Good man.
My mum taught me many things. She taught me, you never cross a picket line and you never turn your back on your team.
Lessons that in due course, I will be passing down to my boys.
This kind of premeditated leaving suggests a different problem, one of dodgy transport links and shallow bonds between club and many paying supporters.
The West Ham thing is more a mass diva type flounce
I can imagine not paying for another ticket any time soon if we were that bad (and West Ham are a bit defensive and negative, but they are far from terrible). I just don't understand leaving the game you are already at. It's just not how football works. You can't just say, "i'll watch you if...
I think this is a fair way of looking at it.
Though I think even if we were on a hideous battering at home, more would stay than the 5k you suggest and proportionately much higher than West Ham managed.