Do you leave early?

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What reason would you give to leave the match early?

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Some games I leave a little early. I have my reasons which can be various. Do I have to justify them to you and this entire board penthouseblade so you can sit in judgement on me for doing so?
 
I once left at half-time when QPR dicked us 3-0 at the Lane a few years back, I must've been in a strop.
Generally it's a 3 goal deficit on 80 mins then I leave early, that's my policy.
 
I've left early once, game just before Christmas one year (Barnsley at home, when Fjortoft rather inevitably scored against us). The plan was to travel up from London, get to Sheffield early, dump all my bags in a locker at the interchange, pub, watch the game, pick up the bags, and then jump on another train heading north to spend Christmas with family. In London I had what I thought was a cold, downed a shit load of paracetamol, thought "fuck it" and headed to the match in just a replica shirt (on a freezing cold day, in December, as you do...).

It wasn't cold. It was flu building up, and by 3 o'clock I was really, really, very ill indeed (and adding alcohol into the mix wasn't helping). Left at half time, got on a train, arrived at my parents and slept until new year! That was the last time I dared to defy cold weather, and the last time I left early. Never understood why people leave early, the last couple of minutes are statistically the most likely period a goal will be scored (and, needless to say, can be the most exiting time to score an equaliser or winner), yet you see a couple of thousand people trying to get out the stadium every game. I don't get it. I know traffic is bad, but why bother coming at all if you're not going to watch the bit that really matters?

edit: I'd almost certainly made myself ill by pulling the same trick (wearing just a replica shirt to a game, in the middle of December) two days earlier at an evening game at Palace. I tend to wrap up in about 20 layers now :D
 
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We left early on Tuesday night, 3 - 0 up, nowt really to miss :cool:

Knew we were parked where we could get away

They were setting up roadworks on the way to the M1 so missed them :)

And I was wearing a Hoody :rolleyes:

What I want to know, did anyone miss the first goal, and then still leave early ? :mad:
 
If we are two up going into injury time we occasionally leave early if we've something on that evening or any midweek match - we have a two hour journey home, often longer when the motorway is closed at night, as it usually is these days. Diversions take 30 minutes longer.

Left on 89 minutes last Tuesday, got home at 10 past midnight.

Are we excused?:)
 
If you do......

I FEKIN HATE YOU

same goes for them that come in 1 or 2 minutes after game kicks off and you sit in the middle of the row, you know who you are :mad:
 
During the Robson season I sometimes had to work Saturday night shifts starting at 1730 so had to leave matches about 10 mins early to get there. Other than that, I stay til the end. I especially can't understand it when the game is close.
 
If you do......

I FEKIN HATE YOU

same goes for them that come in 1 or 2 minutes after game kicks off and you sit in the middle of the row, you know who you are :mad:
I usually come in late just to piss people like you off. Sometimes if I get there early, like on Tuesday, I'll get up, walk to the back of the kop and then come back... For absolutely no reason other than the above

;)
 

I don't normally leave early, the only time was last season against Peterborough, the night match when they scored the winner near the end and I decided to start my 3 hour journey home at that moment
 
Preston and Crewe away are the only two. Both a couple of seasons ago now and I think may have been the same year (when Forte re-signed for us?). We were woeful in both. Preston I wanted to go back to the pub and Crewe I wanted to go back to the chippy.
 
I had to work straight after the Charlton Match in the FA Cup. Therefore leaving early was a must... Of course I fucking didn't and turned up an hour late. My boss at the time wasn't best please of course, but he was a football fan and kind of grudgingly understood when I showed him a video of a packed BDTBL singing the Greasy Chip Butty song in tandem at the end.
 
Left after Peterborough scored their 2nd last season but I think most people did :p I don't get people who leave early when the match has lots of action in it and the result is yet to be decided in either team's favour. It's like going to see a film and walking out before the end of the storyline/plot twist :eek:
 
I usually come in late just to piss people like you off. Sometimes if I get there early, like on Tuesday, I'll get up, walk to the back of the kop and then come back... For absolutely no reason other than the above

;)
Do you do the stopping half way along the row because we are attacking? My numpties came in just as Done was taking the free kick that lead to Adams first minutes goal and stopped moving along the row to watch ffs. Row behind were going mental cause row in front had to stand up to let the late comers in.
On the very rare occasion in 56 years I arrive late I wait until a break in play to move to my seat. When we played Huddersfield at Wembley we got caught in motorway closure and arrived at the ground 5 mins before halftime so we watch last few minutes of first half down below on tv and only went to our seats for the second half.
 
I normally stay to the end, except when everyone else on my row has left and i just look stoooopid on my own.
 
Getting my games mixed up. That was a couple of years before he played for them (or even us).

I reckon it must have been the game on 14/12/01 when we drew 1-1 (Peschisolido) as that is the only one we have played near Xmas recently. It was after Fjortoft played for both us and Barnsley.

Edit: Mea Culpa. There was also the 0-1 defeat on 21/12/96, before Fjortoft joined us. More likely that :-)
 
Rarely, and if so only by a couple of minutes. If someone scores a last minute winner against us I sometimes let my temper get the best of me and storm out like a mardy child.
 
I left early on Tuesday night (just after we scored the 3rd) because my son was cold and tired. This is his second season as a ST holder and his interest is already waning, I fully expect him to throw in the towel before the end of the season.

I sometimes leave early in order to meet other commitments which overlap and I have left early in the past when a game is lost beyond any doubt. I've already missed a couple of home games this season due to other commitments as well (we've won each comprehensively time I have done this interestingly).

My reasoning for this, I am not as fanatical about SUFC these days as I was when I was a younger man. I want them to win, but if they do not do so; I don't allow it to ruin my day / weekend / week.

Come at me.
 
I've put never but not strictly true.

Left Villa Park early in the 4-1 cup mauling of '75 (indeed missing our consolation goal). Nowt to do with being 4-0 down but the away end was a seething mass of scrapping from about 70 mins on when the Holte end decamped to the away end. Those were the days.
 
Twice, firstly when we lost 6-0 at City some time around 1999. I was only a kid and my dad decided we were off at 5. Don't remember much of it except we were dire and I think we got back to the car to find out Gareth Taylor had scored the sixth against us.

The other was more recent, when we lost 4-0 at Stevenage the couple of years ago. We left when the 4th went in, it was only 70 or so minutes in. A lot of people left at 3-0 so in hindsight I think we did quite well to stay and see that Spanish forward get his hat trick for them..
 

Often left early when we're losing badly and don't look like getting back into it. Last time was Fulham away, because it was dull, we were losing, it was the reserve team and it was midweek and I wanted to beat the traffic to get my mates home at a reasonable time as they had work in the morning.

I suppose it's my equivalent of booing, sometimes I can't be bothered to stay and applaud them at the end, because I don't think they deserve it.

Some people travel great distances on a very regular basis to watch the Blades (not me, I'm a part timer) and if they want to leave early to knock half an hour off a three hour plus journey I really don't see a problem with that.
 

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