Am I the only one who didn't watch this match live? 3-0 down, no Salah or Bobby, I just didn't think it could happen. I took my Mrs out for dinner & a movie. Checked the score afterwards and was absolutely elated but at the same time, devastated that I'd missed it. She felt sorry for me though so at least I got laid
Am I a terrible fan?
Mate I did worse than that. me and my sister live in Vancouver now and my mum and dad came over for a visit. We did a bit of a roadtrip with them and on the day of the game we were in San Francisco - my mum had booked tickets for all of us to go to Alcatraz that day, but I'd been before so that morning I said im giving it a miss and going to the pub to watch the game. My dad says to me 'What should I do?' and I said 'Honestly, if i hadn't been before I'd probably go to Alcatraz as I can't see us doing it, but its the hope that kills me!' anyway I basically talked my dad into going to Alcatraz and I trotted off to the pub for the game.
I watched it alone in an Irish bar and due to the stress of the game got absolutely hammered before half time. When Wijnaldums goals went in I'm screaming the place down but Im so drunk I've really lost a sense of my surroundings and being a lunchtime in San Francisco it was full of business people trying to have a quiet lunch lol
After the game my sister and my misses who'd both gone to Alcatraz come to find me and when they spoke to the host at the front asking if someone had been watching the footy here the host said to them 'Oh are you coming to take him away?' haha
Anyway they found me at the bar, fuckin bladdered with tears in my eyes and this was about 40 mins after the final whistle at this point. The bar manager came over and bought us all a round of drinks because apparently when Wijnaldums second went in a made such a scene that a load of people who'd just come in for lunch ended up staying longer to see the end of the game that they otherwise had no interest in other than for the one mad lad at the bar!
I wish looking back I'd have asked for the security footage because you know what its like when a goal like that goes in you lose your head for 10-15 seconds and I honestly would love to have just seen the peoples reaction in the pub lol.
Anyway, felt shit for my dad ever since as I basically talked him out of coming with me.