Gabriel Jesus

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moomba said:
Quite easily. You watch games, you learn about the clubs history, you chat shit about your club. You experience the highs and lows just like any other supporter.
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Precisely.

You get some pretty fanatical Andy Murray supporters, and not many of them come from Dunblane ;-)
 
SPIDERBOY said:
How do you develop "emotion and passion" for a club that plays in another city?
I can understand it when parents used to live somewhere,then moved but brought the kids up to support the same team.
Not calling anyone,just can't get my head round it.I read an article a while back that was saying more Liverpool shirts are sold in Bristol than anywhere else...mental that.
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I have the smug satisfaction of coming from Manchester and supporting City about a year before we won the league in 68, moving to Cornwall just after that when I was 7 or 8. In Cornwall there are no teams to support and I can understand people picking on a successful team to support, and they get as passionate as everybody else. From my generation there were a few City supporters because we were decent - in the intervening decades hardly any - except my 3 kids, who luckily stuck with the sunken ship rather than picking their own, the eldest being still as fanatical as me and the next fella. (I did say they would have to live elsewhere in the 90s if they didn't support City).

But I think with kids - especially in the TV and internet era - they often want to follow one of the big, successful teams if they live somewhere like Bristol or Derby, when their parents most likely just supported the local team. City will get big payoff from that of course over the next couple of decades, just as the Evils did in the 90s and 00s.

But I think basically once a team is picked, any kid can be just as passionate as the most hardened supporter. It's the people who 'change horses' that baffle me - there aren't too many but it's inconceiveable to we who suffered with City, or most supporters I would think!
 
I lived in Preston for a while. My next door neighbour and his son were season ticket holders at Maine Road whilst his other son was a rag. They originally came from Oxford and started following City because of Horton who used to manage Oxford before City.
Make of that if you will.
 
Don't knock S****horpe FC. Since the 70's they have provided 3 England captains.
Anyone name them without Google ?
 
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