I often wonder if I'd get more from football if I supported my local team and went with mates rather than the family club and going with family. Can never switch allegiances though, it'd be like having a sex change, you'd never be 100% of anything ever again.
No one has suggested that if you live in Hull you have to support City. They have said, and quite correctly, that if you are from Hull you should support City. Or no one as some people aren't interested in football or any other sport and supporting a team is not compulsory. Talking of rugby, I don't mind rugby fans who have no time for football or support City as well but those who support FC or Rovers and a football club they have no connection with are despicable. I have never heard of a City fan supporting Wigan, St Helens or Leeds because the local sides aren't doing well and they want some sort of reflected glory. They really are sad, inadequate people.
As my local team is Leicester, and I have no links to any rugby club, should I decide to et in to rugby and support the tigers, would that make me a plastic either way?
I doubt you're one who gives a toss what people think of you. Especially, not from a few meffs on an internet football forum. If support the team, watch them, if you're proud to call yourself a hcafc fan then you are one, in my mind anyway.
The question is why did the sad inadequates latch onto them instead of their local club in the first place? Because they are sad inadequates who think they are somehow connected to success and it reflects on them is one reason. Which is why it is the same few clubs who you see these sad people supporting all over the country. In my local there are people from East Yorks who "support" Man Utd, Liverpool and Leeds. There is someone from Huddersfield who "supports" Chelsea, someone from Leicester who " supports" Man Utd and someone from Leeds who supports Liverpool. All refer to their teams as "we" despite having no connection to them. Sad cases, the lot of them. I always ask who has been to see their team this weekend. The only ones are myself, a Barnsley fan who goes to every home game and a Bradford one. A shame we can't go back to the old days when you went to your local team or didn't see a game as there were none on TV.
Nothing wrong with going to watch them. Some good games of union to be seen in Leicester in crowds as big as the 2 RL clubs get added together in Hull, in fact the largest rugby crowds of either code. I have always gone to watch local teams when working elsewhere if City did't have a game as I love football. Always as a dispassionate neutral though. No thought of supporting them. Which has lead to awkward moments when I have applauded something done by the away team.
