The most memorable one for me was when Barca Milan played last season. Milan won the first leg 2 - 0 and I recorded the second match because I was out that evening. Barca won 4 - 0 with one of the finest performances in recent memory, and which was apparently headline news everywhere. I someone managed to avoid the morning news, all newspaper headlines (keeping my eyes firmly fixed to my book on the train to avoid inadvertently seeing any pictures/headlines on the sea of newspapers surrounding me), avoided all football talk during the day, didn't go anywhere near the internet, managed to get all the way home and watch the match in peace and quiet, and enjoy the match as it unfolded. It was bloody stressful though because any time I heard people start to talk about "last night" or sport, I had to stick my fingers in my ears to avoid hearing the news. It was worth it though because it was a great game and would have been ruined had I known the result when I started watching.
I have been on the flip side before as well though. When Rafa Nadal played Djokovic in the final of the US open last year, because of the time difference I recorded the game to watch the following evening. Again I didn't watch the morning news, avoided glancing at any newspapers on the train, got through the whole day at work without anyone mentioning it (there are no tennis fans at work thankfully), and then managed to get home again without seeing any Evening Standard headlines. I thought I was going to make it, but just as I was about 50 yards from the safety of my house, I walked past two people having a conversation in the street and one of them said to the other "So Rafa won then?" It ruined it for me, because although I still watched the match, there was no way I could get excited about any break of serve, or come back from Novak because I knew it would all be in vain.