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Spurlock said:
It always find that the people who bang on about being proper fans are really envious of the fact that the rest of us have multiple purposes in our lives and we are not held to ransom by the fortunes of our teams. They think because we choose to spend our time and money where we want to as oppose to feeling obliged to spend it on the latest club wallpaper like them, that they deserve some form of unique praise for their shallow lives.
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Maybe a little on the harsh ( maybe even hash ) side at the end but ... EXACTLY !
 
Chief said:
This old debate.

My opinion, which will never change, is that you support your local or a localish team.

How can kids get properly into football if they can't easily go to a game? It makes no sense to me at all, as I kid I loved going to games and my sons love going to games.

United are my own local team and Swansea are my boy's local team. I take them to both but I'd never force United on them. They do gravitate towards United though so I get the family connection bit.

I just don't, and never will, understand 'supporting' a team you have no connection to and will never go and watch because they're based miles away. Sorry if that doesn't fit with a lot of people but there you go.

Foreign fans are a different story but I couldn't care less about them to be perfectly honest.



Pittsburgh Steelers by the way. First game I ever saw they beat Dallas Cowboys so I supported them thereafter. Turns out they're good so that's a plus!
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I agree, I grew up in Leicestershire and my dad is from Leicester (played for them as a kid) and took me from day one. I went all in the championship/league one days every week and don't so much get so much now I don't live there and actually watch Sheff Utd a fair bit with mates local to me. In the same way as you do, if/when I have kids and live in Sheffield, if they want to support the Sheffield Utd I'd rather that than Leicester as realistically they'd go more.
To me it should be your local team
 
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TBH I couldn't care less if somebody thought they were a better fan than me because they spent more at the matches, it'd make no difference to my day. I handed over two grand to Manchester Royal Children's Hospital a few months ago, I'm not going around pretending I'm a better charity giver than the guy who gives an hour of his time to raising money every week.

I couldn't give a **** what a pack of nofaces on a forum called me if I was Matth, you do what you want and what you can do, not what others decide makes you a fan.
 
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seabreeze said:
My favorite type of Man U supporters ( for a laugh anyways and there's one on here at least ) ) , are the ones , when it comes to football , think there's Manchester and it's bordered entirely by England .
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That's probably due to lack of geography teachers in Manchester
 
Tobes said:
I don't give a **** mate <laugh>

I come across fans of my club who never go to a game and yet reckon they have the same level of support for the club that I have. Only that's bollocks as I drive over 5,000 miles a season just going to home games, and spend a vast amount of time and plenty of cash doing it. So my personal investment in the club exceeds theirs it's a simple fact. Equally I know lads who go to every away, as well as home games, and their investment in the club is way more than mine.
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Exactly mate. There are people who go every home and away game. I go to most home games and about 6 away games these days.
 
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Lived in Haringey for several years. Spurs were the local team. Never seemed to occur to most kids back then to support anything other than a local club.
 
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NowsufferinginSpain said:
Lived in Haringey for several years. Spurs were the local team. Never seemed to occur to most kids back then to support anything other than a local club.
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This is definitely the difference. Sky TV brought football into your house wherever you are. Easy to support United while living in Maidstone (for instance) as it's right there on the television. You don't have to go anywhere.

As Luv says, it's a very different world football wise and so is the football fan.

The reason I'm not all happy clappy with plastic United 'fans' is that I can't stand being called one, just because I happen to have supported my local team for forty years of my existence, and I can't stand them saying to me that they support United, just like me.

Because they ****ing don't. If that upsets people, tough.
 
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I see it in black and white terms.

If you couldn't hear the crowd cheering from your back garden, then you have no business supporting that team.

I lived and grew up approximately a mile from White Hart Lane, and used to kick the ball against our back wall, imagining I was scoring the winning goal, most Saturdays (if I wasn't taken to the match by my uncle).

I realise that I have probably condemned most of you to being little more than plastics, but what can I say?

Sorry?

Of course, I now live miles and miles away from N.17, but that doesn't matter. It matters where you lived when you first began supporting your team.

Note to all Southerners: there is absolutely no excuse for any of you who claim to support either United or 'Pool. You are glory-hunting plastics, and it serves you right that those two teams are now ****e.

Please respect my opinions, and resist any temptation to wum me.

Thanks.
 
luvgonzo said:
Pretty soon we're all going to be enjoying the season after a few games and there will be a ****ing international along to **** it all up.
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To be fair, though, Luvvy, for us Yids, it's almost like business as usual.
 
Hoddle Is A God said:
I see it in black and white terms.

If you couldn't hear the crowd cheering from your back garden, then you have no business supporting that team.

I lived and grew up approximately a mile from White Hart Lane, and used to kick the ball against our back wall, imagining I was scoring the winning goal, most Saturdays (if I wasn't taken to the match by my uncle).

I realise that I have probably condemned most of you to being little more than plastics, but what can I say?

Sorry?

Of course, I now live miles and miles away from N.17, but that doesn't matter. It matters where you lived when you first began supporting your team.

Note to all Southerners: there is absolutely no excuse for any of you who claim to support either United or 'Pool. You are glory-hunting plastics, and it serves you right that those two teams are now ****e.

Please respect my opinions, and resist any temptation to wum me.

Thanks.
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WTF you doing in your back garden when the crowd is cheering bro?
 
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Chief said:
This is definitely the difference. Sky TV brought football into your house wherever you are. Easy to support United while living in Maidstone (for instance) as it's right there on the television. You don't have to go anywhere.

As Luv says, it's a very different world football wise and so is the football fan.

The reason I'm not all happy clappy with plastic United 'fans' is that I can't stand being called one, just because I happen to have supported my local team for forty years of my existence, and I can't stand them saying to me that they support United, just like me.

Because they ****ing don't. If that upsets people, tough.
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Chief said:
This is definitely the difference. Sky TV brought football into your house wherever you are. Easy to support United while living in Maidstone (for instance) as it's right there on the television. You don't have to go anywhere.

As Luv says, it's a very different world football wise and so is the football fan.

The reason I'm not all happy clappy with plastic United 'fans' is that I can't stand being called one, just because I happen to have supported my local team for forty years of my existence, and I can't stand them saying to me that they support United, just like me.

Because they ****ing don't. If that upsets people, tough.
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Too right mate. They can **** right off.
 
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