Being told how to be a football fan is usually a fairly tedious business. What to wear, what not to wear, what to sing, which games you go to, whether to take pictures, which players to rate, what opinions to hold. Generally the correct response to anyone producing an instruction manual on fandom should be to invite them to do one, in the strongest possible terms. However, one rule we should probably all stick to is this: no matter what the state of the game, don’t leave early. There are a few exceptions, but they are probably limited to circumstances of personal safety, imminent childbirth or catching the last train home; in most other scenarios, you should stay for the duration.
Apart from anything else, no matter how tedious or individually painful the game might have been up to that point, you never know what you might miss. The joy of sport is that extraordinary events are unpredictable, that remarkable things happen without warning and it’s a fool’s errand thinking you can foretell what is, or even what isn’t, to come. Still, such is the nature of sport, you are more likely to see something exciting or dramatic in the 92nd minute than you are in the second, so why not stick around and watch the full game? Sure, it must be quite cathartic to get up and storm out, throwing your season ticket at the dugout if your team is being humped, but there’s also a satisfaction in sitting there til the bitter, bitter end.
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from Sport | The Guardian http://ift.tt/1GnhOuw
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