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Psychedelic Casual said:
It's not stupid at all, it's just my point of view on it. And I'm not saying it shouldn't happen and that people shouldn't do it, people can do what they want, I just think it's plastic and a bit sad.

Plus if people had more support for their local teams and leagues those teams and leagues would better overall and world football would be better for it.

But, again, people can do what they want.

What I will say though is that in my group of mates there is a random Liverpool fan and he gets dogs abuse off all of us for being a fake plastic Scouser from Manchester and we never let him live it down the sad fucker (top lad really!)
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Got to back Armaan on this one, its ludicrous to have your place of birth dictate who you support, surely its more about the emotion and passion you have for a certain club rather than where your mother was when she squeezed you out. I think its mainly used to wind people up rather than an actually reality. Cant ever see myself turning round and saying I'm never having a Lamb Madras again as I wasn't born in the south of India....
 
dannyboy29 said:
Got to back Armaan on this one, its ludicrous to have your place of birth dictate who you support, surely its more about the emotion and passion you have for a certain club rather than where your mother was when she squeezed you out. I think its mainly used to wind people up rather than an actually reality. Cant ever see myself turning round and saying I'm never having a Lamb Madras again as I wasn't born in the south of India....
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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.
 
Sergio<3 said:
Forgive me if this has been mentioned before which I'm sure it has, but when exactly is he coming here and be available to play? Jan 1st? Jan 31st, or somewhere in the middle?
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Probably won't see him play until Feb at the earliest.

He'll have a month of rest before he joins (Jan 1st) and then he'll probably need a month of training/'pre-season' to get fit
 
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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To be honest, I have never got this " attachment and support " for clubs from another location, but that is possibly because being born in and growing up in Manchester, the choice was either City or the Rags ( when they weren't what they currently are - 1954 ). The chance to see Bert in goal in real time as well on tv in 1955 and 1956 Cup finals, was all the appeal I could want.

If I had been born in S****horpe , I would like to think that I would have supported them , but perhaps I am just deluding myself.

Anyway - not sure why this topic is running on the Gabriel Jesus topic, but this is Bluemoon !
 
lucashm said:
very few brazilians care about european football ( i am one), and those who do, only follow it sporadically.personally never seem anybody who became a fan of one european team because a player they like moved there, and i´ll be honest with you, since we are such a traditional football country, the local football fans dont like people who follow european teams, especially newly rich teams like City and PSG, we call them "Modinhas", which would be the equivalent of "plastic fans"
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If you hate European football then why do Brazilians name their children after the likes of Lineker, Klinnsman, Gullit and every other half-decent European footballer? aha
 
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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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.
 
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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Easily, you can attend with other friends, family or social groups to their clubs or different clubs. Moving around for work etc means different local teams to indulge into when you can't make it to City and you develop an attachment for them. I regularly watch Manchester City, Gainsborough Trinity and Lincoln City and I'm very much enveloped in their circumstances and invested emotionally into how they perform.
 
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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