That sounds like a blast! I like soccer (my team is the Seattle Sounders), but I don’t know if I could survive going to a game. Too noisy and crowded for me.
That sounds like a blast! I like soccer (my team is the Seattle Sounders), but I don’t know if I could survive going to a game. Too noisy and crowded for me.
I generally avoid crowded places but if I have an allocated seat and a definitive start and finish time I am usually fine. I go to football matches fairly regularly, occasionally to see the team I support, Spurs (it's usually the journey back after the match where I start to feel desperate to be alone) but more often my local team, who get a much smaller crowd and I can drive to pretty near the ground. Always a relief to get back in my car at the end though.
I fell out of love with football a little bit between 2010 and 2020 but my youngest son has developed the same obsession I had when I was his age and as a result I got my love of the game back.
Football matches in England are a much more pleasant experience now, than they were when I first started going properly in the 90's. People are much better behaved.
You do still get some unpleasant characters though, so I can see why that puts some people off. I just love the game, and tolerate all the other stuff around it. For example, the supposedly "hilarious" chants are mostly tedious. There's a YouTube video of supposedly funny ones, with a load of comments underneath about how great they are, whereas to be honest I find most operate at a pretty numbskull level of humour. Some are outright unpleasant.
