One of the delights of middle age is not only being able to have a stadia-shaking rocktasm in the first place but being able to enjoy it guilt-free because one no longer remotely cares about being perceived as "cool", having been there, done it and bought the Bodymap bat-wing T-shirt way back in 1983.
The Hillsborough disaster in 1989 and the subsequent Taylor Report saw a recommendation that standing terraces should be abolished; as a result all stadia in the Premier League are all-seater.
Because of the location of a lot of modern stadia, a lot of today's football fans end up drinking at places like this.
"The aim is to use GLT in order to support the match officials and to install a system in all stadia, pending the successful installation, and pre-match referee tests". .
At a game anywhere else in the world, a casualty list like that would most likely have resulted from a combination of ailing stadia and a spontaneous outburst of mass fury at events on the pitch.
Yes, I can see it now: puffed up to the size of the jumbotrons used in sports stadia, a permatanned face topped by a saffron quiff glares into the camera and tells the entire human race, "You're fired!" Then, at last, the soothing, bantering, cornucopian screen will go dark for ever.
Again, according to standard doctrine, on his far left, about half a kilometer ("two stadia") from the main force, he had stationed an outflanking detachment (hyperkerastai) of Pechenegs.
This summer Royal Blood support Dave Grohl's band on a tour of stadia, arenas and amphitheatres, both here and in the US.
"What I want to avoid at all costs is the sort of thing we'd seen in other Games, which is big empty stadia a couple of years after the Olympics has moved on, with nobody using it at all".
