What age do you think is too young to take a child to a football match?

Question

To be honest, I think taking a baby to a football match ( which you sometimes see on TV) not only is pointless, but a little unfair on the child. How anyone can expect a child under the age of five years old to sit still throughout an entire match of 90 minutes in beyond me. The noise and sheer amount of people around them is unsettling for them, plus they are not really all taking it in.
so how young is too young in your view, I know it depends all on the child but.

OQ how old were you when you attended your first football match?

Answer 1

6 and I was desperate to go



Under 5 is a total no... not fair on the child really. Its too long for them and too noisy. And the child should only go if they express and interest not just because the parents want to go and they have no baby sitter

Answer 2

Well i think i was about 6 years old when i went to my first match and i think i've still got my ticket. This is quite a tricky question obviously the child has to be old enough to actually understand whats happening also another thing you should take in to consideration is the fact that sometimes peoples behavior is not very good and children shouldn't have to be around swearing or anything like that so there are a lot of things to consider but at the end of the day it depends on the parent and the match I wouldn't bring them to a derby match especially not one like celtic and rangers thats just asking for trouble.

Answer 3

My 6 year old grandson has a season ticket next to me and even though Everton are playing great and the atmosphere this season has been great, i am starting to ask questions whether i have made the right decision because he is starting to get a bit restless after about 60 minutes.

I take sweets and drinks to keep his mind occupied but at the end of the day i think about 8 or 9 would be a more suitable age. Incidentally 9 is the age i started going to watch Everton.

The winter is coming in and it will probably get harder for him to concentrate but at the end of the day, the season ticket only cost me £95.

Answer 4

I thought you meant what is the youngest age the person who is taking the child should be lol.







Anyways, I think 5 or 6 is the youngest.





OQ- I was like a few months old when I was brought to my first Gaelic football match.

Answer 5

I first went when I was about five but I would not recommend it. I don't think it is fare for the kid to be expected to be sat there for that long and also the language you hear at games now is not what kids should be hearing. I took my daughter to watch our local side when she was six and walked out after ten mins.



In my opinion a match is no place for kids until they are in there teens

Answer 6

I've never been to football before, but I have gone to a few baseball games. I was about ten years old when I started going. It was totally boring and couldn't see as good; watching it on tv was a lot better.



I feel like people bring there children because they don't have anyone to watch them. I'm not a sports freak, but some are. Parents raise their children to love sports, and starting at a young age is a good way to start. I don't care if someone brings a baby to a game, simply because its none of my business. Personally, I wouldn't bring a child because the food and drinks are really expensive, and knowing children, they will be hungry and thirsty.

Answer 7

I was around 7, but it meant going out with my dad and two brothers , so apparently I found the whole thing quite exciting.

Taking kids any younger is just a selfish ego trip by the relevant parent.

Answer 8

For me I have to say from seven or six but I only started watching football in 2005

Answer 9

Liverpool fan, my first anfield visit was for liverool boys against swindon boys, my next match was the reserves against everton, and then my first first team game was against stoke city on my 12 birthday, 21 october 1972, signifcant, because it was gordon banks last game, next day he had his car accident

Answer 10

I would say 3 years so he could start paying attention to the game and start learning it just in the time where they start being curious about every thing that way you can teach him the beauty of the sport.

Answer 11

i was 9, but really it should be whenever a child starts to show interest in football.

Answer 12

i was 6 when i first went to Upton Park....





anyway........get yourself to Old Trafford on Saturday...........

rugby league grand final.....Leeds Rhinos v Warrington Wolves......

grandmas....grandads...mums....dads....sons....daughters and youngsters ALL mingling with each other(no segregation whatsoever......)and enjoying the banter with other supporters of other teams.....

now that's a game where you have no worries whatso ever about getting beaten up....

Answer 13

I first went to argyle when i was 7.



Green blood in my heart and in my veins.

Answer 14

I was 8, I am a girl though... My brother was four and he loved it however

Answer 15

I was 6.

SUNDERLAND ALL THE WAY!

HA'WAY THE LADS!

Answer 16

I was 7......and never looked back.....



Man United have been my Team ever since.......