There is some absolute rubbish posted on here about other teams fans + our own fans for that matter. All teams fans are made up of a cross section of society, and by and large all are OK. I thought Fulham had a very reasonable away support yesterday, and i expect that they came from a good cross section of society too. What is wrong with middle class fans or with not making an unnecessary mess for goodness sake ? Do you really prefer the chavvy sort who would break a ground up out of some idiotic notion to appear 'hard' ? I go to a lot of away games and always try to treat other towns & stadiums with a bit of respect - and i am not adverse to singing daft songs at the opposing supporters and really enjoy football banter, but some people dont know where to draw the line.
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What a great post. Spot on. I know a lot of Southampton fans having studied there for three years, really nice guys who you could have a bit of banter with, obviously none of them made their way onto here. As for the 'when they slip down the divisions they will go back to the 4000 attendances' comment, I think you'll find that success brings in more fans. Why do you think the likes of City, Chelsea, Utd have no trouble filling their stadium, but teams like Kettering do? I don't remember Southampton getting 30K when you were struggling in League One. Are you saying that 50% of your attendances this season have come from 'plastics'?
Being pedantic we got 32,000 against Exeter in League 1 , I went to see Fulham Port Vale years ago and the attendance was dire .
I just checked and your average attendance was 22K. Impressive for a League One team, but you're hardly getting similar numbers now are you? The point still stands. As we're being pedantic, Southampton have for a long time been the best side on the South Coast, whereas Fulham have always had to share the spotlight with the likes of other, more successful London teams such as Arsenal, Tottenham, Chelsea, West Ham etc. So of course our attendances wouldn't have been all that impressive in the lower leagues. Back then I doubt you could find a team in the old Division Two who were getting attendances over 10K.
Why is it when fans get bitter, they always resort to criticising supporters and attendance figures? If Barca played on my local rec with 15 mums and dads watching, they'd still be the best team in the world. It really, really doesn't matter.
Well put dman - Pity that some people are never satisfied. I am one of those Day Trippers who has followed Fulham to the all the top Prem teams and most less so top. And yes even to Portsmouth for the day we stayed-up a few years ago. But I also remember visits to Barnet, Port Vale, Hereford, Torquay, Orient, etc etc, which makes many of us appreciate our ELEVEN YEARS in the top flight. Any by-the-way home matches against Juve, Hamburg and a trip to Basel to win 2-3 away is just the icing on the cake. We did not play great at your place, but that's how life is. Enjoy the rollercoaster, whether you stay here for 1 or 11 seasons. Pity the poor "glass half emply" merchants, and booing their own team.
watch it, or you'll get called a happy clapper! It's good to see Fulham having survived for 11 years (survived maybe a bit harsh), and I so hope we do the same.
I'm sure the original post was somewhat light hearted. Hey, I like Fulham, and I like them even more if they leave our stadium tidy. But please........not the attendance debate. It's so boring.
We have sold out our ground many a time in league one. Your fans are basically taking deluded to a new level by having claimed the ground is too big.
You should be lucky that they took over 200 fans to you ground! heir away support is shocking ad yes... they are very polite! I watched the game and thought that in the first half you dominated. Your really should have got at least 2 goals in that first half. In the second half... well... it all went to pieces for 43 mins in that second half. I think Adkins got it wrong with regards to the Lambert substitution. Unfortunately for you I think the point which caused you most trouble was having Yoshida at right back though it did provide a priceless comment from the commentators... 'Yoshida... he looks like a centre back playing right back'.... erm... he is! anyway all the best for the season. I'm sure you'll be fine and don't panic! I look forward to vising St Mary's and we will bring about 4000 more fans than our West London neighbours
For the pedantic nature in me I could argue you have plenty of people to choose from say 7 Million and an overspill of the same amount .
I doubt I ever will. Think its more likely I'll go in the opposite direction and watch more non-league football than top-flight football as its just getting increasingly plastic and boring week by week.
Can't see what certain posters problem is with being middle class- my parents worked incredibly hard over 40 years to take the family from working class and I'm the first of us to have had what would be considered a middle class upbringing. I'm bet most of the forum are middle class, it's nothing to be ashamed of. Fulham fans are made up from all the classes with intelligent supporters and moronic ones. Looks like Southampton is fairly similar.
I'm proudly working class yet probably classed as middle class and I am a complete moron so I cross social divides............ Football is a traditional working class game and the middle class hopping onto it in the last 20 odd years is one of the reasons it has lost it's spark and atmosphere .
