[Football] Have You Ever Fallen Asleep During A Game?

[el punal]

If it's the same game I'm thinking of it was 2-0 and Ryan Harley scored a free kick. I didn't fall asleep, but it does stick in my memory as one of the most boring games I've been to.

Never fallen asleep at the football, although I did – surprisingly – have a little snooze in The Event II when drinking vodka red bulls one night.

Go figure, as they say.

I believe you’re referring to our win in August 2011, which I also watched. That free kick by Harley was about the only positive thing he did at the Albion.

My snooze was the following season in November 2012. It was 1-0, a late goal I think and an evening game to boot.

 

[jackalbion]

Pre game Newcastle away 2017/18, 5am start and a bottle of Prosecco just led to nothing but me drifting off.

 

[jackalbion]

[QUOzTE=jakarta;10183063]BHA vs. Blackpool 7 years ago 0-0 both sides deserved to lose, by the 80th minute I had lost the will to live.

Christ we are SO much better these days, bad day at the office vs. Burnley is now just that, a bad day...

Was that the one when Paddy McCourt came on as sub and did . . . nothing?[/QUOTE]

That was a good description of Paddy McCourt’s entire Brighton career

 

[studio150]

No, but I once fell asleep during a Bachman Turner Overdrive gig. They were absolutely shit.

Rock And Roll Hell

 

[WATFORD zero]

I was always genuinely baffled by the hero-worship this player induced amongst some on here. Looked like he'd woken up in a bus shelter, and played like it as well. One of the most junk signings in the Amex (or any other) era, but people really seemed to LOVE the fact that he turned up in our midfield looking like Kane Dingle after a heavy night in the Woolpack.

Anyway, can't say I've ever nodded off at a game but I've been pushed close many times, particularly in the late Hughton era.

But that was the whole point of cheering Paddy McCourt, wasn't it ? Or have I been whoooshed

 

[WATFORD zero]

No, but I once fell asleep during a Bachman Turner Overdrive gig. They were absolutely shit.

On the floor, Brighton Center, Blue Oyster Cult. They hadn't bought their much publicised 'laser show'

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

On the floor, Brighton Center, Blue Oyster Cult. They hadn't bought their much publicised 'laser show'

Really. That's disappointing to hear.

This is one of my favourite ever live album tracks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fINTYSJX1R0

 

[Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ]

We played Sheffield Wed at Hillsborough sometime around 2010 I think. We lost 1-0 and after a 6am mega bus from Victoria followed by a few beers in town I think I fell asleep during the first half

 

[portlock seagull]

Does blacking out and pissing yourself count? Hypothetically.

Different category, and many more entries I’d say! Stockport away, 1990s…still no idea what score was!

 

[Notters]

Oh yes, Forest v Stockport when I was a student. In the Trent End. Never at the albion though.

 

[Lenny Rider]

Peterborough at home at the Amex. Few beers pre match,sat in he East facing the sun, missed about 10 minutes in the first half.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

No, but I once fell asleep during a Bachman Turner Overdrive gig. They were absolutely shit.

Poptastic!

 

[Easy 10]

But that was the whole point of cheering Paddy McCourt, wasn't it ? Or have I been whoooshed

Weeellll...I can see the whole "cult" thing, because he was basically a shambling hopeless looking weirdo who could occasionally trip over the ball and make it look like a pass.

But at the time, I really, really didn't want us to be effectively a man down when we were scrapping tooth-and-nail for top 6. McCourt was my go-to facepalm whenever he entered the pitch.

He.Was.Shit.

 

[LamieRobertson]

No.

 

[The Kid Frankie]

Managed to sleep through most of the game with Stockport last game of the season when we just survived in 2009.

 

[el punal]

No.

Bloody insomniac!

 

[Petunia]

Many times. I don’t even try to stay up for the 02.00am kick-offs any more

 

[bhafc99]

England v Saudi Arabia 1998.

A starting 11 including Scholes, Beckham, Anderton, Shearer and Sheringham, with Wright, Gascoigne and Les Ferdinand coming on as subs, somehow drew 0-0. Dire game. Beers had been had, and I'd just returned from a few days fun with mates in Budapest so was a tad weary.

Ah, yes. Remember it well. [MENTION=189]Wozza[/MENTION] and I went to that game with a couple of others , then caught a coach to Wigan to watch The Verve the next afternoon , and then got a coach back again. So although technically we stayed awake during the game, we were definitely by the end of the weekend.

 

[Seagull on the Hill]

Yes, away v Luton, penultimate game of 78/79 season.
Started drinking on minibus at about 9, straight into the pub in Luton, to this day I don’t remember getting to the ground.
I came to at half time, sitting on the terracing with a pool of vomit in front of me, and a clear space around me!

 

[D'Angelo Saxon]

Coventry City in one of the cups at Withdean. I'd been out all night and thought a day at the football was a good idea (it definitely wasn't).