[Albion] That moment when it went in...........

[Guinness Boy]

....that's why we go to football isn't it?

Fans going mad in the ground, fans at home screaming at their telly in joy or disbelief, shithousery from the players, kicking off everywhere, the LOOK on Zahaha's face and most of their fans' boats as well. Sky having to change every plan for their post game interviews at the very last second. Pure pantomime, pure atmosphere and it still feels pretty good now.

Plus it feels like a win. We'll go into the Arsenal game on a massive high now.

THAT is what I mean when I say that a lucky result in front of a packed stadium can sometimes be better than a good but fruitless performance in an empty one. THAT is why last season, for me, was so frustrating and m'eh. And, let's face it, if fans had been in the Amex last season for their game with us their lot would have done exactly the same while we would have emptied the stadium and sulked for months.

Football without the fans is nothing.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Thought you were Fireman Dan, when I read the thread title.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Thought you were Fireman Dan, when I read the thread title.

Did I mention FOLDING?

 

[Goldstone1976]

Thought you were Fireman Dan, when I read the thread title.

Too much Guinness means you have to fold it in.

 

[Terry Butcher Tribute Act]

Good thread

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[B-right-on]

....that's why we go to football isn't it?

Fans going mad in the ground, fans at home screaming at their telly in joy or disbelief, shithousery from the players, kicking off everywhere, the LOOK on Zahaha's face and most of their fans' boats as well. Sky having to change every plan for their post game interviews at the very last second. Pure pantomime, pure atmosphere and it still feels pretty good now.

Plus it feels like a win. We'll go into the Arsenal game on a massive high now.

THAT is what I mean when I say that a lucky result in front of a packed stadium can sometimes be better than a good but fruitless performance in an empty one. THAT is why last season, for me, was so frustrating and m'eh. And, let's face it, if fans had been in the Amex last season for their game with us their lot would have done exactly the same while we would have emptied the stadium and sulked for months.

Football without the fans is nothing.

Abso-fecking-lootly

It's a pantomime, but it's my pantomime.

 

[Eric the meek]

The moment it went in, in the 95th minute, the Maupay shithousery, the argy-bargy, and then the Maupay interview - a masterclass in downplaying it all as banter.

All in all, a brilliant night's entertainment, considering we played so shite.

I look forward to the whole of the Amex cupping their ears at Palace for decades.

 

[dazzer6666]

....that's why we go to football isn't it?

Fans going mad in the ground, fans at home screaming at their telly in joy or disbelief, shithousery from the players, kicking off everywhere, the LOOK on Zahaha's face and most of their fans' boats as well. Sky having to change every plan for their post game interviews at the very last second. Pure pantomime, pure atmosphere and it still feels pretty good now.

Plus it feels like a win. We'll go into the Arsenal game on a massive high now.

THAT is what I mean when I say that a lucky result in front of a packed stadium can sometimes be better than a good but fruitless performance in an empty one. THAT is why last season, for me, was so frustrating and m'eh. And, let's face it, if fans had been in the Amex last season for their game with us their lot would have done exactly the same while we would have emptied the stadium and sulked for months.

Football without the fans is nothing.

Two hours on a bus, a shite, overpriced burger and 94 minutes and 24 seconds of not much worth watching, and the whole night is utterly transformed with two kicks in seconds. Football eh ? Even taking 3 hours to get home didn't seem so bad, just spent it (like everyone else on the bus) watching replays of the goal

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

I knew it was going in before it did! I was watching it in the sitting room and Mrs DiS in the kitchen, and the TVs seem to be in different time zones. I heard her yell before the ball even got to Maupay - before it got to Veltman, possibly. So I could guess what was coming and watch it with a big smile on my face.

 

[Peter Grummit]

I knew it was going in before it did! I was watching it in the sitting room and Mrs DiS in the kitchen, and the TVs seem to be in different time zones. I heard her yell before the ball even got to Maupay - before it got to Veltman, possibly. So I could guess what was coming and watch it with a big smile on my face.

In the ground, there was that delicious split-second when we all KNEW the ball was about to go in and time seemed to stand still, before the utter limbtastic pandemonium. THAT is why I go to football.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Football without the fans is nothing.

Without the fans there would be no football.

 

[Brovion]

....that's why we go to football isn't it?

Fans going mad in the ground, fans at home screaming at their telly in joy or disbelief, shithousery from the players, kicking off everywhere, the LOOK on Zahaha's face and most of their fans' boats as well. Sky having to change every plan for their post game interviews at the very last second. Pure pantomime, pure atmosphere and it still feels pretty good now.

Plus it feels like a win. We'll go into the Arsenal game on a massive high now.

THAT is what I mean when I say that a lucky result in front of a packed stadium can sometimes be better than a good but fruitless performance in an empty one. THAT is why last season, for me, was so frustrating and m'eh. And, let's face it, if fans had been in the Amex last season for their game with us their lot would have done exactly the same while we would have emptied the stadium and sulked for months.

Football without the fans is nothing.

Agreed. It was worth the pandemic, worth the lockdowns, worth the shortages, the fear, the masks, the closures, the misery, the isolation, the queues, the endless petty rules. Worth all that simply because there is NO film of similar scenes at the end of last season's home game; simply some footballers congratulating themselves in an empty stadium.


(And yes, that is a slightly tongue-in-cheek comment before someone says 'How dare you trivialise Covid!')

 

[Mellotron]

In the ground, there was that delicious split-second when we all KNEW the ball was about to go in and time seemed to stand still, before the utter limbtastic pandemonium. THAT is why I go to football.

Yep.

There's that moment where you almost go into Bullet Time (The Matrix (c)) and exist outside of the traditional constraints of time.

I was just laughing. Joyously laughing at what a wonderful, wonderful moment it was.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Our daughter went to the game. She tried to FaceTime us after the goal went in but we could hear but not see the CHAOS.

 

[Baker lite]

It was a fantastic moment in time, the very reason we all love football, however, we all woke up this morning back in the real world, no food on the shelves, no fuel at the pumps, blasted Brexit has left us all having to eat our own earwax… oh how I long to for days when we were in the bosom of the EU.

 

[Muzzman]

My overall emotion above all others was hilarity... I don't think I've laughed that hard since Sneaky George scored.

 

[Bry Nylon]

It was a fantastic moment in time, the very reason we all love football, however, we all woke up this morning back in the real world, no food on the shelves, no fuel at the pumps, blasted Brexit has left us all having to eat our own earwax… oh how I long to for days when we were in the bosom of the EU.

Don't need any of that on a day like this.

Thanks

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

It was a moment of pure beauty and drama and above all karma. As OP says, it's why we go to football. Or even just watch the highlights

 

[Seagull27]

It was a fantastic moment in time, the very reason we all love football, however, we all woke up this morning back in the real world, no food on the shelves, no fuel at the pumps, blasted Brexit has left us all having to eat our own earwax… oh how I long to for days when we were in the bosom of the EU.

What a bizarre post.

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[Gazwag]

And when the dust has settled just sit down and think about the people who don't like football, is there really any other scenario where you can get that sort of release to scream and shout, leaping into the air and be totally consumed in that moment.