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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Now I'm not a fan of football in the slightest so I maybe wrong here and I know there will be no shortage of people to pull me up if I am 
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Isn't the idea of football to support your home town, to back up where you grew up and help make a name in sports for where you live?
I was having a bit of a d*unken conversation with some friends the other day because a friend of mine supports Manchester united and I asked him why, his answer was because they are the best, is that how people pick who they support, the teams that's doing best?
Does loyalty mean nothing God damn it?
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We were Army brats, so we never had a 'home team'.
When we lived in Yorkshire, and I was about 7, one sister supported Leeds (the closest first division club).
One day they were playing Chelsea and my other sister, always a contrary sod, decided to support Chelsea. After much arguing, they concluded I would decide, and both sat on me, threatening various outcomes if I didn't agree 'their' team was best.
The one who said Chelsea scared me the most, and I have been loyal ever since.
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If I supported my local club it would be Hartlepool United 
Most of my family are Sunderland fans though so I rebelled when I was a kid and I support Newcastle. My second team are Villa as my granddad used to play for them. After this season you can most definitely say I'm not a glory hunter!
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I was born in Leicester but have no love of football. However, Leicester Tigers are a fantabulous rugby team and I've supported them since I was a very little girl. |
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"If I supported my local club it would be Hartlepool United
Most of my family are Sunderland fans though so I rebelled when I was a kid and I support Newcastle. My second team are Villa as my granddad used to play for them. After this season you can most definitely say I'm not a glory hunter!
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of course not .... but that's because both those teams are the opposite of "the best team" |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I was born in Leicester but have no love of football. However, Leicester Tigers are a fantabulous rugby team and I've supported them since I was a very little girl. "
You mean you want to be supported by them |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I was born in Leicester but have no love of football. However, Leicester Tigers are a fantabulous rugby team and I've supported them since I was a very little girl.
You mean you want to be supported by them "
Who says I'm not?  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Glory hunters and the global appeal of successful clubs is a growing market. It is easier to watch the Premier League in other parts of the world than it is at home in recent times. Therefore clubs are happy to exploit this growing market in the pursuit of higher revenues. So it is unsurprising that many more people from outside a locality support the top teams than those from the locality.
As for me I've been a Liverpool fan since the age of 5, born and bred there. Even though I now live in an area that predominantly support United and City, and have lived elsewhere in the UK since 18yo. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Lots of people have interesting and spurious reasons for supporting clubs but more often than not 'fans' of Manc Utd hailing from the hotbed region of the South where they all originate from couldn't even find Manchester on a map  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Glory hunters and the global appeal of successful clubs is a growing market. It is easier to watch the Premier League in other parts of the world than it is at home in recent times. Therefore clubs are happy to exploit this growing market in the pursuit of higher revenues. So it is unsurprising that many more people from outside a locality support the top teams than those from the locality.
As for me I've been a Liverpool fan since the age of 5, born and bred there. Even though I now live in an area that predominantly support United and City, and have lived elsewhere in the UK since 18yo."
See I remember when I was a kid, I come from Mansfield and even if I do say so myself stags are shite but still we would go off to watch them, as you walked out of the town centre towards their grounds all you would see was a sea of yellow and blue hats and scarves even though they were never any good everybody local still supported them because they were our team
Now days you walk round and you see so many people in footy tops of teams that are miles away
I just wondered if you don't support your home town what drew you towards the team you do support? |
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Always support where you are from in my opinion, i was unlucky to be born in huddersfield but they are my team, i have more heated conversations with people that follow teams they only see on TV because their dads cat followed them.
Plus i hate the greedy league lol |
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We don't have a local team to speak of, so for us we are a mix of team supporters, we grew up with a choice of the big teams, Man U, Liverpool, Everton, were the main ones people would choose, so in our house we have two Man U supporters, that's mr and no 1 son, and three Everton supporters, myself, no 2 son and daughter, what we have noticed oddly is that since starting school the majority are Everton supporters including teachers, we go to a catholic school, we are not catholic, so I believe religion oddly plays a part in choosing your team, but just an opinion  Mrs blue eyes |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Always support where you are from in my opinion, i was unlucky to be born in huddersfield but they are my team, i have more heated conversations with people that follow teams they only see on TV because their dads cat followed them.
Plus i hate the greedy league lol"
You only hate it because you're not in it Not too much chance of that changing any time soon either  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I support Norwich City but I have no connection to Norwich but I don't think you could call me a gloryhunter
Not a gloryhunter, just utterly bonkers  "
I think that might be true  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Glory hunters and the global appeal of successful clubs is a growing market. It is easier to watch the Premier League in other parts of the world than it is at home in recent times. Therefore clubs are happy to exploit this growing market in the pursuit of higher revenues. So it is unsurprising that many more people from outside a locality support the top teams than those from the locality.
As for me I've been a Liverpool fan since the age of 5, born and bred there. Even though I now live in an area that predominantly support United and City, and have lived elsewhere in the UK since 18yo.
See I remember when I was a kid, I come from Mansfield and even if I do say so myself stags are shite but still we would go off to watch them, as you walked out of the town centre towards their grounds all you would see was a sea of yellow and blue hats and scarves even though they were never any good everybody local still supported them because they were our team
Now days you walk round and you see so many people in footy tops of teams that are miles away
I just wondered if you don't support your home town what drew you towards the team you do support?"
Another possibility, beyond glory hunting and global appeal would be growing to like a team because of their football philosophy. Just because they like the way a team plays and go about their business may draw them to the that team.
Supporting the smaller local team has been usurped in some ways though, due to the amount of readily available football on TV. |
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I was born abroad and spent the first ten years of my life living abroad.
We came back to live in Henley on Thames, we always had a house here, but football wasn't something I was brought up with. It was only when I went to University in Wales and met my ex husband that I got into football properly. I'd always liked it but never really supported a particular team. He was a Man Utd fan, his dad was a season ticket holder. His housemates were all footie fans too and I decided to choose a team to support but didn't want to choose one they followed which meant no Liverpool, Tottenham, Man City or West Ham. I didn't like Arsenal's name either. I have no idea what made me choose Norwich at the time but I did. I had no idea I'd be living in Reading when I picked them, looking back, I couldn't have picked a more inaccessible team to support but I can't and won't change my team now |
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"We don't have a local team to speak of, so for us we are a mix of team supporters, we grew up with a choice of the big teams, Man U, Liverpool, Everton, were the main ones people would choose, so in our house we have two Man U supporters, that's mr and no 1 son, and three Everton supporters, myself, no 2 son and daughter, what we have noticed oddly is that since starting school the majority are Everton supporters including teachers, we go to a catholic school, we are not catholic, so I believe religion oddly plays a part in choosing your team, but just an opinion Mrs blue eyes "
Everton has had a strong Catholic connection since the 50s and the team of choice for clergy in Liverpool.since then. This may be due to the influx of Irish families during that period. However Everton's roots are in St Domingo's Methodist Boys Club so it is not clear cut.
I know Tommy Smith was warned off playing for Liverpool because he was a Catholic. However he said bugger that and joined anyway |
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"Am from Coatbridge and have supported albino rovers for 30 years . Defo a glory hunter lol
Is it morally wrong that I'm desperately trying to make up a chant involving albinos here "
. Sorry I meant Albion rovers lol |
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By *ost SockMan
over a year ago
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"Am from Coatbridge and have supported albino rovers for 30 years . Defo a glory hunter lol"
Just to clarify, as I'm now worrying people think I'm anti-albino, I meant proud pro-albino chants sung by the followers of Albino Rovers.
Sadly the best I can come up with is:
"You can shove your pigmentation up your arse....(x4) "
MissInnocent - you'd be bonkers in a nice way, which is all good
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Now I'm not a fan of football in the slightest so I maybe wrong here and I know there will be no shortage of people to pull me up if I am
But
Isn't the idea of football to support your home town, to back up where you grew up and help make a name in sports for where you live?
Spot on . plastic fans thousands of them in the south of England don't even realise they have teams down there
I was having a bit of a d*unken conversation with some friends the other day because a friend of mine supports Manchester united and I asked him why, his answer was because they are the best, is that how people pick who they support, the teams that's doing best?
Does loyalty mean nothing God damn it?
Was just wondering that all "
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"We don't have a local team to speak of, so for us we are a mix of team supporters, we grew up with a choice of the big teams, Man U, Liverpool, Everton, were the main ones people would choose, so in our house we have two Man U supporters, that's mr and no 1 son, and three Everton supporters, myself, no 2 son and daughter, what we have noticed oddly is that since starting school the majority are Everton supporters including teachers, we go to a catholic school, we are not catholic, so I believe religion oddly plays a part in choosing your team, but just an opinion Mrs blue eyes
Everton has had a strong Catholic connection since the 50s and the team of choice for clergy in Liverpool.since then. This may be due to the influx of Irish families during that period. However Everton's roots are in St Domingo's Methodist Boys Club so it is not clear cut.
I know Tommy Smith was warned off playing for Liverpool because he was a Catholic. However he said bugger that and joined anyway "
. Always the wise one, Thankyou handsome, always good to learn a little something new Mrs blue eyes |
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