Us football fans love souvenirs.
Many of us used to collect ticket stubs, before most Premier League stadiums switched to electronic entry cards.
Meanwhile, matchday programmes are still fairly popular, but they’re a bit naff these days, considering they can cost up to £10 and are basically just made up of articles copy-and-pasted from the club’s official website.
So, with decent football collectables harder to come by nowadays, footy fans sometimes need to go out of their way to get a good piece of memorabilia.
A case in point was Sunday’s game between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United at White Hart Lane – the final match ever to be played at the famous old stadium.
Spurs gave every home fan a bag containing a t-shirt and a flag, but that just wasn’t special enough for many supporters, who decided they’d much rather physically take a bit of White Hart Lane home with them.
Advertising boards were popular, but seats were by far the most in-demand item fans tried to steal.
Some made their thieving look easy.
1st Spurs fan clearly has chair-nicking experience?
But look at the 2nd bloke’s face when he realises his failed effort has been filmed??? pic.twitter.com/ysltGxbyMB
— CaughtOffside (@caughtoffside) May 15, 2017
However, others had a tough time trying to remove the plastic chairs from the stadium.
This Spurs fan *REALLY* wanted to take a White Hart Lane seat home with him after Tottenham v Man United!
If at 1st you don’t succeed…? pic.twitter.com/rlNPzmGs09
— CaughtOffside (@caughtoffside) May 15, 2017