27-03-2022, 11:39 AM
(27-03-2022, 09:27 AM)Isaac Hunt Wrote: There must be a record somewhere, but I feel that many more women attend now than did in our era Gaff.
And experience tells me that they do like a bit of comfort.
I take your point about more women going Isaac.
However, in the last few years I’ve taken a couple of my nieces to their first game (they were never interested when they were very young) and they were much more interested in the atmosphere than the comfort.
The same is true of most of the girlfriends I’ve taken over the years. The only ones for whom comfort was a priority were the ones who didn’t really like football and only attended because I was going.
Football isn’t like other forms of entertainment, it is much more about the passion than the surroundings.
Having said that, women are far more concerned about the toilet facilities than men are and I think more could be done in that regard.
I want a decent stadium of course, but I’m far more concerned with capacity and ability to generate an atmosphere than the quality of the catering and the toilet facilities. We really don’t want a prawn sandwich type ground, the experience would be much diminished if we went down that road.