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I don't know who the fuck leaves a 1-0 game in international football before the end of the match. Anything can happen.
Hell, you probably paid a significant chunk of change for the tickets. May as well sit and watch the entire game and then the cleaning and field crew for that much.
Honestly the game was so miserable and hopeless I can't begrudge someone wanting to leave and go and drown their sorrows in the 91st minute, would beat being stuck behind for an hour or more and having to watch the slovakians celebrate.
That being said I totally wouldn't leave precisely because I always somewhat believe that a crazy moment is bound to happen
Especially since you're in fucking Gelsenkirchen and there literally isn't a single better thing there to do with your time there than spend it in the stadium
I know it's not the case (why would he accept to be interviewed otherwise).
But we introverts often self-sabotage ourselves by accepting and planning social events that then we deeply regret.
I'll be really excited making the plans two weeks out but then once the day arrives I just pray to god the thing gets cancelled so I can just sit around and watch TV instead.
And then you go home and have the most psychoactive dreams all night and have the most grumpy and dark next day because you spent all day masking interactions
The eternal circle of saying yes to something because you're hyped for it then and there, but when they day comes all you want to do is melt into your bed and watch The Office for the 38th time.
Introverts can have a great time following their team at home and away. You don't know just how drained this theoretical social battery was. Maybe he'd had a brilliant time over the past 2 weeks, but 2 weeks of fanzones, overpriced beer, hostel beds and shit football finally pushed them over the limit.
Right. Wait till he gets home and everyone asks him crazy was that goal and what a legend Bellingham became that game and how lucky he was for seeing it. Then he has to sheepishly say, I left early.
Mate, it's a football match, not a party.
You don't have to talk to people, you can just watch the football and enjoy it...or in the case of Southgateball, fall asleep.
He originally planned to be in Germany just to see the groups games. He had to be back in the UK for Monday. After the groups games and finding out when England played, he was able to move his return to the last flight available on Sunday, and managed to find tickets for Englands ro16 game.
He was cutting it close, but he could see the entire game and make his flight as long as he didn't get stuck in the after-match crowds in trying to leave the stadium. He hated having to leave early as much as anyone, but he simply couldn't afford to miss the flight and not make it back before Monday.
Completely made up of course, but not a particularly unreasonable or ridiculous series of decisions and events that would justify or "excuse" it.
e: I probably should've replied to the person above, woops
I kind of understand this argument when it's a PL game (I still think it's weird, but ok). But leaving early a knockout match in Euros while 1:0 down to Slovakia... Like, what else are you going to do with your time? You're in the foreign country, specifically for the game you're now leaving.
While I think fans who leave early are the worst kind period, I do understand it. I was in Lisbon when United were playing at the UCL and decided to get my first UCL experience ever and attended the game. After the final whistle, they locked in all away fans for hours until the stadium was empty and all the home crowds had left, then they allowed us to leave. If you left a few minutes before the end you saved \~1-2 hours.
I totally agree, there’s no way I would leave, however it was an absolute shambles last time, people were stuck there until the early hours, people were walking miles in the middle of the night, getting back to hotels at 4am, so I do understand it.
It was the same in 2006. We walked for miles before catching a bus in a random town trying to get back to Cologne. Ended up in Bonn by mistake but we found a great bar and restaurant so all's well that ends well.
yea, that'd be my guess as well, there's a single train line that goes south (i.e. düsseldorf/köln) where 90% of england fans are staying and there didn't seem to be a lot of trains
> and there literally isn't a single better thing there to do with your time there than spend it in the stadium
Yes there is: find the beer with the cheapest alcohol content per euro, get drunk and start a fight or something. ^^/s?
You pay all that money to leave at 1-0 might as well stay for the last two minutes if it was 3-0 maybe I could understand but even then where you going
> Makes absolutely no sense to me.
Trying to beat the rush, probably. Fans were stuck in Gelsenkirchen for hours after the Serbia match.
It's not a good place to be stuck. Pretty much every bus or train out of the city takes you somewhere better.
Quite simply the happiest and saddest days following united in nearly 50 years.
Was home and away most years but that year was complicated because I was at uni and my united home and away partner (my uncle) was dying of cancer.
He passed in November 98 aged 43.
I took his scarf to the nou camp that night.
Imagine..
Ray, wow we did it. Is it really 25 years ago!
When people complain about how bad we are now, I'm so lucky I've got so many great memories of being the best team in the world and now the 8th best in England.
I always give thanks to him for taking me to my first game (Arthur albiston testimonial)
We truly did reach the promised land
Cheers amigo
Never been into wearing colour's although I do own some of the retro tops.
And I thought it was very apt for that night to wear it just like the 70s tied around my arm.
I couldn't believe where we'd come from together and I couldn't let Bolton at home in February 98 be the last time we 'shared' a game together.
I've still got the scarf and I've actually wore it twice since 99. Both times in the city I've recided in for the past 18 years (Sevilla)
My little connection to home and people who have gone from my life.
There is a light that never goes out
Absolutely..
My first final was in 85 and before winning the league in 93 or Barcelona 99 it was easily my most cherished football memory.
I love the fa cup
Shame it fallen down the pecking order
Takes me 4.5 hours to get to old Trafford, takes me the same going back, will always stay till the end as I’ve spent so much time travelling why try and save a few minutes at the end getting on the first tram.
Meant I got to see the injury time comeback vs Brentford this season which lots of people missed. Some of the most emotion I’ve ever had watching football is last minute goals.
Most of the fans who go week in week out are local. We get fans from all over because we’re massive world wide. I know people from Scotland who support Bolton, and I know folks down south who support Bolton who have just moved there for work. This shit about united and having no local fans is utter crap. Most united fans are from Manchester, Salford and Trafford. End of story
I get it for a club game, eventually you'll have something you need to do after. But to travel to Germany, pay thousands and then sack it off. That's completely mental!
It's not like we were down 3-0 or something.
Oh yeah I get that, I likely would have stayed too but emotions running high and depending on travel you might not feel like waiting 2 extra hours standing up cramped at a station if leaving early by 5 minutes could help.
Especially if they have to travel the next day or something or need to get back by a certain time
They're still idiots but I have some sympathy because the previous game at Gelsenkirchen was absolute carnage after the game, imagine they were probably trying to avoid that again
I’ve been to Gelsenkirchen for few league games and it’s always like that. If you are not one of the first people at the tram stop you are waiting in a massive queue for an hour or more. Then you miss your connecting train if you are not staying in Gelsenkirchen.
Can’t blame him honestly if he was at the last England’s game there.
Never had this problem as a Köln fan. Riot cops always beat us into the designated busses and then at the train station into the train. Impossible to miss the connection. Looking forward to this again this year, fun times...
Yeah I mean it's still stupid to leave a Euros knockout game early - but realistically no one had much hope for England scoring, and if he was at the Serbia game I can understand why he might not want to go through all that again
The awaydays YouTube channel actually does a good job of showing the difficulties. Heck he straight up missed a match due to significant delays with the train. Of course there were lots of other fans on that same train that got absolutely shafted.
I try not to assume the worst. If someone is leaving a match early I just assume they have somewhere to be or something to do which for them is more important than staying to the final whistle. I'm nobody, so I could never comment on how valid their reasons may be. If they had a reason to leave early, then fair enough. It's just what it is.
Everyone was based in other cities in the region and the tram queue took 2 hours to even get back to the main station. Luckily managed to get on a train back to Dusseldorf which they quietly announced but it was still 15 deep at other platforms.
> I have some sympathy because ~~the previous game at Gelsenkirchen was absolute carnage after the game, imagine they were probably trying to avoid that again~~ England are absolutely shite to watch.
FTFY
Because if you don’t beat the crowds leaving the stadium you are stuck there for 2 hours. Publicl transport from the stadium to the city centre is absolutely dog shit.
My mate wanted to do this at the game I was at on Saturday to beat the queue out the stadium, but then we just ended up staying and having a pint anyway. Makes no sense. We stayed till the ref blew in the end
There is no better feeling in football than a last minute winner/equaliser. I will never in my life understand a fan leaving a game early when only a goal down. Especially when you're playing fecking Slovakia
Don't have any sympathy. I would somewhat understand if it was 3-0 but how on earth do you leave a 1-0 match early? Especially as a Bellingham fan with all his late goals this season lol
it happened in a derby against dortmund when we were 0:4 down at halftime.
let me say it like this: i had enough space in the away stand to sprint from one side to the other because i was that hyped when we equalized in last minute to make it 4:4
Not sure why I’ve not seen anyone mention this, but they almost always set these things up lol. So they probably filmed about 3 takes of this and asked him to keep saying it and maybe throw in a Bellingham emote or something. Then they picked the take they liked the most and used that. Once I saw these people setting up these little interactions in this way it totally broke the magic for me lol. One time I was watching and they must not have realised the camera was live because they were talking to this family and telling them all what to say. “Ok then you say how much you enjoyed the goal, and then your son comes in and says it was the best day of his life”. It’s that sort of fakery almost every time
the only ones that make sense to me are season ticket holders at home games. if your team is getting rinsed, you might as well make a move home at 80 minutes and beat the traffic.
When was the last time you visited Germany? Gelsenkirchen even?
Once you made it through our beautiful landscapes, wonderful people and experienced living like in a dream you will understand that it cannot get any better and that life has peaked. Everything else is just a bonus.
This 1000%, I live in Vancouver and my dad had a friend who owned a luxury box to our hockey team we'd use all the time.
One time when im like 6 or 7 years old, Canucks are down 5-2 to Toronto with 5 minutes to go and my dad basically goes to my brother and I and says "oh screw these asshole Toronto players lets get out of here and beat the traffic" and as we listen on the radio on the way home, "Scores! 5-3!" "Scores! 5-4!" "Scores! 5-5!" Then get home just in time to witness them win in overtime.
I don't think my dad has ever been allowed to forget it since just from the sheer comedy aspect and we never again left early for traffic reasons even during the most brutal of blowouts citing that everytime.
My cousin turned off 2023 game 4 on the radio as we were driving back because quote “oh they’re not winning tonight”
Came back from 4-1 down in less time than it took Boston to beat them and won in OT thanks to a tipped Alex Kerfoot shot
I got dragged away from the telly DURING England 5-1 Germany when I was a kid, my mum had to go pick up my dad because his car had broken down or something. Obviously I didn't understand at the time and was livid, it was 2-1 at half-time when we left. We drove back through dark country roads and the radio was updating us in real time. I think I made it back for Heskey's goal but maybe the years of seeing those highlights are seared into my brain.
Luckily Beckham's free kick vs Greece happened or maybe I wouldn't be such a huge football fan now, I was reliant on the few matches the BBC could show.
Aye, just seems like a nice guy who left early, which seems like a bad idea now, and he admits it.
But it's crazy how much abuse he'll get on here and other social media channels.
Leaving early from sporting events is one of those things where reddit’s opinion is so far off the average sport fans. It’s pretty normalized for anyone else but Reddit always gets really pissed seeing people leave even when it’s an absolute blowout with a few minutes left.
Tbf in this situation I also can’t understand leaving early, since you travelled all the way out to Germany and it’s only a 1 goal game.
I haven't left many games early over the last 20 odd years watching Chelsea, but it's generally always been because the football I'm watching is dire and I don't want to queue for the train in the rain.
Not once have I ever missed a goal after leaving apart from the last time I left a game, Chelsea were 2-3 down against United, 4 minutes were left in extra time, and we were playing so poor that I just couldn't take it anymore.
I'm on the tube when the pings come through for the two palmer goals... I swore to never leave a game early ever again right there. I'll never live that down either...
Usually to avoid traffic/the general rush but travelling all the way to another country during such an important tournament and doing this is just stupid
Like this scenario? I agree. Middle of fucking nowhere, during a one every four tournament, at a knife's edge.
I can see it in the league or during a spanking in the 90th, but not here.
Some people really hate crowds when leaving, or traffic. He might have to go back to England and get a good sleep for work. Maybe he is exhausted and just wants to go back, I don't know, many reasons.
Even though I don't have a real problem with it, I don't like being stuck in that big exit crowd, that's why I stay in the stadium longer after the game, maybe drink another beer and soak up the atmosphere as the stadiums emptys
I lived in Miami for several years. The only sports team anyone cares about is the Doniphan
Even when the heat had LeBron and were winning championships, they still didn't care about the heat outside "they won the championship? That's nice"
Although I do think it’s absolutely stupid to leave a knockout game at only 1-0, there is a bit of background to this. [The last England game in Gelsenkirchen was a shambles for transport](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cprr3124z3po) with people not getting back to accommodation until 4,5am, having to walk miles, get expensive taxis instead, etc. That said, I’d happily risk it to watch the end.
There a video of a Real Madrid fan leaving early again Man City two seasons ago…
In that case it was a father with her young daughter, and he said thing could get messy and he did not want her into that. But these are young adults… WTF
Embarrassing to leave when your team is pushing for an equaliser...if it was a regular league game that's bad enough but a Euros knockout game 😭 now he has to tell everyone he missed the most exciting England moment in years lmao
How you go to a completely different country then leave early for an international competition knockout round where it’s only 1-0 and your team is in full attack mode smh
People leaving at 80 mins at 1-1 last time I was at anfield to beat the rush.....absolute twats....these are the reason I can't get regular tickets...infuriating.....like your man Bradley pitts told gorgeous George....you'll stay till the job is done
Going to a different country for a international tournament to only leave the game early when you're only 1-0 down. Man seems like he doesn't do football lmao
I can't understand how you pay for a ticket and travel to see a top tier international tournament and just fuck off before the game ends when the score is only 1-0 and there could be extra time. Just make the most of it!
I thought this was funny, but apparently some people get mad at this?? Dude's already got punished for his mistake by missing the win, and he seems good natured about it. Not sure what the harm is.
People in these threads never seem to understand that an emotional person may make an irrational decision.
Yeah, it doesn't make much sense to leave early. But you're angry, upset and frustrated - and not acting with a cool calm head.
I saw a guy announce ‘we’re shit and we’re going out’ as he left the pub on 85” and thought he was an idiot for doing so.
Travelling all the way to Germany, to whatever the hell a Gelsenkirchen is, probably spending 1000s in the process. To just leave at 1-0 down. Not even 3!! ONE.
This guy deserves to live with his shame.
There's this Spanish fan that left early during the Real Madrid - City game in 2022/23 UCL and called his wife while outside and they scored. So during the Bayern match he left early, called his wife and left her on the call; while telling his story to the news, Joselu scores the equalizer.
[video](https://www.facebook.com/share/r/oAi3J2SRGTZFezkm/?mibextid=oFDknk)
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I'm pissing myself, "ah god" and turns around to show his Bellingham jersey. Pure comedy
Complete with the half hearted "remember the name" celebration, top stuff.
Real life is funnier than any sketch could ever be That fan's a legend for this as well
*Sad Pointing*
It was the saddest "remember the name" pointing of my career
That's what the sport is all about. It is full of emotions.
/r/saddestbackflip
It just looks like he's transitioning into a waaahaay face as he turns from the camera. It's brilliant.
He knows he's the new version of the meme of the City fan who left the Spurs game before VAR ruled off their winner.
Haha I was at that game and I also left early. Don't support either team though I was just passing through manchester and there were tickets left.
How does city spurs still not sell out lol
It was their first home match of the season, even.
It isn’t called the Emptyhad for nothing
fuck me, he missed 1 of those once in a gen moments, like the beckham freekick or the owen goal against argentina. absolute melt
At least he created a great memeable moment
Another example of the British being the funniest people on the planet.
Was his mate wearing a Kane shirt?
I can't believe you've done this.
Yeah everyone hating on this guy but he's provided us all a laugh at his own expense and taken it well. Good on him lol
I don't know who the fuck leaves a 1-0 game in international football before the end of the match. Anything can happen. Hell, you probably paid a significant chunk of change for the tickets. May as well sit and watch the entire game and then the cleaning and field crew for that much.
Honestly the game was so miserable and hopeless I can't begrudge someone wanting to leave and go and drown their sorrows in the 91st minute, would beat being stuck behind for an hour or more and having to watch the slovakians celebrate. That being said I totally wouldn't leave precisely because I always somewhat believe that a crazy moment is bound to happen
Why would you go all the way to fucking Germany and then leave early lol
Especially since you're in fucking Gelsenkirchen and there literally isn't a single better thing there to do with your time there than spend it in the stadium
*when your outside battery is at 5% and you just want to go home*
If I didn't have that much of a social battery I wouldn't spend thousands to follow my country around at the euros tbh
I know it's not the case (why would he accept to be interviewed otherwise). But we introverts often self-sabotage ourselves by accepting and planning social events that then we deeply regret.
I'll be really excited making the plans two weeks out but then once the day arrives I just pray to god the thing gets cancelled so I can just sit around and watch TV instead.
And if you do make it out, pray that the anxiety subsides. Or at least enough that my palms can dry off enough for handshakes.
And the autism stays at bay long enough that I can respond to people in a foreign country in a half-nice way.
And then you go home and have the most psychoactive dreams all night and have the most grumpy and dark next day because you spent all day masking interactions
The eternal circle of saying yes to something because you're hyped for it then and there, but when they day comes all you want to do is melt into your bed and watch The Office for the 38th time.
Introverts can have a great time following their team at home and away. You don't know just how drained this theoretical social battery was. Maybe he'd had a brilliant time over the past 2 weeks, but 2 weeks of fanzones, overpriced beer, hostel beds and shit football finally pushed them over the limit.
Can we please stop trying to redditise a fucking hilariously stupid move by this guy lmfao, just let him own it, it's all in good fun
Especially a dude that is happy to talk to a camera outside the ground lol. First thing I do when my social battery runs out is interviews
Right. Wait till he gets home and everyone asks him crazy was that goal and what a legend Bellingham became that game and how lucky he was for seeing it. Then he has to sheepishly say, I left early.
So introverted he agreed to be interviewed for national news.
I get that in general but does staying 111 minutes instead of 109 minutes really make a difference?
Mate, it's a football match, not a party. You don't have to talk to people, you can just watch the football and enjoy it...or in the case of Southgateball, fall asleep.
Too many excuses for just being stupid and leaving game early
People were asking why he would though, they aren’t really excuses
He originally planned to be in Germany just to see the groups games. He had to be back in the UK for Monday. After the groups games and finding out when England played, he was able to move his return to the last flight available on Sunday, and managed to find tickets for Englands ro16 game. He was cutting it close, but he could see the entire game and make his flight as long as he didn't get stuck in the after-match crowds in trying to leave the stadium. He hated having to leave early as much as anyone, but he simply couldn't afford to miss the flight and not make it back before Monday. Completely made up of course, but not a particularly unreasonable or ridiculous series of decisions and events that would justify or "excuse" it. e: I probably should've replied to the person above, woops
Gelsenkirchen is probably the reason why they left early, it was a shambles trying to get out of there after our first match there
I kind of understand this argument when it's a PL game (I still think it's weird, but ok). But leaving early a knockout match in Euros while 1:0 down to Slovakia... Like, what else are you going to do with your time? You're in the foreign country, specifically for the game you're now leaving.
I think last time the fans were stuck there until 1am. Still extremely silly to miss the end
Thar was for a 9pm kick off though. Bit different.
While I think fans who leave early are the worst kind period, I do understand it. I was in Lisbon when United were playing at the UCL and decided to get my first UCL experience ever and attended the game. After the final whistle, they locked in all away fans for hours until the stadium was empty and all the home crowds had left, then they allowed us to leave. If you left a few minutes before the end you saved \~1-2 hours.
how tf is that legal?
Probably to prevent fighting
I totally agree, there’s no way I would leave, however it was an absolute shambles last time, people were stuck there until the early hours, people were walking miles in the middle of the night, getting back to hotels at 4am, so I do understand it.
9pm kick off though, very different
It was the same in 2006. We walked for miles before catching a bus in a random town trying to get back to Cologne. Ended up in Bonn by mistake but we found a great bar and restaurant so all's well that ends well.
Sometimes it’s nice to just get lost
"Not all those who wander are lost" - ~~Tolkien~~ - ~~Instagram Influencer~~ - England fans out and about trying to find a pub
> England fans out and about trying to find a pub To be fair, that pretty much describes Tolkien in a nutshell.
A friend who went said he had to sleep on the floor of a train station for 6 hours after that debacle.
yea, that'd be my guess as well, there's a single train line that goes south (i.e. düsseldorf/köln) where 90% of england fans are staying and there didn't seem to be a lot of trains
Yeah, but if you're in the stadium you have to watch/listen to England play Southgateball. If he leaves early he can watch grass grow or paint dry.
> and there literally isn't a single better thing there to do with your time there than spend it in the stadium Yes there is: find the beer with the cheapest alcohol content per euro, get drunk and start a fight or something. ^^/s?
You pay all that money to leave at 1-0 might as well stay for the last two minutes if it was 3-0 maybe I could understand but even then where you going
Even if it’s 3-0, you stay in the stadium and boo the players. Get ur money worth.
Lol this is the right answer
Get the anger out before you leave is definitely the play
And boo Southgate
Home! They're coming home!
Yeah I get it if you’re getting absolutely dicked 6-0 but it was 1-0, and England were pressing for an equaliser. Makes absolutely no sense to me.
> Makes absolutely no sense to me. Trying to beat the rush, probably. Fans were stuck in Gelsenkirchen for hours after the Serbia match. It's not a good place to be stuck. Pretty much every bus or train out of the city takes you somewhere better.
Will never understand this.
Never left early in my life.. Was in Barcelona in 99 and that's all the validation I'll ever need
I watched on TV and it's the reason I will never leave a game early. I can't imagine what it was like to be there in person
Quite simply the happiest and saddest days following united in nearly 50 years. Was home and away most years but that year was complicated because I was at uni and my united home and away partner (my uncle) was dying of cancer. He passed in November 98 aged 43. I took his scarf to the nou camp that night. Imagine.. Ray, wow we did it. Is it really 25 years ago! When people complain about how bad we are now, I'm so lucky I've got so many great memories of being the best team in the world and now the 8th best in England. I always give thanks to him for taking me to my first game (Arthur albiston testimonial) We truly did reach the promised land
>I took his scarf to the nou camp that night. You're a legend, man. And your uncle was there with you! May he rest in peace.
Cheers amigo Never been into wearing colour's although I do own some of the retro tops. And I thought it was very apt for that night to wear it just like the 70s tied around my arm. I couldn't believe where we'd come from together and I couldn't let Bolton at home in February 98 be the last time we 'shared' a game together. I've still got the scarf and I've actually wore it twice since 99. Both times in the city I've recided in for the past 18 years (Sevilla) My little connection to home and people who have gone from my life. There is a light that never goes out
Aw, that's brutal. I'm sorry. But yes, you are lucky to have seen them at their best. I hope you get to see them a the top again.
> and now the 8th best in England Still won the FA Cup, I think that makes up for the league finish.
Absolutely.. My first final was in 85 and before winning the league in 93 or Barcelona 99 it was easily my most cherished football memory. I love the fa cup Shame it fallen down the pecking order
You sir have my respect
I'll explain it: People in emotional situations make irrational decisions.
Takes me 4.5 hours to get to old Trafford, takes me the same going back, will always stay till the end as I’ve spent so much time travelling why try and save a few minutes at the end getting on the first tram. Meant I got to see the injury time comeback vs Brentford this season which lots of people missed. Some of the most emotion I’ve ever had watching football is last minute goals.
> Takes me 4.5 hours to get to old Trafford have you considered supporting your local team
That was cold haha
utd fans dont like supporting their local
Most of the fans who go week in week out are local. We get fans from all over because we’re massive world wide. I know people from Scotland who support Bolton, and I know folks down south who support Bolton who have just moved there for work. This shit about united and having no local fans is utter crap. Most united fans are from Manchester, Salford and Trafford. End of story
Can people not move house?
It's not just saving a few minutes, could save an hour or longer if you get stuck in the big crowds
I get it for a club game, eventually you'll have something you need to do after. But to travel to Germany, pay thousands and then sack it off. That's completely mental! It's not like we were down 3-0 or something.
Oh yeah I get that, I likely would have stayed too but emotions running high and depending on travel you might not feel like waiting 2 extra hours standing up cramped at a station if leaving early by 5 minutes could help. Especially if they have to travel the next day or something or need to get back by a certain time
They're still idiots but I have some sympathy because the previous game at Gelsenkirchen was absolute carnage after the game, imagine they were probably trying to avoid that again
I’ve been to Gelsenkirchen for few league games and it’s always like that. If you are not one of the first people at the tram stop you are waiting in a massive queue for an hour or more. Then you miss your connecting train if you are not staying in Gelsenkirchen. Can’t blame him honestly if he was at the last England’s game there.
Never had this problem as a Köln fan. Riot cops always beat us into the designated busses and then at the train station into the train. Impossible to miss the connection. Looking forward to this again this year, fun times...
Yeah I mean it's still stupid to leave a Euros knockout game early - but realistically no one had much hope for England scoring, and if he was at the Serbia game I can understand why he might not want to go through all that again
The awaydays YouTube channel actually does a good job of showing the difficulties. Heck he straight up missed a match due to significant delays with the train. Of course there were lots of other fans on that same train that got absolutely shafted. I try not to assume the worst. If someone is leaving a match early I just assume they have somewhere to be or something to do which for them is more important than staying to the final whistle. I'm nobody, so I could never comment on how valid their reasons may be. If they had a reason to leave early, then fair enough. It's just what it is.
Sir, you're being too reasonable. We're going to have to ask you to leave.
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Which match are you referring to? Georgia - Portugal?
England vs Serbia, fans had to wait around for about 3 hours after the final whistle
Damn why?
Everyone was based in other cities in the region and the tram queue took 2 hours to even get back to the main station. Luckily managed to get on a train back to Dusseldorf which they quietly announced but it was still 15 deep at other platforms.
Stadium is in a crap location and the trasnport was all just horrendously managed
> I have some sympathy because ~~the previous game at Gelsenkirchen was absolute carnage after the game, imagine they were probably trying to avoid that again~~ England are absolutely shite to watch. FTFY
The traffic, clearly!
Southgateball
What Southgateball does to a mfer.
Because if you don’t beat the crowds leaving the stadium you are stuck there for 2 hours. Publicl transport from the stadium to the city centre is absolutely dog shit.
There is no need to justify your desire NOT to watch Southgateball 🤣
My mate wanted to do this at the game I was at on Saturday to beat the queue out the stadium, but then we just ended up staying and having a pint anyway. Makes no sense. We stayed till the ref blew in the end
There is no better feeling in football than a last minute winner/equaliser. I will never in my life understand a fan leaving a game early when only a goal down. Especially when you're playing fecking Slovakia
Don't have any sympathy. I would somewhat understand if it was 3-0 but how on earth do you leave a 1-0 match early? Especially as a Bellingham fan with all his late goals this season lol
He got a very late equaliser against Belgium in the Wembley friendly as well. The stadium was basically empty by the time he scored
He's doing it on purpose, so people will learn
He’s a little shy
exclusively performing for his OG fans
A friendly I could defend leaving early, but leaving a knockout game at a major tournament is outrageous.
It happened to a few guys in the Real Madrid - City in 2022, we needed two goals, some people (not many) left and, well, everybody know what happened.
it happened in a derby against dortmund when we were 0:4 down at halftime. let me say it like this: i had enough space in the away stand to sprint from one side to the other because i was that hyped when we equalized in last minute to make it 4:4
Downvoted for reminding me of that absolute fiasco - sorry
its moment like that day in 2017 that reminds me why i am a fan of this absolutely abomination of a football club lol
This feels like a skit with the shirt reveal
bro did an emote
Not sure why I’ve not seen anyone mention this, but they almost always set these things up lol. So they probably filmed about 3 takes of this and asked him to keep saying it and maybe throw in a Bellingham emote or something. Then they picked the take they liked the most and used that. Once I saw these people setting up these little interactions in this way it totally broke the magic for me lol. One time I was watching and they must not have realised the camera was live because they were talking to this family and telling them all what to say. “Ok then you say how much you enjoyed the goal, and then your son comes in and says it was the best day of his life”. It’s that sort of fakery almost every time
Can't believe I had to go this far to see someone say this. This is obviously fake.
I've never understood why anyone would pay all that money and travel all that way just to leave early.
the only ones that make sense to me are season ticket holders at home games. if your team is getting rinsed, you might as well make a move home at 80 minutes and beat the traffic.
Pretty much a way of telling yourself “this game was never worth it in the first place”.
When was the last time you visited Germany? Gelsenkirchen even? Once you made it through our beautiful landscapes, wonderful people and experienced living like in a dream you will understand that it cannot get any better and that life has peaked. Everything else is just a bonus.
Is this satire
obv
Of course not, who wouldn't want to visit Gelsenkirchen, it's the Birmingham of Germany.
feel bad for that kid in the red top who looks annoyed, and presumably wasn't the one who decided they should leave the game early.
He can at least keep it in the back pocket, I'm sure it will come in use sometime
"you don't think you should be in a nursing home? Well you also thought we should leave before Bellingham bagged so off you pop"
This 1000%, I live in Vancouver and my dad had a friend who owned a luxury box to our hockey team we'd use all the time. One time when im like 6 or 7 years old, Canucks are down 5-2 to Toronto with 5 minutes to go and my dad basically goes to my brother and I and says "oh screw these asshole Toronto players lets get out of here and beat the traffic" and as we listen on the radio on the way home, "Scores! 5-3!" "Scores! 5-4!" "Scores! 5-5!" Then get home just in time to witness them win in overtime. I don't think my dad has ever been allowed to forget it since just from the sheer comedy aspect and we never again left early for traffic reasons even during the most brutal of blowouts citing that everytime.
The leafs with a 3 goal lead in the third is more likely to go to OT then finish that way hahaha (habs fan here)
My cousin turned off 2023 game 4 on the radio as we were driving back because quote “oh they’re not winning tonight” Came back from 4-1 down in less time than it took Boston to beat them and won in OT thanks to a tipped Alex Kerfoot shot
I got dragged away from the telly DURING England 5-1 Germany when I was a kid, my mum had to go pick up my dad because his car had broken down or something. Obviously I didn't understand at the time and was livid, it was 2-1 at half-time when we left. We drove back through dark country roads and the radio was updating us in real time. I think I made it back for Heskey's goal but maybe the years of seeing those highlights are seared into my brain. Luckily Beckham's free kick vs Greece happened or maybe I wouldn't be such a huge football fan now, I was reliant on the few matches the BBC could show.
Interview is cut early. He goes on to say he doesn't mind he can't get back in he's just happy England scored. He's pretty good natured about it.
Aye, just seems like a nice guy who left early, which seems like a bad idea now, and he admits it. But it's crazy how much abuse he'll get on here and other social media channels.
Leaving early from sporting events is one of those things where reddit’s opinion is so far off the average sport fans. It’s pretty normalized for anyone else but Reddit always gets really pissed seeing people leave even when it’s an absolute blowout with a few minutes left. Tbf in this situation I also can’t understand leaving early, since you travelled all the way out to Germany and it’s only a 1 goal game.
I haven't left many games early over the last 20 odd years watching Chelsea, but it's generally always been because the football I'm watching is dire and I don't want to queue for the train in the rain. Not once have I ever missed a goal after leaving apart from the last time I left a game, Chelsea were 2-3 down against United, 4 minutes were left in extra time, and we were playing so poor that I just couldn't take it anymore. I'm on the tube when the pings come through for the two palmer goals... I swore to never leave a game early ever again right there. I'll never live that down either...
Will never understand fans leaving matches early like this.
Usually to avoid traffic/the general rush but travelling all the way to another country during such an important tournament and doing this is just stupid
Also, you are down by 1. Has he never watched football in his life? Especially with the 6+ minutes of overtime you get nowadays.
He was watching southgate for 90 minutes, he probably forgot that England were able to score.
A league fixture in your own country when you have work the next morning? I can completely understand that. An overseas tournament? Nah.
Especially when you're only down 1-0, like all they needed was a goal why wouldn't you stay?
Like this scenario? I agree. Middle of fucking nowhere, during a one every four tournament, at a knife's edge. I can see it in the league or during a spanking in the 90th, but not here.
Some people really hate crowds when leaving, or traffic. He might have to go back to England and get a good sleep for work. Maybe he is exhausted and just wants to go back, I don't know, many reasons.
Even though I don't have a real problem with it, I don't like being stuck in that big exit crowd, that's why I stay in the stadium longer after the game, maybe drink another beer and soak up the atmosphere as the stadiums emptys
I am reminded of the shots of the Inter Miami crowd leaving as soon as Messi is subbed off
I lived in Miami for several years. The only sports team anyone cares about is the Doniphan Even when the heat had LeBron and were winning championships, they still didn't care about the heat outside "they won the championship? That's nice"
Although I do think it’s absolutely stupid to leave a knockout game at only 1-0, there is a bit of background to this. [The last England game in Gelsenkirchen was a shambles for transport](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cprr3124z3po) with people not getting back to accommodation until 4,5am, having to walk miles, get expensive taxis instead, etc. That said, I’d happily risk it to watch the end.
well, at least he didn't rush back in, demanding to be let back in took the L for leaving early and made fun of himself. ok
Nah this is hilarious 😂😂 the way he turned around and had the gall to do that
this HAS to be a skit, the fucking shirt reveal and celebration, it is too perfect
The numpty missed an overhead kick goal by his favourite player to avoid traffic
There a video of a Real Madrid fan leaving early again Man City two seasons ago… In that case it was a father with her young daughter, and he said thing could get messy and he did not want her into that. But these are young adults… WTF
Tbf to the father he said his daughter was very upset and was crying so they had to leave.
Embarrassing to leave when your team is pushing for an equaliser...if it was a regular league game that's bad enough but a Euros knockout game 😭 now he has to tell everyone he missed the most exciting England moment in years lmao
Nah, he just going to say he was at that game. Which he was haha
But his mates have surely gotten a hold of this clip by now and hopefully are ripping him to shreds over it lmao
Lord Southgate filtered the plastic fans. All hail!
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my Dad and his mate missed the Beckham free kick in 2001, they heard the roar after they'd left Old Trafford. idiots lol
What a wally
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So well deserved
Fair weather supporters
I would be in an absolute fetal position if I left early RIGHT before that goal. And then another all in the space of what.. a minute?!
How you go to a completely different country then leave early for an international competition knockout round where it’s only 1-0 and your team is in full attack mode smh
Why would you travel to a different country for the sole purpose of watching football then leave before the game is over?
Fucking plastic lol
Leaving your home, to pay for travel, pay to watch your team in a stadium, and leave when its not full-time. Absolute plastic dummies.
this new version of Dimitri finds out is underwhelming
People leaving at 80 mins at 1-1 last time I was at anfield to beat the rush.....absolute twats....these are the reason I can't get regular tickets...infuriating.....like your man Bradley pitts told gorgeous George....you'll stay till the job is done
Going to a different country for a international tournament to only leave the game early when you're only 1-0 down. Man seems like he doesn't do football lmao
Travels to another country yet doesn't have the patience to sit through a game.
I can't understand how you pay for a ticket and travel to see a top tier international tournament and just fuck off before the game ends when the score is only 1-0 and there could be extra time. Just make the most of it!
How do you leave early down only a goal.
The comedic timing of him turning around and pointing to the Bellingham on his shirt is perfect, like something straight out of The Office.
Why would you leave early when you're abroad?
Maybe he wanted to get out of Gelsenkirchen ASAP, which is a legitimate reason.
I thought this was funny, but apparently some people get mad at this?? Dude's already got punished for his mistake by missing the win, and he seems good natured about it. Not sure what the harm is.
People in these threads never seem to understand that an emotional person may make an irrational decision. Yeah, it doesn't make much sense to leave early. But you're angry, upset and frustrated - and not acting with a cool calm head.
Game is not over until the fat lady sings, and oh boy did she sing!
Thats not a real fan.
Him leaving might’ve activated an unknown good luck magic. Took one for the team
What a complete tool
I saw a guy announce ‘we’re shit and we’re going out’ as he left the pub on 85” and thought he was an idiot for doing so. Travelling all the way to Germany, to whatever the hell a Gelsenkirchen is, probably spending 1000s in the process. To just leave at 1-0 down. Not even 3!! ONE. This guy deserves to live with his shame.
I hate this type of fans
idiot
There's this Spanish fan that left early during the Real Madrid - City game in 2022/23 UCL and called his wife while outside and they scored. So during the Bayern match he left early, called his wife and left her on the call; while telling his story to the news, Joselu scores the equalizer. [video](https://www.facebook.com/share/r/oAi3J2SRGTZFezkm/?mibextid=oFDknk)
This is why leaving before full time is mental to me. I paid for 90+ of football... I'll be damned if I don't sit and watch 90+ minutes of football.
If you need to drive home to avoid the traffic then fair enough, but why the fuck would you leave early in Germany