Why do Arsenal fans leave Emirates so early?

This is such a bloody important issue you bring up. I truly feel if we learnt to be a bit more vocal and supportive we could turn draws into wins. We must take responsibility for the loss as well as the players if we don’t show up, or did you think the words “12th man” was for nothing.

Excellent article.  I have travelled to England on occasions that i can get tickets to then highbury and now the Emirates.  So you so lucky to be able to watch live week in and week out.  i watch old games sometimes from highbury days and listen to how the crowd made it such an intimidating place to play.  I wish the Emirates and the fans could find their voice and unite behind their team like in days gone past

They can’t be real Arsenal fans.  Perhaps they are the type who only support Arsenal when they are winning.

I stopped going to the Emirates as the atmosphere is dire, one time I was shouting and singing when another (fan) told me “can’t you sit down and shut up?”.  That was the last straw, it is a better atmosphere in the pubs and you get a bit of banter with fans of other teams too!!

REDAction singing section??? Ha, ha, ha. I sit above you on the upper north bank & trust me I don’t hear a thing from you lot. Maybe another march from the Rocket would help?

Football’s changed. Average age in the grounds is much higher & the older gent/lady doesn’t want to spend 90 minutes jumping around and as people say, taking 2 hours to get home on the tubes. If you don’t like it (I know caused by high ticket prices for a start) then speak to the nice people on the pitch & get them to lower their wage demands. Also as an earlier poster says, there is a lot of corporate & day trippers. That is just the way it is to fill a 60k stadium week in, week out. I love all these people who say ‘if I could get tickets….’, there are hundreds of spares knocking about. 

What a load of drivel! Are you saying my 70 year old dad’s not a real fan because after 50 years he’s quietened down? Rubbish.

I used to sit (well, stand actually) on the lower tier of the north bank, and I used to enjoy the noise. Now I’m up in the club level it’s quieter, but I’m quieter too. Partly it’s because I’ve got a better view and partly because it’s quiet enough for me to hold a conversation with my brother about tactics and performances. This means I’m not a real fan because I’m not belting out chants for 90 mins? Jog on mate!

People have been wondering why the emirates has become the library. It’s pretty obvious really. 1) high ticket prices; this doesn’t mean that we’re all posh plonkers, but it does mean it’s drastically pushed up the average age of fans in the stadium. 2) Wenger has brought cultured football to arsenal, educated us all, and now we are far more cultured fans.

As for early departures (I have to confess that forthe first time ever I’ve been leaving early, only because my brother has got an asbo tag and is on curfew, lol) it’s not normally that bad and is only really noticeable when it’s a poor game, which you should blame the players for, not the supporters.

There is something that can be done to improve this though; we gave £5 mill to London underground to improve holloway road tube, but instead of spending the money, the basically close the station for matches. This creates a huge problem for most fans because most use the tube, which means they are all being funnelled onto the Gillespie road.

So stop whinging at fans and start having a go at london underground!

Totally agree with you but for me this is only the tip of the iceberg.What about all the prats who come into the ground 5 minutes after kick off then head off 5 minutes before half time presumably to the bar then return 5 minutes into the second half before finally calling it a day 5 or 10 minutes from the end.Its absolutely frustrating to be constantly up and down letting them in or out and beyond belief that they bother to spend quite a lot of money just to go through the motions of being there.When the game is over I look forward to spending hours in the pub discussing the game but would not remotely think of missing any of the action just for a drink.Why thay don’t just stay in the pub all afternoon or evening is beyond me.

The days of the usual man in the street being able to afford to go & watch his beloved Arsenal evey single week are long gone!
They’ve priced the hardcore out and this is the outcome…

The lying greedy cunts currently running our club have made their bed… Time to lie in.

I’ve said it before a million times over and I’ll carry on saying:
YOU CHARGE OPERA PRICES… YOU GET OPERA FANS

I think it’s ridiculous spending all that money on a ticket and then leaving early. Perfect example of this was the Liverpool game at the start of the season. We we’re only one nil down and people were leaving in bulk, surely these last moments are a. when the team needs us most b. when the lions share of the action happens.
The atmosphere of late has been getting better. I sit in the upper tier and I must say that at times the quiet has been a joke, at one point I stood up as the stand up if you hate the spuds chant was ringing round the ground to find I was the only one within 500 seats doing so. I actually felt awkward standing up!
Regardless of the reasons our fans are a joke at times and it pains me to see supporters sitting there slagging off our players then leaving early.
Not sure what the solution is but it’s def a problem