"Oh Shit!": Memories of an Ill Fated Gooner.

[T.S]

While we're going down memory lane (see my last thread) I began pondering something else; I wonder who has the most embarrassing "I missed a goal because I had to go to the loo" story. Please, do share.

Mine isn't epic, but it's good enough to get things started. We were playing Liverpool at Highbury in the unbeaten season. I had recently come down with food poisoning, so I made a quick dash to the shitter (turned out to not be all that quick) and came back to see that Theirry had scored twice. Damn it!

Anyway, that's my story. Do share yours...

[All_Arsenal_1886]

Not me but a bloke sitting two seats away left when man utd scored last year at the Grove and we all know what happend that night

I know that wasnt a toilettelling story i just thought it was funny

[Chunky The Gooner]

On that lovely night of May in 1989 . We were 1-0 up at Anfield and David Pleat came out with some shit along the lines of " its somewhat poetic justic that Arsenal still won even though blah blah blah " Time was running out and it looked like we won and my dad went to make a coffee and Mickey T scored the winner and I screamed the house down !

[gus ceasar is a legend]

Mine is that kind of thing but not when we scored but the opposition did.

More specifically when Nayim did!

Had fantastic seats in the Parc de Princes courtesy of a mate who knew the dentist who was dentist to the stars in Paris (honest I kid you not but thats another story).

Anyhow sitting on the edge of my seat shaking like a shitting dog at the thought of penalties! Im in pieces!

So go to light my 20th fag of the game which I promptly drop...... search around on the floor for a few seconds!

Look up and cant see the ball! What the fuck has gone on here!

Seaman is on his arse and Stefan Schwarz is doing his nut!

Never knew what truely happened until I got back to the airport.....and didnt know it was Nayim that scored!

[IW8Goalmachine]

mine happened back at home watching the game in a pub. it was the leeds game where we lost the title but i must say kewels goal was a screamer anyways it all level and henry does his trademark run curls the ball into the bottom corner yes! myself and my brother where in eachothers arms raoring with delight not even bothering to look at the screen in the corner of my eye i saw another gooner just sitting there i couldn't understand why he was doing until the horror it wasn't a fucking goal at at and we just made a prick of ourselves infront of the whole pub which was 80% mancs

even to this day when i look at that shot it looks as if its in

[charliegeorgewhocanhitem]

I'm lucky enough to have never missed a really important goal but have missed waaay too many to remember while pissing out the pre match entertainment in the bog. I do seem to remember one night back in the dark and dismal early 80s going 2-0 down at home to West Brom with about five minutes to go in front of a terribly small crowd and walking out, on the way to the car we thought we'd heard a small cheer but did'nt get all that excited. On the drive home we put the radio on to hear that we'd scored twice and had drawn the game 2-2. One other that sticks in the mind was of us all piling out of the north bank to "get" the Leicester City fans in the clock end after going 2-1 down at home to them near the end of an FA cup tie in 1973 only to miss Geordie Armstrong scoring a last minute equalizer

[Belfast Boy]

Boro at home in what turned out to be one of the most memorable matches I've ever seen, in my time at Highbury!
It's the Invincible season and I'm with my burd, and we left shortly before half time (I know, tut tut serves me right and all that) to get somethin to eat and drink as we'd been travelling all day when we left our seats we were 1-0 up and by the time we got back we were 3-1 down and their fans are goin absolutely wild!
But what a day that turned out to be especially as we were in the west stand close to the clock end and boy did we get our payback, absolutely top drawer and probably one of the best displays of attackin football I've ever seen - awesome

[dbrien]

I went for a dump at highbury when we played Man City and missed Henry's goal. No big deal in that but who was having a dump in the next cubicle, Matt Lucas , him out of Little Britain and the only thing i could say as we stood next to each other washing hands was 'I'm a lady' and then I walked out.

the goal was on half time almost and as i walked out of the loo, he followed about 2 sec later as loads were coming in, all you could hear was 'yeh i know' and other catchphrases shouted at him by many gooners.

[green gooner]

I was over at game v the Spuds last year at the Grove when some bloke claimed I was sitting in HIS seat. So Stewards got all heavy handed and demanded an explanation. so I showed my e mail as proof that the seat in question was mine and was ordered downstairs.

Turned out Box Office had fecked up and as a result of the confusion I missed Ade's goal and the dance with Traitor14

Seat was indeed mine but sod all in the way of an apology from the Box Office, C*@ts!!!!!

[T.S]

Mine is that kind of thing but not when we scored but the opposition did.

More specifically when Nayim did!

Had fantastic seats in the Parc de Princes courtesy of a mate who knew the dentist who was dentist to the stars in Paris (honest I kid you not but thats another story).

Anyhow sitting on the edge of my seat shaking like a shitting dog at the thought of penalties! Im in pieces!

So go to light my 20th fag of the game which I promptly drop...... search around on the floor for a few seconds!

Look up and cant see the ball! What the fuck has gone on here!

Seaman is on his arse and Stefan Schwarz is doing his nut!

Never knew what truely happened until I got back to the airport.....and didnt know it was Nayim that scored!

Gus,

I'd actually managed to blank that night out of my memory. Thanks for reminding me of it.

Yours furiously,

Tony

[gus ceasar is a legend]

Whoops sorry Tone!

To be honest I used to be like that over the whole thing but since then we have gone on to bigger and better things!

Still one of the maddest moments in football though!

[Dicko]

Missed an Ian Wright goal at home to Oldham going to the loo to vomit with women's problems. Could hear the roar though and no screens in those days for replays.

Traffic and coach breakdown problems travelling from Oxford in my study days got in half an hour late and we were 3-0 up against Norwich!!

[DB10GOONER]

Had fantastic seats in the Parc de Princes courtesy of a mate who knew the dentist who was dentist to the stars in Paris

There are DENTISTS in France??!!

[Dicko]

And the train that stopped outside Mill Hill for ages and ages on the way up to Leicester for which made me miss one of Henry's goals and I only missed about 10 of his.

[TheOne2Smooth]

I missed 20 minutes of the Liverpool vs Arsenal carling cup game. Thankfully some scouser got injured meaning 13 minutes of injury ttime and saw all of the goal aha