- Aug 9, 2017
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There's clearly a lot of people leaving early at Wembley because it's such a nightmare getting out of and away from the stadium, especially with it being at the opposite end of London from where we normally have to get to. Real fans do have lives outside of football and can't always justify potentially losing an hour to stay for the final five minutes. And none of it has any relevance as to whether splitting the South Stand in half is a particularly bright idea or not. Especially when you could obviously put wheelchair spaces in the stand without doing that - at least have them staggered through the middles, or at the sides, front or back of the stand.
How is it a nightmare, you walk to one of the stations and queue up and wait for a train, anyone who goes by car is needs looking at, park somewhere else and go in by train.
Wheelchair positions cannot be staggered throughout the south stand , they need lifts to get them up to their positions, which means redesigning the whole stand for anywhere above row 30.
Also fans of today wouldn't last five minutes back in the sixties with crowds of 60000 at WHL, to get a decent position you needed to get in about 45 minutes before the game, getting out at half time you didn't bother and getting out early at the end also a problem.
Why leave a football match early , you don't leave a cinema before the end of a film or leave a play early at the theatre.
My memory of all these ardent Tottenham fans is a few years ago, 4-2 down at the Emirates with a few minutes to go and the away section is half empty, then we score two in the final minutes and snatch a 4-4 , unfortunately most of our fans had gone perhaps their lives outside football was more important , why bother going in the first place.