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Football fans "shunted out by train bosses"

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Bantamzen

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Could we, perhaps, find a bit of a grip? Just put coaches on as happens EVERY weekend!

It would lovely to think that every football club in the country could lay on football special trains. Heck better still would be if they laid on catering, a fully stocked bar, Sky Sports, a grease down and shiatsu.….

Back in the real world, we footie fans make do don't we? Trains, coaches, planes, cars, tuk tuk… Despite footie fans often being portrayed as knuckle dragging grunts, we seem remarkably capable of figuring out how to get to the game, even when, shock horror, there is disruption on the trains... ;)
 
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They still aren't actually allowed to broadcast matches at 3pm on a Saturday, which you'd expect a football journalist to know as well. That rule is rather inconvenient for anyone travelling by train.
Er, what prevents a football match from being broadcast at 3pm?
 

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Er, what prevents a football match from being broadcast at 3pm?

it dates back to the 1960s.

Bob Lord, Chairman of Burnley FC, convinced the football league that showing televised games at 3pm on a Saturday would have impact negatively on his side's attendances and therefore reduce their financial earnings and the league agreed.
 

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It would lovely to think that every football club in the country could lay on football special trains. Heck better still would be if they laid on catering, a fully stocked bar, Sky Sports, a grease down and shiatsu.….

Back in the real world, we footie fans make do don't we? Trains, coaches, planes, cars, tuk tuk… Despite footie fans often being portrayed as knuckle dragging grunts, we seem remarkably capable of figuring out how to get to the game, even when, shock horror, there is disruption on the trains... ;)

Yes! Find a way. ( over and over again)
 

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Are the people who would build the road the same as the people who'd be working on the engineering works? If not maybe they can spend the time building the road whilst others do the Christmas engineering works.

Of course I'm assuming there are people wanting to work over Christmas who currently aren't. That's a big assumption.

it dates back to the 1960s.

Bob Lord, Chairman of Burnley FC, convinced the football league that showing televised games at 3pm on a Saturday would have impact negatively on his side's attendances and therefore reduce their financial earnings and the league agreed.

Hence the Saturday afternoon TV shows that show ex-footballers watching live football on TV which the viewers at home aren't allowed to watch.
 

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Hence the Saturday afternoon TV shows that show ex-footballers watching live football on TV which the viewers at home aren't allowed to watch.

My girlfriend finds that hilarious:

So these old/fat/ugly men have to tell you what is happening at the match and describe, quite poorly, what is going on because you aren't allowed to see the match because if you did see the match on TV you wouldn't go to the match and would instead stay at home and watch the match on TV (instead of staying at home watching men tell you about a match you aren't allowed to watch on TV) rather than just go to the match and see the game?

But you ARE allowed to see the players shake hands before and after the match and sometimes have a man or pretty woman sitting facing away from the match looking over their shoulder telling you why all the fans are going mad at the match you aren't allowed to see.


And we just say yes as if this is normal!
 

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I think the problem is that Football, the Officials who run it, the Clubs especially the largest and a lot of professional commentators on the game seem to regard it as being somehow different from the rest of the world. They are encouraged in this by all sorts of people in places of authorities who are only too pleased to excuse anything to do with football.
It shouldn't be forgotten that on any weekend about 500,000 people attend a professional football match, which leaves about 59 million who don't.
As to the finances of the game they hardly bare being looked at by anyone with any sense.
Finally no one who could or should challenge this state of affairs will do so and we will carry on with this bloated, at the top, game seeing itself as far more important than it really is.
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I think the problem is that Football, the Officials who run it, the Clubs especially the largest and a lot of professional commentators on the game seem to regard it as being somehow different from the rest of the world. They are encouraged in this by all sorts of people in places of authorities who are only too pleased to excuse anything to do with football.
It shouldn't be forgotten that on any weekend about 500,000 people attend a professional football match, which leaves about 59 million who don't.
As to the finances of the game they hardly bare being looked at by anyone with any sense.
Finally no one who could or should challenge this state of affairs will do so and we will carry on with this bloated, at the top, game seeing itself as far more important than it really is.
Stand by for outraged replies.

Not outraged. I am not sure the point you are trying to make.
 

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It shouldn't be forgotten that on any weekend about 500,000 people attend a professional football match, which leaves about 59 million who don't.

That figure is well out im afraid and thats probably just the premier league.

Just get coaches - it happens every week already - nowt like getting up at 4am to get there and in the pub for 1400 then off to the match.
 

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Not outraged. I am not sure the point you are trying to make.
My point is that watching professional football is a small minority interest. The clubs and the journalist such as the one mentioned in the original post seem to see it as the be all and end of everything.
If spectators are needed to make the TV spectacle better then let the clubs pay for them to attend. Those at the top can well afford it but use the spectators as yet another cash cow.
Expecting the rest of the population to pay for extra trains or anything else is just cheek, given the money in the game at the top end. But of course the last people to ever be considered by the FA or the clubs are those who go and watch in the grounds.
 

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The return football trains are usually dry trains anyways, are they not?

Only certain ones, and some will always find a way of smuggling booze on as they can’t last 10 minutes without a drink.

Coming south from Newcastle most matchdays there’s plenty of alcohol being put away.
 

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This topic comes around every so often, usually when the printed media run out of other newsworthy stories.

We are just going over old arguments, all done before. Time to call it a day.

There are some very useful posts in the thread still, such as those by The Planner, for example, if you can ignore all the other irrelevant stuff.
 
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