"Xavier Santiago Amarillo - Dentista" <x@plaque.free.com> wrote in message
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Had too many years of it to mention. Travelled from London to see Pool
more times than I can remember from way back. Watched every game
they played in London for decades. Saw average of 2 or 3 games a week
at all the London grounds with a milk round early morning as a kid to get
the
cash for the entry. Stood in the pissing rain an hour and a half before
kick off amongst 60.000 others. Still go, but less often and in some
comfort
even when paying well over the odds for tickets.

But that's not the point is it? I only ever went to games that had meaning.
Any sports event without true competition is nothing. Competition is the
common denominator between all great sporting events but it has to
be real otherwise the drama is missing and the excitement has to be
invented, I think I am a football fan, in the real sense of the term.

I don't buy crap papers with crap content. I don't go to bad shows or
concerts. Life is far too short not to discriminate. And I would not go
to be bored by a meaningless game like any Charity Shield if it was free
and I had a car door to door no matter if it was Spurs v Arsenal, Pool v
Chelsea or Man U v Pool. No points at stake. No moving to the next
round..........nothing! The only reason I watched this one was to see
the new signings, but it was the first time for years.

LC
















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"Lescor" <lescor@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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i'm, kind of disappointed you really weren't being ironic.

meaning.

well yes I take your point, but i maintain the CS is a good day out, we
don't get this POV for various pre-season matches that fans attend and have
to pay for.
I was at the Valencia pre season friendly game a few seasons back when we
hosted Rafas former club and were given a football lesson, we took a few
kids along, had seats right next to the dug out and they all got Canizares
autograph and were thrilled.
Try looking a little further than your own rather selfish POV.


as it turned out though the CS game at the W/E was a good advert for the
english game, imo.
and as a kid the LFC CS games were amongst the bigger games that my father
and his mates (all Anfield regulars) took the kids to, so no bad thing for
my money, or my dads as was the case then.

I think your attitude is a bit humbug.
That's not to say it's exclusive to you, i got hold of some Uefa cup tickets
for a friend and his family a few seasons back, went out of my way to
deliver them to his house and the miserable **** could only moan that the
seats were towards the back of the Kop, he had specifically requested Kop
tickets.
HUMBUG!!

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"Xavier Santiago Amarillo - Dentista" <x@plaque.free.com> wrote in message
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Well, I admit it had a touch more intensity than most I used to watch but
cannot agree that is was a good advert for the English game. £200 mil
of Chelsea talent trying to play only a long ball game was hardly that.
Maybe your judgement was coloured by the good result?






Taking kids is something else. I have taken mine to all sorts of stuff over
the years
simply because they wanted to go. It was, and is, a treat to go to any match
with Dad,
but I stopped taking them when the obscene chanting of the "true fans"
became
too much.


But that is not the charge I was replying to which was the implication that
"true" fans
go to such games and by definition, those who dont aren't. This idea
suggests
fans own a blind alligience to the club. We often hear them in here. proud
that they
have turned out regularly through thick and thin to watch Pool even when
they were
poor and would continue to do so if they were a mid table average side. It
is
accepted without question that this something to be proud of. The clubs
applaude
it as do the overpaid players. and the media never question it. But it is
the only
area of our lives where such dedication is seen in this way.

We don't continue to go back to cafe's which make us sick, or to shops which
sell rubbish, or stick to brands which are found to be poor quality. To do
so
would be seen as bloody stupid. But all bets are off when it comes to
football
according to some who see the opinion that a game without meaning is not
worth
spending time or money on as some sort of weakness or disloyalty.

It was not always like this, but over the years the balance between
'football lovers'
who supported a club and 'my club' fanatics has shifted, so much that we now
have
to segregate and police them like criminals. We all know what happens if
you don't.

This is where thoughtless dedication has taken us. Glad you and the kids
enjoyed
the game. but the certainty is that your decision to go or not go would not
reflect
on your support for the team as the OP suggested.

LC