Watching football at Glastonbury festival,

[Floogal]

I'll probably get slated for this post. Whenever I see Glastonbury festival on TV, there is usually footage of people crowding round the giant TVs watching football. At best it just seems quite bizarre (why spaff hundreds of pounds to go to a festival when you're more interested in the football?). Also it seems a bit disrespectful for the artists who are playing at that time. As well as music fans who have been priced out of attending festivals. I know they have clamped down on it this time round. But still... WHY??

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13585105/Glastonbury-fans-excited-England-match-watch-Shania-Twain-instead.html

It’s an hour and a Half out of four days.

Theres lots on at Glastonbury that isn’t music.

they bought their tickets before they knew the dates of the matches.

football fans and music fans are not two mutually exclusive groups.

those are 4 reasons off the top of my head.

I remember watching the Euros one year at Glastonbury and it was magical! I am a massive music fan (and only a passing football fan - I watch Euros and World Cups and that's it) but Glastonbury is about so much more than the music. I am guessing you haven't been OP? Whilst there are great acts on the music stages my favourite part of Glastonbury is all the art and culture and fringe style events and theatre and cinema and dance and performance and weird installations in random fields... it's all there. To me the big stages are almost incidental! I've casually walked past some big acts playing on them to go and watch something smaller and non-music but very interesting and fun.