Don't be that fan...

This is a very good read.

 

Agree John.
Nice read.
I used to go more as I used to do more away games, and even now I have a season ticket but can’t use that all the time largely due to work, but also other family commitments.
I’ll try to see if someone else wants it rather than leave an empty seat if I can’t go but even that doesn’t always work.

More fun at the moment when I do go than it has been for several years though I must say

 

I wonder how many of the die hard ultra’s in the stands at the likes of Fenerbahce decide not to bother going to the game because they have to get up early the next morning.

 

Or in Spain where the have games kicking off at 11pm?

 

I always wondered why the Nou Camp and the Bernabeu are always so empty…

 

Imagine a different culture in a different country being different.

 

Are you a Little Englander who doesn’t want to adopt the ways of our neighbours in the EU? Imagine living in a culture where everything doesn’t shut early? Though being able to stay out later and get up early isn’t culture. Funny how people in this country say 11pm closing is late enough and want a return to the good old days of 10.30 pm closing and nightclubs shutting at 1am are the last out when in Spain, Greece etc…

 

A 90,000 stadium with empty seats is different to a 25,000 seater with them. They could have the number of the seats empty there and still have 65,000 in. Only Dortmund, Man Utd and Bayern have averages which exceed or match theirs.

 

Perhaps they have flexible working hours. Don't need to be in at 9 in the dot every day

 

Turks work longer hours for less money than we get. They don’t have sophisticated flexible working hours systems. Most will start before 9. Like us some will be on shifts but not most.

 

In Spain they have a siesta, so tend to stay up later at night.

 

Just filled in the survey the club have sent regarding Sunday's 'matchday experience'. I kept it clean, but lied about ease of use when scanning in!

 

Kids are out with their parents until after midnight and kid still at school in the morning. Not everyone has a siesta, though with the heat in summer you need to be out of the shade in the hottest couple of hours. They of course work later. Here people would want a siesta and still finish at 5pm. They are out late in Greece, Portugal and Italy but don’t have a siesta. They are out later in countries with a similar climate to ours like Germany.
Other countries realise there is more than one 1,2 and 3s in a day.

 

When I was in Italy, Greece & Portugal, places were closed mid afternoon.

 

Some maybe but they don’t have a siesta. Never noticed places closed in Greece on an afternoon.

 

cool beans

 

It was when I was working on ships going round the med, pain in the arse as by the time I was ready to go out, a lot of things were shut.

 

warm toast

 

Melted butter.

 

God, you’re a boring, tedious ****.