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Why do you support your particular team?

Ipswich Town - geography. Started going to see them for something to do on Saturday aged 13/14 (after a few games before that) and never stopped.
Rayo Vallecano - moved to Madrid. Real and Atletico were both fucking expensive to go to (if you rock up on match day, season tickets are pretty reasonable though), plus Real's fash/organized crime element are bit too obvious and Atletico's fans just complain for minute 0 until minute 90 (they're basically the Spurs of Spain). Went to watch Rayo once, tickets were cheap, ultras weren't nazis, football was decent, liked the fans and the place, made a few friends who also went. Got an ST. Now I'm a bukanero :cool: LA VIDA PIRATA LA VIDA MEJOR!
 
I don't really understand people who change teams either if they are already supporting one ... supporting/following more than one, sure :cool:, but in a way changing your team from manchester united if it's your local team, you been to matches, and you feel some kind of emotional connection with them to something less successful because you'd be laughed at for glory hunting is probably just as messed up in a way, heh

if we got in the premier$hit, i'd be gobsmacked but in the end, quite pleased ...
 
Gingerman said:
A lot of Irish players played for Arsenal in the '70s,thats why Ive always supported them,none at the mo unfortunetly,had relations who lived near Highbury and they used to send me programs and stuff as well.
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very similar, I first became aware of teams about 1971 when Arsenal won the double, they had a load of Irish players, Nelson, Rice, Jennings (later in tbf) O'Leary, Stapleton, Brady ,etc and my family are Irish. I didn't watch the Arse until I moved to London in 89, and I'm not a regular attender, even though I live fairly near the ground now (I didn't live in London as a kid)

my dad was a Man.U. fan, he had no connections with Manchester :cool:
 
From Enfield, so I supported Enfield. Now I support Enfield Town. Details of the Great Disaster and Reformation.

Got into supporting them around 1980. Dad took me to Arsenal and Spurs reserve games before then. He didn't want to risk running into trouble with a little kid in tow, so wouldn't take me to first-team games. Then my brother started following Enfield, so I went along. Lovely 30s stadium, proper terracing, change ends at half time, hurl abuse at the opposition keeper (because he can actually hear you) - all part of the charm.

THEN the big FA Cup run happened. Enfield beat Hereford, Port Vale and in the 4th round drew 1-1 at Barnsley (shown on The Big Match) before losing 3-0 in a replay at Spurs in front of 36,000 people. I was only 13 and I was totally blown away.

I can't imagine supporting another club. Of course, the old Enfield is dead and gone, but we have a bright future with the new fan-owned club.
 
Charlton is the nearest professional club to where I grew up. My dad didn't live with us, and supported Everton anyway. I can't quite remember how I got supporting them, but it was either going to be them or Man Utd, who I cheered on when I was younger to wind up a mate.
 
frogwoman said:
I don't really understand people who change teams either if they are already supporting one ... supporting/following more than one, sure :cool:, but in a way changing your team from manchester united if it's your local team, you been to matches, and you feel some kind of emotional connection with them to something less successful because you'd be laughed at for glory hunting is probably just as messed up in a way, heh
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I used to support Nottingham Forest when I was a kid because they were doing well so I suppose I was a glory hunter (although I was born there and they are the team most of my family support). By the time I came to support Watford though I had lost interest in football years ago. I still like to see Forest doing OK though, except when they play Watford.
 
'Supporting a team' is not the same as watching them on telly, or looking out for their results, or going on about them on the internet.
 
But half of the crowd at Premiership football matches are either there to grumble and tut, or watch in impassive silence. I don't see how that counts either.
 
your actually right ern, im going to go as much as i fucking can now, which might not be every game, but i don't have the money to go every game and get there and back all the time, but ill make a damn good effort as i agree with you. fuck it why not, better late than never innit, and in five years i might have left the country so won't get a chance to go. plus ive got the rest of my life to become an old git.
 
ernestolynch said:
Don't be para, it's not aimed at anyone in particular. I always pull folk up who confuse 'support' with 'follow'.
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I get this to a certain extent, though say you been home and away for 10 years and then for whatever reason you can't go week in week out, which as I get older happens more and more? do you lose you supporter status? grey areas imho
 
DRINK? said:
I get this to a certain extent, though say you been home and away for 10 years and then for whatever reason you can't go week in week out, which as I get older happens more and more? do you lose you supporter status? grey areas imho
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grey area yeah, but no who's who when you see 'em...
 
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