Now I know we've talked about this before but how many people had left before the goal on Saturday, there wasn't too many people leaving at the end, but before half time one bloke near me left (presumably to get a beer) with 7 minutes of play left...I know cos I had to get up..
Loads appeared to be leaving soon after the goal, during the most tense part of the whole match, bizarre....
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Once bitten and all that, I don't see the point in going if you're going to leave early.
As I always say sometimes. Do they do the same thing with sex?
Blackburn 90th Minute 1-0
Villa 90th Minute 2-1
Newcastle 88th Minute 2-0
Wigan 86th Minute 1-0
I'd say if they wanna go early it's up to them, they seem to be missing a few goals though ! :-)
Did you remember you flask on Saturday Sco ?
They don't call me Flask Gordon for nothing mate. Tad miffed I forgot my blanket though.
Now, before you all yell at me, when I say 'leave early', I mean leave our seats at the final whistle, and clap the team while making our way out, not waiting till all the players have left the pitch, which is what we'd normally do after such a crucial victory...
I left the Watford match at half time, but nobody was more pleased than me when we pulled it back (particualrly as by then I'd found a pub that was showing it live!) But that was my choice and I'm more than happy to live by the decision I made. It doesn't make me any less of a fan.
Me?
At the Watford game I was in the back row, so got out easilly by walking along the gangway at the back.
At home games I'm about 5 from the end, but tend not to leave these early. Why?
I sit on the end- and i'm on my feet pretty much constantly from about 5 mins before half time to about 5 mins into the 2nd half and same again at the end of the match
i sit in the middle of a row, and if i'm late back to my seat after half time, i get so many evil looks. halfway through last season the bloke said to me, half joking, to get back a bit early. so now, i make the effort, but go in the other way, as he scares me!
there isn't time to go to the loo and get a drink at half time, if i want to get back to my seat before the game kicks off. i'm literally slap bang in the middle of the block. a bloke in front of me is always late back, and the whole row have tos tand up for him. i'd find it embarrassing personally annoying all those people and getting in people's way and having people tutting at me.
wasn't having a pop off_it, just interested. but understand it must be annoying to have to get up to let people out all the time.
personally i couldn't imagine leaving any game early, win or lose, i've paid for it, its like walking out of the film early.
It's sad that Suzi now feels she has to go in the otherway now :-(
With regard to leaving early, I very rarely stay in my seat until the final whistle, only tend to for big games (chelsea's/tottenham's etc).
I'm on the back row of our lower tier and have to walk down to pitchside to the exit. if i leave once the game has finished it can take me 10-15 minutes to get out the ground, let alone the station/car.
I tend to watch the last few minutes on the screens on the concourse, unless we're being hammered (quite often this season).
stood the whole of the watford game too as was in the back row.
mcs> it takes more than a second to move for people, if you have a bag, drinks etc on the floor, then its a bit of a kerfuffle. i don't moan, but then no one tries to get past me, cos i'm in the middle, but even before the game, i have to get past loads of people and they all have to stand up, breath in, pick up belongings etc. thankfully the game hasn't started.
There's a young lad in our row who goes for a slash once each half. He's so regular, normally you can set your watch by him. Against West Ham he was obviously more nervous and got up after 15 minutes. I couldn't help myself and said in a loud voice to the amusement of those around us "he's gone early today". The lad knew I was talking about him and looked very sheepish. So did I as I didn't mean to embarrass him.
As I posted earlier, life's all about small victories!
Saturday at the game is supposed to be a relaxing, enjoyable time away from work and home so why would anyone cut that time shorter than they have to?
If we have had a good result, even a decent draw, I love the slow procession out of the ground with thousands of fellow Addicks chatting about the game, hearing a thousand different comments from people, "Leaburn was great today," or, from someone else five minutes later, "That f++++ng Leaburn was a liablity again!" It is all part of the experience and the occasion.
There are few things better in life than the casual stroll from the ground back to the pub with your mates with three points safely in the bag, nobodys rushing to get anywhere its just that lovely comfortable feeling in your soul that all is right in the world.
I can honestly say that the only times I have ever left early have been the games when we have been getting really dicked and I just could not bear to watch any more (Sunderland at home in 91, Southend at home in 95, Boro at home in 95, Grimsby at home in 96). The only exception to those were at Selhurst at home to Liverpool in 1990 when they did us 4-0 and I wanted to applaud them for a great performance and also in the same season at home to Spurs (lost 3-1) when I stayed to the end to watch Gazza who was unreal that day.
each to their own and all that and its gets right on my tits when listening to some of the posts above. Im glad i dont sit in the middle of the row now and have to run the gauntlet of abuse.