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cryrst Flag The garden of England 07 Apr 23 6.16am Send a Private Message to cryrst Add cryrst as a friend

4 lads near me left after 3 minutes of injury time last week. Missed the goal and the amazing old Selhurst atmosphere at full time to save 1 minute. I get if you are 2 or 3 down although I don’t even then; but at 1-1 anything can and evidently did happen. Thoughts?

 

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uncleneal Flag Croydon 07 Apr 23 7.50am Send a Private Message to uncleneal Add uncleneal as a friend

Always find leaving early strange. What if you miss a 50 yard bicycle kick?

I have left early 3 times in 45 years:-

Millwall away in early 80’s - they had hundreds in our end and my bottle was going about the walk back to the station.

West Ham away - lost 3-0. I threw myself out before the copper did. Could not believe we decided not to mark Defoe and voiced my opinion.

QPR home - lost 3-0. Derry got nutmegged by Tarrabt and generally played like a t***. We needed to win put in one of the most pathetic performances I have ever seen. My daughter came with me for once and begged me not to say anything but I had to tell Derry what I thought!

 

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EddieMac Flag 07 Apr 23 7.54am Send a Private Message to EddieMac Add EddieMac as a friend

I think the gold medal for leaving early has to go to the West Ham fans. I have never seen a stadium like it. They harp on about being great fans but as soon as they go 1 down have the stadium clears off and the rest boo them.

 

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Dubai Eagle Flag 07 Apr 23 8.03am Send a Private Message to Dubai Eagle Add Dubai Eagle as a friend

Only left early once, Palace Vs Watford, midweek game couple seasons ago, Watford went ahead , we spent 85 minutes looking like we were doing absolutely nothing, it was a cold night so I reluctantly decided to head off to the train station at about 87 minutes gone, by the time I was 50 yards outside the Holmesdale end gate we equalized & by the time I had got to Selhurst train station Jimmy mac had bundled in the winner, lol

 

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YT Flag Oxford 07 Apr 23 8.21am Send a Private Message to YT Add YT as a friend

Originally posted by uncleneal

Always find leaving early strange. What if you miss a 50 yard bicycle kick?

I have left early 3 times in 45 years:-

Millwall away in early 80’s - they had hundreds in our end and my bottle was going about the walk back to the station.

West Ham away - lost 3-0. I threw myself out before the copper did. Could not believe we decided not to mark Defoe and voiced my opinion.

QPR home - lost 3-0. Derry got nutmegged by Tarrabt and generally played like a t***. We needed to win put in one of the most pathetic performances I have ever seen. My daughter came with me for once and begged me not to say anything but I had to tell Derry what I thought!

I don't think anyone can criticise you for such a shrewd move (although it must have been earlier or later than you recall, as we didn't play Millwall in the early 80s, or maybe it was a 'friendly'). I once had the pleasure of being surrounded by rabid Millwall fans when I was determined to go to The Den in March 1987, but the only way to get in was to pretend to be a Millwall fan and enter a section down one side of the ground. When we scored, my 'internal celebration' was akin to suppressing the world's biggest sneeze, while the Neanderthals around me bayed for blood. They got more and more angry as the game progressed, but having remained 'incognito' it was easy to slip away at the end of the match.

I can't remember ever leaving a match before the final whistle, but there's been many where I've immediately left in anger once that whistle was blown!

 


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daven Flag Hailsham 07 Apr 23 9.11am Send a Private Message to daven Add daven as a friend

I can't remember who it was against or when it was but it was a floodlit game and we were embarrassingly bad. Two incidents persuaded me to get home early, the first was when our centre forward broke free from a foul on the halfway line with a clear run at goal with the ref waving play on behind him and instead of that he stops and pi cks the ball up giving away a free kick.
The other was when the game was stopped for an injury to one of our players near half way , the other team sportingly kick the ball back to Speroni on the restart, it is going well wide of the goal ,so Speroni has 2 options, to catch it or let it go out for a goal kick. He did neither he touched it out for a corner.
The other team sent 2 players up to take the corner , one tapped it to the other and then he tapped it off for a goalkick.
I think that I left early out of embarrassment. I think we lost 2 nil.

 

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Dubai Eagle Flag 07 Apr 23 9.25am Send a Private Message to Dubai Eagle Add Dubai Eagle as a friend

I wish I had left early for that Benteke penalty against Bournemouth -

 

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monkey Flag Sittingbourne,but made in Bromley 07 Apr 23 10.10am Send a Private Message to monkey Add monkey as a friend

I never leave early, we do go and stand up the top of the stairs in the Whitehorse to get a quick get away, we’ve seen a few late goals for and against while standing up there over the years, once we even had to go back to our seats for extra time as Sullay Kai Kai equalised against pardews Newcastle in the cup

 

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ASCPFC Flag Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 07 Apr 23 11.12am Send a Private Message to ASCPFC Add ASCPFC as a friend

I left early when we lost 0-4 against Wimbledon at Selhurst

 


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monkey Flag Sittingbourne,but made in Bromley 07 Apr 23 11.16am Send a Private Message to monkey Add monkey as a friend

Originally posted by ASCPFC

I left early when we lost 0-4 against Wimbledon at Selhurst

I hate to tell you this, but we came back and won 5-4

 

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ASCPFC Flag Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 07 Apr 23 11.30am Send a Private Message to ASCPFC Add ASCPFC as a friend

Originally posted by monkey

I hate to tell you this, but we came back and won 5-4

When we were 3-0 down I left. As I was in the carpark I heard a cheer. I thought we'd scored as it was loud and thought - just my luck. Always thought it was 3-1. Anyway, was watching Premier League Gold or some such and the game was on - the cheers were ironic - 4-0. Didn't know for maybe twenty years as I was repressing that and several other Palace memories.

 


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JRW2 Flag Dulwich 07 Apr 23 11.56am Send a Private Message to JRW2 Add JRW2 as a friend

Originally posted by daven


The other was when the game was stopped for an injury to one of our players near half way , the other team sportingly kick the ball back to Speroni on the restart, it is going well wide of the goal ,so Speroni has 2 options, to catch it or let it go out for a goal kick. He did neither he touched it out for a corner.
The other team sent 2 players up to take the corner , one tapped it to the other and then he tapped it off for a goalkick.
I think that I left early out of embarrassment. I think we lost 2 nil.

That was against Wolves. I thought the goalie was Kolinko, but that may only be because it was such a display of incompetence.

Because of my age I now leave when the extra time is announced, unless it's several minutes. And it seems to help the team. I missed Olise's goal against Manchester United and Mateta's against Leicester. As I got to my car on that latest occasion I saw a woman sitting in a car, holding a portable radio. I looked at her enquiringly and she wound down the window and I asked what was the score. 2-1. Who scored? Mateta - followed by "Shame he's done f**k all the rest of the season!"

 

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