The Average Age of a Premier League Fan

Now over 40

http://www.fsf.org.uk/latest-news/view/football-clubs-facing-demographic-time-bomb

 

That's why encouraging young fans makes sense...oh...hang on!

 

Easy to Gauge, 2 Years in the Championship to Every EPL Season.

 

Not surprising and important to highlight.

The young need to make their presence felt in many ways at the moment.

 

Absolutely. I keep trying to encourage my son and step son to take up arms but they seem happy enough with the internet, social media, i phone/tunes, Spotify and globalisation. I do worry for the world when anarchy doesn't appear anywhere on the horizon. Had a quick conversation with someone yesterday and the topic of union officials came up. It made me think todays youth and even those in their twenties and thirties may never experience the mobilisation of people power in a physical sense (withdrawal of labour/marching through the streets). Don't know what the world is coming to.

 

Good post.

 

No politics. Ta.

 

if someone doesnt like the way their employer is treating them, they dont strike... they up sticks and **** off to another job that treats them better.
why lose money trying to change things?

 

Striking seems like a weekly occurrence these days, maybe not on the scale of the miners strike but there barely seems to be a week that goes by without some form of industrial action.

Workers have more rights and better conditions then they've ever had so the need to strike on a large scale is becoming increasingly redundant. These days its usually over something minor or just greed.

 

Tangent but related....

In the 70s young people had had enough and we got punk (music, fanzines, clothes you name it)
40 years later we got Brexit, where people looked around them in a similar way, and said this isn't working for me and I'm not having their lies anymore.
So all is not lost, some people are fighting back against the crap served up to them, and refusing to endorse it.
Social media is like a sickness that induces apathy, passivity and a retreat into a virtual world. I pity youngsters and their peer pressure having to contend with that garbage.

 

people are more mobile than they once was. only idiots strike.

 

What the ****ing hell is political about that

 

Agree

 

Brexit was forced onto our generation by your generation.

In no way was it the youth saying they've had enough, it was an older generation disillusioned with the system they created.

 

Like doctors?

 

Mobilising people and marching through the streets.

Of course the mods are very flexible in their interpretation of politics or religion. I guess it depends on whether the views expressed concur with their own.

 

The older generation didn' that create the EU. I was 25 when we were conned by a generation now departed into joining the European
Economic. community when they knew full well the ultimate aim was aEuropean Union, something they Haydn' to voted on No one was given the chance to say there should be another vote back then, people had to wait until this year.
As for the younger generation, most of them felt so strongly about it they couldn't be arsed to get off social media and haul their arses off the sofa to a polling station.

 

Perhaps 'your' generation were too apathetic to vote?
Your pessimism doesn't seem to be shared by other EU citizens who continue to flock here for work in record numbers six months after the referendum, and many of whom are trying to get citizenship.
We don't seem to be hearing much about Britons fleeing the other way strangely enough.

 

Surely you can sympathise with our generation to an extent then?

If it was forced onto you back then you will have experienced a similar feeling to what we are now we are having it taken away.

I don't want to debate the merit of the EU or the brexit vote, I was merely posting out that the leave vote wasn't youthful rebellion like punk, it was quite the opposite.

 

think that you will find that the doctors in question will up sticks when they have finished their training and **** off abroad, then Jeremy **** will be left thinking "huh?"