To worry about the pollution caused by football fans.

[Woulditbeworth]

I know nothing about football but...

There are two football finals with teams from the uk. Liverpool vs Tottenham and Man U vs Arsenal (I think). They are being played in Madrid and Baku, so thats approx 50,000 extra people travelling from the UK, by air.

I get that the locations where agreed in advance but AIBU to be annoyed that we are all trying to be environmentally friendly with reusable bottles and wooden sodding toothbrushes and those with power have no regard for anything other than money!

I opened this thread thinking it would be a methane beery farts complaint.

I think she meant that 56k ticket holders wouid be travelling to the final, irrespective of the nationalities of the teams playing.

And there wouid be 12k in the teams' contingent. There really isn't much difference between their environmental cost and that if they were coming from say Spain and France.

You really can't pull an event that's been two years in the planning, just weeks before the event, because the finalists are from one of the further-away countries in Europe from the agreed host.

There is a separate question about the expectation that fans will travel. Because it hasn't always been that way. It used to be rare treat - maybe once in a life-time (and certainly ticket holders only). do we need to put the genie back in the bottle?

I would rather see Stag and Hen do's abroad being banned....but that's got nothing to do with the environment!!

For the all-London final flights alone to and from Baku are around £1000 per person.
That's an awful lot of tax that someone in the aviation industry is going to be paying.

Supporter is going to have to be making a comfortable amount of money and paying a good amount of tax in order to find at short notice £1000 for a flight, plus ticket, plus accommodation, plus meals etc.

Do you own a car OP?

The reality is that fans travelling to these matches make up a tiny percentage of total air passengers for the year. It's really not worth worrying about. People travel for hobbies all the time - golf, bird watching, surfing. This is another hobby.

Millions in the word are hungry.
Climate change.
Brexit.
And these fuckers are going thousands of miles for a football match?
Totally irresponsible.
Plus the felt has blown off of my shed roof.

Ban destination weddings, too.

Poor Maui.

The reality is that fans travelling to these matches make up a tiny percentage of total air passengers for the year. It's really not worth worrying about. People travel for hobbies all the time - golf, bird watching, surfing. This is another hobby.

But we need to stop thinking like this. Everything matters.

Talk about pissing on your own parade ( if that is the correct saying ) .
4 teams from the English Premier league get into the 2 European finals ..and people are still complaining and moaning !

As a pp said ..those fligjts were already scheduled to go .. ( just now they are dearer!)
Doubt if Italy/Spain /Germany ( please adf more ..i am not a football fan ) would be doing this chat.
For once ..cant we be proud that Engllish teams and football have gone down in history for the right reasons ?

(Reckon F1 produce more juck than those schedulef flights )

Hum juck =yuck obvs !

I'd rather they just completely banned football tbh. Vile sport.

What's so special about the pollution football fans produce?

Because they’re more likely to be working class & lots of middle class lefties mainly see climate change as something the poor need to make sacrifices to deal with while they carry on as normal. See: Emma Thompson.

Why is football a vile sport? It’s 2 teams kicking a ball about, calling it vile is a bit of a stretch

I'd rather they just completely banned football tbh. Vile sport.

A truly stupid post. Well done.

Vile 😁 😁

Vile !! What are you on about ?

Now cricket..i might have to agree with you there ( ! ! Joke ...light hearted )

( Actually i am not ...apologies to cricket fans ...sorry )

Cricket fans travel everywhere.
Hummm

Lol at banning 'vile' football.

*The world would not end if both matches were played in Birmingham or Manchester

The world wouldn't end if both matches weren't played at all.*

The world wouldn't end if the matches were played in Antarctica in a giant canyon carved out of the ice and surrounded in a 50 foot oil-field wall of flame

Vile sport

Didn't take long for MN resident football bashers to get going did it?

There is only one person who can justifiably use that term ...
Her husband wants to to the final ...which happens to be her due date !
Then it is a vile sport !

( Actually not sure if it is "wants" to go ...or "is going " )

Cricket fans travel everywhere.

We sure do. For international matches, anyway. Don't think there are many club games against clubs from other countries.

I was lucky enough to get the chance to watch the 92 World Cup final. Sadly, England had an off day, but it was an amazing occasion.

Then it is a vile sport !

That doesn't make the sport vile. Whatever that means.

It makes her husband a twat.