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

 

[side effect]

Thanks for all the replies.

I atleast expected to be called entitled and f off to Spurs if you want trophies.

Like I said the meds could have messed me up because I can't even watch a full game on tv anymore as I find myself getting bored.

Even when there's a goal players stick their tongues out and do silly celebrations before the game has been won.

Thanks again for your input

 

[Monsieur merde de cheval]

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 .

the white working class really have taken some shit over the centuries...taking football away from us just typical 

[Monsieur merde de cheval]

that's exactly what I did, roeder was named the new manager. I was done. one piss take too many

Remember that time well.
new build west stand in progress ..McLaren was the man for them.
he TURNED US DOWN...
How shameful is that

[Manuel]

the thread's about 'Why I Stopped Going', not 'Does Mingwell Give A Fuck Why I Stopped Going'. calm yourself down cսnt

Ah, the old 'what the threads about' spin. Sorry, I didn't realise we had to stick strictly on topic these days and couldn't discuss anything else. Noted for other threads, cheers. Didn't mean to upset you, I just find it strange that someone would make a VOW to NEVER go again. All very serious.

[Takashi Miike]

the thread's about 'Why I Stopped Going', not 'Does Mingwell Give A Fuck Why I Stopped Going'. calm yourself down cսnt

[Manuel]

that's exactly what I did, roeder was named the new manager. I was done. one piss take too many

But nobody gives a fuck if you don't go again do they, just seems like you are taking yourself and it all too seriously. At the end of the day the main reason to go is a day out and to see people etc, no?

[Takashi Miike]

that's exactly what I did, roeder was named the new manager. I was done. one piss take too many

[Manuel]

Manuel

Always found that very odd, to make a commitment to never go again. There's really no need to take it all so seriously fella, it's just a game of football ffs.

Didn’t say I’d never go again mate, just decided it was no longer for me. I’ve also found, since my time away, that other things in life have taken priority over a game of football. In all honesty I don’t miss it as much as I thought I would.
I’m sure I’ll return at some point, just not as a ST holder.

I'm quite sure the vast majority don't see football as a priority mate. I understand ditching your ST as that's a commitment, but always found just turning it off like a tap and to completely stop going after so many years is a bit strange, like you're trying too hard.

Anyway, my first game at the bowel next month

[MaryMillingtonsGhost]

First for me and I suspect for many it is more than "just" a game of football.

Fair point mate
As you say, I'm sure there are plenty of others who feel the same as you.
Perhaps as I grew older, I just became a bit more jaded with it all with the catalyst being the stadium move.

[easthammer]

Manuel

Always found that very odd, to make a commitment to never go again. There's really no need to take it all so seriously fella, it's just a game of football ffs

A couple of points:
First for me and I suspect for many it is more than "just" a game of football. Don't ask me to explain exactly what it is. In many respects, it is quite irrational why I go but go I do. I always have since 1956 at least. Of course. during that time there have been times when the frequency has been greater or lesser. As a kid every week (including reserve games) and some away games. As a young man that frequency lessened as I was playing myself and what with training a couple of times a week I would take in games as and when. Paying on the night was easy enough. As ticketing increased my attendance lessened still further but I would always manage a game or two each season home or away. As Ghost says life priorities also dictate what we can and can't manage. I have for the last 13 years since just before fully retiring and going to over to mid-week golf (subsequently no golf) had a season ticket so it is back to regular attendance - though not away games (my good lady's health prevents my prolonged absence from home). I guess I will continue with this until physically can't make it. But maybe not even then, I have a picture of carrying my then-young grandson on my shoulders at the last game at the Boleyn. The other week I said to my now 15-year-old grandson who is six foot plus and thirteen stone that I couldn't manage that now! He said don't worry Grandad I'll carry you to games, I might just have to take up his offer.

[MaryMillingtonsGhost]

Manuel

Always found that very odd, to make a commitment to never go again. There's really no need to take it all so seriously fella, it's just a game of football ffs.

Didn’t say I’d never go again mate, just decided it was no longer for me. I’ve also found, since my time away, that other things in life have taken priority over a game of football. In all honesty I don’t miss it as much as I thought I would.
I’m sure I’ll return at some point, just not as a ST holder.

[Massive Attack]

*Whistles over in chim chim cha boos direction* 

Here you go mate, it goes in over here.. 

[Manuel]

Began in the Chicken Run, but moved to the East Stand Upper when the mob I went with decided to relocate in the early 90's.
Was lucky (if that's the right term) to work for a sports architects when the move was being discussed/agreed, so was able to view both the plans and sections (site lines) the shithole would provide.
Realised that that old cսnt Gold was lying through his veneers when giving the BBC interview claiming that no-one would be further from the pitch at the LS than they currently were at the old girl.
Rightly or wrongly, decision made. 10th May 2016 was the last game I (along with the majority of the blokes I attended with, bar a couple who jacked it in a couple of years after the move) went to.
Do I miss it? Yeah, occasionally.
However it's the 'occasionally' that makes me glad I didn't renew my ST.

Always found that very odd, to make a commitment to never go again. There's really no need to take it all so seriously fella, it's just a game of football ffs.

[BRANDED]

I love going. 

[MaryMillingtonsGhost]

Began in the Chicken Run, but moved to the East Stand Upper when the mob I went with decided to relocate in the early 90's.
Was lucky (if that's the right term) to work for a sports architects when the move was being discussed/agreed, so was able to view both the plans and sections (site lines) the shithole would provide.
Realised that that old cսnt Gold was lying through his veneers when giving the BBC interview claiming that no-one would be further from the pitch at the LS than they currently were at the old girl.
Rightly or wrongly, decision made. 10th May 2016 was the last game I (along with the majority of the blokes I attended with, bar a couple who jacked it in a couple of years after the move) went to.
Do I miss it? Yeah, occasionally.
However it's the 'occasionally' that makes me glad I didn't renew my ST.

[Mike Oxsaw]

Fuckin ell, even your flouncy response made me drowsy. I bet Christmas rocks round your gaff. 

Drowsy? That'll be the Long Covid you got on account of you being too hard & edgy to get vaccinated.

As for Christmas? What is there to celebrate about? Scared you might make baby Jesus cry if you don't get rat-arsed?

Aaargh, dull. Just be interesting once! I dare you! 

Ooh! - you (YOU) dare me! I'm shitting my kecks.

[Vexed]

 

Well, YOU clearly care enough to comment, my easily triggered little fishy.

The thread lead was "Why I Stopped Going", so I posted my reasons. Permission was not required.

If the thread had had a leader like "For what reasons are people allowed (by you) to stop going to watch West Ham?", the answers might be different, but it wasn't, so they aren't.

Fuckin ell, even your flouncy response made me drowsy. I bet Christmas rocks round your gaff. 

Drowsy? That'll be the Long Covid you got on account of you being too hard & edgy to get vaccinated.

As for Christmas? What is there to celebrate about? Scared you might make baby Jesus cry if you don't get rat-arsed?

Aaargh, dull. Just be interesting once! I dare you! 

[Lato]

My fav ever atmosphere was Coventry in 81 and how did the club reward its loyal fan base. They seated the west lower and the atmosphere went. Another club would have put 4k seats by extending the South bank and putting seats on a second tier but no they lower capacity on our return to the top flight.


 

 

Spot on the old girl was rocking tat night !

[Lato]

My fav ever atmosphere was Coventry in 81 and how did the club reward its loyal fan base. They seated the west lower and the atmosphere went. Another club would have put 4k seats by extending the South bank and putting seats on a second tier but no they lower capacity on our return to the top flight.

Spot on the old girl was rocking that night!

 

[Mike Oxsaw]

Oxbore why don't you just admit you don't go because you live in a mud hut in the poverty stricken village near the Cambodian border,but when your back here in Blighty you basically can't afford to go because the exchange rate for the Baht is so shit!

Sounds like you're desperate for that to be the case. Wonder why that is, deflection, maybe?

Why would I need to worry about the Baht rate when both my pension and annuity are paid in pounds Sterling into a UK bank account?


*Hands joyo a box of straws*.

Enough there for even you to grasp at and not run out. Fill your boots. You can probably also fill the boots of that tramp with whom you share your squat in a dilapidated and abandoned Upminster lock-up.

[XKhammer]

Oxbore why don't you just admit you don't go because you live in a mud hut in the poverty stricken village near the Cambodian border,but when your back here in Blighty you basically can't afford to go because the exchange rate for the Baht is so shit!

[Mike Oxsaw]

 

Well, YOU clearly care enough to comment, my easily triggered little fishy.

The thread lead was "Why I Stopped Going", so I posted my reasons. Permission was not required.

If the thread had had a leader like "For what reasons are people allowed (by you) to stop going to watch West Ham?", the answers might be different, but it wasn't, so they aren't.

Fuckin ell, even your flouncy response made me drowsy. I bet Christmas rocks round your gaff. 

Drowsy? That'll be the Long Covid you got on account of you being too hard & edgy to get vaccinated.

As for Christmas? What is there to celebrate about? Scared you might make baby Jesus cry if you don't get rat-arsed?

[zico]

Based down in Sussex but used to go quite a bit with the old man until he passed 24 odd years ago.  Continued to drive up several times a season but usually evening games as I played at weekends.  When the hips gave out 12 or so years ago I went to a few more weekend games until Upton Park closed down but used the train more after my car got broken into in one of the side streets near the ground.  If I remember correctly more no parking zones were in place by then anyway.  Went to the London Stadium once with some mates although we stupidly drove up and were lucky to find parking.  Was early on in the move but to be honest it wasn't the same and I haven't been since.  Just can't be arsed with the travelling to be honest, admire those who go to every game and credit to those who always go home and away.

[Vexed]

 

Well, YOU clearly care enough to comment, my easily triggered little fishy.

The thread lead was "Why I Stopped Going", so I posted my reasons. Permission was not required.

If the thread had had a leader like "For what reasons are people allowed (by you) to stop going to watch West Ham?", the answers might be different, but it wasn't, so they aren't.

Fuckin ell, even your flouncy response made me drowsy. I bet Christmas rocks round your gaff. 

[Mike Oxsaw]

Why I stopped going?

Work & my career. Simple as that.

Think I finally stopped going in about 1981 when I gave my season ticket to my younger brother. He was a Man U fan so let it lapse after that.

My job moved to out by Edgware and I followed it a little later, buying a house and living in Radlett.

Work quickly became a 7-days-a-week task and I needed to seem keen to gain promotion, so, 7-days-a-week it was. The huge wads of (overtime) cash helped, too.

And all because...a bunch of cunts in the City wanted to phone the New York Stock Exchange every afternoon and trade pork bellies & Florida orange juice.



 

Michael. That is one of the most boring stories ever told and nobody fucking cares.

Why do you lack that self awareness? What's wrong with you? Is there a name for this problem? 

​​​​​​Jesus fuck. 

Well, YOU clearly care enough to comment, my easily triggered little fishy.

The thread lead was "Why I Stopped Going", so I posted my reasons. Permission was not required.

If the thread had had a leader like "For what reasons are people allowed (by you) to stop going to watch West Ham?", the answers might be different, but it wasn't, so they aren't.