Advice please: switching to the kop

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Hi,

I'm considering switching from the family stand onto the Kop for next season but I am concerned that my son (aged 10) may still be a little young for the choice language and behaviour that I have sporadically witnessed myself whenever I have happened to sit on there.

I'd appreciate the thoughts of any fellow blades who have faced a similar dilemma.

Thanks in advance.
 



jodman said:
I'm considering switching from the family stand onto the Kop for next season but I am concerned that my son (aged 10) may still be a little young for the choice language and behaviour that I have sporadically witnessed myself whenever I have happened to sit on there.

I'd appreciate the thoughts of any fellow blades who have faced a similar dilemma.
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Been on the Kop since 81 and took both son and daughter when they were 6 or 7 (both now in their 20s) with no problems in the ground.

In the main it is fine although I suggest you don't get tickets right up at the back. Why not ask the club to switch for three remaining home games and try out different areas? Most of the people in the centre are season ticket holders so you will have a good idea who will be sat with.
 
At 10 he's probably old enough. From the Kop last Tuesday I witnessed a bloke surrounded by his young kids and I think possibly his eldest daughters child at around 4yrs shouting words which amongst others included the c bomb!

Therefore that example of responsible behaviour is obviously they way to go.









Stay where you are, where the lad can get to the loo and you can probably be safe in the knowledge he can go on his own to the food stalls and toilets. If you don't think using that language is acceptable like the shining example above then I would give it a miss until the teenage years.
 
jodman said:
Hi,

I'm considering switching from the family stand onto the Kop for next season but I am concerned that my son (aged 10) may still be a little young for the choice language and behaviour that I have sporadically witnessed myself whenever I have happened to sit on there.

I'd appreciate the thoughts of any fellow blades who have faced a similar dilemma.

Thanks in advance.
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To be fair mate, I think only you can decide whether or not it will be suitable for your lad, knowing as you do what the Kop is like.
 
I took that same journey with my 5 year old for the Gillingham game. Bad move.

It's a great place when we're winning and playing well.

Once the tide turns, the language and behaviour can get dark and ugly. It's called the Family Stand for a reason. We'll be renewing in there...
 
Little BB, who's 12 has been on the kop since he was 6. We used to be in the top right (gangway G, row WW) but a couple of years ago a real bunch of tits infiltrated that area and it began to get too much for the adults, ne'er mind the kids. We moved slightly lower down, more central and it's better down there, although they will still learn the odd new word or two, usually comprising 4 letters but it's manageable.

The only real problem they will have is whether they can get to stand on their seat quick enough to see when play enters the last 3rd of the pitch at the kop end:rolleyes:
 
Yes...forgot to say too that the view for smaller people is crap when the folk in front stand up everytime the ball gets near the 28 yard box.
 
Loads of young un's on the kop, central/ front would probably be best, and then in around 5/6 years he will migrate to the back and leave you, just like mine did, still wants a lift mind.
 
stay on the family stand, its called that for a reason. also when everyone stands up the kids carnt see a thing
 
jodman said:
Hi,

I'm considering switching from the family stand onto the Kop for next season but I am concerned that my son (aged 10) may still be a little young for the choice language and behaviour that I have sporadically witnessed myself whenever I have happened to sit on there.

I'd appreciate the thoughts of any fellow blades who have faced a similar dilemma.

Thanks in advance.
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Don't worry about it, its character building.
 
What does your son want to do?
 
Like they never hear swearing at school, out with their mates, on the streets, on the telly, video games (they're the worst by the way). I'm not trying to condone it but unfortunately it's the world we live in. You might be concerned but your son won't give a fuck.
 



Like Roger states above, ok when winning. Saying that I'm as guilty as the next for a few choice words spilling out at times.
On another note, I moved to south stand a couple of years ago...knees could no longer stand it. So if you're 6ft+ bear or in mind
 
jodman said:
Hi,

I'm considering switching from the family stand onto the Kop for next season but I am concerned that my son (aged 10) may still be a little young for the choice language and behaviour that I have sporadically witnessed myself whenever I have happened to sit on there.

I'd appreciate the thoughts of any fellow blades who have faced a similar dilemma.

Thanks in advance.
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It probably depends why you're planning to switch?

Better view? No
Better facilities? No
Better atmosphere? Probably in terms of singing but may be best observed at a distance due to the language/aggression?
Cheaper? Definitely and possibly the only reason to switch

If cost is a major factor and it's a choice between not going at all and going on the Kop, I would switch.
Otherwise, I would stick where you are for at least a couple of years.
 
My lad is 12. We moved from the South Stand to the Kop last summer and he loves it. Only trouble is when everyone stands up when we attack the Kop end - sometimes I lift him up so he can see.
 
jodman said:
Hi,

I'm considering switching from the family stand onto the Kop for next season but I am concerned that my son (aged 10) may still be a little young for the choice language and behaviour that I have sporadically witnessed myself whenever I have happened to sit on there.

I'd appreciate the thoughts of any fellow blades who have faced a similar dilemma.

Thanks in advance.
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Just avoid sitting near row r/s seats in the 50ish.
 
It's how you are at home rather than what they witness at a match that determines what they'll grow up like, I reckon.

A mate of mine takes two of his daughters from time to time and they're no older than 6. This is the back of the Kop as well. They'll turn out fine though because their mum and dad are good folk.
 
At my school kids were doing far worse by age 11/12 than repeating a few swear words.

It's football and it happens, just as in life. Sorry to be blunt but I'm not lying.
 
The big difference is the standing up when anything remotely interesting happens, spent 10years on John street as the kid grew up, saw every goal no bother, back on the kop for two seasons with the old boys cause the kid (15) lol likes the atmosphere better, missed about ten goals this season.. everywhere else in the place has mastered the art of staying sat down, and seeing the goal go in then jumping up.. the kop, they're up after we go over the halfway line.

Hope your kids are tall...
 
If you don't want him to hear swearing then no, I wouldn't move to the kop. There's a right foul mouthed git sits on row X behind the goal......Oh, that's me.:oops:
 
I should coco said:
You've been living near that Notting Hill for too long. Down there 'progressive' parents may well listen to little Pandora and Theodore's views.

Ooop north, we are still sending them up chimneys.
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Up north you still have chimneys.

The point I'm making is that kids at age 10 have varying levels of maturity. Some can't wait to get with the big lads and the swearing, others seem quite happy to just be a kid. So, if it were me, if I was taking my lad so that he'd grow up a Blade, so that he'd end up posting on a forum about how his dad got him into the Blades, so that he'd continue to enjoy it all his life, I'd see what he wanted to do. If he was raring to get on the kop, I'd take him. If he wasn't bothered, I'd stay where we were until he said 'Dad, can't we go on the kop'. Which he probably will at some point and then, over time, as someone else has said, he'll end up stood at the back with his mates and I'll just be the taxi driver.
 
I were 3 when I went on Kop for first time. Grandad probably thought I was too young to register the language! Obviously your kid is at an age where he knows what the words mean and hopefully of an age where he knows not to repeat them in polite company :)
 
dont go near the kop. its full of strange people called fans who are passionate about their team. go to south stand where all the stiffs sit :)
seriously if ur kids are short then stay where u are cos people have ants in their pants on the kop
 



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