The average Saints fan
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https://yougov.co.uk/profiler#/Southampton_F_C/media
A profile published revealing what an average Saints fan is like, apparently we are 60 year old male , middle class, Guardian readers who like cats.I remember filling out this form. Portsmouth were similar but preferred fish as pets.
so 60 year old male , middle class, Guardian readers who like cats and filling out forms.
i wouldn't have bothered if i'd been given one.
i see you already came to that conclusion.
The Pompey one is worth a read.
Favourite pet fish?
Favourite celebrity Rolf Harris?
Well that's a load of bollocks. I am nowhere near 60 and I don't read the Guardian. And I like dogs over cats.But I am male, I'll give them that.
You are clearly not typical then!
I literally don't know anyone who owns an Alfa Romeo.
I also don't know any right wing Guardian readers.
Is that why the 3rd top answer in niche interests is Southampton FC..?
Pompey one aint very accurate, no mention of benefits cheat, drug dealer or hooker in the top professions.
Pompey one aint very accurate, no mention of benefits cheat, drug dealer or hooker in the top professions.
Oh dear. And I was only making a comment earlier about what SB3 is allowed to get away with on the Pompey forum. I know you're only joking, and SB3 is constantly insulting about Saints fans on his own forum, but don't give them ammo, TS.
Yes, but according to that reasoning, Southampton Grauniad readers are right of centre?
We also have more Daily Mail readers than Pompey.
Still, nobody likes the Mirror!
The whole thing, of course, is a nonsense.....except for Pompey fans liking fish!
I think it records the number of people who would describe themselves loosely as "on the right"* adds them up and falsely interprets this as an "extreme" right wing bias.
A similar survey could show the average Pompey citizen as unusually interested in fundamentalist Islam, with a likelihood of blowing oneself up in Syria............ "Lies, damned lies and statistics"
*Hardly surprising in a city with close links to the Royal Navy.
It's worth considering what these surveys show. They are only comparing the differences between Saintsfc fans and all football fans. So to say that we are 15% more likely to buy an Alfa than most football fans still leaves it rather unlikely.
Does any of it tally with our experience? Allegedly the average Liverpool fan is young and female, as too is the average for Man U. I've lived in the North West for 40 years, and been to both of these of these grounds a number of times, watching Saints and often not. I have also been a regular Saints fan for even longer, and my experience does not match with these profiles. I see more women, and more young people of both genders, at an average Saints game both home and away than I do at OT or Anfield. At Old Trafford, which a gang of us used to go to for European nights, half time conversation would often go along the lines of "No, can't make Thursday, I'm in Reykjavik". 30 something aspiring yuppies sat with scowling old Mancs and very few women of any age. Liverpool is still dominated by the "all right, la" scouser - very definitely male, and the majority (again in my experience) 40+
Researchers need to do a bit more qualitative analysis. This is lazy research and suffers from GIGO (garbage in, garbage out).
Researchers need to do a bit more qualitative analysis. This is lazy research and suffers from GIGO (garbage in, garbage out).
Perhaps females in Liverpool are more likely to be able to read and write and fill out forms (it would be mean to mention benefit forms, so I won't ).
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Perhaps females in Liverpool are more likely to be able to read and write and fill out forms (it would be mean to mention benefit forms, so I won't
Ho ho. Accepted as a quip, but you raise a serious point about sample. What do middle aged Southern Guardian readers do all day? I stick to my point as above, or to be more succinct; it's a load of ****e!