Why I stopped going.

[side effect]

After 300 home and 200 away games the Manny fiasco was enough and the excuse to stop supporting this club

I had a front row seat West Upper 70 seats away from south bank and I wasn't willing to pay £650 for a season ticket with a club that for those prices were just happy for top ten.

With a taste of Europe via inter toto cup I wanted Europe every season so I quietly just left the club and took up train spotting.

Or the long term meds messed me up

 

[Mad Dog]

Ironically I'm going more now than I have done since the early 90s.

Finances are better than they have been since then (post uni and first few years of employment, mortgage and marriage etc) and now ive got a teenage son ive got an excuse to get a season ticket. 

Great spending quality time with the boy and always meet my mate pre match, but fuck me the games are usually bad.  

tha atmosphere is poor... but that's all seater stadiums for you not necessarily because of the ground, let's face it all seat Upton park was awful atmosphere wise a lot of the time

[Gary Strodders shank]

In the first two seasons at the bowl nearly all of my pals who I went to Upton park with stopped going and I all but stopped but would still go to one or two games and try and take along one of the old lot or whoever had shown an interest in coming along..

In the seasons since covid I've been going a lot more and kind of got used to the stadium and atmosphere.

It's never going to be a fit for purpose ground and the atmosphere is increasingly sanitised but I still enjoy the day or night out watching my team and forming opinions on what I see live rather than on the telly.





 

[Eastside surge]

Gave up my season ticket in the chicken run when it went all seater , still went every now and then but it wasn't the same apart from the odd game here and there. 
Have been to the rented shit bowl twice doubt I'll return, watched the Chelsea game recently on the box and was genuinely saddened with  what it has now become atmosphere wise .

[XKhammer]

Will always be part of my life,yeah I'm a diluted moron
Gotta accept the bad times and  I'll be  honest there will be more bad than good times

[wils]

I don't think there are 'reasons' people stop going as such. People just move on and lose interest. They might give a 'reason' but if that reason wasn't supplied they would find another one.

I moved on in my twenties and then rekindled my interest when my son developed an interest. 

[Massive Attack]

Still going. Hooked for life like a crack addict. Cunts.

[frank marker]

Fat Sam and the impending move.

The club even phoned me to ask me why!

[Leavemyarcelona]

Same here really. Since we left UP, the west ham i once knew died. LS as been a shambles, Moyes gave us 2 and a half out of four very good seasons. The wokeness that crept in through the backdoor was the final straw for me. Now just pick and choose the games now

[Takashi Miike]

numerous things under Brown were my reason, the ultimate being the replacement of Redknapp with Roeder. no train spotting

(a great seat in the BML)