I think the club have been very clever in which match they've chosen for the £5 promotion as surely the attendance would have been a lot lower than most Weekend matches what with it being on a Sunday. I still hate the atmosphere of these games though as I find it a quieter ground when there are more fans in (How??) and cant wait for the Leeds game in two weeks How will everyone treat Scott Carson on his return to the Valley... In my opinion he should get the same reception as Andy Reid and Ricardo Fuller
He'll get a good reception. He was probably Dowie's best signing, wanted to stay, and probably would have done if we'd stayed up.
I hate football for a fiver the atmosphere is dead full of free loaders who have no interest in CAFC ...every football for a fiver game I have loathed
Our record in winning in front of a football for a fiver crowd isn't great either, which might explain the atmosphere. However on the basis that they spend money on food and drink as well as buying product from the shop then it must make a bit of money otherwise it wouldn't be repeated. I do not like them on the basis that they seem to cost us 3 points with a lacklustre crowd not getting behind the team but so long as it doesn't presage another bad run I will accept it for what it is, a genuine attempt to build the support base.
As a season-ticket holder, I'm more than happy for the club to go ahead and demand an extra quid for charity from the part-time fans. It is no skin off my nose, and if some hard-up kids benefit, then so be it. Keep the politics out of football, I say. As for fox hunting: it is the sport of sadistic scum. Ballet: a truly wonderful spectacle that should be enjoyed by all strands of society.
As for fox hunting: it is the sport of sadistic scum...... agreed Ballet: a truly wonderful spectacle that should be enjoyed by all strands of society..... even with many £'m of National financial support tickets still cost a minimum of £80 to £150 each! whereas football ...without any state aid.... still manages to provide affordable entertainment for the working man.
Football for a fiver's all very well, but they aren't trumpeting "Football for £25" for the Birmingham game. I also guess it's "Football for £30" for the Leeds game, as it was for the Millwall game.
A large percentage of the Lottery and Government monies has gone towards subsidising trips for inner-city kids (such as my daughter) to attend the ballet and opera, trips they would have otherwise struggled to afford. But I totally get your point, AllHell. Two separate worlds, eh?
(1) Why "only Eddie"? I cannot think of anything in my previous posts which would make you think I am a ballet supporter. In fact I am not. It wasn't me complaining. It was my girlfriend. I don't like ballet and would never spend my money on it at whatever price. (I don't like most opera either). But for most of her life in a (then) dour country, going to the ballet was an occasional, and even then barely affordable, treat which she could no longer afford after communism. (2) Your inverted snobbery does you no credit. In most other countries of the world there are no class connotations entailed in attending ballet, opera, classical music concerts, etc. I'm all for a bit of class warfare, but it should be directed to economic matters like ownership and wages, etc., not colluding with the ruling classes to limit the cultural choices for working people. Wherever cultural activities are made affordable for working people they support them as enthusiastically and as knowledgeably as the middle and upper classes. (3) Fox-hunting is not cultural (except in the vague sociological sense of the word which would describe soccer "fans" vandalising property on the way to and from matches as a "culture"). It is a rural ritual which is, or was, supported by twenty members of the lower classes for every toff who took part. It cost them almost nothing to do so, except maybe the occasional pair of boots ruined. I am all for banning it but not on class grounds.
Of course it is cultural, it's an integral part of their society (and incidentally, it was the rural working class who suffered just as much from the ban, as many of them worked in the hunt industry or had tied property. Banning fox hunting was all part of the cultural purge of this country after 1997, it went hand in hand with banning smoking and letting 3 million East Europeans in.
I've only been to the ballet once, to see "Swan Lake", by a Siberian ballet company at the Fairfield Halls. I quite enjoyed the ballet, but it was for the music that I went, particularly the climax at the end. Unfortunately in this particular production they didn't play the finale, it just sort of petered out and the curtain went down . It went back up and the cast took a bow and everyone clapped. Personally I felt like booooing, like this: BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Wasn't Oscar Wilde persecuted for being gay ? It proves my theory that it is often minorities themselves who are the most intolerant of other minorities rights.
Brings to mind one of my favourite films - 'The Tin Drum'. Meanwhile, back to football. Glorious start to the day but my life, the forecast's bad. This storm shouldn't have started in earnest when the game's on but if it does, conditions could be a little 'testing' to put it mildly. Still going for 2-0 to us.
