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i suppose i'd say i'm an england fan in the same way revol68 is a man united fan. i get excited when i see them win on the telly and i like to wind up rival fans, but i can't be arsed to actually go and watch them.
Do you support your national football team?
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spacemonkey
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That's a good point. I would laugh when all my uni housemates acted all depressed and sad when England got knocked out of another major tournament. When none of them fucking cared, at all.. They enjoy all the glory and banter, but I knew it was all shallow at the end of the day.
That's why you all find it difficult so understand why the Welsh get so excited about our national side.
That's pretty much how I feel about it.
To be honest, it's all about going to the pub really isn't it. Like 2002 being a good excuse to go to the pub and have three pints at 7.30 in the morning
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for me, i have so much more invested in my local club. i support england because there isn't very well any other team i could support. i'm english, so i'd rather england won than anyone else.
with bristol rovers, i see the same friends on the terrace every week and i see the same players on the pitch every week. the money i pay at the turnstile directly helps to pay for the team i watch, and sustains the club through times where if we didn't go to matches, the club would cease to exist. a lot of the players who played for the club grew up close to me, and i identify far more closely with the city i grew up in than the country i was born in. the players i watch and pay wages to, i see in the bars, clubs and shops i spend my own money in. for me, supporting a football club means far more than the blind patriotism that supporting your country provides. but that's just me, and i realise people have many other reasons for supporting the club or country they do.
spacemonkey
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That's fair enough. I feel close to my club, but not that close. Cardiff are definitely losing something as we head for the £££ in the premiership.
I feel the same with the time and money I have invested in watching Wales play over the years. Until recently I haven't missed a home game for 15 years, and have been on numerous away trips. The Welsh fans really are brilliant abroad. Anyway, Placid27 said it much more eloquently on the other thread.
I was just surprised really how little you all care about your national side, bunch of overpaid pricks that they are.
kained&able
Here for the football.
I love watching england play.
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Onket
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I don't believe you.
FridgeMagnet
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By definition though they're likely to be playing abroad, which puts going to see them in a bit of a different category to local teams. I think it's a bit much to ask that of "supporters".
I do also know a fair amount of people who don't seem that bothered about football at other times but really do support England in whatever cup comes up; never miss a game, talk about them ad nauseam, would certainly go to any matches they were able to. The social dimension is a bit different during international cups I suppose.
TrippyLondoner
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Yes i do. But i'm gonna vote the comedy option just for fun innit.
spacemonkey
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I don't care, I wasn't talking to you.
deadringer
meat pie sausage roll
still havent quite forgiven them for not qualifying for euro 2008. decided i wouldn't bother with them through this set of qualifiers, and tbh im sick of the overblown hype we can win this bollox stirred up by the media. having said that the buzz of the country when it starts will suck me back in!
TrippyLondoner
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Really couldn't give a fuck about 'media hype', dunno why people let that get to them, just don't pay attention to it.
Yes I do. I don't get involved in the anthem bollocks or owt.
Like walrus said it's all about the pub really.
Having a Bloody Mary for breakfast in the local at 7am in 2002 was mint
Although it was much shitter when I lived in Asia while the 2006 one was on. You had to get up at 2.45 am, watch the game half awake, go back to bed for a couple of hours, and then go and teach.
My friend was in Thailand at the time and he said everywhere you looked during the tournament every bloke you saw was constantly yawning
i'm english so obviously support england.
when i said to a (now) ex gf that i wanted to watch all the games in euro 2008 she said 'how stupid, why would you want to watch any games other than the england games?'
it's because i love the game of football, the game FFS
when i said to a (now) ex gf that i wanted to watch all the games in euro 2008 she said 'how stupid, why would you want to watch any games other than the england games?'
it's because i love the game of football, the game FFS
I'm Scottish, and the answer is no. It's turning into a farce. No player committment, shite SFA governing body, what's to support.
TrippyLondoner
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i'm english so obviously support england.
when i said to a (now) ex gf that i wanted to watch all the games in euro 2008 she said 'how stupid, why would you want to watch any games other than the england games?'
it's because i love the game of football, the game FFS
Women.
One thing I thought was well odd when I went to China was quite how many people i saw wearing england shirts.
I never even managed to find the bloody things in Chinese shops, so god knows where they got them either, but it really was tons of people, whereas you'd never get them wearing the Chinese shirt...
I never even managed to find the bloody things in Chinese shops, so god knows where they got them either, but it really was tons of people, whereas you'd never get them wearing the Chinese shirt...
Women.
at the other end of the scale i went out with an oxford fan for 6 months so we both watched plenty of football. the problem was most of it was at oxford.
You'll be english then.
Onket
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Bunjaj Pali
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Capello has restored my faith. I can get behind England now in a way I couldn't under McClaren or Sven. That said I have no doubt I will experience the same crushing blow next summer as I have ever since I was old enough to watch a world cup, and curse myself for my ridiculous and misguided sense of optimism once again.
discokermit
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i support whichever national team has the most wolves players in it.
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