You lost me at the “wife and I take it in turns to go to the match” bit.We left before halftime yesterday. Wife and I normally take it in turns as we have a 3 year old and 3 month old. Thought we would see how the 3 year old does in our normal seats (315) yesterday, as he did well and enjoyed it in the family stand last season. Baby slept in carrier the entire time but 3 year old was flitting between overwhelmed and bored. Bit of a disaster. Back to wife and I alternating. That's on us and won't happen again, but on a champions league night for example or 8 kick off I will have to leave early to get back to the family these days (unless on supporter club coach).
Point is, before I had kids I'd be leveling accusations at early leavers and empty seats.
Now I have kids and my priorities have quite rightly shifted I can understand why someone might have to leave early as the infrastructure around the ground is fucking shocking. Bottle necks everywhere, be it by foot, car, tram, bus, etc.
If you want the ground full until the end the club needs to sort it out,not the fans. Invest in proper plans and links for stadium egress, work with the council and transport for G. Manchester. Sort the beer queues out (they almost did in ssl3 with tokens and now they've fucked that up too). Lower ticket prices and get younger teenage-under 30 supporters in the ground. Most importantly invest more money into the match going experience for the average fan who contributed to the atmosphere instead of throwing 99% of their stadium budget at things like hospitality boxes and tunnel club bullshit that does fuck all for atmosphere.
It’s one of those little things that annoys certain people.Yeah I guess if you’re sat down that might be annoying - I’m in the standing section so that doesn’t really bother me tbh.
But this obsession with it is still sad as fuck.
It’s one of those little things that annoys certain people.
I hate it when slobs leave their empty trays of boxes and shite on the tables in KFC/Macccies, or people who when leaving a pub don’t take their empties to the bar and leave them on tables.
Other people aren’t arsed about that sort of thing.
Much like this, some hate people leaving early, others don’t mind.
And the twats who are up and down all the time going for a piss because they’ve drank too much.And shaking hands, saying hearty goodbyes to every fucker they meet on the way down the aisle!
Drives me fucking crazy that, happens every match people in front of me in the isles unable to find their seat or going early at half time for a pint and coming back late or getting in 20 minutes after the game has started. I've sat in this seat for over 8 years and have regularly been told by, let's call them tourist's that I'm sat in their seat. Fucking maddening.Champions League games are the worst for this.
The newer tourist fans seem to struggle at looking their row letter as well as seat number.
They tend to stand still, stopping all other fans getting past, until a steward takes them out of their trance.
That wasn't what the bloke said though, he said don't take any notice of them, implying the other bloke was keeping notes etc.No fuker keeps still for 90 minutes
Do you feel the same about the piss pots who go back and forth for beer and the toilet ?When people who can’t be arsed to stay to the end are standing up in your way because they’re shuffling at snails pace to get out and making other people stand up in the way of other peoples’ view of the game, the only thing to do is look up at the screen to see how long’s left.
Everytime we have no away fans in SS3 it's a pantomime....the stewards do fuck all to direct anyone to where they should be, ok they say hello when I'm walking up into 315 from the concourse but if I can see baffled people so should they.Champions League games are the worst for this.
The newer tourist fans seem to struggle at looking their row letter as well as seat number.
They tend to stand still, stopping all other fans getting past, until a steward takes them out of their trance.