Give a whole day to a match at the nearest ground, on your own
“Everyone around you came with someone, and the first half you feel it. By the second you have the people either side of you and a result you were there for.”
The Recipe
- Find the nearest ground with something on all day (cricket, a lower-league fixture, a local tournament) and take the next one, not the best one.
- Get there before the start and buy the cheapest seat, or stand in.
- Take nothing to read and leave the phone in your pocket.
- Learn the run of the game from the people around you rather than looking it up.
- Eat whatever the ground sells at the break, standing with everyone else.
- Stay for the dull passages, which are most of it and the point.
- Say something to whoever is beside you about what just happened.
- Stay to the final whistle and walk out in the crowd.
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