If shes a good friend and it means a lot to her you should go. You can always tape the match

I can see it from her perspective (ie. if a girl cancelled on me because she was going to watch horse riding or something, I'd be pretty furious), sometimes you've just got to piss people off.

I mean, you are sort of 'wrong' to choose the match over her, but y'know... its wrong to lie to people, but our parents all told us Father Christmas existed.

You're clearly not arsed about her, so just make her one of those 'people who I wouldn't rescue from a housefire' characters and be done with it.

PS. The Liverpool United match will be WELL BETTER.

or not - depending on which direction the wind blows. Sorry.

Let her take someone else but find another nice gesture to make up for it.

My outlook on this sort of thing has changed slightly recently.

Don't let her down.

especially now you've told her you might not, and she knows what you're missing. Is it impossible to combine the two? Like, there are pubs in places, you could catch the second half while she checks out a particular aspect of the exhibit she likes?

That is all.

she'l get over it

I went forward in time, and your racehorse loses 3-0

Go to the museum

you probably have to.

Unless you want this brought up in every argument you ever have with said girl in the future.

does not contain the 'best items' so you wont miss much......so what you have to weigh up is woman vs football

(women should always win, but thats your choice, many men are only boys at heart)

Apparently there is 'piped music'

She's just said she could take her little sister. I'm thinking wait until I see her in person, gauge her feelings about the whole thing and THEN make my decision

I'm scared of her though :(

I saw a section about it on Newsnight Review.

They basically said it was the worst thing in the world, ever.

They said its a massive let down full of cheesy horrible Egyptian panpipe music playing in the background.

Still, everyone's probably right. You've got to take the lady.

Arsenal and Chelsea are both crap.

which means you should go to the exhibition, in my experience.

the whole time and listen to the match on a 1980s terrace tranny (avoids obvious jokes) and just go 'hmmm nice beard' when looking at Tut and sing the Bangles.

It's the only way.

whatever, I feel that it is your duty to go to the exhibition and try to 'score' whilst there.......it will give a frisson of excitement doing it where you shouldnt......plus there is the opportunity for fame and national news reportage......im sure if its as terrible as it promises she would be 'up for it' (she will want to get her own back on O2 for all the dosh for something really tacky.......you could say, if discovered, to reporters........it was the mood of tackyness and sleeze in the exhibition that made us do it.

Or else just play 'BOOGIES' in there.

Being let down is horrible, especially if you're excited about something.

and give the match a miss- it'd be different if you were going to the game itself, but just watching it on TV isn't much of an excuse.
Plus you should go up in her estimation if you give the game a miss.

you're not being unreasonable. She just fancies you.

but equally, if you do go, don't be all like 'omg I could be at the football right now, stupid pharoahs'.

if she wasn't that bothered about you coming, she wouldn't have got annoyed and happily take her sister. She got annoyed because, as much as she might like pharoahs, she does want YOU there.

also, I dont know how important the game is but... to come second to something on telly does make girls feel insignificant.

just go on a different day.

theres counless more games in the season

Football games = boring
Walking round museums with girls = really fun

You just don't appreciate the higher things in life.

and listen to the game on FiveLive.

You made a promise so stick to it.

Also, do some more planning before agreeing to things like this!