We can('t) see (for) you sneaking out

Ye olde early leavers debate rolls on. And in the ‘stay til the end’ corner, the next contender is…



We can('t) see (for) you sneaking out


Please forget the singing and forget the RedSection sitting down. First we need to focus upon shaming the new breed of prawn sandwich munchers that start to leave a game with 15 minutes to go.

I really don't want to get involved with the obvious excuses, yes the police with their new ‘herd the cattle one way and close the streets as we see fit’ really annoys, as can trying to exit certain parts of the stadium swiftly at the final whistle. As a "fan" I choose to put up with this incidental crap so I can see my heroes play some sublime football.

However, could we really complain if footballing Gods like Thierry and Cesc decide they should show the same loyalty these part time prats exhibit by not staying to clap the team off the pitch?! We expect the boys to give 100% for us, leaving with 15 minutes to go as an increasing large section of the crowd are tending to do is really embarrassing and disrespectful to the players.

We are seeing some of the best football in Europe and all these people can think about is getting home in time to watch ‘The X-Factor’ or some other Saturday night celebrity crap. Ok in one game we were 3-0 up but surely that’s even more reason to clap the players off? And this ‘quarter of an hour club’ do not just leave in the games we are winning!

Highbury had the old five minutes early crowd running to the car but now I have noticed the trend is a much larger exodus starting with up to 15 minutes left to play - and it is both irritating and embarrassing Please STOP IT!

I would like to think that this is just a case of educating the new supporters not used to live football that have joined us since the capacity jumped from Highbury's 38,000. Shame on them and shame on us if we do not say anything to them as they run off.

Firstly you can't really call yourselves fans with this kind of behaviour, secondly it is a blatant disregard of the effort the players put in and finally I can't see the bloody game for you tossers streaming down the aisle in front of me.

In order to change the behaviour of these disrespectful uncommitted glory hunters, could I ask ‘The Gooner’ readers and website visitors to suggest methods to suitably embarrass them?

For my part I offer two suggestions. Firstly a section in ‘The Gooner’ titled "Guess the loyal fans left at the final whistle?" Like the guess the attendance competition in the p*ss poor match programme, but featuring real fan numbers minus the early doors glory hunters.

Perhaps RedAction could also sponsor some ‘Prawn Sandwich’ Stickers given away on the front of ‘The Gooner’ which could be could attached to these idiots as they leave, hoping that they would then get the message!


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