Don’t forget your team mates.

In December 1937, during a football match at Stamford Bridge in London between Chelsea FC and Charlton FC, the game was abandoned in the 60th minute due to heavy fog.

Unfortunately, Charlton FC goalkeeper Sam Bartram was unaware that the match had been stopped and continued to guard his goal for another fifteen minutes. He did not hear the referee’s whistle because of the noise from the crowd behind him. Believing that his teammates were attacking the opposing goal, he stood with outstretched arms, fully focused on protecting his goal amidst the dense fog.

It was only fifteen minutes later when the field police approached him and informed him that the match had been abandoned fifteen minutes earlier.

Sam Bartram, deeply saddened by this, famously said:

“ HOW SAD THAT MY FRIENDS FORGOT ME WHEN I WAS GUARDING THEIR GATE.

“ 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞’𝐬 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬. 𝐖𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐬, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐠𝐠𝐲, 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧 𝐮𝐬.