Yes. That'll be it. All about the money. Nothing to do with fight, determination and the essential belief in sticking together to the very last whistle that characterises all successful clubs.
Understand and not a pop at you. Clearly there are people who have genuine reasons for finding it hard to arrive early and genuine reasons for having to get away early. But on Saturday, I doubt that accounted for a good 2/3 of the ESL.
Presumably this shows then that a lot of them don't HAVE to leave early, despite their claims otherwise. When it suits them, they'll stay an extra 5 or 10 minutes.
There is some truth in this. But also a lot of myth. If people take into account that they're going to an event with a crowd of 30,000 people, is it really that surprising that it's not a bad idea to turn up half an hour before kick-off and might take half an hour to get away? There are many...
Maybe when we go 2-1 down in the biggest game of the season with stoppage time to save the game, the players should just give up and walk off. Seems to be an acceptable attitude