Posted by Rustybar on 20/10/2021, 4:37 pm, in reply to "Biggest game missed"
Easy one to answer for me - the 3-1 at EP v the Bitters. It coincided with my wonderful grandmother's 92nd birthday. She lived on the Isle of Man and we obviously didn't know how long she had left so I was going every year. She actually lived another 10 years....
The Southampton cup replay holds a special place in my heart - I went with my dad and it was his last ever game before he got Alzheimers. I am proud of the fact that I went to every single game in our amazing Coca Cola Cup run. The diciest was West Ham away - I had to leave the newspaper office where I was a reporter empty - which Iwasn't supposed to do - while I hotfooted it down to London. Had to tell my newsdesk a very imaginative pack of utter porkies about where I was going.....
Other big games I missed were the Stoke and Peterborough Wembley games - I lived in south Wales, had a fledgling career and could just about afford bread....