Leaving Early (AGAIN ! )

[Leicesterpool]

Everyone as left a game early in their time. There's not a single football fan that hasn't, why it gets people wound up I don't know. If fans want to wait till the end and applaud the team then fair enough that's up to you, I'm sure the players appreciate it. If people want to leave early then let them go, its not a criminal offence for wanting to leave early. 

[adam]

1 minute ago, Knighton1976 said:

Utter nonsense, but let's go around again and see if we can build this up to 300 pages of thread....

 

You can't really care too much about the result if you're clearing off home with over 10 minutes left.

[rugbyblue]

2 minutes ago, Leicesterpool said:

Everyone as left a game early in their time. There's not a single football fan that hasn't, why it gets people wound up I don't know. If fans want to wait till the end and applaud the team then fair enough that's up to you, I'm sure the players appreciate it. If people want to leave early then let them go, its not a criminal offence for wanting to leave early. 

Incorrect .  In 30 odd years I have NEVER left early.  People pay their money and will do what they want.  I, along with many others, just don't get it.  

[Vlad the Fox]

4 hours ago, Paninistickers said:

End of? This is a woeful defence.  The Oxford debating society would have a field day! 

 

We are supporters. Not spectators. We are PART of the product. We actually, genuinely can have an effect on the outcome of a game. Leaving early is a selfish act. Putting self ahead of the community. Just to get home for, in this case, songs of praise (which is available on iPlayer anyway)

 

Amazing that you attend and don't know this. 

Think you’ll find songs of praise listeners will be late to the match as it’s on early afternoon you heathen. 

[Fear Of The Fox]

2 hours ago, Jimmy said:

I don't get why this is an issue, if people want to leave early let them its not a personal attack on those that stay

When I was younger playing professional basketball it was demoralising seeing fans leaving early even when as a team we had a slim chance to turn the game around. Ofc nowadays I guess players are generally thick and they might not care that much but it's more than obvious a proper loud support still has an impact on the flow of the game. It happened today after 1-2.

As I said earlier I'm not leaving even if we're 0-9 down. 

[Knighton1976]

2 minutes ago, adam said:

You can't really care too much about the result if you're clearing off home with over 10 minutes left.

I didn't, I stayed until the last kick as I have done since the 1970's. I'm just bored by the endless virtue signalling, arse wringing from those who want to comment on others. Honestly why would you give one unless you were looking for 'likes'?

 

[adam]

3 minutes ago, Knighton1976 said:

I didn't, I stayed until the last kick as I have done since the 1970's. I'm just bored by the endless virtue signalling, arse wringing from those who want to comment on others. Honestly why would you give one unless you were looking for 'likes'?

 

Who cares about likes. It's an opinion. You don't have to read it or comment. Well done on not missing a kick since the 70s.

[LeePhilpottsBaldSpot]

12 minutes ago, Leicesterpool said:

Everyone as left a game early in their time. There's not a single football fan that hasn't, why it gets people wound up I don't know. If fans want to wait till the end and applaud the team then fair enough that's up to you, I'm sure the players appreciate it. If people want to leave early then let them go, its not a criminal offence for wanting to leave early. 

I genuinely haven't.

 

In fact my first games were the opposite... my dad would take us to the turnstiles when they were opening for fans to leave. We'd sneak in to watch the last few minutes!

 

Ever since I've always thought of being inside a stadium as a treat, and even when the result is beyond conclusion I've never left before the final whistle.

[Daggers]

55 minutes ago, Foxin_Mad said:

No don't, that shit is bo...

Soz, can't read anymore. Have to leave the thread early to go drop a load on the wife's tits.

[squidsworth]

It's basically a bunch of children on here who think the world revolves around football. It doesn't. Some people might, as I've said before, have families to get back to, trains and buses to get on where leaving a few mins early might make a big difference in terms of getting back home. It'd be great if it wasn't like that, maybe the fact Leicester roads are utter shit contributes to those needs. 

Though I suspect most of those banging on about this, are likely able to walk home in their own time at their own pleasure.

 

[Bert]

I’ve left early once in my 30+ years of going to games. Was Cardiff away on a weeknight and was only because I had caught a lift with friends who don’t normally go with. 
 

Today is a prime example of why you never leave early and I said that to the little man on the way out. Imagine if we’d missed out on that? He's not stopped talking about “ova-Reid” as he calls him right up until he went to sleep. 
 

Again, as I’ve said before can just about get it when it’s a weeknight due to public transport issues. 

[StanSP]

20 minutes ago, Leicesterpool said:

Everyone as left a game early in their time. There's not a single football fan that hasn't,

I genuinely can't remember leaving a game early. Even on the end of the biggest thrashings, still hung around for some weird reason

 

[Nalis]

6 minutes ago, Daggers said:

Soz, can't read anymore. Have to leave the thread early to go drop a load on the wife's tits.

This thread is about leaving early not coming early

[HighPeakFox]

15 minutes ago, Knighton1976 said:

I didn't, I stayed until the last kick as I have done since the 1970's. I'm just bored by the endless virtue signalling, arse wringing from those who want to comment on others. Honestly why would you give one unless you were looking for 'likes'?

 

It isn't virtue signalling from my angle - it's because people prevent others' enjoyment of the game by their actions.

[Vlad the Fox]

2 hours ago, inckley fox said:

It's just one of those things that has come to be seen over time as disrespectful. You might not agree with social norms, but as with all sorts of things you can either respect the norms or be seen as bad-mannered and selfish. Leaving a game early, to me, is a bit like speaking in a theatre or a library, or bringing your packed lunch to a bar. Those around you, and those doing their jobs, don't approve, so you're likely to come across as being disrespectful if you insist on doing it. Perhaps all of us have done all of these things at some point or other, and had our reasons, but it's not worthy of defending. And I wouldn't want to make an enemy of a librarian either, because they can be quite spiteful.

I made an enemy of my school librarian and she refused to sign my leavers card. 36 years later and I’ve still not officially left school, might squeeze into my old sports kit and pop in for PE tomorrow. 

[Trav Le Bleu]

24 minutes ago, Leicesterpool said:

Everyone as left a game early in their time. There's not a single football fan that hasn't, why it gets people wound up I don't know. If fans want to wait till the end and applaud the team then fair enough that's up to you, I'm sure the players appreciate it. If people want to leave early then let them go, its not a criminal offence for wanting to leave early. 

Erm... You're sooooo wrong, because I never have and I know plenty of others who haven't.

 

Don't ever make the mistake in life, about anything, that everyone is like you.

[Tommy G]

I just don’t understand why people get their knickers in a twist about it - do what you want to do in life, if that means staying til the end great, leaving early, so? We aren’t in China or North Korea, this is also a sport not life and death. 

You can never control what others do - work, personal life or otherwise. Just enjoy what you want to do and not project onto others what you think they should be doing, it’s not worth the blood pressure increase. 

 

[Paninistickers]

10 minutes ago, squidsworth said:

here who think the world revolves around football. It doesn't. Some people might, as I've said before, have families to get back to, trains and buses to get on where leaving a few mins early might make

This is anecdotal and opinion, I accept,.but many of the people I see leave give off visual vibes of having absolutely nothing in life that necessitates them leaving early. 

 

Whereas many of those who stay appear to be urbane, sane and have had sex at least once in the last two decades. 

 

 

[Trav Le Bleu]

12 minutes ago, Daggers said:

Soz, can't read anymore. Have to leave the thread early to go drop a load on the wife's tits.

Don't make it too heavy, they're sagging enough as it is.

[Guest]

Personally if getting home a bit earlier was more important to me than seeing the game in its entirety, I would probably just not go in the first place. Never mind avoiding the worst of the traffic, you get to avoid all of the traffic and also don't have to spend loads of money on tickets and travel. In the same way a lot of our fans seem to go every week not because they actually enjoy it but just because it's part of their routine, I imagine many of those leaving early don't really have anywhere to be, they just leave early because they have always left early. Obviously if you want to do that every week irrespective of how the game is going then that's your right but it's also everyone else's right to think that doing so makes you a bit of a bellend.

[FoxTalkFox]

I might have edged a bit closer to the aisle but have never missed the final whistle.

[los dedos]

Went to the England womens game at the stadium.  Evening kick off loads of kids and was pretty much full until the full time whistle.  

Same for the Bournemouth game in M block mostly non members and obviously non season ticket holders and hardly anyone left early. 

I'm convinced it's the people who are still going out of habit and don't want to add to atmosphere but want to keep their season tickets are a big chunk of the early leavers!

Edited 8 December 2024 by los dedos

[Tommy G]

19 minutes ago, Guest said:

Personally if getting home a bit earlier was more important to me than seeing the game in its entirety, I would probably just not go in the first place. Never mind avoiding the worst of the traffic, you get to avoid all of the traffic and also don't have to spend loads of money on tickets and travel. In the same way a lot of our fans seem to go every week not because they actually enjoy it but just because it's part of their routine, I imagine many of those leaving early don't really have anywhere to be, they just leave early because they have always left early. Obviously if you want to do that every week irrespective of how the game is going then that's your right but it's also everyone else's right to think that doing so makes you a bit of a bellend.

This is the issue, you’ve said in a nutshell that it’s “everyone else’s right to think that doing so makes you a bellend” and that’s not the opinion of everyone, I stay til then end but I don’t look around and think everyone’s a bellend that leaves early? I couldn’t give a toss. 
 

Here’s a really simple scenario - what if a fan has an elderly wife, that has dementia and has a carer available to be around to cover the game, leaving 5 mins early means they get home to their sick elderly wife 30 mins early - they still get to watch 95% of the team they love every other week and it’s the only opportunity they get to go out the house. 
 

People have other stuff going on, so what. If they want to go home to see Songs of Praise or strictly it’s their choice - it’s not that bigger deal. 

[Kp1984]

4 hours ago, worthosoriginals said:

Give over  you wanted to get home ASAP to sit there watching strictly on iplayer

Strictly  never watched it. If I came back to my seat people be pissed so I stayed downstairs. Wish i did now 

[Voll Blau]

38 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

This is the issue, you’ve said in a nutshell that it’s “everyone else’s right to think that doing so makes you a bellend” and that’s not the opinion of everyone, I stay til then end but I don’t look around and think everyone’s a bellend that leaves early? I couldn’t give a toss. 
 

Here’s a really simple scenario - what if a fan has an elderly wife, that has dementia and has a carer available to be around to cover the game, leaving 5 mins early means they get home to their sick elderly wife 30 mins early - they still get to watch 95% of the team they love every other week and it’s the only opportunity they get to go out the house. 
 

People have other stuff going on, so what. If they want to go home to see Songs of Praise or strictly it’s their choice - it’s not that bigger deal. 

Good hypothetical. There's no way it applies to the vast, vast majority of zombies leaving today.