Taking kids to midweek night games

barry · Aug 3, 2016

Hi all,

I need some advice from my community brethren. I want to take my 10 year old to the champs league games at Wembley, but as they all fall on school nights this could be troublesome.
What do you reckon, take him for the experience(what do you really learn in primary school), don't take him (education is paramount).
In a real quandary.

TheChosenOne · Aug 3, 2016

If you get home by midnight I can't see a long term problem.

The buzz should carry him through the next day and then an early night would help the body clock,

Or schedule an imaginary dental appointment for 10.30 on the morning after. Wink wink.

torbaytottenham · Aug 3, 2016

We live in Devon and probably won't get home till 1.30 -2am...my 9 year old is getting a multi game ticket and getting taken out of school at 1pm on the match days to travel up..education is important but being a yid is more importanter

nicdic · Aug 3, 2016

torbaytottenham said:
We live in Devon and probably won't get home till 1.30 -2am...my 9 year old is getting a multi game ticket and getting taken out of school at 1pm on the match days to travel up..education is important but being a yid is more importanter

Qualsonic · Aug 3, 2016

Take them!
Experiences like that, all significant life experiences that form memories, are much more valuable than one single day at school.
Education is important, but it doesn't only happen at school.

barry · Aug 3, 2016

torbaytottenham said:
We live in Devon and probably won't get home till 1.30 -2am...my 9 year old is getting a multi game ticket and getting taken out of school at 1pm on the match days to travel up..education is important but being a yid is more importanter

Inspiring brother. I only live in Hackney so I got no excuse to be a bitch. Definitely taking him.

Graysonti · Aug 3, 2016

I'm taking my 6 year old - for three games it's fine

Dougal · Aug 3, 2016

Back in't day Lansdowne Road didn't have floodlights meaning all of Ireland's home fixtures had to be played on weekday afternoons. As I signed out of school for my dental appointment every couple of months I couldn't help but notice how many of my compatriots were also having regular work done on their teeth. The sign out book was just a list of Murphys, O'Sullivans, etc. The school must have known this. But I did have teachers called Murphy and O'Sullivan too so I guess a blind eye was turned.

The moral of the story is, see the game and floss regularly.

riggi · Aug 3, 2016

It's what memories are made of. A couple of days off school isn't going to screw him up.

Saoirse · Aug 3, 2016

Take him. Football's a funny game, for all we know it could be a long long time before there's amother chance to see us in the Champions League. The experience is worth far more than a single school day especially at that age.

Sophos151 · Aug 3, 2016

I'd say take him. I've been to a Europa League match with my nine-year old stepbrother before - think it was the one Lamela got a hattrick in.

Jimmypearce7 · Aug 3, 2016

I think take him. I took my son to Inter Milan away. The school rang me while i was there to ask why he wasn't in school. I explained he was in Milan with me watching Spurs.
I am sure none of the lessons he had on those two days would have stayed in his memory in any way but seeing Bale's hat trick definitely has.

Graysonti · Aug 3, 2016

What's the worst ?

He o she is tired the next day.

Early to bed the day after - simples

Dougal · Aug 3, 2016

Just fill him with sweets the next day and let the teachers handle it. That's what we pay them for. He'll be knackered by the time he gets home and straight to bed.

Hi @Vics

waresy · Aug 3, 2016

I have taken my son to EL and LC games the last few seasons, it is done on the basis of we go and can go again if you go to school the next day. It is a late one but the price difference and ease of getting tickets out weigh the cons of it being a night game. always gets a lot of jealous comments from friends the next day too.

Do it

Armstrong_11 · Aug 3, 2016

It's one day of primary school.... As long as it's not near exams or something.

I know parents who took their kids overseas for a holiday when school is on... And their reason is "oh we (the parents) are going on holiday so we don't want the kids alone at home. Secondary school kids too.

So just do it!

WalkerboyUK · Aug 3, 2016

All depends on how well they cope with being tired the next day and how late they normally go to bed.
I took mine to the Basel EL game a couple of years ago, mainly because it happened to take place during half-term.
That's generally the only time I'd take mine, though will hopefully be making an exception for a CL game first week of November if we're at home.

Mine are normally in bed around 9, and wake quite early, so getting home at midnight doesn't tend to work so well.
Mind you, we're taking them out for WWE in Birmingham on the 9th November, and pulling them from school for the rest of that week...

mickdale · Aug 3, 2016

Taken both my boys from the age of 11 to weekday games, getting home about 12.30.

There's nothing can compare to seeing history in the making, and history in lilly white shorts

dk-yid · Aug 3, 2016

There's 195 days in a school year ... over ten years that's 1950 days.

Take him to the game, get souvenirs, stay home from school and work the next day and spend it recalling the greatest night of his young life ...

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