The obvious counter to that is that it means suited and booted and many other football fans have the freedom to choose to criticise those shallow types that choose a club they've no connection to over one they have links to.
I don't think it really matters who you support, as long as you stick with that team through the good times and the bad. IF people wanna support TWS, and they're from Hull, maybe it is because they have ties to Leeds or where-ever. It really is none of anyone else's business. As long as it doesn't interfere with you and your club. Who the **** cares really?
The attitude of a weak willed individual unable and unwilling to do anything other than sit on the fence and post his liberal ****e
You should support your local Sunday league team: ultimate non-plastic behaviour. Everyone else is plastic surely?
I agree with this, and if you live remotely, such as on a farm or in a tiny village, you're not allowed to support a football club unless your tiny village has a pub team.
One good thing of our success in the last few years and Leeds decline is there are are less TWS supporters in the Hull area now as far as I can tell. I don't have a problem with people supporting whoever they want apart from Leeds supporters locally and Leeds generally. People should concentrate on the team they hate rather than labelling fans plastics, any amount of factors can go into which team you end up supporting as a kid.
I have no problem with vermin supporters from Leeds but I'm afraid any inadequate from East Yorkshire who 'supports' them gets the treatment. Similarly LFC and MUFC fans with HU postcodes and DNA are condemned to eternal ****itude. You makes your choices and you will be judged by them. These people crossed the road to the other side when our club was ailing and needing assistance. These people chose to ignore our struggle and ridiculed our club, witheld their money and support, and watched us almost go out the league. **** them.
An old mate of mine, a Londoner, went to Hull Uni and stayed in Hull after graduating, He's a Spurs fan. His son, born in Hull, went to Hymers (scholarship), played rugby at school. Like his dad, he's a Spurs fan. Both of them are still interested in City.
Ok, so I've been supporting City for nearly 30 years, I've been going to see them since 91/92 & have seen at least 1 game per season since, due to work money etc. So if I walk down the street in my new Hull City shirt complete with PL badges in Manchester or Leeds or any other City in England, are people in that place then going to turn around & say that I should be supporting my local team & I'm just a PL bandwagon jumper? People can argue until they are blue in the face about this, but as someone above put,"as long as they support their team through thick & thin" then I have no problem with that!
Some people seem to be missing a key part of the argument. It's not just a case of supporting the team nearest to you. People move, kids follow parents, so a dad from London moving up here could end up encouraging his son to support a London Club, the lad could choose his local club, or have a foot in both camps. There are also people that move and settle in an area and decide that is then their home. Over time, they end up supporting the local team in their 'home' town, especially as their kids may end up following the local team. That's not an issue as there's a connection. The contempt is for inadequates that simply choose a team that they've no connection to. Generally it's a succesful team they choose to fill some void in their personality, and they're generally the most anti, their local team.
It's weird seeing Man City shirts in Hull and EY, on none mancunians. Growing up in the 90s and remembering them being average in the top flight, and then dropping through the leagues to the Nationwide 3rd division. Of course they won't remember that. It's bizarre to see them considered as successful and title contenders.
That sums it up pretty well. Some people on here don't seem able to grasp these simple concepts. Of course the most despicable of all are those eggchasers who go on about how proud they are to support their local team and have an adopted football club as well.
That is a bit daft. If I am walking around anywhere in a City shirt I am supporting my local team. Do you think anyone who moves with their job should drop their team and change allegiance with every move? Of course through thick and thin is relative. The phoney gloryhunters who adopt Man Utd consider a season without 2 trophies as supporting them in the bad times. Strange how no one chooses Rochdale, Crewe or Gillingham as their team instead of City. Which tells you all you need to know about the sad inadequates. As my lad said to a Man Utd "fan" from East Yorks on the evening after the Cardiff game at the end of the last season, "you will never ever know the feeling I and other people who support their local team have. You may think you will. But you won't".
Should someone be punished for supporting Man Utd when they were successful & if they now go **** & they still support them?
And? That is quite normal, following your parents football team. I have moved a number of times through work. My kids support City on the basis that is where they were born. My grandkids are City fans though they weren't born in Hull because their dads are. Finally my lads have some reward after being the only kids in school with a City kit in the 80's and early 90's,surrounded by Liverpool and Man Utd shirts worn by kids who, unlike them, had never seen them play.
I don't see anyone suggesting they're punished. I just feel they're missing an awful lot of what going to football's all about. All it says is they made the wrong choice. The liklihood is, if their chosen team turned ****, they'd just choose another one.
I put that post forward, as a riposte to attitudes like the following. Some people seem to think that as you live in Hull, you have to support City (and no backsliding towards the RL clubs either). Too hardline, this ^^^^^^^^^^
