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11 minutes? Wow. Talk about prolonging the agony.

Royals fans were made to suffer an additional period of disappointment after a lengthy delay due to an injury to Wigan’s Chris Herd in their hugely disappointing defeat at the Madejski Stadium last night.

The only other game I can think of with such a long period of added time was the infamous Chelsea game of October 2006 which featured the infamous Stephen Hunt/Peter Cech incident.

It got me thinking about fans’ routines while at football games, particularly when leaving.

11 minutes of injury time throws out fans’ traditional exit strategies, and also leads to awkward conversations with irritated loved ones waiting patiently to take them home: “But darling, it wasn’t MY fault there were 11 minutes of injury time”.

Here’s five types of fan you spot when it comes to the end of the game.

1. The early leaver

At football matches, there are always fans, no matter what was happening, who get up three minutes from the end of normal time and go home.

It seems missing a bit of traffic was far more important to them than seeing the final whistle, very odd.

Also fact fans, did you know if you go to every home game and leave three minutes before the end you miss at least 69 minutes of football in a 23 game season, add to that injury time and that surely means you’ll miss more than a whole game!

I often wonder if these same people would go to a restaurant eat nearly all their meal and then leave the rest on the plate.

At the cinema, do they leave before the killer is revealed? Who knows, but it’s a bit of a strange habit if you ask me.

2. The die-hard, stay to the end no matter what fan

I’d say the majority of fans stay until the end, why wouldn’t you?

A lot of fans feel the need to applaud the team and hear the final whistle.

Some take it to the next level and remain right until there’s hardly anyone left.

3. The Amblers

Some fans wait until about two minutes before the end of time, and very slowly amble down the stairs hoping the game will end before the final whistle.

These fans often annoy everyone else as they tend to stop if something happens, often blocking other fans views.

I’ve seen proper rows kick off due to this practice.

4. The seat jumpers

Leaving football is where you see human impatience at its worst.

Some fans queue patiently on the steps, accepting the fact there’s thousands of people all trying to get out of the same, small exit.

Others simply can’t wait and leap over rows of seats in an attempt to get out of the stadium ever-so-slightly quicker.

However, what I will say is that the combination of patient queuing and impatient seat-juimping actually leads to everyone getting out quicker, so long may it continue.

5. The disabled area/exit loiterers

It has been known for fans to leave their seats a few minutes from the end, walk down the stairs and stand either in the disabled area or the exit.

This is an accepted practice, provided you don’t get in the disabled fans way.

Loitering in the exit certainly irritates the stewards, but it’s a good place to make a quick getaway.

So there’s five examples of fan behaviour. Feel free to suggest some more in the comments section or tweet suggestions to @Hugh_Fort.