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Leaving early at a football match - Yay or Nay?

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,124 ✭✭✭Jonny Arson


    it's one of my major pet hates in football. it's completely beyond me why some fans? regularly leave matches early

    i've never left a match before the final whistle even though there has been plenty of occasions i've felt like pissing off, but you just always stick through it no matter how frustrating your team is to watch

    as far as i'm concerned it's just pure rudeness towards the players, players and teams will have sh!t nights, that's football and pissing off early is hardly going to instill much confidence into the team for their next match


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,825 ✭✭✭Mikeyt086


    I myself have never left a match early. Some say they want to beat the crowds and i can understand that but i would rather stay seated untill everyone is gone. i cant imagine what it would be like playing and seeing all the fans leave.

    Definate nay from me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,346 ✭✭✭✭KdjaCL


    2124: GOAL Newcastle 0-2 Man City
    The Manchester City substitutes combine. Kelvin Etuhu, with his back to goal, holds off a couple of Newcastle defenders and slides the ball into the path of Fernandes Gelson, who smashes into the top corner. Cue Newcastle fans leaving in their droves.

    Newcastle leading the actim index stat for "fans who are tucked up in bed before the final whislte" chart.


    kdjac


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭estebancambias


    Lol.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,213 ✭✭✭✭therecklessone


    KdjaCL wrote: »
    Newcastle leading the actim index stat for "fans who are tucked up in bed before the final whislte" chart.

    Best fans in the worldtm


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    KdjaCL wrote: »
    Newcastle leading the actim index stat for "fans who are tucked up in bed before the final whislte" chart.


    kdjac

    when we beat them, we went three nil in the 13th minute and hundreds of geordies got up and left:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,542 ✭✭✭dor83


    I have never left a game early and dont plan on ever doing it. I cant understand why people leave early. The funniest time I saw it happen was when Inter were losing 0-2 to Sampdoria in 2005 with 3 mins left. The Inter fans, who were in the home end 2nd tier(where the Ultras are), were leaving and Inter ended up winning 3-2. I laughed so much at those people who left early coz they had paid to see, and then missed, one of the best comebacks I have ever seen. What a great match and they missed the best part.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 34,404 ✭✭✭✭~Rebel~


    Personally i would never leave a game early.

    But.

    In the reality of the situation i can understand it happening. From the perspective of some of the bigger clubs in england where the difference of leaving 5 mins early can mean getting home an hour earlier to your family, especially for away days.

    I dont approve but, in some cases, i understand.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    deise59 wrote: »
    I guess it matters what type of match it is. The ones that really irk me are when the big clubs like Man U, Liverpool, Arsenal fans etc leave early when their winning just so they can beat the traffic. Have you ever seen the north stand at Old Trafford in the final few minutes of a match :eek:


    For Arsenal it is not down to traffic,more about trying to get the tube, and Arsenal tube station was not upgraded for new stadium and they shut Holloway 30 mins before and after a match as it is lift access only. Still I don't get it, the Old Bill are excellent around Arsenal and organise things well after the match, so it does flow quickly, I normally wait at least 30 mins after match and it is a stroll back to the tube.

    Arsenal as a club are trying to adress the issue, discount beer after the match, live music bands and sometimes ex players q&a session.

    I can sort of understand it for a midweek night game but not for weekend matches. For Londoners if they have to wait 5 mins for a tube,its bad service, they want to live here for a bit :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,643 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Nice Guy


    I could never see the point of it. Same as those people who would leave mass before they got their communion or else just after they had eaten it. There's mere minutes to go.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,478 ✭✭✭Bubs101


    I'm against it generally but I do think it's one of the best ways for fans to voice there opinion. For me, there's something more effective seeing fans turn their backs on their team than shout boo at the end of the whistle


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,951 ✭✭✭DSB


    Effective in the sense that it makes players want to not play for that team anymore? Yes, very much so.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,604 ✭✭✭herbieflowers


    I'm against it. You support your team to the final whistle no matter what, fans are much too fickle these days (or they just want to beat the traffic!)


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,637 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    I've left early once, that was to avoid seeing Shels win the league.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,951 ✭✭✭DSB


    I've left early once, that was to avoid seeing Shels win the league.

    Awh how cute. Some day yous will know that glory again. Wait actually probably not.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,478 ✭✭✭Bubs101


    I'm against it. You support your team to the final whistle no matter what, fans are much too fickle these days (or they just want to beat the traffic!)

    I don't think you should support your club no matter what. Should Hearts fans have stuck with their team? How about Chelsea fans when Mourinho was sacked. Leaving early is one of the few means for season ticket holders to protest the goings on at their club. It works effectively in Italy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,604 ✭✭✭herbieflowers


    Bubs101 wrote: »
    I don't think you should support your club no matter what. Should Hearts fans have stuck with their team? How about Chelsea fans when Mourinho was sacked. Leaving early is one of the few means for season ticket holders to protest the goings on at their club. It works effectively in Italy


    I disagree. If you don't like a decision made by a club, don't go to the game!


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,637 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    I disagree. If you don't like a decision made by a club, don't go to the game!

    So not supporting your club at all is better than leaving early?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭kensutz


    Some Norwich fans regret leaving early when we played Middlesbrough at Carrow Road, being 4-0 down with 10 minutes to go, the fans were streaming out of the stadium. Suddenly in those 10 minutes we score 4 goals and the whole place erupts. The best game I've ever been to apart from derby fixtures home and away, also a lesson that it's not over until the final whistle.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,081 ✭✭✭LeixlipRed


    Didn't Bohs once come back from 4-0 down with ten minutes left to win 7-4 or 6-4? Against Pats maybe? How sick would you have been??


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,645 ✭✭✭raheny red


    LeixlipRed wrote: »
    Didn't Bohs once come back from 4-0 down with ten minutes left to win 7-4 or 6-4? Against Pats maybe? How sick would you have been??

    Think you are getting mixed up with this game?!

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=6A5S4KorpE0


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