Unexpected city bonuses

[Robin101]

So I was in the wilderness of north devon on Tuesday night camping, with very little mobile reception. At 9.35pm - at what I felt would be full time - I went for a wander to find some signal and load up the Brentford v City BBC page to discover we had thrown away a lead to be losing 2-1 in the 95th minute. Annoyed, I turned my data off and went back to the tent.

It then wasn't until 8pm the following evening when I found some WiFi in a pub that the page refreshed and I discovered we had scored in the 98th minute! Probably the longest time I hadn't known the city score for about 10 years, but a welcome unexpected bonus! 

Anyone have any similar experiences of thinking you knew the score but later discovering the truth? Can anyone beat 22 hours? 

[Bar BS3]

I was at Mansfield THAT game, where plenty of people left at 4-2 down with 2 mins left. 

I've always thought it was likely that some may have avoided the radio on the way home, not wanted to chat to the wife and gone straight to bed, in a bad mood! I bet they'd have felt a little better over their breakfast when they saw the Sunday papers sport supplement. After checking for a probable misprint! 

Personally, mine was missing Beckhams free kick Vs Greece and only realising an hour later, when Corn Street was like a carnival, celebrating qualification!

[Port Said Red]

17 minutes ago, Robin101 said:

So I was in the wilderness of north devon on Tuesday night camping, with very little mobile reception. At 9.35pm - at what I felt would be full time - I went for a wander to find some signal and load up the Brentford v City BBC page to discover we had thrown away a lead to be losing 2-1 in the 95th minute. Annoyed, I turned my data off and went back to the tent.

It then wasn't until 8pm the following evening when I found some WiFi in a pub that the page refreshed and I discovered we had scored in the 98th minute! Probably the longest time I hadn't known the city score for about 10 years, but a welcome unexpected bonus! 

Anyone have any similar experiences of thinking you knew the score but later discovering the truth? Can anyone beat 22 hours? 

Not City related, but I was out all day on the last day of the Premier season 2013/14 so I sat down to watch MOTD not knowing how the day panned out and that Aguero goal in the last minute of the game. 

[redsince82]

Portsmouth away on the FA cup. Due to unfortunate circumstances i was escorted from the ground (it wasn't my fault i may add) after 10 minutes.

I waited outside through the first half and was told at half time that i would be allowed back in (Early release for good behavior) In the 2nd half whilst awaiting the gates to open there was a loud cheer from the Pompey crowd and i thought we had gone 1-0 down. I finally got back in for the last 10 mins and at the final whistle i turned to the bloke next to me and said "oh well 1-0 isn't bad considering they are prem, with Crouchy et al" 

Turns out the cheer was for a corner, and the final score was actually 0-0 taking it to a replay at our place!! 

[Rudolf Hucker]

36 minutes ago, Robin101 said:

So I was in the wilderness of north devon on Tuesday night camping, with very little mobile reception. At 9.35pm - at what I felt would be full time - I went for a wander to find some signal and load up the Brentford v City BBC page to discover we had thrown away a lead to be losing 2-1 in the 95th minute. Annoyed, I turned my data off and went back to the tent.

It then wasn't until 8pm the following evening when I found some WiFi in a pub that the page refreshed and I discovered we had scored in the 98th minute! Probably the longest time I hadn't known the city score for about 10 years, but a welcome unexpected bonus! 

Anyone have any similar experiences of thinking you knew the score but later discovering the truth? Can anyone beat 22 hours? 

So what was the score against Brentford? 

[Bar BS3]

21 minutes ago, Rudolf Hucker said:

So what was the score against Brentford? 

Read the Matchday thread and you'll see that we must have lost 16-0, surely...?!

[sephjnr]

2 hours ago, redsince82 said:

Portsmouth away on the FA cup. Due to unfortunate circumstances i was escorted from the ground (it wasn't my fault i may add) after 10 minutes.

I waited outside through the first half and was told at half time that i would be allowed back in (Early release for good behavior) In the 2nd half whilst awaiting the gates to open there was a loud cheer from the Pompey crowd and i thought we had gone 1-0 down. I finally got back in for the last 10 mins and at the final whistle i turned to the bloke next to me and said "oh well 1-0 isn't bad considering they are prem, with Crouchy et al" 

Turns out the cheer was for a corner, and the final score was actually 0-0 taking it to a replay at our place!! 

I was there too. Bradley Orr's header was 2" from beating the keeper about 10 minutes or so from time.

[PHILINFRANCE]

Not City related, but concerns an unexpected score.

During the 1999 UEFA Champions League Final between Bayern Munich and Manchester United, my elderly mother-in-law fell asleep during injury time with Bayern leading 1-0.

Imagine her surprise and confusion when she woke up 10 minutes or so later to see United being handed the trophy.

[Offside]

3 hours ago, Bar BS3 said:

I was at Mansfield THAT game, where plenty of people left at 4-2 down with 2 mins left. 

I've always thought it was likely that some may have avoided the radio on the way home, not wanted to chat to the wife and gone straight to bed, in a bad mood! I bet they'd have felt a little better over their breakfast when they saw the Sunday papers sport supplement. After checking for a probable misprint! 

Personally, mine was missing Beckhams free kick Vs Greece and only realising an hour later, when Corn Street was like a carnival, celebrating qualification!

When I got home from that Mansfield game at about 8.30pm I phoned my Dad - he had turned off the radio commentary when we were 4-2 down and his first response on answering the phone was "What a load of rubbish". It took him a while to believe me when I told him the final score.

I remembering hearing that some Manchester City fans left the ground early when they beat QPR to win the title in injury time and didn't know they were champions until they got home.

[archie andrews]

any Japanese soldiers on here..........?

[robinreliant]

5 hours ago, Robin101 said:

So I was in the wilderness of north devon on Tuesday night camping, with very little mobile reception. At 9.35pm - at what I felt would be full time - I went for a wander to find some signal and load up the Brentford v City BBC page to discover we had thrown away a lead to be losing 2-1 in the 95th minute. Annoyed, I turned my data off and went back to the tent.

It then wasn't until 8pm the following evening when I found some WiFi in a pub that the page refreshed and I discovered we had scored in the 98th minute! Probably the longest time I hadn't known the city score for about 10 years, but a welcome unexpected bonus! 

Anyone have any similar experiences of thinking you knew the score but later discovering the truth? Can anyone beat 22 hours? 

Yep me too.

[Ian M]

5 hours ago, Bar BS3 said:

I was at Mansfield THAT game, where plenty of people left at 4-2 down with 2 mins left. 

I've always thought it was likely that some may have avoided the radio on the way home, not wanted to chat to the wife and gone straight to bed, in a bad mood! I bet they'd have felt a little better over their breakfast when they saw the Sunday papers sport supplement. After checking for a probable misprint! 

Personally, mine was missing Beckhams free kick Vs Greece and only realising an hour later, when Corn Street was like a carnival, celebrating qualification!

I was one who left early. Was with a mate who'd been badgering me for 10 mins to leave as we were shit and he'd rather just get back to Bristol where we had some birthday celebrations we had planned on joining late. As we were getting towards the car we heard a faintish cheer that sounded like our away fans celebrating a consolation goal but thought at 4-3 there was little benefit other than to reduce the harmful effect on our goal difference. 5 mins later I'm getting a phone call from @Tomarse going crazy cos we'd equalised and whilst he was on the phone we scored our 5th and Tom's phone went flying several rows forward  

Greatest City comeback ever and I was there but missed it. I'm no longer attend matches with my companion that day 

[Kodjias Wrist]

I always remember listening to radio bristol and a guy called in after the Hartlepool play off semi final. He left at 1-0 then heard the cheer for the goodfellow goal in the park and as he turned around and started walking heard the cheer of the roberts winner.

[Busterrimes]

5 hours ago, Bar BS3 said:

I was at Mansfield THAT game, where plenty of people left at 4-2 down with 2 mins left. 

I've always thought it was likely that some may have avoided the radio on the way home, not wanted to chat to the wife and gone straight to bed, in a bad mood! I bet they'd have felt a little better over their breakfast when they saw the Sunday papers sport supplement. After checking for a probable misprint! 

Personally, mine was missing Beckhams free kick Vs Greece and only realising an hour later, when Corn Street was like a carnival, celebrating qualification!

I was in Florida that day pre Smart phones. I was on an internet cafe pc when we were 4-2 then left for the airport. Landed Sunday morning. Too tired to get a paper. Train all the way home from Gatwick. I walk in close to 24 hours after the game to get told the result

[22A]

Not exactly the score but in the days before internet etc;

In the early 1980's I was living abroad and came home for a short holiday. I met a friend and said how it didn't seem five years since City won 2-0 at Leeds in the First Division and now we had recently won 3-1 at Hereford in the Fourth. He reckoned that City did not have an away win between those two results.

It was several years later when I got some old programmes and found City had won a few more away games in Divisions One, Two and Three.

[Cider_boy]

Not quite the same length of delay, but having been watching a stream of the Brentford game that stopped in injury time I thought that was it. Reading through the 2 pages of the matchday thread on here that I was behind confirmed our loss and the bitter disappointment, then some jokers started posting 'yesssss' and 'get in'.  I was amazed at how many joined in the joke, I even had to check the score on the BBC website before I believed we had really equalised.

 

Sadly, I was also a couple of hours late discovering the gas had been relegated from the football league. After their victory celebrations the week before, I could not believe the results would all go the way necessary for them to get relegated, and thought that the jammy buggers would manage to stay up and didn't want to hear of their great success, so I went out and ignored the football that day.  Only later did I hear the good news!

[asfred]

Not a surprise, more disappointment. I arrived about 2 minutes late for a game, think it was Bradford. It was before the electronic scoreboard above the Eastend. I was happy with the 1 nil win, until reading the paper the following day to see that they had scored almost from the kick-off and it was actually a draw.

[Lanterne Rouge]

Many years ago  me and a mate went away on holiday to Albania the day before the g*s played Port Vale in the playoffs. It was still communist then and western news was very much at a premium so we didn`t find out until a week later when I got back to Heathrow that the legend that is Robbie Earle had consigned them to yet another season of oblivion.

The others in our party were rather bemused at us going mental in the arrivals lounge for no apparent reason.

[handsofclay]

On 17/08/2017 at 16:33, PHILINFRANCE said:

Not City related, but concerns an unexpected score.

During the 1999 UEFA Champions League Final between Bayern Munich and Manchester United, my elderly mother-in-law fell asleep during injury time with Bayern leading 1-0.

Imagine her surprise and confusion when she woke up 10 minutes or so later to see United being handed the trophy.

I always thought it was a bad decision by the Bayern management to put your mother-in-law in goal that night.

[EnclosureSurge]

On 8/17/2017 at 13:43, Robin101 said:

So I was in the wilderness of north devon on Tuesday night camping, with very little mobile reception. At 9.35pm - at what I felt would be full time - I went for a wander to find some signal and load up the Brentford v City BBC page to discover we had thrown away a lead to be losing 2-1 in the 95th minute. Annoyed, I turned my data off and went back to the tent.

It then wasn't until 8pm the following evening when I found some WiFi in a pub that the page refreshed and I discovered we had scored in the 98th minute! Probably the longest time I hadn't known the city score for about 10 years, but a welcome unexpected bonus! 

Anyone have any similar experiences of thinking you knew the score but later discovering the truth? Can anyone beat 22 hours? 

Great story! Fair play Robin101. 

Which it of north Devon were you in? Kentisbury? Out on Exmoor? Near Coombe Martin (love that village)? Berrynarbor? Did you pop in to the Hunter's Inn, near Martinhoe? Down that insanely steep slope? Went in there a few times for cider, peacocks in the garden, old bloke turns to I, all ruddy-cider-faced and says, "Come ere often?" Love NDevon.

[Lanterne Rouge]

17 minutes ago, EnclosureSurge said:

Great story! Fair play Robin101. 

Which it of north Devon were you in? Kentisbury? Out on Exmoor? Near Coombe Martin (love that village)? Berrynarbor? Did you pop in to the Hunter's Inn, near Martinhoe? Down that insanely steep slope? Went in there a few times for cider, peacocks in the garden, old bloke turns to I, all ruddy-cider-faced and says, "Come ere often?" Love NDevon.

I was working in Lynton and Combe Martin today as it goes and then on to Wheddon Cross and Brompton Regis. Pissed down most of the day though!

[Jerseybean]

Makes me feel nostalgic, some 26 years ago I lived in Kentisbury Ford and played for Combe Martin. Happy memories. Anyone know if the the Pyne Arms at East Down is still up and running?

[cheshire_red]

I was going through the turnstile as Tinnion scored an early goal at Peterborough, my Son who was about 10 at the time rushed up to the Terrace to watch the replay

[MrBibs]

The Brentford v City Facebook stream also buffered for me on Tuesday evening whilst on holiday in West Wales. It froze just before the equalizer and came back up as the players were celebrating. Cue very loud celebrations from me and my daughter in the middle of a terrace in the middle of nowhere, and the end of my p1ssy pants mood having told her we should be happy with a point at 1-1, when she said we should go all out for a win.

Unexpected bonus for her was last season when I dropped her off at her Summer camp with us 1-0 up at Burton. One of the adults at the camp told her it ended 1-1, having checked the score at around 4.50 just after they'd equalised. She went mad with delight when I spoke to her on the following Tuesday and mentioned our 2-1 win. 'What are you on about Dad? We drew 1-1.'

[Mad Cyril]

So I made the trip to Brentford on Tuesday night and 2 days later got this text from @One Team In Keynsham.who clearly ignored my carefully crafted match analysis texts sent to him specially that evening....

"Hilarious as it sounds I only found out this morning that we scabbed a draw: was 1-2 in added time when I last looked and I did not bother with the forum or news at all thereafter. Akin to the few Japanese OAPs in the jungle still unaware of their surrender in 1945...."

[One Team In Keynsham]

14 hours ago, Mad Cyril said:

So I made the trip to Brentford on Tuesday night and 2 days later got this text from @One Team In Keynsham.who clearly ignored my carefully crafted match analysis texts sent to him specially that evening....

"Hilarious as it sounds I only found out this morning that we scabbed a draw: was 1-2 in added time when I last looked and I did not bother with the forum or news at all thereafter. Akin to the few Japanese OAPs in the jungle still unaware of their surrender in 1945...."

And I only found out on Thursday morning because I noticed a picture on @WayOutWest's facebook page captioned "last minute equaliser", otherwise I would likely still be none the wiser.

[Slack Bladder]

On ‎17‎/‎08‎/‎2017 at 19:00, archie andrews said:

any Japanese soldiers on here..........?

That made me chuckle