City Fans Leaving Early/Empty seats

[mexico1970]

Fans that treat football matches and supporting the club as a form of "social gathering" or "chit chat" are annoying.

Don't come to the football if you're just treating it as a "day out" while stuffing your gob on the concourse, go somehwere else like the cinema so that spare ticket goes to someone who actually cares about the football.

This phenomenon seems to be mostly common in this country, match-day goers who attend out of habit or routine rather than for the reason of actually watching football.

But that's what football is now mate, even back in the day people drank gallons and stuffed their faces with hot dogs and canned beefburgers and scabby sausages.

The crowd is a mixture of sit down shut uppers, tourists a sprinkling of die hards, the club have created an area of beer spots and food kiosks and fans use them.

 

[Quilted]

But that's what football is now mate, even back in the day people drank gallons and stuffed their faces with hot dogs and canned beefburgers and scabby sausages.

The crowd is a mixture of sit down shut uppers, tourists a sprinkling of die hards, the club have created an area of beer spots and food kiosks and fans use them.

I know we as forum members are a small highly interested sub-set of football lovers, I assume most here love the beautiful game and have either played it themselves when they were younger or still do, however surely there has to be more people who go to games for the game itself? It can't just be us who complain about this situation?

I look over to Spain or France or Italy and the match-day goers there are obsessed, so many of them are devoid of the non-chalant attitude shown by match-going fans in England.

 

[TheGhost]

We drive from and back to North Leeds for every home game. We always manage to stay until the final whistle. The last game I left early was Gillingham in 99. And I was back in the tunnel for the equaliser.

You don’t know what you might miss in those final minutes.

 

[mexico1970]

I know we as forum members are a small highly interested sub-set of football lovers, I assume most here love the beautiful game and have either played it themselves when they were younger or still do, however surely there has to be more people who go to games for the game itself? It can't just be us who complain about this situation?

I look over to Spain or France or Italy and the match-day goers there are obsessed, so many of them are devoid of the non-chalant attitude shown by match-going fans in England.

The less local and partisan the crowd becomes the more the crowd will be there for the day out and experience with football being just a part of that.

For us that's unspeakable but to many attending the games City are only on their agenda because we are the best at the minute, when that changes the younger fans wont be interested IMHO and football will just be a day out if the weather is good.

 

[Tolmie scores]

Fans that treat football matches and supporting the club as a form of "social gathering" or "chit chat" are annoying.

Don't come to the football if you're just treating it as a "day out" while stuffing your gob on the concourse, go somehwere else like the cinema so that spare ticket goes to someone who actually cares about the football.

This phenomenon seems to be mostly common in this country, match-day goers who attend out of habit or routine rather than for the reason of actually watching football.

Although it's like that in loads of grounds - we have a huge number of the above... I'm not sure why - all clubs have increased their match going attendances - Brentford 1987 to 1999 average just 8,500 now it's double that so they have 'acquired' a whole new fan base on top of their average - same as us, but our numbers are on a much larger scale, BUT the problem our new fan base are just really passive - shame really. Against Arsenal, aside from when we were winning..you could hear a pin drop from us lot tbh

 

[Bluescholar]

Loads who've gone forever only go for a day out with their mates I'm one of them! Never mattered when we were shite,seen us win everything, doesn't matter its City and that's what we do, City with your mates!

 

[jrb]

TBH I don’t think the club are bothered about 1000’s of fans missing the start of each half and staying on the concourse drinking and buying more beer instead of getting back to their seats and supporting the team.

 

[Bluescholar]

They don't give a fuck about us. The end.

 

[Daniel1980]

Why is anyone arsed about wot other fans do? Just chill and mind your own business unless someone is blocking your view or mithering you leave em to it, I'm there to watch city coz I luv em, most of the time i stay til the end but sometimes I have to leave early for work or if the kids have school, nobody knows people's circumstances, just get behind em while you r there, CTID

 

[blue b4 the moon]

I finished 3rd in the half time quiz, was chuffed if I'm honest. Prize was a complete disappointment but hey ho!!

Well done, I did wonder if it was the blue moon bod.

What have we become though, 'Go City Whooo' from some wrestling guy, a discount code to shift tickets and a green quiz at a football match!!!!

 

[Worksop Blue]

Left early for the first time in many years, missing the Fulham goal, so my lad could catch a bus from Meadowhall back to University (east coast mainline closed). Because some twat thought it would be a great idea to shut the M67 this weekend we still didn’t make it back in time so I had to chase down the bus (Managed to overtake it on the M1 !! and he got on in Nottingham) Finally Got home about 9pm. Travelling between Sheffield and Manchester is the worst it’s been in over 40 years. Two major City’s connected by a shite rail network and a couple of country lanes. Hey Ho, still better than doing that god awful trip in the 80’s and 90’s to watch us lose to Stockport etc.

 

[paulchapo]

They should have a raffle at end straight after final whistle
Draw the seat number. If your not in seat you don’t win
£1000, players signed shirt, match worn shirt

It would get embarrassing after nobody had claimed the first 1,000 numbers drawn as they'd all fucked off.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Left my seat at 93 mins half way up SS3, (home for 19.45 due to animals supposedly on the M6 and masses going to watch fireworks at Blackpool clogging up the M55) there were that many going early I knew I'd still be on the steps on the whistle, had time to clap Haaland while waiting.

 

[.db.]

This is why our support is so poor.

I went to the loo at half time and a great chant was going on. Odd because there’d been no support during the first half!

Concourse singing = the most pointless shit in football.

 

[jamielowndes]

Concourse singing = the most pointless shit in football.

It's basically just to try and get something for a video on twitter.

So yeah, the most pointless shit in football.

 

[pride in battle]

They don't give a fuck about us. The end.

Who ?

 

[blueparrot]

Spent the last 5 minutes and injury time letting people out and not being able to see.Some of them the same ones that arrived late ,went for half time early then came back for the second half late getting in everyone else's way. They can do what they want but they’re annoying bastards. They must miss at least 10/15 minutes of every game.

 

[heslops barnet]

Fans that treat football matches and supporting the club as a form of "social gathering" or "chit chat" are annoying.

Don't come to the football if you're just treating it as a "day out" while stuffing your gob on the concourse, go somehwere else like the cinema so that spare ticket goes to someone who actually cares about the football.

This phenomenon seems to be mostly common in this country, match-day goers who attend out of habit or routine rather than for the reason of actually watching football.

You the fan police?

 

[CC1]

This thread needs locking - going up & down & round and round in circles. To sum up, we get full stadium but many fans arrive late, leave their seats before half time for a drink; return late & then leave early for another drink or to catch their team home
zzzzzzzzzz


Forgot to say - majority stay in their seats & chat to their mates they’ve been sitting with since the Kippax days but hey ho. Let’s not talk about them

 

[Stephen230]

Fans that treat football matches and supporting the club as a form of "social gathering" or "chit chat" are annoying.

Don't come to the football if you're just treating it as a "day out" while stuffing your gob on the concourse, go somehwere else like the cinema so that spare ticket goes to someone who actually cares about the football.

This phenomenon seems to be mostly common in this country, match-day goers who attend out of habit or routine rather than for the reason of actually watching football.

It might annoy you but it’s not going to change the fact that for a lot of people going to the football 20 odd times + is their entire social life for the year.

Meet mates, have a beer, have a catch up and a laugh and then back to their mundane lives for two weeks.

The football is the excuse, not the whole purpose of the day.

And this thread can reach 20,000 posts of people not understanding it or telling them to do something else instead. But it won’t change anything.

In a few weeks, about 20 of us are doing a 3,000 mile round trip to Portugal for a football game. And I can absolutely guarantee that half a dozen won’t make it anywhere near the ground. It makes no sense. But it’ll still happen. And no amount of moaning on bluemoon is going to stop it. So you may aswell just accept that everyone is different and don’t all see things the same way.