On a different note...Euro Football at G16!

[rivalschools.price]

I don't understand why so many have a problem with other people watching a football game at Glastonbury.Just go to another part of the site.

if I get tickets in the resale I certainly wouldn't mind spending 2 out of the 120 hours I'll be in the festival watching the Wales game.

[The Placid Casual]

I don't understand why so many have a problem with other people watching a football game at Glastonbury.Just go to another part of the site.

if I get tickets in the resale I certainly wouldn't mind spending 2 out of the 120 hours I'll be in the festival watching the Wales game.

Yours truly is missing the whole festival to go to the tournament.

[rivalschools.price]

Yours truly is missing the whole festival to go to the tournament.

Yeah I will be going to France too, but as the first game is around the 10th or 11th June and the festival isn't til the 24th there is an outside chance I'll do both.May even go back out to France afterwards if Wales get to the later stages.(finances and annual leave permitting)

i haven't got tickets for either yet so I'm getting a bit ahead of myself.

[Cooter]

Yours truly is missing the whole festival to go to the tournament.

 

That's true dedication, not sure I could do that, in fact I know I couldn't.

Edited October 19, 2015 by Cooter

[YetAnotherOldHippy]

Is it time to dust off my "we managed with a radio in 86 and 90" comment yet?

 

Be fair folks, discriminating against people that like football is all some sadsacks have left

A tournament during Glastonbury with England, Wales, Northern Ireland and potentially Eire too is a whole new ball game - both literally and metaphorically...

I predict a big screen somewhere, so perhaps it's time to reclaim the old cinema field from the posh counts in there now?

 

[Cooter]

Our base camp in the CV east fields will have a large leisure battery and a large flat screen tv complete with digital aerial on a 30ft pole. Actually thinking of getting a projector thingy to put it on a nearby white coach or bus!

[Redwinevino]

Is it time to dust off my "we managed with a radio in 86 and 90" comment yet?

 

Be fair folks, discriminating against people that like football is all some sadsacks have left

A tournament during Glastonbury with England, Wales, Northern Ireland and potentially Eire too is a whole new ball game - both literally and metaphorically...

I predict a big screen somewhere, so perhaps it's time to reclaim the old cinema field from the posh counts in there now?

 

I am pretty against it happening, but if it does Cinema field is a shout.

The worry is Ireland/England, N Ireland/Ireland or Wales/England draw each other, would end in a fight - Glastonbury or not

[SteveTLizard]

Not my specialist subject I concede, but from what I see these days I would have thought that professional association football would definitely fit into the category of performance art.

Wasted the afternoon watching England in 2010, won't be making the same mistake again, but who is anyone to tell anyone else what to do with their time, even if it baffles them for doing so.

 

[LondonTom]

I am pretty against it happening, but if it does Cinema field is a shout.

The worry is Ireland/England, N Ireland/Ireland or Wales/England draw each other, would end in a fight - Glastonbury or not

Its the same people at Glasto at normal, if it causes a fight, its likely those sorts would have kicked off about something else during the 5 days.

[stuartbert two hats]

but who is anyone to tell anyone else what to do with their time, even if it baffles them for doing so.

 

I've come across a bit that way, for which I apologise. Since I don't like football in any context, I'm no judge of whether it would make the festival better or not. Whilst I dislike realising I've gone into Manchester during a Derby day, due to the atmosphere it's never been like that at Glastonbury. So, yeah, whatever makes you happy. 

[balti-pie]

I'm off to the euros, got tickets to two matches - but my application had avoided any games while Glastonbury is on, for obvious reasons - I'm mightily excited by Download Paris being announced though, I'm off to see Rammstein on Sunday the 12th, the day before I watch b2 v b3! 

Any music/metal fans already over there for the euros - check out the download Paris announcements. It's at Longchamps racecourse right near the city 

[amfy]

I haven't read the whole thread but I have always enjoyed football on the Wednesday or Thursday of Glastonbury, mainly because as a non-Russsy-stereotypical football nobhead, I really enjoy the opportunity to watch football with other non- Russy-stereotypical football nobheads. Glastonbury football crowds are so much nicer than some of the idiots I usually spend Saturday afternoons enduring in order to watch the game.

However, my learning from the Germany on Sunday fiasco in 2010, is that once we reach the knockout stages, it comes down to:

- if we get through, there'll be another game when you get home so it isn't essential to see this one.

- if we don't get through, you don't want to see it, it'll just piss you off that you missed other good stuff for that bollox.

[Badlands]

 

It's not the 1980s any more.  It is possible to be a football fan and also be a well-adjusted member of society.

Oh spot on there, we don't want any of those football fans from the 80s,  they'll probably eat your children....

[Hugh Jass]

On the subject of Euros tickets, does anyone know if there is, or will be, an exchange for tickets?

I have tickets for D2  v D3 on the Tuesday, which is fine as I can come back on the Wednesday and get to site Thursday morning. However I also have tickets for the knock out game on the Saturday. I could sell these, and probably for a very handsome profit too, but I'd prefer to switch them for a date either before or after the festival 

[Badlands]

On the subject of Euros tickets, does anyone know if there is, or will be, an exchange for tickets?

I have tickets for D2  v D3 on the Tuesday, which is fine as I can come back on the Wednesday and get to site Thursday morning. However I also have tickets for the knock out game on the Saturday. I could sell these, and probably for a very handsome profit too, but I'd prefer to switch them for a date either before or after the festival 

That's what I like to see in modern day football, some good honest capitalism. Shafting your fellow fan to earn a few quid.

Not like these 'Ooligans' of the 80's (copyright, Terry the law abider).

[Hugh Jass]

That's what I like to see in modern day football, some good honest capitalism. Shafting your fellow fan to earn a few quid.

Not like these 'Ooligans' of the 80's (copyright, Terry the law abider).

Eh? I was saying the opposite. I'd prefer to exchange the tickets for a game I can make rather than tout them.

Perhaps I should have been clearer, by "exchange" I meant a site where people with tickets could swap tickets. Not one of those "exchanges" where twats charge hundreds over the odds.

Edited October 22, 2015 by Hugh Jass

[The Placid Casual]

On the subject of Euros tickets, does anyone know if there is, or will be, an exchange for tickets?

I have tickets for D2  v D3 on the Tuesday, which is fine as I can come back on the Wednesday and get to site Thursday morning. However I also have tickets for the knock out game on the Saturday. I could sell these, and probably for a very handsome profit too, but I'd prefer to switch them for a date either before or after the festival 

I believe you can put these tickets back into the pool if you get England tickets through their follow my team system. Are you a member of their travel club?

[Hugh Jass]

I believe you can put these tickets back into the pool if you get England tickets through their follow my team system. Are you a member of their travel club?

I am, but I'd actually like to avoid England. Fear the idiot factor this year could be huge.

[6t6o6m]

Like football, the missus doesn't so I won't be watching any of it.

I'm sure someone in the vicinity will mention the score.

[The Placid Casual]

I am, but I'd actually like to avoid England. Fear the idiot factor this year could be huge.

That's the same reason I'd like to see us avoid England

 

They'd just be overly annoying.

[Redwinevino]

I don't understand why so many have a problem with other people watching a football game at Glastonbury.Just go to another part of the site.

if I get tickets in the resale I certainly wouldn't mind spending 2 out of the 120 hours I'll be in the festival watching the Wales game.

Because it will need a huge area is most peoples issue, so it means losing something for it to happen

[Redwinevino]

Its the same people at Glasto at normal, if it causes a fight, its likely those sorts would have kicked off about something else during the 5 days.

Not really though, football does weird things to people. Won't be a issue normally but certain home nation match ups would be asking for trouble!

[rivalschools.price]

 

Because it will need a huge area is most peoples issue, so it means losing something for it to happen

It's a massive site so I doubt you'd get bored, there'll still be plenty going on.

[russycarps]

Just reading through the football thread on the "discussions" part of this forum.

Aggression, abuse, threats. People being called c**ts for no other reason than the team they support. The exact same behaviour I saw every saturday when I lived on the doorstep of a football stadium

Seems you people thinking that festival goers who are also football fans are somehow different from all the other knuckledraggers are gravely mistaken.

 

 

[The Placid Casual]

Not really though, football does weird things to people. Won't be a issue normally but certain home nation match ups would be asking for trouble!

You can't be serious.

The sort of people at football matches who go there looking for the fight, as LondonTom said, are the type who'd look for a different excuse to fight even if there wasn't any games on. Football does do weird things to people, but unless you're already the hot-headed, aggressive type it's not going to be dragging you into any fights. The people I know who cause this sort of trouble at games aren't the type you'd see popping up at Glastonbury anyway.  You're far more likely to bump into them at an outdoor Courteeners/Kasabian/Insert LAD band here show.