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Season ticket with your kids (when they are no longer kids)
AFKABartram
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Bit niche, but many parents / kids continue to go football together once they are no longer kids.
At what stage did you stop paying for their ticket? Or do you still pay for it now?
By good to also know at the other side of the coin from those that still go with their folks. Has it gone full circle and you now pay for them, or you still getting a benefit and ensuring their winter fuel allowance goes to something more meaningful :-)
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When he started earning.
And no, he doesn't pay for mine now.1 -
I pay for my kids ones until they are 18, offered to go halves with my eldest at the start of this season as her ticket went to full price but as she was off to Uni we let it go - we did non-renew an odd seat in the middle of our row though and it's generally available if she's home.
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I still pay for my two and they're 34 and 36!4
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I still pay for my sons who are 31 & 34 and buy all the beers.5
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When they earnt. Do like to treat my Boy to a bit of Hospitality a few times each season still.0
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bobmunro said:I still pay for my two and they're 34 and 36!
Oh, thank God I'm not the only mug!Covered End said:I still pay for my sons who are 31 & 34.
First took my daughter and son when they were about 11 and 9 respectively.
Daughter stopped going around late teens and now lives in Somerset.
Son is now 33 and I still pay for his season ticket.
I used to worry that if I stopped paying he might lose interest and stop going and I would be Billy No Mates.
I mean, both my kids were born and raised in Bournemouth/Poole.
Fact is though, my son goes to more games than I do, as he goes to loads of aways, sometimes with me, sometimes his wife and sometimes alone!
Anyway, my wife retires later this year which means we will be living off both our pensions and my son has agreed to start paying his season ticket from next season.
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I still pay for my son 37
my daughter 41 and a 20 year old grandson, a 15 year old grandson and a 7 year old grand daughter. Because I love having them with me it’s our time.7 -
CoveredEndAndy said:I still pay for my son 37
my daughter 41 and a 20 year old grandson, a 15 year old grandson and a 7 year old grand daughter. Because I love having them with me it’s our time.
That sums it up perfectly.5 -
I've always gone to games with my Dad. He paid for both of our season tickets until I was in my mid-twenties I would guess. Since then I've paid for mine and for the last 10 or more years, also for tickets for my two (now teenage) kids. We've now gone full circle and for the last 4 or 5 years I've started paying for Dad's too, not because he asked me to but because I wanted to. He's 85 this year. What goes around comes around.9
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When they moved on to adult tickets.0
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I had paid for three kids - 2 of whom drifted off before the issue arose. My youngest son started to pay his own once he started earning decently after uni. I also stopped buying him a program at the same time, but pointed him in the direction of the seller - it was a step too far for him - which was good news for my loft!
He started attending whilst we were at Upton Park and must have been one of the very youngest attendees at the first game back at the Valley. We still go to every home game together, he is 40 next birthday.5 -
I still pay for my 3 sons, 34, 25 and 19. In return I get get annoyed being in their company and mostly annoyed with what I’m watching. Not to mentioned annoyed with the people around me. I wouldn’t change it one bit.8
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Mine are 23 and 26 by the start of next season…….. I still pay 🙈0
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Blooming heck!
The only thing our Dad got us was a warm mars bar he'd bought as a 3 pack on the Monday, stuffed in his coat til the next game, which neither of us had the heart to tell him we hated.
I can't eat them until this day.
I'd kill to have him give me one of those now tbh.
Fair play to those who pay, it's priceless ❤️4 -
Both my boys have had season tickets since they were 4, and the eldest will turn 21 next month and I still pay for both of them. The eldest has questioned this and offered to pay, but my response is always the same, all the time I have the money, its on me3
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Can’t remember exactly but I think when they started going to work - both my boys go regularly now and sit with us an other family and friends but neither were 100% regulars when they were kids although I bought their tickets / season tickets when they did - I lost them to Liverpool and wwe wresting at various stages and then just better things to do - both are bang into it now - the older one hooked by the Chris Powell promotion and younger one by the bowyer promotion ( my hooking was the Lennie Lawrence one - always a promotion year that does it unless you win something but that was 1947 ) they do a lot of away games as well now and I tend to pick up more than my fair share of breakfast and bar bills when I go with them !!! They won’t slum it in a car or coach either - has to be train !!!0
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I still pay for both mine. They are 13 and 11 and to be fair, the 11 yr old is free.2
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Could she not get a student one.Elthamaddick said:I pay for my kids ones until they are 18, offered to go halves with my eldest at the start of this season as her ticket went to full price but as she was off to Uni we let it go - we did non-renew an odd seat in the middle of our row though and it's generally available if she's home.
I did 3 years on a student one when I was doing my MSc, I was also working full time but there was no rule apparently regarding it apparently.0
