BlueHalli said:As for the age brackets. Maybe it's because most 'youngsters' still live at home with their rents so can afford to go to away days and the 40 odd bracket bought their houses on the cheap before we started gettin ripped off to fook so have more spare cash ?. I'm 30 and me and my missus are treatin ourselves to a nice holiday and then we're lookin at clamping down and saving like fook so we don't have to carry on being ripped off renting. i can see attending football matches becomin a lot less common . Maybe more are in this position and that's why you don't get as many in their 30s goin to games ?.
I'll accept that.
I would also say it's down to the loyalty point system used at City.(oh f***, be careful here jrb)
Those that have been going for years are still going, via their loyalty and loyalty points. You see them same faces(from the same branches, etc), at almost every away game. No disrespect intended, but many of those fans are getting on a bit now, and I'm guessing singing for long spells at away matches is probably not that important in the grand scale of things.
On the flip side there is a largish group of *Scrotes* ;-) going. God knows how they get their away tickets, but good luck to them.
City fans in between those 2 age groups seem to be conspicuous by their absence.
Perhaps City need to do an away survey. :-?
1. How old are you?