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Hi Clive. First of all I want to say thanks for your brilliant website and writing. I’ve been reading it religiously for years but am not a big social media type so never commented before. I felt compelled to this morning though as your analysis is spot on (although I can’t remember ever disagreeing with your take on everything to be fair). I’m 44 and my Dad, whose family have been QPR supporters dating right back to the origins of the club, started bringing me to games when I was 8. I wasn’t into football at all before then but wanted to go as it made me feel more grownup and initially I was more in awe of the experience than anything that happened on the pitch – which is why your piece so connected with me when I read it. We stood in the Paddock and when I was a teenager I left him there and moved round to the Loft where you could make more noise and I was also now at that age where just being seen with a parent is somehow embarrassing. By that stage when my dad couldn’t go for whatever reason I’d sometimes travel from the Guildford area by train with a couple of mates on a Saturday and it never felt like a ridiculously expensive day out and you could also do it last minute and spontaneously, paying at the turnstile. I now live in Sussex and have three young daughters so have little time, loads of home and work commitments and no disposable income. I always make the pilgrimage at least once a season but it’s getting to the point where it is just that and the cost is the key factor as much as the time. I just can’t justify it. It makes me really sad the way football has gone for all of the reasons in your article, especially the lack of younger supporters going to games. All the best, Simon Rose |
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