With about 95% of the Spurs 'fans' disappearing when Chelsea's fourth went in, I got thinking about whether I'd have done the same, in the same situation yesterday? I think I can honestly answer no. I think true fans stay and support their team whatever the score, no matter how disappointed you are, and if the BS had hammered us like that I'd have been gutted. But I'd have still stayed to support my team.
Depends how you define support. I'm one of those who sits silently with their hand in their hands and waits once the game is out of reach, would never leave early though.
Stay to the bitter end. Soak up the atmos and use to make sure it never gets that bad again/make sure you make the most of it when things go right.
I've never left a game early even when Newcastle are getting stuffed but i'm only willing to support the team if it gives me some shred of something to support. For instance, if i'd been at the match a number of years ago when Dyer and Bowyer got sent off for fighting each other i may well have left... As a fan you are there to rally the players, let them know you'll be there through thick and thin but you don't want to feel like someone is taking the piss out of you. That said i tought Tottenham played well today until near the end and there's no reason their fans should have left early.
I was shocked to see how empty it was. And the hospitality seating needs to be repainted grey so you can't see that all the corporate twats haven't bothered to come back for the second half. GKRK.
It is an event, stay till the end. If you are only interested in Spurs winning then leave when they are not going to, at 4 1 down it was looking bad so th eplastics left, one or two were sure to have long drives maybe though and were not thinking it worth it to sit it out to the end and face the madness getting out. Spurs fans are though having some humility forced on them seeing as they could not have soe themselves. HIAG must be having some seriously angry ****s these days Power Shift? Hahahahaha no not at all
i understand the sentiment..and ive never left a match early..however i disagree that the fans are there to cheer ,encourage the players......yes that is true but it works both ways...we are not slaves to the players and club where we as working class folk pay out obscene amounts of money to fund the pockets of millionaires and on top of that we have to watch till our club gets annihalated..what about what the players give to fans? you want support? i expect passion,pride,fight...till the bloody end too! My club wil be there after the likes of Redknapp and Bale have long gone...and i will still be wearing the shirt...so i wont blame these fans who felt as though the players did not stick to their end of the deal . why is football any diffrent and more important thn other aspects of life? yet in life we fall out wth those that we love,we get angry,we do alot of things...but we dont stop caring. i find this saga to be judgemental in a very base level..things are done for a reason.
It's not as though you have a duty to stay, you pays your money so you can do whatever you like. But I would always stay to the end no matter what, and it would never occur to me to leave early.
for me this situation is complex in one regard and simple in another. Its really really simple for me to say i would stay especially in a cup game. If we're 2-0 up at home sneaking out on 91mins before the big crowd is not so big an issue. The complicated part.... spurs are in london so all have to use public transport to get home. ergo chaos, ergo losing 4-1 = get the hell out. I can understand why they would. I saw evertonians exiting wembely after carroll scored though... they can't just get home that easy can they? why did they do it? I'd be asking that more than spud fans. Dona sums it up ok, i can understand guys getting angry a few guys left instanbul at half time... i mean where the F are you going? you are there until your bus leaves but guys don't think cos they are angry.... but i have to say the amount leaving were thinking about traffic and getting a seat o nthe tube not anything else. re: half time... this is legendary at wembley. you have got to get in 30mins before the game at least and buy what overprices rubbish you are going to buy then cos the consessions in wembley are horredeneously slow. For me I'd stay til the end, the team fights to get you to wembley so you should applaud them off. cup games, prob the last game of the season and games like that there some interaction is good. winning 2-1 v say blackburn on 91mins of 94 mins I'm going to start moving meself especially if its a wet winter's day.
