I get it that some people have to leave early because they have to be somewhere else and can’t risk getting caught up in the rush. But what seems odd is why so many left early last night when the final result was still in the balance? Look what they missed out on. I’ve left a couple of games early through disgust. One when we were losing 1-4 to Portsmouth under Mick Mac and the other was the infamous 6-0 at Bolton. It was 4-0 when I left, 5-0 before I got out of the car park, and 6-0 by the time I got onto the M61
People leave early to "beat the traffic", my dad did it a couple of times when I was a kid, if you can get ahead of the traffic it took us about 10 minutes to get home, if we were caught in the thick of it, it could take over an hour. Not excusing it, just putting it into plain English.
We live in a strange hypocritical world where I bet some who want to save a precious 10 minutes after a match , next day will happily sit 30 minutes in a long McDonald’s drive through queue .
I'll always stay to the end and show the lads appreciation, not that I get to the games often enough. Hate being stuck in the traffic afterwards though... really hate it.
I get that people have paid and can do what they like but when the team need the fans we can be that extra man, if that stadium was still full with 40,000 screaming them on it makes all the difference, the team need us just as much as we need them, 5 or 10 mins can’t make that much difference to all the early leavers
I can accept that some have work commitments, bus to catch etc , but too many are giving us the “ only sing when you’re winning” label
Its poor support and getting worse . The only way to resolve it though is for better traffic management outside the ground. Years ago there would be traffic wardens manually adjusting traffic lights etc .. and more metro's …
That can't be right mate, that would've meant you getting home, 10 miles away, after 11pm on Friday night. TBH, if I was constantly checking the time, I'd be thinking I've my priorities wrong. Leaving games before the end doesn't make sense to me tbh. I got the Metro from Sunderland, last night, and there was a fella who'd left before the equaliser. I told him it was a better goal than Clarke's at Reading and probably the best goal I'd ever seen from Sunderland ... ... he must've cursed me when he got back home and watched it back
This was 20 years ago, people have always left early, I even remember it as a small child at Roker Park, My dad would park around the Howick Park area, some of the streets around there or in the car park of that little doctors place off Dundas Street. If it was a full house and we were one of the last out it would take more than an hour to get to the otherside of Sunderland.
Nothing has changed, it has always been this way, it's just that Sky Sports showed it on screen and now other fans are having a go and people get defensive.
I was sat at home watching and feel perfectly entitled to register my thoughts. The games I can get to I stay until after the final whistle.
Good for you I wouldn’t be complaining about people leaving early from somewhere I hadn’t bothered going myself but each to their own.
I'd rather sit in traffic to be honest, as much as I hate it. On a Sat we go for a pint after the game and the traffic is non-existent an hour later.
Dont get leaving before the whistle if the games in the balance. If its clearly over then fair enough ive done it in the past and will do it again but never when the score is level or thers 1 goal in it. in terms of the traffic it all depends on where you park if your driving. I live over 30 mile from the ground yet was home 40 mins after getting in my car last night. I walk about 15 mins back to the car from the ground but am parked the other side of a crucial set of traffic lights so flow freely from there. Im not gonna give my secret spot away though as don't want it getting nicked.
