Just a tenuous link to not supporting your Dad's team - G said his kids didn't have to support Liverpool, it's their choice.
My Dad's Spurs and my Grandad Arsenal. I'm assuming that my son will probably take a German team to be his main team, presumably Fortuna Düsseldorf or another club from round here. I hope Liverpool will be his English team though.
My old man doesn't like football. He loves motor sport so I spent a bit of my youth at race tracks etc. My dad was also the mechanic for a former British sidecar champion so I've been around Brands Hatch on a sidercar too (yes, including doing the actions )
That's nothing, I rode a new bike around Toxteth when I was 6, when I say new, it was new to me. I think the Post Office might have had it some time before I "found" it in our street and decided it had been dumped there. The postman who ran after me thought otherwise and told my Dad. My Dad belted me and said "I hope you have learnt your lesson", I had. Never pinch a postman's bike from the postman who works the route that includes your house!
tell you some weird ****, my partners old man was born in london and he was brought up near Highbury, so you would think arsenal supporter right, wrong, they was crap back then and he admitted he was a glory supporter so followed spurs, he now supports arsenal as they turned to ****, so no surprise i just laugh at him when he tries to take the piss about liverpool results i also just show him the 5 European cups picture i have above my fireplace and say how you like them apples
The cross city support thing can happen if the father tries too hard to get the son to support the same team. Don't try and force something on a child because inevitably they will do the opposite
I agree wholeheartedly with this comment. This is why I have told my 3 children to never, ever, ever, become multi millionaires and buy their Dad an Aston Martin.
I don't know what happened with us. My brother's quite a bit older than me and I always thought he was being a rebel by choosing to support Liverpool - this was when we weren't a good side, pre Shankly, so not choosing the more successful side - I've never actually asked him but I followed him.
Followed my older brother and dad who are both reds (admittedly not a big a one as me though). Dad used to play a bit at a half decent level as well.
southampton are gash... sheff utd have cup pedigree... anything could happen.... in any event... it's like this.. waiting for the wheels to come off is nice... i've seen so f'n many sides get a flyer only for said wheel's to come flying off with a little loss of form or one injury.
When my lad was born, my mate asked me "what would you rather he be, gay or a manc". I told him i'd take him dress shopping if he wants.
