Family members supporting rival teams

Brother is a rag and all the mrs family are all Salford born rags, none of them have zebra pants though which is strange
 
46 year old son supports City.

41 year old daughter isn’t in to football. When she was at school in the last year of juniors, she asked for a football shirt. I said I’d get her one at the next home game. Ok can I have the black one. I quickly realise it was the black sharp kit the rags wore. I said no like any loving father would do. Some year later she came to me and said I have some good news and some bad news. The good news she said was her and her boyfriend were getting married. What’s the bad new I asked, he’s a United fan from Scunthorpe she said. No got two grandsons who wear United shirts but don’t particularly like football.
 
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r.soleofsalford said:
46 year old son supports City.

41 year old daughter isn’t in to football. When she was at school in the last year of juniors, she asked for a football shirt. I said I’d get her one at the next home game. Ok can I have the black one. I quickly realise it was the black shard kit the rags wore. I said no like and loving father would do. Some year later she came to me and said I have some good news and some bad news. The good news she said was her and her boyfriend were getting married. What’s the bad new I asked, he’s a United fan from Scunthorpe she said. No got two grandsons who wear United shirts but don’t particularly like football.
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Wearing a utd shirt and not liking football go hand in hand tbf.
 
My dad's a red, but it runs a bit deeper than that. He's been a red ever since he came back to Stockport in 1968 after living Australia for four years. He was 8 at the time. He supported Geelong Cats and only really paid attention to cricket and Aussie Rules. The tale goes that he essentially got bullied into supporting United by the older kids at school because they'd just won the European Cup and everyone's favourite sport star was Bobby Charlton. He got pinned against the wall by a big kid who went "Who do you support? It'd better be United". My dad just said "Erm, yeah" and then started following their results to avoid being beaten up. It eventually become more than a habit. He went to games regularly from about 1972 until about 1986. He eventually stopped going because it was getting more and more dangerous in the Paddock, the Bradford fire had happened the year before, and then he met my mum so had started spending his money on her instead.

I've written about him in the past on here (I think) because he's a very different sort of football fan. Tribalism has never really got to him, beyond disliking Real Madrid and Liverpool. He's the kind of traditional Manchester bloke who supports both teams but just has more of a connection to, and affinity for, United. Don't get me wrong, the two times United have won the European Cup in the modern era he's been bouncing around the living room, but he was up off the sofa and clapping and cheering when Rodri scored against Inter in our European Cup final and he whipped out a bottle of champagne as soon as the full-time whistle went. On the final day in 2012 he watched our game instead of United's and afterwards, when I asked him why, he just said "We've had 20 years of titles, it's your turn now". He's driven us to Wembley for City games on loads of occasions since 2011, knowing he's not got a ticket for the game. He just sits in a pub nearby, watches the match, and then meets us near Pinner, Harrow, Brent Cross, etc. before driving us back home. The only time he's ever come in was for the 2011 Community Shield. I'll never forget that the first thing he said to us, meeting us at Pinner tube station after the FA Cup final in 2024, when United won, was "Ah, sorry about that".

I think it's where my ambivalence towards United comes from. They're our local rivals and the media coverage of them is weird. They have a bit of a superiority complex. But there are a lot of reds, like my dad - admittedly they're all over 50 - who remember the days of Frank O'Farrell and Tommy Doc and Dave Sexton. He was at the Five Minute Final in 1979 and all the other finals they got to during that era. I want to win every derby from now until the end of time, of course, but I don't really hate United like 99% of Bluemoon users do. I find Real Madrid to be far more unpleasant and are the only team I actively despise. Arsenal, Liverpool, and Chelsea annoy me but I know that's just a rivalry thing. United are a team I like us to beat, if only to silence the fans they have under 40 who've grew up winning everything and think it has to be that way for the rest of time, but that's all. I think, through my dad, I just see a different side to United. One that is very much about celebrating the whole of Manchester as a football hub that has, collectively, dominated English football for more than 30 years now. So, yeah, my dad's a red, but it runs a bit deeper than that.
 
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My son is a match going Man U supporter … there, I’ve said it, my shame is now public and there’s no escaping it!
A combination of poor choices (married into a family of rags, didn’t last for obvious reasons) and unavoidable circumstances (work commitments and him growing up in Urmston, going to school in Stretford surrounded by rags and him being prime age when they started winning trophies again) all sealed his fate. We never fall out about football, he’s quite accepting of their current status and I’m old enough to know that taking the piss will come back and bite you on the arse eventually. But, we both agree that missing out on that father/son bond that comes with going to the match together is a big cause for regret.
 
Dad : City
Mum : Not interested
Brother : City
Sister 1 : City
Sister 2 : City
Niece : Not interested (until met husband)
Niece husband : Liverpool and takes niece to matches

They always manage to rob something, even if it’s family members
 
A mate of mine who sadly died a few years ago was a rag as were all of his sons except one who was a blue. That lad must have had a hard time growing up. They also lived about 200 yards from Old Toilet.
 
Me and my brother are, and always have been Blues. 2 years between us and we chose to follow City because every other **** was a rag. Our dad has always been a ‘either team from Manchester’ bloke, but in fairness to him he doesn’t really give a fuck about football to the extent we do. We have though trained him to despise the rags on derby day.
 
Growing up I had a mate who was a blue and used to come to watch City with me and my dad. but his older brother was a Liverpool fan (late 80s when they were winning everything). Lost touch with the blue for a few years.
Ran into them both in the mid 90s and they were both rags. Glory hunting cunts.
Piss my sides whenever I see either of them now.
 
My dad supported Blackburn Rovers and went to a lot of home and some local away games, I went with him when I was a bit younger. He was once left a mufc season ticket in a will, it lasted a fortnight........On my Mums side it was Aston Villa, even though she was from Stalybridge, had family connections with the club, she never went that I know of.
 
Mum dad sister all blues. Dad’s side immediate were all blues. I have one cousin who is a rag all the rest are blues. Mums side all blues. On the whole not bad
 
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