Can you really claim to support a team if you don't/didn't go to the games.

[Geri]

Seeing Watford away to Portsmouth is one of the games I remember best. We got a lift down, and we were so late there wasn't time to go to a pub first (which always puts me in a bad mood). It was a boiling hot day, and I had no idea the away end was uncovered, and was very inappropriately dressed in jeans and some Caterpillar boots. I got so hot my hands and feet swelled up, I ended up with cuts on the top of my feet from my boots and my wedding ring cracked.

 

[tommers]

I need to get my son into going.

That's very cheap for a rugby ticket.

I despise wigan and whelan, but fair play to him for making the tickets silly cheap - about 215 quid IIRC for a Wigan ticket. I guess it's the only way he can get anyone to go at all...

Don't even think about going to that shitebird's ground. I will hunt you down and kill you in the street.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Don't even think about going to that shitebird's ground. I will hunt you down and kill you in the street.

No, just remarking that their tickets are pretty cheap.

 

[mattie]

Don't even think about going to that shitebird's ground. I will hunt you down and kill you in the street.

Perhaps easier - and more socially responsible - just to kill Dave Whelan?

He's an old man, he's obviously senile, you could take him. Tell him mattie says hello. He'll know what it means.

 

[Lo Siento.]

nope. Surrounded by plastic culés at the moment, annoying the fuck out of me.

 

[tommers]

Perhaps easier - and more socially responsible - just to kill Dave Whelan?

He's an old man, he's obviously senile, you could take him. Tell him mattie says hello. He'll know what it means.

If I could get to Whelan then I would, but he's too well protected. You couldn't get a mosquito through that security.

I think this calls for a honeytrap. Mattie - put this dress on.

 

[isitme]

I need to get my son into going.

That's very cheap for a rugby ticket.

I despise wigan and whelan, but fair play to him for making the tickets silly cheap - about 215 quid IIRC for a Wigan ticket. I guess it's the only way he can get anyone to go at all...

your kid has a chance to be a geordie on a plate

if you are in newcastle next year please take him to st james. he'll thank you for it

 

[mattie]

If I could get to Whelan then I would, but he's too well protected. You couldn't get a mosquito through that security.

I think this calls for a honeytrap. Mattie - put this dress on.

nice plan

i always took whelan for a chaps-and-mustache sort of bloke though.

i'm happy wearing either btw. tell me, spit or swallow?

 

[tommers]

nice plan

i always took whelan for a chaps-and-mustache sort of bloke though.

i'm happy wearing either btw. tell me, spit or swallow?

Your willingness to "take one for the team" is commendable.

I'll ask that guy I know who ghost wrote his autobiography. He'll know if Whelan has any peccadilloes which could lead to his downfall.

 

[tommers]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dave-Whelan...=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243624116&sr=1-2

He describes the terrifying wasp-like hum of the Luftwaffe and the devastation wrought by their bombs.

Not quite devastating enough, unfortunately.

 

[scifisam]

Around 1994-1998 i know the tickets were quite cheap and easier to get compared to now.

That's up to fifteen years ago - though I'm certain I recall people talking about how much ticket prices had increased a few years before that. (I mean that it was a story in the national newspapers, not just the usual grumbling). So, if your parents didn't take you as a kid, you could be in your thirties and never have been able to afford to go to a game.

 

[TrippyLondoner]

That's up to fifteen years ago - though I'm certain I recall people talking about how much ticket prices had increased a few years before that. (I mean that it was a story in the national newspapers, not just the usual grumbling). So, if your parents didn't take you as a kid, you could be in your thirties and never have been able to afford to go to a game.

Yeah its kinda sad really, especially during a recession.

 

[scifisam]

Yeah its kinda sad really, especially during a recession.

Actually, I was dithering between Charlton and West Ham to start following and taking my daughter to (I didn't have a team of my own before) and ended up lumping for Charlton partly because their tickets are really cheap (and, unlike West Ham, you can actually buy them).

 

[Balbi]

Been there, done it.

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[g force]

Family ties to Barca and get to maybe 2-6 games a season, but it's expensive (to get there) and there's the whole flying to go see a footy match which seems absurd and goes against my wanting to reduce my carbon footprint.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Actually, I was dithering between Charlton and West Ham to start following and taking my daughter to (I didn't have a team of my own before) and ended up lumping for Charlton partly because their tickets are really cheap (and, unlike West Ham, you can actually buy them).

Yeah, i remember you saying that before.

Our club shop is a fucking nightmare, going by the posts on KUMB.

I shall discover this pretty soon, I guess, when I move back to Nodnol.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Family ties to Barca and get to maybe 2-6 games a season, but it's expensive (to get there) and there's the whole flying to go see a footy match which seems absurd and goes against my wanting to reduce my carbon footprint.

2-6 is a very impressive number for a team in another country

 

[TrippyLondoner]

Yeah, i remember you saying that before.

Our club shop is a fucking nightmare, going by the posts on KUMB.

I shall discover this pretty soon, I guess, when I move back to Nodnol.

nodnol

 

[anchorage]

I support Rangers but won`t be back until Murray leaves. If the rumours are true it wont be long

 

[CherryRipe]

No you can't - that's what the word support means to me, going there, making the effort, putting yourself out a bit.

How can you support a team if you sit at home and watch the telly - there is so much more to following a team than the game and that's what the armchair "fans" don't understand.

(coming from a Newcastle fan that's only seen a dozen games in 15 years - mind you I do live in Australia).

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

That's up to fifteen years ago - though I'm certain I recall people talking about how much ticket prices had increased a few years before that. (I mean that it was a story in the national newspapers, not just the usual grumbling). So, if your parents didn't take you as a kid, you could be in your thirties and never have been able to afford to go to a game.

I think the big increase was when the Prem started.

As some West Ham fans observed on a forum recently, if the price of tickets now was only reflective of inflation, a pint of beer would be about 50 quid now...

 

[purplex]

its the difference between being a fan and a supporter

 

[STFC]

To support implies a level of participation.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

I was at Portsmouth when Father Christmas ran onto the pitch

 

[g force]

2-6 is a very impressive number for a team in another country

Always go to Real Madrid at the Nou Camp...after that it's a case of whether I can afford it.

 

[T & P]

Always go to Real Madrid at the Nou Camp...after that it's a case of whether I can afford it.

Wouldn't it be easier to watch Madrid at the Bernabeu?