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I'm going to the Swansea game. The late Kick off time makes it feasible. I'm also hoping to persuade
Smoked Salmon
to meet me for a pre-match pint so we can put to bed once and for all his idea that melters are somehow less worthy supporters than himself.
This time of year is prime holiday season especially for people with kids; and there are so many tickets available that you can't pass on through the exchange. In this day and age it is quite hard to attend absolutely every game, especially with work and family commitments. If you've been going to games regularly for 25 years, when you have kids, should you give up your ST and face years at the back of the queue? It's not quite so simple. I'm surprised at the empty seats to some degree. The area that you don't see on TV is where the SS-PL were migrated too, and that was packed yesterday - pretty decent atmosphere too. I think a lot of the empties were the corporate seats. Could be wrong.
White Hart Lane was the same though. A row of 8 directly behind me was empty for past two years, only had people in them for no more than 2 games per season. Same in every single stand at every single game (including derbies). On a percentage basis I'd bet the figures are close take Burnley yesterday against Burnley at The Lane. Last season they must have been 500 seats not taken against Woolwich! Appreciate my eye test could be way off here. But nothing new about ST's be that at Wembley or WHL I feel, at Wembley it's amplified because of that hideous Bobby Moore club that sit behind the dugouts.
Maybe people have bought extra STs as an investment for the new stadium. Sad if true. A cunt of a husband of a friend of mine has access to 5 STs at the Death Star. Blags about it. Always has spares. Knows fuck all about football. I hope we don't become that. The trouble is, the more our crowd ends up like that, the less appealing it will be to go to games at all. I became a STH in the 90s when anyone who wanted one could get one. They even tried to sell half season tickets. At least you knew the crowd was there for the right reasons... although in fairness the atmosphere was pretty shit and depressing! We're all fucking mugs for following this game.
I am going to 5 games this year, probably 4 in the New Year, and 6 games will be used by my family in the UK, totaling 15 games my seat is occupied, only 4 games my seat is free.
Ok, fair enough but your post didn't say that.
...so you mean in order to break ONE 'curse' (Harry in August) ...we played into the hands of the OTHER curse...?
