I'm not a regular football match attender, although I have been to a few games over the years. My local team (Grimsby Town) was a must go to when I was 16 after I started earning my first real wages. It involved a 3 mile walk to the train station (unless I could bum a lift from my dad), a fairly short train journey and then a another mile to the ground. When we got there, we would stand at the back of the Pontoon and make as much noise as possible, which involved banging the corrugated sheet walls or stamping on the wooden terracing, both included shouting encouragement/abuse as appropriate throughout the game.
..so I was surprised to read that the Premier league have a problem with quiet crowds. It seems that money, as usual, is the root of this evil. More season ticket holders mean more fat cats attending which keeps the 'grass roots' fan (i.e. a poor people) out of the grounds who are more likely to be the noisy enthusiastic amongst the crowd. I'm not sure how they can reverse this, as a full stadium is an owners dream, with or without noise. Maybe they will have to resort to taped chanting/cheering/booing as used in TV sitcoms.
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