Paxtonwolf: how many times have you been at a cinema, and seen some bloke get up and go a minute before the end of the film? You don't. If you buy a ticket for a football match, the game is 90 minutes. So I just do not get why someone feels the need to chop the last minute of a game? Yes it is busy getting out of WHL but that's part of the deal. When I buy my ticket for a midweek game, I accept that the match finishes at 9.45, and I am getting out of the stadium close to ten. I have a longer journey than most (Southampton, though I believe you are further still
) but it's all part of the deal. I won't be getting a train before 11, I won't be in bed before half midnight and on a work night too. But I will still buy a ticket for that match, because its worth it, all things considered.
You've all seen the frustration expressed on here when tickets go up for a big match, and you know that the feeling will be the same with around about 20,000 other Spurs fans who failed to get through the ticket office on time. Some of these guys would be willing to stay till the end, every game, is it fair that some of the successful applicants then sod off ten minutes before the end regardless of the score?
I have never left a Tottenham game early, and I don't say that out of a desire to bragg, it's simply a fact. I've never felt the need to. I've been to see other teams and, apart from last month, I don't think I've left any of those games early. The exception was the GB-UAE game at Wembley, I took my wife who is 5 months pregnant and I didn't fancy getting her through Wembley Way after the match. She wasn't fussed, could have stayed 15 mins after the whistle but the game was done with GB two goals up. So we went. Now I'll be honest, I could picture a scenario at a Spurs game where I would leave early (eg if I get a call next month when at the Norwich game from my wife to say she's gone into labour 2 months early!) but there aren't many circumstances when this is the case.
Nothing to stop people leaving 2/3 minutes early, ten seconds early. But you just don't get your LP.