interesting discussion

[anny road]

and he was telling me he is falling out of love with the match going experience away from home, he said it has nothing to do the football on the pitch (and knowing him he will be telling the truth).....but he hates the atmosphere at games (or lack of it), he is baulking at paying over the odds for tickets, getting ripped off in the ground

 

Arsenal was the straw that broke the camels back, he refused to pay £49.00 so went to London, went to the pub before and after but watched the 90 minutes in the pub. He is doing the same in Istanbul.....as it will take a while to ge to and from the ground and we may have to yomp 2km to the fecking stadium, he is going but not to the match

 

it got me thinking, I dont think I would ever get like this but I sort of know where is coming from. I love pre match in the pub, and win lose or draw the singing after.......games like Villla a few years back we drew but we rocked the pub after, Chelsea in the Carling Cup Final...agfter the sing song was trmendous, Arsenal the past three seasons......And sometimes the football can seem like a chore, and getting beat every week away doesnt help.

 

Just wondering if others are starting to get pissed off with the high ticket prices.....When teams like Spurs and the like are charging £40+ for a ticket is football in danger of losing its soul...? I think it already had to en extent, it has now gone beyond being a working mans sport, following your team home and away and in europe means you spend a good bit of dosh, that saying we still get a large number of lads who get to euro aways who wont be raking it in.......

 

if lads like this one are struggling there is trouble

Edited November 23, 2006 by anny road

[Gravy]

Felt like this for a little while now as I've mentioned before. Ticket prices, Chelsea, new age fans, Chelsea, overpaid players, Chelsea, no sould in the c.lub, Chelsea, foreign investors buying football clubs up as play things, Chelsea.

[Tosh]

You just hate chelsea cos your wife is a huge fan and ribs you every time they win something.

[R A Softlad]

Thanks Gravy... anyone else who's not a pessimist?

[anny road]

Felt like this for a little while now as I've mentioned before. Ticket prices, Chelsea, new age fans, Chelsea, overpaid players, Chelsea, no sould in the c.lub, Chelsea, foreign investors buying football clubs up as play things, Chelsea.

 

 

the football shouldnt come into it

[floyd the barber]

going to games has changed......people seem far more interested in taking pics on their new mobile phones, or talking on their damn mobile phones.....or fecking playing games on their mobile phones...

 

Ban mobile phones....then the atmosphere will improve!

 

A new age fan - buys a copy of the programe,gets the signature of stevie g after the game... then sells it on ebay.

 

Loves taking pictures of the "stars" on his/her mobile phone

 

Avoids the bovril and drinks a tall vanilla latte from their starbucks flask.

 

Thinks the ticket prices come cheap, especially compared to the xbox 360 and ps3 that was bought for the kids the previous day.

[johngibo YPC]

There does seem to be a few more not bothering now. Me and a few mates have found it increasingly difficult to get rid of spares recently. I bought two tickets for Wigan away but can't seem to get anyone to take up the other one. Where are all these lads who say, 'i love going the match, but you can't get a ticket'

 

by the way, going all the way to Istanbul and not going the game is ridiculous!

[anny road]

There does seem to be a few more not bothering now. Me and a few mates have found it increasingly difficult to get rid of spares recently. I bought two tickets for Wigan away but can't seem to get anyone to take up the other one. Where are all these lads who say, 'i love going the match, but you can't get a ticket'

 

by the way, going all the way to Istanbul and not going the game is ridiculous!

 

 

it isnt if you think about it

 

he gets to see a beautiful city, and gets a sing song too

[johngibo YPC]

it isnt if you think about it

 

he gets to see a beautiful city, and gets a sing song too

 

yeah but if Liverpool are playing just up the road as well

[anny road]

yeah but if Liverpool are playing just up the road as well

 

 

did you go to the Ataturk?

 

up the road??

[johngibo YPC]

did you go to the Ataturk?

 

up the road??

 

well it was up the road!!!

Just one massive bloody road!!!!!!

[anny road]

well it was up the road!!!

Just one massive bloody road!!!!!!

[Kopfaithful]

There does seem to be a few more not bothering now. Me and a few mates have found it increasingly difficult to get rid of spares recently. I bought two tickets for Wigan away but can't seem to get anyone to take up the other one. Where are all these lads who say, 'i love going the match, but you can't get a ticket'

 

by the way, going all the way to Istanbul and not going the game is ridiculous!

 

why? it's what i plan to do. why ruin a perfectly good day by spending f***ing hours going to and from a stadium in the middle of nowhere, with no decent facilities round about (translate to decent pubs round about), watching our reserve team take on a turkish reserve team in an 80,000 stadium with about 10000 people there while i freeze my b****x off? we'll have a good few days, which will probably be enhanced by staying in the boozer.

 

back to the original point of the thread - i fully sympathise with anny roads mate. i often get to the point where i can't be arsed going and a few times games i'd normally go to i decided would be a better laugh f***ing them off and going into town to watch on the telly and spend my ticket money on beer. It's not just a question of prices though. Now the loyalty thing is going, it's more difficult for lads who go to 2 or 3 games a season to get a ticket and if they can you're not sat together. So in the past where a group of you go the games - some every week, some most of the time and a few some of the time, it's now really only the lads who go a a real regular basis and the rest of the lads just go the pub and nearly always have a better day.

 

a couple of seasons back i had tickets for newcastle away, i got hammered on the barnes and in the pub for a stop off on the way up there - got to the stadium and knew the walk up the steps in there to watch players about 3 inches in size would not be worth the effort, so i f***ed off the bigg market, carried on drinking, watched it in the pub, got a carry out for the way home and it was one of the best aways i did that season.

Edited November 23, 2006 by js

[johngibo YPC]

so you don't really like football at all, just hanging out with all the boys

[Kopfaithful]

so you don't really like football at all, just hanging out with all the boys

 

yeah :-) it's just a shame i miss all those fellas running round in shorts when i'm in the pub!

[Guest ritchie_50]

There's no point going to the match anymore. I'm jacking it in after this season because the atmosphere that's flat and its too expensive. Stopped going to the away games in the last couple of years.

[anny road]

There's no point going to the match anymore. I'm jacking it in after this season because the atmosphere that's flat and its too expensive. Stopped going to the away games in the last couple of years.

 

 

aways are better than homes

 

by a mile

[johngibo YPC]

i sometimes think of doing just cup games, Europe and the odd away. But then i keep renewing my season ticket. My dad would have no one to sit by otherwise anyway

[Guest ritchie_50]

aways are better than homes

 

by a mile

 

They are but I refuse to pay the 30-40 pound plus for a match ticket.

 

I went to Birmingham the other week and there was only a minority singing and the night games in the league cup, are usually when you get a good noise. Our support has become an embarrassment IMO, with aload of clueless soccer am knobs and camera phone numpties everywhere.

[anny road]

They are but I refuse to pay the 30-40 pound plus for a match ticket.

 

I went to Birmingham the other week and there was only a minority singing and the night games in the league cup, are usually when you get a good noise. Our support has become an embarrassment IMO, with aload of clueless soccer am knobs and camera phone numpties everywhere.

 

 

cant disagree witht hat

[Kopfaithful]

They are but I refuse to pay the 30-40 pound plus for a match ticket.

 

I went to Birmingham the other week and there was only a minority singing and the night games in the league cup, are usually when you get a good noise. Our support has become an embarrassment IMO, with aload of clueless soccer am knobs and camera phone numpties everywhere.

 

sadly since istanbul the euro aways are starting to get like that i think. there was a time i used to really look forward to getting into the centre and a good sing and all that, but there's d****eads everywhere now and we tend to give the big places a swerve these days as you don't know what type of prick you will find in places - it's not like everyone is like that, just that the prick factor is deffo on the increase.

[johngibo YPC]

They are but I refuse to pay the 30-40 pound plus for a match ticket.

 

I went to Birmingham the other week and there was only a minority singing and the night games in the league cup, are usually when you get a good noise. Our support has become an embarrassment IMO, with aload of clueless soccer am knobs and camera phone numpties everywhere.

 

too easy to blame them IMO. i didn't see anyone giving it the 'easy' at Birmingham. I did see alot of pissed up scallies more interested in how much they could drink on the way there and on the way home than the match itself. Lad in front of me didnt watch any of the first half. Just bragged to his mates about how he'd just text n****r to El Haj Diouf

[The Hitman]

Did anybody hear the Barnsley fan call in to 606 last night,said their tickets are about £25!!!

£25 to watch f***ing Barnsley play?

We think we've got it tough,that is utterly ridiculous.

[berdoing]

So essentially, the problem is down to the people who go the games.

 

I'm sure there's an irony in there somewhere!

[Maldini]

It's going to go like it is in America where the tickets are ridiculously wealthy and most are bought by companies and given to customers.