That's easy. (1) Supports the team where he grew up as a boy (regardless of how lacking in glamour they may be) (2) Started supporting the local team at an age before glory actually meant anything to him (3) Has actually seen that team play live, preferable on more than a few occasions (4) Can name the best XI in every decade that has passed since he remembered watching that team (5) As a concession, I will allow in fans who began supporting Spurs (despite not coming from N17) long after the 61/62 season, on the basis that they clearly were not "glory-hunting" (6) Anyone outside of Manchester, 'Pool, West London, and North London and who began supporting any of United, 'Pool, Chelsea, or Arsenal over the last 15 years or so (and £ity, over the last 4 years) is a plastic (no matter how much you might try to rant and rail against that accusation - in fact, you're only doing that because you, too, are a plastic) That, in my opinion, is the mark of a true fan. Next!
Conversely, anyone who supports West Ham must be a true fan, because ****-knows no one in his right mind would support that team in search of glory! Perhaps they have a Bobby Moore fetish, who knows!
You can paint Spurs fans in the same light as well HIAG, as much as I loathe your lot, at least you know you're supporting that club because you love it, I mean you're toilet and won't ever win anything of note as well.
1 is all very convenient if you grew up next to a First Division side, or for you newer spurs fans a PL side. 2 Is entirely meangingless, if one supports a club and sticks with them even if they are winning at the time then what difference does it make, are you saying that anyone who starts to support a team and chooses a team that is playing good football and winning things is a "glory hunter"? Ludicrous. 3 Is utter cack no reply needed because, obviously if you couldn't afford to go see games that makes you less of a fan right? or if you live on the other side of the planet? Elitism and xenophobia I am smelling already from your list. Especially ironic seeing as you still live in your parent's house. I dare say the rest, which I haven't read as just as weird strange and meangingless. You do talk some cack lad I'll give you that. I do find it interesting this "superior" streak you seem to have given how inferior you are in reality, faking it till you make it? A person can choose any team they wish and support them in the exact same way a local lad supports his team which rules out your first few stupid criterion, your mildly disturbing logic is entertaining but inherently flawed. A glory hunter can be described as anyone looking to use the results of football as something to revel in, which means you, revel in Spurs victory or a rival's defeat. It doesn't really mean "supporting the team currently winning" at all you dope, that latter meaning is just a weak ass claim made by bitters who can't "glory hunt" or revel in schadenfreude, your main stapel.
Well said. These inane rules are plucked out of thin air to suit the inferiority complex of small-minded football snobs. Fck all that bollox, live and let live
Just for comparison at the Chavs woeful turnout to greet their players: please log in to view this image
It does look like that. Bellerin probably put a 'sunny' filter on the picture as the weather was so crap today.
To be fair there would have been at least a thousand* fans lining the streets if they'd gone through the streets of Southend or Maidstone. *including shoppers
