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7 September 2012 at 4:40 am #92757
i’ll be there, steep i know, but im a proper fan. fair play if you are to tight to pay it is alot of money for 90mins.
Coming on here and giving it ‘the big one’ about being a proper fan and labelling anybody who doesn’t go to Old Trafford as not a proper fan is an absolute piss-take.
So as I’m not going to Old Trafford, I must’nt be a proper fan, this despite nigh-on 30 years of following this club, and going on 70-odd grounds around the country during that time. It must all have been a bit like when Bobby Ewing died in ‘Dallas’…and then reappeared in the next series, and it had all been a dream.
Did it REALLY happen? Did I REALLY visit such wonderful arena’s as Sealand Road, Chester, Belle Vue, Doncaster, and Dean Court, Bournemouth, to name a few? Did I REALLY stand on places such as the piss-wet and wind-swept terracing as Huddersfield’s Leed’s Road ground and witness many capitulation’s and successes?As I’m not a ‘proper fan’, I must have dreamed it all…..
….but then again, maybe I’m actually a PROPER fan who know’s when he is being scammed and refuses to be parted of such vast sums of money?
Perhaps it is more down to the fact that as you get older, you understand the value of money more. You have a mortgage. You have bills to pay, a car to insure and put petrol in.You have kids to feed. I have two kids, both of schoolgoing age. Here’s a lesson about the reality of growing up and having a family. In the last few weeks, I have had to buy them both brand new uniforms and shoes. Now, I always buy my kids CLARKS shoes. They are quality, they last. They average at around £40 a pair. So I spent £80 on school shoes. And then there was their uniform. In total, I probably paid around £200 for uniforms and shoes.
Now, I really did want to go to Old Trafford. But when I weighed up the choice of buying my kids a decent pair of school shoes, or spending £45 on MYSELF at a football stadium that these days resembles a tourist trap of a carnival… and one where we tend to get nothing from the referee and are generally hard done by, I soon came to the conclusion that, no, I wouldn’t be drawn in to parting with £45 of my money. For what? 90 minutes of wonderful football action? Can anybody actually say 100% that 90 minutes football IS WORTH £45? I don’t believe it is, unless it’s a one off match like a cup final or semi final. I did want to take my 6 year old for a day out, but no way was I going to pay £17 for him. (It costs me about £13 per match with my season ticket at Latics)
So you see, Sudworth, when you get older and understand money, and it’s actual value, you start to appreciate what is more important. I could go to every away game if I really wanted to, but you see that’s just it. I DON’T WANT TO! Because if I did, my kids would miss out. They would possibly be undernourished by living off cheap, crap food, and would be dressed in rags and re-cycled ‘A Team’ t-shirts from jumble sales. They would probably have no toys to play with. Their X Box would’ve been long gone….pawned into Cash Convertors for about £12. Holiday’s would be strictly out of the question…perhaps a bus ride to Southport. But at the end of the day, maybe it would all be worth it?
Because then I would be deemed a ‘proper fan’ by Sudworth.**
**Bellend.[/quote]
Excellent post, a rarity these days, I agree with all of it mate, except the last bit, he’s a massive bellend ;)
7 September 2012 at 4:58 am #92758Clarks shoes,Quality?
Rip off more like….made in China. :(
7 September 2012 at 5:38 am #92759Anonymous
i’m going, fook it. shambles square for 11 ish quick tram ride to o/t and try and get in sam platts near ground (home speccies only), i managed get in there on boxing day, pity it’s only cans under a big tent with a load of salford nobs but cheaper than ale in ground.
can’t wait…………….p.s
the match tickets are steep, but if you go sinclairs and get on cheap ale you’ll keep it under a ton for the day easily.
£45 ticket
£4 train
£2 tram
£40 ale and a spare £9 for for all you fat tubbers who can’t go a few hours without a maccy’sown up……………………..how many totted up the figures to check it was a ton????????????????????????? ;) ;) ;)
7 September 2012 at 4:10 pm #92771Anonymous
Clarks shoes,Quality?Rip off more like….made in China. :(
Where else do you suggest? Wyndsor’s? :lol:
£12 specials that fall apart in the rain due to being made of cardboard.
Send your kids school in shoes…..they come home in flip-flops. :woohoo:
7 September 2012 at 6:51 pm #92781ha ah now that’s funny, one of your better efforts TBH.
I get my kids proper quality shoes, they last much longer than cheap s hite, Mind you my wife wont buy owt thats cheap, she always gets good stuff no matter what.right thats me off to work for a very long shift, stay cool lads.lol7 September 2012 at 8:16 pm #92786Anonymous
ha ah now that’s funny, one of your better efforts TBH.
I get my kids proper quality shoes, they last much longer than cheap s hite, Mind you my wife wont buy owt thats cheap, she always gets good stuff no matter what.right thats me off to work for a very long shift, stay cool lads.lolSo you have a catalogue then? :P
7 September 2012 at 8:21 pm #92789ha ah now that’s funny, one of your better efforts TBH.
I get my kids proper quality shoes, they last much longer than cheap s hite, Mind you my wife wont buy owt thats cheap, she always gets good stuff no matter what.right thats me off to work for a very long shift, stay cool lads.lolSo you have a catalogue then? :P[/quote]
A catalogue of poor spelling and grammar.
7 September 2012 at 8:25 pm #92790Does it count that i’m a real fan if i go corpoprate and site with the enemy?
9 September 2012 at 9:54 pm #92820who do you support mate. get in with the chance of a freebie, loads on here would go if it were free including me but im paying for 4 anyway, dont bother me im used to paying out for away games as i support my local team through thick and thin cant wait to cheers the lads at ot with the rest of the diehards.have agood day pal
9 September 2012 at 10:02 pm #92821Anonymous
who do you support mate. get in with the chance of a freebie, loads on here would go if it were free including me but im paying for 4 anyway, dont bother me im used to paying out for away games as i support my local team through thick and thin cant wait to cheers the lads at ot with the rest of the diehards.have agood day palBellend.
The ‘diehards’, as you call them, are the people who still go to games who were there in the days of Hartlepool at home in 1995, crowd: 1,427.
NOT the people who go to Old Trafford and pay £45 in 2012.
‘Thick and thin’….Were you actually THERE during the ‘thin’? Yet another really bad whopper who has latched on to this club.
The main reason I don’t go to away games is some of the absolute tit’s that do.
9 September 2012 at 10:36 pm #92826Anonymous
Does Clarks still have them big fancy electronic machines that measure your feet for you?
10 September 2012 at 12:00 am #92829Does Clarks still have them big fancy electronic machines that measure your feet for you?Health and Safety’s banned them. Apparently bombarding kiddies feet with X-rays is somehow deemed to be harmful
10 September 2012 at 12:09 am #92830Anonymous
Bloody hell Garswood, I said an electric one – that one looks like it comes with a traction engine! I think we might be from a different era ;)
10 September 2012 at 1:51 am #92833Bloody hell Garswood, I said an electric one – that one looks like it comes with a traction engine! I think we might be from a different era ;)Sorry – yes.
When I were a lad we had these – they were X-ray machines and you stuck your feet in them and then the assistant and your Mum looked down and saw how much room there was in your new shoes.
They really were all over the place though.
10 September 2012 at 4:52 am #92837Yet another really bad whopper who has latched on to this club.
sorry mate, i wernt old enough t0o go to those places and tbh if it wernt for people like me who have latched on our crowds we would still be getting 1500, so please explain.?
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