comment by Flashy flibble (U10324)
posted 1 hour, 2 minutes ago
comment by KloppsMop (U13071)
posted 1 hour, 25 minutes ago
comment by Flashy flibble (U10324)
posted 2 hours, 38 minutes ago
comment by KloppsMop (U13071)
posted 21 minutes ago
I wish I could get to more games tbh but it’s not always feasible with location and what not.

I live in London but have actually been to the Emirates a few times just to get watching live prem action - it’s ridiculously easy to get tickets, there’s just very little atmosphere sat on a leather seat next to a city banker.
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Cos you and your like help create an atmosphere being a day tripper to a club you don’t support just there to watch Prem football....you’re the problem ffs
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It’s that or an empty seat, ya plum.
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Ok plastic.
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Great argument. Years of mediocrity turn football fans into simpletons. Who knew?

comment by Got_Better (U6241)
posted 23 hours, 38 minutes ago
Only been to about 10 games, i moved around and lived in different coutries. But have been to Anfield a few times to watch LFC....never lost when i have been.

Seen northampton at the old wembley, utd at forest and even watched Ireland play cyprus in cyprus.

Dont go hardly at all now have a family and normally too much to do at weekends.
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If you stopped posting on here you would save enough time to go to a game or two a season.

comment by There'sOnlyOneReds (U1721)
posted 21 hours, 41 minutes ago
comment by Ace (U18814)
posted 38 seconds ago
I think there's more to it than that. Obviously anyone sensible will know not all fans can go to games. Take my situation. I grew up going to Spurs with my dad, then from 17 used to go to a lot of home games with my mates in the late 90's. Had a season ticket for a few years, went to a lot of the London away games, and went abroad a few times too when we got back into the UEFA Cup under Martin Jol. You invest a lot of yourself into your club doing this, not just financially but time, emotion, your soul. Obviously at Spurs we don't do it for the glory and trophies! But it's my club and one of the loves of my life.

So I find it quite galling when guys online that have objectively picked the most successful clubs to support, but never invested anything of themselves into that club other than watching online, try to use that clubs success as a stick to beat my club with. Some people are only interested in football for the reflected glory and bragging rights, almost for some sort of personal validation. Please know that I do appreciate the difference between this, and legit football fans that just can't get to their team's games for whatever reason.

I gave up my seat at Spurs as I moved away from London in the mid 00's. These days I average about 5 or 6 games a year. I haven't gone a season without getting to at least one match since 1996. Poorest effort was just the one game in the 12/13 season. But if you can't get to see your own team there's other things you can do. Football is everywhere and if you love it you can experience it all the time. I watch docs about football on YouTube, read books. I'll take the chance to go to any live match. My best pal is a Chelsea ST holder, when his mate he sits next to hasnt gone I've gone instead just to watch a match (not cheering that lot on mind!). My sons footy club in Yorkshire gets concessions on Leeds tickets for dads&lads, I must've been to Elland Road half a dozen times in the last 18 months. My grandad used to take me to Charlton a lot as a kid. My in-laws live near Milton Keynes, whenever we visit we try to take in a Don's game. There's opportunities everywhere. Then there's your local non league club, ours has a decent little ground with a bar and me and my mates go fairly often to cheer them on (even though they're crap!).

I'm coaching at my 7 year old sons club now. There's nothing more satisfying than seeing those boys developing, getting better, and most importantly playing football with smiles on their faces for no other reason than the sheer fun of it, because ultimately that's what it's all about - not online bragging rights, but because it's a joy, a way of life. True football fans understand this, which is why I think they'll sometimes lash out and chastise the idiotic glory boys, but it's not a line that's applicable to every guy that doesn't attend games. Six games a season is a good effort, (more than I've managed this year!) especially if you have a young family. Just enjoy it for what it is mate.
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Some people 'online' didn't just pick a successful team, you normally have it embedded into you from your father, or step father in my case whose father came from Liverpool.
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If your stepfather supported Doncaster would you be following them now?

comment by Flashy flibble (U10324)
posted 17 hours, 35 minutes ago
comment by KloppsMop (U13071)
posted 1 hour, 25 minutes ago
comment by Flashy flibble (U10324)
posted 2 hours, 38 minutes ago
comment by KloppsMop (U13071)
posted 21 minutes ago
I wish I could get to more games tbh but it’s not always feasible with location and what not.

I live in London but have actually been to the Emirates a few times just to get watching live prem action - it’s ridiculously easy to get tickets, there’s just very little atmosphere sat on a leather seat next to a city banker.
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Cos you and your like help create an atmosphere being a day tripper to a club you don’t support just there to watch Prem football....you’re the problem ffs
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It’s that or an empty seat, ya plum.
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Ok plastic.
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A lot of Spurs fans dressed up as plastic seats against United at Wembley with ten minutes to go!!!

comment by CFC: FFP Champions (U20729)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by There'sOnlyOneReds (U1721)
posted 21 hours, 41 minutes ago
comment by Ace (U18814)
posted 38 seconds ago
I think there's more to it than that. Obviously anyone sensible will know not all fans can go to games. Take my situation. I grew up going to Spurs with my dad, then from 17 used to go to a lot of home games with my mates in the late 90's. Had a season ticket for a few years, went to a lot of the London away games, and went abroad a few times too when we got back into the UEFA Cup under Martin Jol. You invest a lot of yourself into your club doing this, not just financially but time, emotion, your soul. Obviously at Spurs we don't do it for the glory and trophies! But it's my club and one of the loves of my life.

So I find it quite galling when guys online that have objectively picked the most successful clubs to support, but never invested anything of themselves into that club other than watching online, try to use that clubs success as a stick to beat my club with. Some people are only interested in football for the reflected glory and bragging rights, almost for some sort of personal validation. Please know that I do appreciate the difference between this, and legit football fans that just can't get to their team's games for whatever reason.

I gave up my seat at Spurs as I moved away from London in the mid 00's. These days I average about 5 or 6 games a year. I haven't gone a season without getting to at least one match since 1996. Poorest effort was just the one game in the 12/13 season. But if you can't get to see your own team there's other things you can do. Football is everywhere and if you love it you can experience it all the time. I watch docs about football on YouTube, read books. I'll take the chance to go to any live match. My best pal is a Chelsea ST holder, when his mate he sits next to hasnt gone I've gone instead just to watch a match (not cheering that lot on mind!). My sons footy club in Yorkshire gets concessions on Leeds tickets for dads&lads, I must've been to Elland Road half a dozen times in the last 18 months. My grandad used to take me to Charlton a lot as a kid. My in-laws live near Milton Keynes, whenever we visit we try to take in a Don's game. There's opportunities everywhere. Then there's your local non league club, ours has a decent little ground with a bar and me and my mates go fairly often to cheer them on (even though they're crap!).

I'm coaching at my 7 year old sons club now. There's nothing more satisfying than seeing those boys developing, getting better, and most importantly playing football with smiles on their faces for no other reason than the sheer fun of it, because ultimately that's what it's all about - not online bragging rights, but because it's a joy, a way of life. True football fans understand this, which is why I think they'll sometimes lash out and chastise the idiotic glory boys, but it's not a line that's applicable to every guy that doesn't attend games. Six games a season is a good effort, (more than I've managed this year!) especially if you have a young family. Just enjoy it for what it is mate.
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Some people 'online' didn't just pick a successful team, you normally have it embedded into you from your father, or step father in my case whose father came from Liverpool.
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If your stepfather supported Doncaster would you be following them now?
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Yes, I would imagine so. I don't know too many people who just picked a club, they always supported the club their father did. Incidentally my brother is one of them. He grew up supporting Liverpool, as his father did, then switched to Chelsea when Abramovich came in.

Actually when I was in school, or something, if I ever did anything wrong, I was forced to write out the history of Liverpool, from books I had.

The last time I had to do it my book ran up to the FA Cup final defeat to United in '95. Personally I felt that was just cruelty making me write that out.

I'm sure you're very interested to hear what I had done wrong. OK then.

I came into the house one weekend and was asked what's wrong with my eyes, I said I was tired and went to bed. The following weekend my father gave me some money to go somewhere with my friends. I came in again and was asked what was wrong with my eyes. I said I was tired and I was asked what I did with the money I was given. I said I bought some food with it. I was then asked if I wanted dinner, I said yes I was starving. Aha so you bought food and you're still starving and your eyes are like that, you've been smoking the green stuff!

So I wasn't allowed out of the house and spent the whole week writing the history of Liverpool out.