On occasion I have decided to leave a little early, sometimes in disgust at what I have seen on the pitch, more often than not because I fancy a pint! Or because I live in Suburbiton and it is an awful long way away, no really, it is a terrible jouney, 20 minutes from Waterloo if you catch the fast train, and on a schoolnight, well can you imagine! Sometimes I even decide, of my own free will, to have a drink with my friends, they are also season ticket holders, imagine if I was really popular, the ground would be empty!
Terribly sorry, 20 years in, travelling around the country and Europe to watch MY team, paying £1000's for the honour and I have yet to realise that this decision is not mine to take. I really should know better, I really need someone to make these sort of decisions for me, who should I ask for permission? Someone in the (Teddy) Bear Pit maybe, because they are quite obviously the most loyal of the loyal? (Or alternatively a complete bunch of idiots who pay more attention to smuggling their mates in without tickets than they do the match!). Oh to be one of those toothless simpleton's!
They had police with big guns in Moscow, maybe thats the way forward keep us in 20 minutes after the match, every match. We can get to know one another, have a chat and a cup of tea. No tea was supplied in Moscow and the vast majority of our "loyal" football fans were from St Petersburg, but you get my point.
Get a grip, people pay, people don't always want to stay simple as that. Get over it, stop banging on about it. If every match was at 3 o'clock on a Saturday the story would be the same and always has been the same.
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I’d rather have 50,000 attendances than all the early leaver
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northbankboy
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I'm not sure exactly what your point is here. The fact you pay so much money even travelling as far as Moscow is what makes it all the more baffling as to why you'd want to leave early. We pay all this cash to 'support' the team, and leaving early is not supporting the team. In fact it's rude. You're watching a performance, you wouldn't leave the theatre early, no matter how disgusted you were. Or maybe you would, in which case I don't know what to say to you.
If loyalty is defined by you coming back next week, and next season, year in year out, then it also means having the courtesy to see the lads through to the final whistle, week in week out. In my opinion.
If loyalty is defined by you coming back next week, and next season, year in year out, then it also means having the courtesy to see the lads through to the final whistle, week in week out. In my opinion.
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I'd rather not have in there at all. Bullshit attitude like that.
I like block 6 because its free of people like you. If they're / were all simpletons you must surely pretty thick and i have all my teeth. .
So what if you pay. You can leave anytime you want but whatever reason you early leavers give its always pretty thin. Leaving coz you fancy a pint.
Or you live in surbiton. So what? i live outside the city and on a weeknight NEVER GET HOME BEFORE 1AM. Its part of the day, i decided to go thats the time my day ends.
Its an insult to the team you apparently support, its like walking off halfway through a conversation. Yet its the same people that will be there till the end on 'big' games or when were winning.
What you should is decide before a game if you're planning on leaving early, coz obviously you live so far away it must cross your mind every game, and then give your ticket to someone who actaully really wants to be there and will be there till the end.
And the last thing you should do is hurl abuse at 'fellow' supporters who actually disagree with your pathetic attidue and get the most out of attending as they can, win or lose.
I like block 6 because its free of people like you. If they're / were all simpletons you must surely pretty thick and i have all my teeth. .
So what if you pay. You can leave anytime you want but whatever reason you early leavers give its always pretty thin. Leaving coz you fancy a pint.
Or you live in surbiton. So what? i live outside the city and on a weeknight NEVER GET HOME BEFORE 1AM. Its part of the day, i decided to go thats the time my day ends. Its an insult to the team you apparently support, its like walking off halfway through a conversation. Yet its the same people that will be there till the end on 'big' games or when were winning.
What you should is decide before a game if you're planning on leaving early, coz obviously you live so far away it must cross your mind every game, and then give your ticket to someone who actaully really wants to be there and will be there till the end.
And the last thing you should do is hurl abuse at 'fellow' supporters who actually disagree with your pathetic attidue and get the most out of attending as they can, win or lose.
The fact that the author of this piece would rather have 10,000 less at every game, hence reducing the club's revenue by £0.5m per match (roughly £12m per season) says it all really. Grow up
This issue of fans leaving early / worst fans in the world, has to have become the most tedious and petty subject on this forum. I can't believe the Mods still allow bollocks like this to be published - let only multiple articles and threads emerging - almost on a daily basis.
Ask yourself the following questions
1. Does it really bother you that much if someone leaves early ? If so, why? Personally I don't leave early but I couldn't give a shit that others choose to. Given that they are likely to miss a goal given the stats about us scoring in the last 10 minutes, I think that's their problem - but it isn't mine. Spend £50 and take your choice
2. Do you really think it's only Arsenal fans that do this ? If yes, watch more football. Re-runs of United losing 1-4 at home to Liverpool, any Villa game where they are not winning with 10 minutes to go etc. Stop believing media myths. You most probably think that Newcastle have the best fans in the World and that all Liverpool fans are very knowledgeable.
3. Do you think it really makes you a better fan if you don't leave early. I gave an example of someone who sits near me, travels down from Lincolnshire, has had a season ticket for over 20 years and spends thousands of money on the club. Had the temerity to leave 10 mins early in a mid-week game to catch a train. Worse fan than someone standing up chanting "Stand up if you hate Tottnum" to the bitter end of a CL game ? I think not
4. Don't you think there's something more interesting and useful you could contribute to debate about AFC rather than this mindnumbingly, tedious shite. Perhaps the club's "sustainable business model" which gambles on property sales at a time when the London market is going backwards, the desperate lack of investment in the team, the debt structure of the club and the fact that our wage bill is higher than Liverpool's without a single world class player at the club.
Still, I suppose it's much more rewarding engaging in this "My dad's better than your dad" juvenile debate about what makes a better fan.
This issue of fans leaving early / worst fans in the world, has to have become the most tedious and petty subject on this forum. I can't believe the Mods still allow bollocks like this to be published - let only multiple articles and threads emerging - almost on a daily basis.
Ask yourself the following questions
1. Does it really bother you that much if someone leaves early ? If so, why? Personally I don't leave early but I couldn't give a shit that others choose to. Given that they are likely to miss a goal given the stats about us scoring in the last 10 minutes, I think that's their problem - but it isn't mine. Spend £50 and take your choice
2. Do you really think it's only Arsenal fans that do this ? If yes, watch more football. Re-runs of United losing 1-4 at home to Liverpool, any Villa game where they are not winning with 10 minutes to go etc. Stop believing media myths. You most probably think that Newcastle have the best fans in the World and that all Liverpool fans are very knowledgeable.
3. Do you think it really makes you a better fan if you don't leave early. I gave an example of someone who sits near me, travels down from Lincolnshire, has had a season ticket for over 20 years and spends thousands of money on the club. Had the temerity to leave 10 mins early in a mid-week game to catch a train. Worse fan than someone standing up chanting "Stand up if you hate Tottnum" to the bitter end of a CL game ? I think not
4. Don't you think there's something more interesting and useful you could contribute to debate about AFC rather than this mindnumbingly, tedious shite. Perhaps the club's "sustainable business model" which gambles on property sales at a time when the London market is going backwards, the desperate lack of investment in the team, the debt structure of the club and the fact that our wage bill is higher than Liverpool's without a single world class player at the club.
Still, I suppose it's much more rewarding engaging in this "My dad's better than your dad" juvenile debate about what makes a better fan.
