I was talking to a few mates who support other clubs yesterday and it got me thinking about leaving Filbo a bit. Although I enjoyed games there much more than I do at the Walkers, I think leaving when we did allows it to be remembered as a great stadium that always had an electric atmosphere.
My two mates support Wednesday and Bristol City, two teams with formerly great matchday atmospheres, but now with much less so. They say that although they're still in the same stadiums that used to have a real buzz about them; high ticket prices, ridiculously strict stewarding, increase in families attending, banning orders, attempts by their clubs to americanise the matchday (playing music when they score etc) have all led to a sharp deterioration in atmosphere.
I would have hated this have happened to Filbert Street. Which is probably the only very small silver lining I can think of about moving to the Walkers.
