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Longest you've gone not knowing the result

AFKABartramAFKABartram
in General Charlton
Following Razil's shock revelation he didn't find out the score from last night until this morning, a full 9hrs after the result.....

I honestly can't remember not knowing the final score of one our games in anything beyond 'a few minutes', particularly in the last ten years with the advances in technology.

When was the last time you went a a fair while not knowing the result and, or any related tales of 'not knowing the score'
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  • HartleypeteHartleypete
    edited April 2014
    Remember being away on some remote Greek island for our first home game in premier league, didn't find out until papers arrived a day later that we beat, sorry thrashed Southampton, I was gutted & over the moon at the same time!
  • UboatUboat
    Skiing last half term I had no internet access for a week and no English paper. I found out we'd beaten Leicester and lost to Hull (that might be wrong) when I got home - so a week later in the case of the Saturday game.
  • shine166shine166
    Went monts without seeing results while in my first year of uni, same with TV and the news too
  • UboatUboat
    Hartleypete said:

    Remember being away on some remote Greek island for our first game in premier league, didn't find out until papers arrived a day later that we beat, sorry thrashed Southampton, I was gutted & over the moon at the same time!

    Yes - I was also a day late on this one, staying in a remote French farmhouse with friends, including three a Southampton fan. Some people arrived in the middle of the night with the news, so we opened the Saints fan's cigarettes and wrote 5-0 on all of them, ready for him in the morning.
  • Chris_from_SidcupChris_from_Sidcup
    Remember back in the day (late 80s, early 90s) being on holiday with my parents in Menorca when you had to wait until the day after to get the papers. So for a saturday game, you had to wait until Monday for sundays papers to arrive. Always remember getting shouted out by some angry spaniard for spending about 20 minutes reading the football results and reports.
  • charente addickcharente addick
    In the Andy Nelson third division promotion season I was visiting my sister on Long Island and it was 3 or 4 days before I got the result in the NY Times. Grimsby at home I think was the game.
  • RedPandaRedPanda
    When we lost at Stevenage I didn't know for about 20 hours. I was on a minibus between northern and west Sumatra, I then spent ages in Padang wandering aimlessly trying to find a net caff.

    Notts County away the season before I woke up in our Nottingham hotel not knowing the score. That wasn't anything to do with minibuses.
  • Pedro45Pedro45
    I remember back in the early Eighties, one winter's Tuesday night I sat watching the ten o'clock news for some unknown reason. They always told you the football scores at the end, so about 10.25-ish, but I wasn't paying much attention. Up came Blackburn 0 Charlton 2. I didn't even know we were playing that night (it was arranged at very short notice following a previous cancellation)! If I hadn't watched the news that night, I doubt I'd have known until the next morning when I would have had a shock reading the sports pages of the Mirror...
  • AFKABartramAFKABartram
    Chris_from_Sidcup said:

    Remember back in the day (late 80s, early 90s) being on holiday with my parents in Menorca when you had to wait until the day after to get the papers. So for a saturday game, you had to wait until Monday for sundays papers to arrive. Always remember getting shouted out by some angry spaniard for spending about 20 minutes reading the football results and reports.

    Ditto for the first game at Upton Park, which i think was a 3-1 win at home to Newcastle. Was in Tenerife at the time.

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  • hawksmoorhawksmoor
    In the States once, I got my missus to place the proverbial long-distance call to her sister on the pretext of asking how we got on at Portsmouth. She was busy telling her sister what we'd been up to while I was impatiently mouthing, 'SCORE?' at her. Anyway, we won 2-0. John Salako and John Robinson were the scorers, I seem to remember.
  • lordromfordlordromford
    The play off final against Leeds at St Andrews in 87.
    I was on holiday and couldn't find a telly to watch it, but a bloke had it on his radio and I heard the Leeds goal so I buggered off with the ump, had a couple of drinks and went back to the bedroom for a kip.
    Watched the highlights on the breakfast news the next morning. Couldn't believe it!
  • Richard JRichard J
    I have left it until the next morning a few times when on holiday for night games . On other occasions when at weddings on a Saturday I have avoided the score until I returned home because I have wanted to remain in a positive mood (sad I know) .

    Technology has moved on though , as a youngster the only in play update I could receive was LBC on their 8.30 bulletin would give a half time score for any London clubs that were playing.
  • redlaneredredlanered
    hawksmoor said:

    In the States once, I got my missus to place the proverbial long-distance call to her sister on the pretext of asking how we got on at Portsmouth. She was busy telling her sister what we'd been up to while I was impatiently mouthing, 'SCORE?' at her. Anyway, we won 2-0. John Salako and John Robinson were the scorers, I seem to remember.

    Lived in the US late 80s & early 90s, and if you missed the World Service Sat programme, it was next day & sometimes later. Midweek games were tricky, and it was at least 24 hours before i discovered that we'd beaten Leeds in the play-offs to stay up - may not be the longest time span, but for a game of this magnitude...(looking back, why didn't I phone someone...?) Part of the problem was that during these years, football was lower profile generally, so people who ought to have known often didn't.

    NY Times coverage was never reliable (i.e. they would sometimes not carry results at all, and never midweek, or Div 2 & below). And occasionally charmingly clueless ("Millwall beat Sheffield on Wednesday" is a genuine example).
  • redlaneredredlanered
    MrOneLung said:

    Hartleypete said:

    Remember being away on some remote Greek island for our first game in premier league, didn't find out until papers arrived a day later that we beat, sorry thrashed Southampton, I was gutted & over the moon at the same time!

    So remote you missed the 0-0 draw away to Newcastle the weekend before.
    Rufus got sent off - our outfield players wore numbers 1-11 and think that was last time that happended in Premier League.

    So you win, with 16 years or so without knowing result
    I think we wore 1-11 for the Liverpool away a few weeks later, i reckon that may be the last one ever...
  • LargeAddickLargeAddick
    I've been in Oz a few times but always known the result within minutes.

    It was excruitiating last night though. On the train home for the entire duration of the match and was following on the phone on CL. Suddenly I lost signal, the last post I read was something like 'bollocks, a penalty'. It took four minutes before I got a signal again. It seemed a lifetime ....
  • Clem_SnideClem_Snide
    I remember a night game up a Newcastle in the Premier League days (0-0 I think). I completely forgot we had played them and didn't get the result until the next home game! It was in the days that I used to buy a programme.
  • CAFC LukeCAFC Luke
    edited April 2014
    A couple of months ago I had a lot of work on, and was away from my phone for a few hours which meant that by the time I had a chance to check it, it was about 9 in the evening. Decided the better idea would be to not find out the score vs. QPR knowing we were the main game on the Football League show. By far and away one of the best moments of the season and to live it out "as live" (albeit in very edited format) was incredible.
  • thai malaysia addickthai malaysia addick
    edited April 2014
    I had one that was almost 24 hours but it was made worse by getting the wrong result as well. I travelled on the train from Kuala Lumpur airport to central KL. On the train, they have a news programme of sorts and showed the Premiership results (yes, it was those days). We were down for 2-1 away win to someone. About 10 hours later, I discovered that it was a mistake and that we had lost 2-1.
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  • CAFCTrevCAFCTrev
    Did we win our play off final in 98 in the end?
  • chester_conradchester_conrad
    edited April 2014
    CAFCTrev said:

    Did we win our play off final in 98 in the end?

    No, it was a draw.
  • tangoflashtangoflash
    We played away at palace on the day I was born 14th jan 67. I didn't know the result of this (lost 1-0) until 2 minutes ago when I looked it up in Colin Camerons Home & away book. So, 47 years, 2 months and 12 days. Am I the winner?...............
  • hawksmoorhawksmoor
    redlanered said:

    hawksmoor said:

    In the States once, I got my missus to place the proverbial long-distance call to her sister on the pretext of asking how we got on at Portsmouth. She was busy telling her sister what we'd been up to while I was impatiently mouthing, 'SCORE?' at her. Anyway, we won 2-0. John Salako and John Robinson were the scorers, I seem to remember.

    Lived in the US late 80s & early 90s, and if you missed the World Service Sat programme, it was next day & sometimes later. Midweek games were tricky, and it was at least 24 hours before i discovered that we'd beaten Leeds in the play-offs to stay up - may not be the longest time span, but for a game of this magnitude...(looking back, why didn't I phone someone...?) Part of the problem was that during these years, football was lower profile generally, so people who ought to have known often didn't.

    NY Times coverage was never reliable (i.e. they would sometimes not carry results at all, and never midweek, or Div 2 & below). And occasionally charmingly clueless ("Millwall beat Sheffield on Wednesday" is a genuine example).
    'Millwall beat Sheffield on Wednesday'. Brilliant. I'm surprised the NY Times carries any English football results. Fair play.

  • hawksmoorhawksmoor
    And as a follow on to that Portsmouth result. I was sat next to a Portsmouth fan on the way over (Andy Petterson had just signed for them), and we discussed the forthcoming game, which he was confident about. Saw the same fella on the way back, and, visibly annoyed, he stuck his hand out to stop me in my tracks, said, 'I know, I know,' and walked off.
  • CHGCHG
    At Uni I didn't have tele text, so would often not find out the score until I bought a newspaper the following day.
  • Covered EndCovered End
    shine166 said:

    Went months without seeing anything whilst stoned, in my first year of uni.

    Joke :-) :-)
  • Kap10Kap10
    I was flying out to work in India as i boarded the plane I checked the score as the game had started ... Charlton 2 Spurs 0, 8 hours later turned phone on as soon a i could ...... Charlton 2 Spurs 3 ....... I could have done with waiting longer
  • SurreyAddickSurreyAddick
    Climbed Kilimanjaro last month for charity. Didn't hear that we'd lost to Shef Utd and SCP had been sacked until the following Friday!
  • paulsturgesspaulsturgess
    Cant think an occasion when its been any significant length of time at all. Remember having something on the day we drew 2-2 with derby away im about 2001ish and actively avoiding the score so we could watch it on sky. Even that was only about 2hours. Lay in bed at about 9am in california when on hol last year following the leicester home game on here via wifi.

    I really cant think that in the last 15 plus years theres been an occasion longer than an hour when i havent known.

    Last time it would potentially have been any length of time would be when on family holidays abroad pre internet in the mid 90s when it wouldve been via an english paper or ringing home the next day from a call box.
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