Either Carlisle (away) play-off 1994 or Wembley play-off final 1994. Parents refused to allow me to go with my friend and his dad to Carlisle due to a school trip the next day. And refused to change Cornwall holiday plans by one day so we could go to the final.
This game is mentioned a lot on the Gasroom, and rightly so. It was by far the most incredible exciting and exhausting live game I’ve ever watched - and I’ve watched hundreds. Our support that night was just unbelievable.
I think I'm fortunate to have been at all the "big" or "exciting" games over the past thirty years. I started attending games just after our promotion to the Football League, so would have liked to have been there for our last season in the Conference. I lean on those who were there to tell me which games.
If we're being picky, I'd have obviously loved to have been at Wembley for the playoff final against Oxford.
Skelmersdale Amateur Cup quarter final - had a schoolfriend's birthday party and wasn't allowed to skip it out of 'loyalty' (parents later realised where my loyalties were, and that never happened again...) Would have been my first 'massive' crowd, which is always pretty exciting when you're 6...
Bournemouth away (school night). Ditto Boro away |(school day and night and following morning...!)
Goole Town away (missed how the locals came out to face up to the mighty LDF)
Tommy tick-off for all the other big WWFC occasions in my lifetime. How lucky we are...!!! oh wait... no, i missed the Coventry 4-2 due to work commitments, but listened to extra time on the radio.
Next thread needs to be "Wish I hadn't been there..."
Pretty much every game mentioned in this thread! My first game was 2011, first ST was in 2014, been to most big games since then (but did miss the Beano game). And to answer the post above - wish I hadn't been there - losing 6-0 at home on a friday night wasn't overly fun...
Was massively glad we won at Leicester in the FA cup for many reasons but one was having got my own ticket, I'd heard there were say 100-200 extras available, which I was trying to get one for a family member.
But I made the mistake of going to the club shop instead of the ground, so missed out. Luckily the FA cup semi wasn't tough to get tickets for!!
I missed 4 games out of 63 in the Cup run season. Gutted to have missed Grimsby away. Had a ticket, was booked on the Independents coach but had been really sick for a couple of days and bed ridden.
Tried to go out for an hour to see if I could and was instantly ill! Only game I missed in the Cup run.
You wish you weren’t there for the ‘foul of the century’ game?
Really pleased I witnessed that one!
I wasn’t there for the Hyde QF game (work) but I remember listening for updates on the radio and I think that loss hurt me more than any other I can recall as we were in such good form at the time and probably the best team in non-League
The 6-3 reverse at Peterborough was strangely enjoyable as well. There was almost a party atmosphere on the terrace as it became clear that this would be Alan Smith's last hurrah
The 2-1 win away at Man City and the Torquay survival game were 2 I'd love to have experienced. Probably Grimsby away in the FA Cup also. As several above have said, it was the only game in the run I missed out on.
The one game I wished I'd been at is the 4-2 F.A. Amateur Cup semi-final win over Corinthian Casuals at Highbury in March 1957. I mean I was born in September 1975 so that would've been a neat trick but still. I'll be straight on it when time travel is finally invented.
There are too many games under Martin O'Neill I couldn't make for various reasons but like @eric_plant the F.A. Trophy semi-final second leg at Moss Lane in April 1991 is certainly near the top of the list.
Would've liked to have risked a brick in the head to have seen Hakan Hayrettin's 50-yard thunderblaster at Preston North End and our first ever win at the Manor Ground in December 1994 (I went to the goal-less draw with Brighton & Hove Albion at Adams Park the previous day!).
I've always thought that Fleetwood away in the play offs and Birmingham away in the Championship would have been all time away days if we'd been able to be there.
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And Chelsea at home when Easter scored in the draw
Torquay. Couldn’t face the 400+ mile round trip to watch us get drop out of the football league.
Arsenal v Wycombe Wanderers, FA Cup Final 2001.
League 1 Play-off Final vs Oxford and any game in the subsequent Championship season
When Marcus Bean scored!
A game played on May 8th 2022.
Oxford Play-off Final
The 45 games I missed in 20/21.
Wimbledon away cup game.
Walked away from the home game with 2 uni pals thinking that without doubt that was that.
Then the most epic game ever happened which felt amazing on radio let alone how it must have felt being there.
Either Carlisle (away) play-off 1994 or Wembley play-off final 1994. Parents refused to allow me to go with my friend and his dad to Carlisle due to a school trip the next day. And refused to change Cornwall holiday plans by one day so we could go to the final.
I will forever be haunted by missing the Altrincham away trophy semifinal
Chesterfield away to win promotion.
I’d followed the team home and away that season but had something on and didn’t clock it could clinch it.
It wasn’t until I turned Phil’s commentary on that I realised that we could and would get promoted
Which one?
Ayesome Park, January 1975, for the FA Cup replay v Middlesborough. Dad wouldn't drive and my parent wouldn't let me skip school to go on the coach.
This game is mentioned a lot on the Gasroom, and rightly so. It was by far the most incredible exciting and exhausting live game I’ve ever watched - and I’ve watched hundreds. Our support that night was just unbelievable.
I think I'm fortunate to have been at all the "big" or "exciting" games over the past thirty years. I started attending games just after our promotion to the Football League, so would have liked to have been there for our last season in the Conference. I lean on those who were there to tell me which games.
If we're being picky, I'd have obviously loved to have been at Wembley for the playoff final against Oxford.
Grimsby away in the 2000-2001 FA Cup run - the replay up there was the only cup tie i missed that season.
Work for me (and school for the boys) meant that traveling away that night was not possible.
Similar reasons for Man City Away in 1998-99.
"the" one
Skelmersdale Amateur Cup quarter final - had a schoolfriend's birthday party and wasn't allowed to skip it out of 'loyalty' (parents later realised where my loyalties were, and that never happened again...) Would have been my first 'massive' crowd, which is always pretty exciting when you're 6...
Bournemouth away (school night). Ditto Boro away |(school day and night and following morning...!)
Goole Town away (missed how the locals came out to face up to the mighty LDF)
Tommy tick-off for all the other big WWFC occasions in my lifetime. How lucky we are...!!! oh wait... no, i missed the Coventry 4-2 due to work commitments, but listened to extra time on the radio.
Next thread needs to be "Wish I hadn't been there..."
Pretty much every game mentioned in this thread! My first game was 2011, first ST was in 2014, been to most big games since then (but did miss the Beano game). And to answer the post above - wish I hadn't been there - losing 6-0 at home on a friday night wasn't overly fun...
Was massively glad we won at Leicester in the FA cup for many reasons but one was having got my own ticket, I'd heard there were say 100-200 extras available, which I was trying to get one for a family member.
But I made the mistake of going to the club shop instead of the ground, so missed out. Luckily the FA cup semi wasn't tough to get tickets for!!
I missed 4 games out of 63 in the Cup run season. Gutted to have missed Grimsby away. Had a ticket, was booked on the Independents coach but had been really sick for a couple of days and bed ridden.
Tried to go out for an hour to see if I could and was instantly ill! Only game I missed in the Cup run.
Most games..........
Just quickly then... wish i hadn't been there for...
(of course, these experiences are essential in order to feel the full value of the 'glad i was there' ones)
You wish you weren’t there for the ‘foul of the century’ game?
Really pleased I witnessed that one!
I wasn’t there for the Hyde QF game (work) but I remember listening for updates on the radio and I think that loss hurt me more than any other I can recall as we were in such good form at the time and probably the best team in non-League
The 6-3 reverse at Peterborough was strangely enjoyable as well. There was almost a party atmosphere on the terrace as it became clear that this would be Alan Smith's last hurrah
The 2-1 win away at Man City and the Torquay survival game were 2 I'd love to have experienced. Probably Grimsby away in the FA Cup also. As several above have said, it was the only game in the run I missed out on.
Me too. Still regret not going to this day
The one game I wished I'd been at is the 4-2 F.A. Amateur Cup semi-final win over Corinthian Casuals at Highbury in March 1957. I mean I was born in September 1975 so that would've been a neat trick but still. I'll be straight on it when time travel is finally invented.
There are too many games under Martin O'Neill I couldn't make for various reasons but like @eric_plant the F.A. Trophy semi-final second leg at Moss Lane in April 1991 is certainly near the top of the list.
Would've liked to have risked a brick in the head to have seen Hakan Hayrettin's 50-yard thunderblaster at Preston North End and our first ever win at the Manor Ground in December 1994 (I went to the goal-less draw with Brighton & Hove Albion at Adams Park the previous day!).
Grew up with a couple of brothers who'd go to literally every game, even all those LDV midweek aways 100s of miles away in a miniscule crowd etc.
One of them was on a long booked school coach trip to Europe somewhere and missed the FA cup semi. That's always felt utterly crazy.
Although both have long moved away now and barely make any games.
Leeds away 2009-10 season in the middle of a brutal winter.
Got the tickets, but literally couldn't get the car out of the driveway because of the ice and snow.
Wasn't too upset at first as deep down I thought there was no way the game would be on.
Was absolutely gutted (not to mention amazed) when I realised that the game was actually going ahead.
Still a chance we could end up at Elland Road next season though. Here's hoping.
I've always thought that Fleetwood away in the play offs and Birmingham away in the Championship would have been all time away days if we'd been able to be there.