"Football for a Fiver". Undoubtedly, one of the highlights of a Charlton fans' year. Or possibly not if past experience is anything to go by.
If you are going on Saturday, score one point for each of the following you experience. Report back after the game with your score.
1) The bloke behind you who asks you to sit down when you are standing up before the game starts and having a chat with your neighbour as his son can't see the warm-up.
2) People who turn up at kick-off time, stand looking around helplessly then realise their seats are at the far end of the row. Instead of going out and coming in the right end of the row, they attempt to reach their seats by making everyone else in that row stand up.
3) Missing the first 10 minutes of the game because people who don't know where their seats are situated continually block your view as they walk around trying to find them.
4) Kid sitting behind you who kicks the back of your seat throughout the whole game
5) The kicking kid having a dopey dad, who despite the fact that you are glaring at him, doesn't realise that his precious little son is actually an annoying brat and does nothing to stop him kicking your seat.
6) Kicking kid's dad getting all upset and telling you not to use language like that in front of Harry when you tell him what you are going to do to him unless he stops his annoying brat kicking your seat
7) Finding your foot stuck to the floor after annoying brat behind has spilt his coke and his drink has run down under your feet (also ruining your bag and anything else you have put under your seat).
8) If you don't experience 4, 5, 6 or 7, having a dad with his four kids behind you, each of whom has zero interest in the football as they are busy play-fighting, whilst the dopey dad pretends to get excited at every single moment of the match - commentating on each kick and challenge in order to try and get the brats interested.
9) Dopey dad explaining to his brat of a son that the teams aren't passing to the man wearing a black shirt because he is the referee and not actually playing.
10) 3 blokes in front of you who talk non-stop throughout the game about the fit bird at work, where they are going drinking tonight and whether Solskjaer should get the United job full time, never mentioning the game or Charlton once.
11) 4 blokes in your row who have obviously been to the pub beforehand and having drunk 4 pints before the game, spend the entire game going out to the toilet one by one.
12) Same 4 blokes, who when not going to the toilet, go out one by one to buy burger or chips.
13) Bloke next to you who asks you after 10 minutes which team is Charlton.
14) Bloke on the other side who asks if Curbishley is still the manager.
15) Kids seen wearing Barcelona, Real Madrid, PSG, Man Utd, Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham, Chelsea or West Ham shirts. (Score one point for each). Kids seen wearing Palace or Millwall shirts should just be pitied.
16) Missing the last 10 minutes of the game as your view is constantly blocked by people leaving early.
Please do let me know of any other experiences you have that make these Football for a Fiver days so enjoyable.
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When the takeover happens in "two weeks" we will sell out every week.
Champions League nights will be the worst.
However as a season ticket holder I have before been asked if i'm sitting in the correct seat only to be met with a blank look when I state the fact that I am in the correct seat due to being a season ticket holder while blank faced Fiver fan tries to blag a way for his family in separate seats to sit together. My group eventually shifted a few seats so his family could sit together. Unfortunately it's the one downside of where I sit, it's prime seating for Fiver fans / matchday casuals.
These people then ask a steward where their seats are only be be met with a couldn't care less/don't give a f shrug from the steward.
#notapennymore
You have already dug Charlton fans out on the Blackpool thread by saying they are real fans with principles, implying Charlton fans who go dont have principles which is rubbish, you have no idea why people go to games.
But this thread is clearly for people who are going and not another excuse for you to dig out more fans for putting their support of the club ahead of the owner.
have to admit for the first few numbers I was thinking... were you in front of me against Barnsley
"No son Spurs arent playing today we're here to watch Charlton"
I pity the poor sods sitting next to them in the East Stand
WTF even if Millwall were offering free tickets I wouldnt go
If you dont realise that you shouldnt be at a Football game
Sitting near an aisle it was busier than the elevator in a Primark sale. Forever leaning forwards and backwards to try and see the game. Really annoying afternoon
I never remember it being so bad or irritating when we were in the Premier League - Dont get me wrong am not a fan of these crowds but its primarily because your surrounded by people who dont know the ettiquete at the Valley
You're not special, sit where you're supposed to!
See my post on the post match thread for details......taking a photo of your mate standing in the aisle whilst the game is going on. Just why ???
i don’t like extra punters they just get in the way and make parking more difficult
bah humbug