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Mooney Magic
Re: How many.....
In the past I was a season ticket holder for a good few seasons and before that I never missed a home game and I've always been a 5-10 away games a season follower. Presently I admit to picking and choosing my games and I feel awful about it but I do have my reasons.
The main reason is the sheer expense. I can then go off on a tangent about footballers earning too much and thats the reason the tickets are so expensive. I really do believe that it's too much money and completely out of proportion to every other form of entertainment. I also think that the notion of it being a short career and so the wages should be higher is utter bollocks. The game is full of rich and greedy ***** who don't share in the love of the game that many of the fans have.
I would love to watch every game, home and away, but it's just impossible. Too much money and family commitments mean PNE have to sometimes come second in my life, it's as sad and simple as that.
Maybe that won't wash with some but in my case it's nothing to do with success on the field; I went on more games under Les Chapman and John Beck than I did under Moyes and the poison dwarf.
No-one is gonna stifle my passion for North End but on the other hand no-one is gonna convince me that I should put football above my family. If the prices drop dramatically (which means the players wages too) then I'll be able to take my kids with me. As it is I keep choosing the games to go to and whichever of my kids has behaved the best comes with me.
In the past I was a season ticket holder for a good few seasons and before that I never missed a home game and I've always been a 5-10 away games a season follower. Presently I admit to picking and choosing my games and I feel awful about it but I do have my reasons.
The main reason is the sheer expense. I can then go off on a tangent about footballers earning too much and thats the reason the tickets are so expensive. I really do believe that it's too much money and completely out of proportion to every other form of entertainment. I also think that the notion of it being a short career and so the wages should be higher is utter bollocks. The game is full of rich and greedy ***** who don't share in the love of the game that many of the fans have.
I would love to watch every game, home and away, but it's just impossible. Too much money and family commitments mean PNE have to sometimes come second in my life, it's as sad and simple as that.
Maybe that won't wash with some but in my case it's nothing to do with success on the field; I went on more games under Les Chapman and John Beck than I did under Moyes and the poison dwarf.
No-one is gonna stifle my passion for North End but on the other hand no-one is gonna convince me that I should put football above my family. If the prices drop dramatically (which means the players wages too) then I'll be able to take my kids with me. As it is I keep choosing the games to go to and whichever of my kids has behaved the best comes with me.
