Boycotting the match, voting with your feet.. could this be the answer?
A very good question in my opinion, one definitely worthy of discussion if not consideration. I write; nearly at the mid way point of the domestic season. Looking back have we made much progress? Many would say no; lets not lose hope - we have to take small steps, we aren't going to combat the evil financial demons of modern football over night!
Something I hear, time and time again is "just boycott the games, vote with your feet". A view many will share and see this as the solution for our issues, whilst I am not against this idea, I really do sit on the fence with the effectiveness of this mind set. Please hear me out as to why, this opinion does of course warrant consideration but for me, we are not yet in a position to launch any form of action that would have a positive effect.
Mass walkouts, or seeing large amounts of empty seats appear to be a pipe dream and there are many factors that come into play, whilst we have seen similar protests of late we remain in the same position, take for example recently we saw fans of FC Bayern Munich operate a similar demonstration at the emirates protesting for the first part of the match. Or even when Liverpool fans purchased children's tickets for a lower price and didn't turn up, we still saw a number of fans in that away section, these protests to be effective have to be completely supported.
Both very creative ideas, and the effort is admirable, however the efforts were largely disregarded with the exception of minor publicity. My point being that for a boycott to be effective it must be done on a large enough scale, which really at the present moment in time is not feasible. It would be so difficult to achieve.
Whilst we consider the constraints of arranging such activity we must note in the current climate the sheer difficulty to get tickets, most so in the premier league. Now tickets are few and far between such as the demand, you must be a season ticket holder, or a member. Not a member? Well then you must have been to 8 home games this season, etc etc. My point being it isn't easy, for every person not taking their seat, there is another five football fans willing to take it off their hands!
This is a credit to our love for the game, how supported our teams now are. Failing that we must consider, a fixture without any away fans as they have boycotted that particular fixture, could this impact the performance of their side? Many football supporters will opt with supporting and watching their sides through rain or shine and would not even toy with the idea of a protest.
Whilst I agree a MASS Boycott one weekend would give out a very obvious message, I think there are first other options we could be exploring, feel free to correct me if I am wrong, we always look to hear your ideas and views, leave a comment below. At this stage of the campaign we must continue to gauge the opinions of football fans to get a good scope of the general consensus of opinion, and continue to ask people to show their support for 'Twentys Plenty'.
I do believe we will see progress prior to 2016, it will take lots of work and it will not be easy, but football fans as one provide many voices and several different views whilst bringing different leverage to the table, stick with us and stay in touch.
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