5 position. It's like they feel well i'm not earning enough for the hassle I would get so I will just let people continue to block the stairs.

 

Losing 2-0 in the 90th minute, freezing to death on a Tuesday night after playing awful, I wouldn't still be there, that's for sure. I understand it's circumstantial and call me fickle, but if we were winning, drawing or even losing but been unlucky I would stay until the end. But who honestly believes at that stage, 2-0 down that we'd get something out of the game?After we've lost, all I want to do is get home, so by leaving that couple of minutes early i'm not only beating people to their cars, I'm also saving myself a further 5 minutes of frustration and misery.

 

My Dad used to do twelve hour nights on a Satdi (poor bugger) so we would leave early sometimes. I was boy at the time but I never held it against him if we missed owt! I must have been more mature than a grown man Kev

 

Grimsby was probably the earliest I've seen a rush for exit gates.

Losing heavily at half time, dozens of reds fans decided they wanted to leave and were kept in.

 

Well, James, I have no doubt you were certainly (and probably still are) more mature than me! Not that it's too difficult!