What important events have you missed to be at a Hibs game?

[He's here!]

Missed a friend's wedding to be at the Scottish Cup final in 2000. I remember trying to explain to her the magnitude of potentially burying the hoodoo, but she didn't really buy it. In hindsight I regret my decision.

[Bishop Hibee]

I missed the wedding of two school friends for a 0-0 draw in the league at Ibrox. It’s years ago and I’ve since rowed back from such madness and don’t put Hibs first above everything like I used to.

[B.H.F.C]

No missed anything as such, but plan everything around them for some stupid reason.

[Conj]

I missed my cousin’s wedding in order to see us get the Championship trophy in 2017

[PatHead]

Missed my wife's sister's wedding to see us humped by Hearts.

[Trinity Hibee]

Only missed a christening to go to Boyle’s return game v Hearts and boy was it worth it

[DarlingtonHibee]

Fleetwood Mac at the Playhouse,to see Kenny Dalglish play in a Hibernian jersey. A very unhappy ex fiancé

[Ringothedog]

I am aiming to miss my own death to go to a Hibs game, does that count?

[NadeAteMyLunch!]

Missed a friend's wedding to be at the Scottish Cup final in 2000. I remember trying to explain to her the magnitude of potentially burying the hoodoo, but she didn't really buy it. In hindsight I regret my decision.

A close friends wedding for the 2016 final. Was horrible missing it but not nearly as horrible as it would have been missing the game. Absolutely the correct call with hindsight

[Ryan91]

Missed a Lower than Atlantis gig to see us lose at Tynie under Lennon, figured I'd get a chance to see them again at some point. They disbanded not long after. Bugger.

[JimBHibees]

Anyone selfish enough to arrange a wedding which clashes with a cup final deserves to be blanked. :greengrin

[Smartie]

I was at a really important course with my work at Celtic Manor in May 2016 that was 3 days - Thursday, Friday, Saturday and there was a gala dinner on the Friday night.

There was a flight back booked for me from Cardiff airport at early o'clock on the Saturday but it still scares me how close I was to sacking it off and staying at the course, slightly hungover from the night before and coming back with my colleagues on the Saturday night.

My main feeling at the time was one of total disillusionment as I was still pissed off at the Falkirk debacle a week or so before and having already lost at Hampden that season I was getting pretty close to having had my fill of it all.

Never before was the phrase "Keep the faith" as important as it was at that moment though, leaving the hotel just as it was getting light to start a very important journey back home...

[Glory Lurker]

Anyone selfish enough to arrange a wedding which clashes with a cup final deserves to be blanked. :greengrin

Definitely. You can always marry someone else.

[Pagan Hibernia]

Nothing. I love football and hibs but they take a back seat to the important things in life. It really is just a game.

[TrinityHFC]

I missed my wife’s 40th birthday lunch a while back for a run of the mill league match. Sort of unthinkable now to be honest!

No way I’d allow her to schedule such a thing.

[JimBHibees]

I missed my wife’s 40th birthday lunch a while back for a run of the mill league match. Sort of unthinkable now to be honest!

No way I’d allow her to schedule such a thing.

:greengrin

[O'Rourke3]

I left the Videoton game at half time as I had tickets to The Eurythmics. So pleased to find the half time score was the full time score. Only game I've ever left before the final whistle. If I have a diary conflict the football may go however only missed one game on the same day as a playing gig. I was 'fortunate' to have a gig in Glasgow on the same day as the Cup final 2012..... I'll be there Sunday despite it being my birthday. The traditional Chinese kerry oot will wait till I get home but we'll still have time to celebrate. Better being lucky....

[ozhibs]

Many, many moons ago, I was supposed to be an usher at my uncle’s wedding but I went to the Scottish cup final v smeltic were we got humped 6-1. 1972
If I remember rightly, the train was rerouted to Motherwell, could be wrong. I arrived at the reception covered in dust from the Hampden dust bowl.
BTW uncle was a jambo.
GGTTH

[Auckland Hibs]

Have flown back from European holidays to see us lose too many finals. Have also traveled up from London missing a couple of weddings over the years, can't remember the games but mostly semi and derby matches.

In hindsight, I'd still pass on most events for the chance to see us win a final.

[hibstag]

No missed anything as such, but plan everything around them for some stupid reason.

This and there is always a quick discreet hibs fixtures search when people give me dates for things

[He's here!]

From Fever Pitch:

“As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of people around me, is less reasonable and less attractive. Family and friends know, after long years of wearying experience, that the fixture list always has the last word in any arrangement; they understand, or at least accept, that christenings or weddings or any gatherings, which in other families would take unquestioned precedence, can only be plotted after consultation. So football is regarded as a given disability that has to be worked around. If I were wheelchair-bound, nobody close to me would organise anything in a top-floor flat, so why would they plan anything for a winter Saturday afternoon? And then there are the unpredictable cup replays, the rearranged midweek fixtures, the games transferred from Saturday to Sunday at short notice in order to accommodate the television schedules, so I have to refuse invitations that clash with potential fixtures, as well as those which clash with actual fixtures. Or I do arrange something, but warn the parties involved that I might have to pull out at the last minute, which sometimes doesn't go down too well. But it gets harder and harder, and sometimes hurting someone is unavoidable."