[Football] Do football clubs not do carol singers anymore?

Giraffe

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• Dec 31, 2017

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Not so long ago all the Christmas games would see carol singers present on the pitch before or at half time. I thought we would have had some in the bandstand maybe but no. We had none at Chelsea either.

I missed them. Are clubs too afraid to allow Christians to celebrate? Or is it just a case of not wanting anything that distracts from us buying food and drink?

 

Nixonator

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• Dec 31, 2017

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Attrition of tradition.

 

Super Steve Earle

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• Dec 31, 2017

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Didn't get so many Christmas cards either. Younger family less likely to bother (apart from SSE Jr). But still feel I should send them anyway.

 

Thunder Bolt

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• Dec 31, 2017

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I can't remember ever seeing carol singers at football matches. Salvation Army playing carols but not singers.

 

studio150

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• Dec 31, 2017

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Carole King, Carole Bayer Sayer ?

No, never seen either of these Carole singers at games

 

1066familyman

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I think we stopped doing Carols when Seb left the club.

 

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• Dec 31, 2017

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Giraffe said:

Or is it just a case of not wanting anything that distracts from us buying food and drink?

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Carol Zinger burger?

 

Publius Ovidius

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Thunder Bolt said:

I can't remember ever seeing carol singers at football matches. Salvation Army playing carols but not singers.

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Yep remember quite a few years at the goldstone there was Carol singers and I was asked to join a choir at white heart lane 10 years ish ago. Which was fun.

 

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• Dec 31, 2017

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FFS, football is for getting away from that stuff

 

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AnotherArch

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• Jan 1, 2018

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There were carol singers at Swindon in one of the pre-Christmas games 7 or 8 years ago. Those are the last ones that I saw.