I think kids are a lot cooler nowadays. They need a standing area to congregate and shake off their inhibitions
No not me, ffs, I lived in Germany for 8 years. I'm down wid da krauts! The bottom line is, we have a different drinking culture over here. That is not going to change. Pretending it would be just fine over here to have the same type of in stadium freedom as Germans, or S Americans, is frankly daft. Also, it's not the 1980s either. People have different lives than back then, or earlier. Footballs changed. Quality of life, for a lot, has changed. Expectations have changed. What people can do with their free time has changed. How they can consume football, has changed. Football culture and hooliganism has changed. All sorts of things have changed. The hand wringing over how its changed makes me laugh. It'll never be the same as it was. So, harking back on those supposed halycon days, is kinda daft. Watch online if you must. You're still paying someone for your PC, or tablet, and your internet, you're still seeing adverts. You're not sticking it to anyone, so stop kidding yourselves.
Lets get the FA to stop paying players that are picked for England and openly say to all players if you don't want to play then say so, no hard feelings, the trouble is if they do play for the country, they go back to their clubs with an increase in value having become in international player and then expect bigger wages from clubs which mean ticket prices go up yet again.
Wow That escalated quickly! I don't watch online. I either go or listen on radio Neither do I suggest football needs to be like it was in the 80's...fun though it was However the pendulum has swung too far the other way, and I do think that unless clubs create an exciting atmosphere for young uns it will gradually die off...and by that I mean an atmosphere were young people can let off steam and have their own fun. Not organised flag waving and songs on electric hoardings...and not a free reign to batter visiting fans and cause chaos...just something in between where kids might actually feel that football is something worth doing as a group of young people once they don't fancy going with parents and grandparents So there
Oh right. Like that is it? Hang on. Just the first paragraph was aimed at you. Rest was aimed at the general populace on here who keep spouting the same stuff I agree more should be done to get kids to games. Unfortunately due to the way we are now, simply being there, or being allowed to stand up and see their fathers get pissed at the game and have a fight just isn't going to happen. Kids expect different things than we did, when just going to the game with your dad was frigging awesome and exciting. You want kids there? You'd need to go full Yank. Even full WWE style yank. Do you want that? Well do you?
Only if the kids are weird. I'm 23 so I grew up with video games and stuff but I still got into football at Boothferry Park. Mainly because I was brought up to. If kids are taken to football supplied with a tablet to play on in case they get bored, then of course that's what they'll do.
No, no I don't Although I don't agree that you do need to I think the difference with our thinking is that you think kids should be going to football with their Dads and finding it awesome...I think kids should be going on their own, or rather with mates of a similar age. That's the only way that proper memories are made, and real excitement (sometimes from acting in slightly risky ways admittedly) happens and then they'll be hooked The problem now is that seemingly some come with parents when younger but then as young teenagers they won't want to go with parents and the club doesn't seem to want them there as groups of youngsters I think you're doing the youth of today a disservice
I've only ever been to one City game with my dad, I was in my early forties and he whined about how **** we were all game. Never again.
I've never been to football with my Dad. Always with friends (Went to several rugby union internationals with him though while he was still with us)
Because we're all old and pissed off with the way football is going. And some of us too knackered to stand, does that mean we should stay at home?
How did older people get on at BP and all the other grounds at the time if they were unable to get a seat?
