Anyone ever gone corporate?

[Tatterdemalion]

As a favour for a mate/my boss, i'm going to Crystal Palace v Cardiff with him on Saturday, as part of some 'client hospitality' exercise. We've got some sort of executive box and it's all suit and tie apparently, which is annoying.

I'd rather have my saturday morning free to relax, instead of going to the **** hole that is Selhurt Park, and watching ****e football which i could just watch in my lounge, on Sky anyway. But i've said i'd go and i cant go back on my word.

So, to cut a long story short, has anyone done this kinda thing before and are there any redeeming features?

So far, the only one i can think of is that it's a 12:45pm kickoff and i'll get home before the whole of the day is ruined.

I've done the corporate things at the emirates on a few occassions. I was a client though, so perhaps it's different the other way around. Enjoyed it like - you do get a really good view, booze (you generally get away with standing outside watching the game and drinking), food etc. It's a bit dull if you prefer atmosphere and swearing at the goalie, mind.