I love drums. Drums are f***ing brilliant.
This problem was created when football stadiums went ‘all seater.’ In the old days people paid to stand or sit and others respected those choices. A dedicated seating section should be offered if there is a dedicated standing section.
Infinitely prefer drums to that infinitely irritating 'band' that always makes me set my telly to mute for England games
I wrote that 30 mins or so after the last penalty so I probably wasn't thinking about careful phrasing.
Yep I'm 56 and have a very sore throat from singing and shouting. Almost all the 10 plus blokes somewhere in their twenties, in front of me, enjoyed the singing and shouting judging from their reactions but almost none joined in with the chants. And almost all of them left 5 minutes before half time and got back 5 minutes after the second half started. It's not age it's attitude.
Yeah I'd take drums over that for sure.
Tho not at all odd for all those kiddies living their Danny Dyer best life
Think I was sitting across the steps near you, he was up and down like a Jack in the box hollering at the United players when they had been fouled.
I recall exactly the same sort of comments after the semi final in 2019. At home matches the standers are largely to be found in the NS -fair enough -but on occasions such as this, they are inevitably spread around, and then drink comes into the equation.I was in block 543 the atmosphere was quite good there. It's difficult to get everyone to sing the same song around 38,000 people. You'd need someone with a megaphone and that would be really shit.
I swapped seats with a group of lads so they could be with their mates over the other side of the steps & one of them just wouldn't sit down. There was an elderly couple behind him, a bloke with a kid behind them, who went down to tell him to sit down & he still bloody wouldn't.
In my paranoia of my STH friend who got me a ticket getting a 20 year ban, I told him to sit down myself and got loads of grief from him, even after I'd pointed out that he's sitting in my seat. His mates got him to sit down eventually & one of them did come across at half time to apologise. But I still had to explain to him that he's sitting in the seat registered to my name (I pretended I was the STH) & it would be me that got banned if someone got the stewards involved. It didn't really register what I was saying because he just said they'd leave if the stewards came over!
Hopefully the guy that wouldn't sit down has made an appointment with his Dr this morning as he must have a bad urine infection. After half time he was 10 rows down for about 15 minutes & 1 or 2 of his mates down there took him to the toilet. When he came back I think his mates made it quite clear to him that if he kept standing they'd get their original 3 seats back. People just need to have awareness of the people behind them. If they're standing, stand, if not don't be a selfish twat and sit down. 1st thing I did when the penalties started was to check people behind me were standing, as they were, we stood up as well! It's not rocket science to work out that if you stand for the whole game, people behind you can't see!
I'm saying this as someone who voted for safe standing at the Amex & who would've liked to have gone in the standing area at Wembley.
