Glory supporters. Why do they do it?

my rag apprentice reckons were all plastics,i asked him how many games he d been after much humming and harring admitted he d been to 2.i nearly spat my brew out.
 
I'm going to go out on a limb here, but after observing said type for many-a-year (and recognizing my study is less than exhaustive), it's my opinion "they do it" because they are dickcheese bellwafts.

I suppose someone could fiddle few hundred thousand out of HM Treasury to investigate the "underlying pathologies" of glory-hunting, presenting a report that uses a functional equivalent of dickcheese bellwaft for the consumption (if consumption is the word I want) by polite and "thinking" society.
 
beanie the horse said:
Sadly I now live in Utd glory supporter central better known as Peterborough.

I have a Seasoncard but because of the cost don't go to a great number of aways. I was watching the City match down the local and heard from a bloke behind me "That Nasri is shit, he can't pass." To which I responded "I think you'll find he has the second highest assist amount in the league after Silva"

"I've heard Johnson wants to leave as soon as." "Why has he just signed a five year contract then?"

"I must say Steve McManaman's son looks a good player." "I think you'll find he's not his son, but a very distant relation."

Another fella said to the bloke "I think you'd better shut up now, he's making you look a fool."

I might now start watching City away games on my laptop because I can't stand the crap armchair glory hunters come out with. That being said I was in the same pub for the demolition derby, and I've never seen a packed pub empty so quickly!
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Buddy come out to Crowland. There's a few blues locally. Am the only one from Gorton but some good support locally in the pub when the games on>
 
I think it depends on the situation. For me, supporting Wanderers was natural because my dad used to take me to Burnden Park as a kid and I just latched on to them. However, my fiance is a Liverpool supporter. When I met him and he told me this, I was not impressed as you can imagine. He told me he supported them because when he was a child, his dad took him to Bolton Market to buy a football shirt. The only shirts available were United, Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. His dad is a City fan so the United shirt was out of the question, he picked Liverpool and has supported them ever since. He's been to Anfield before but didn't go at all when he was growing up because his family couldn't afford it. Completely different from me - I got my season ticket at 11 then carried on going to the home games and several aways. Some may say that my fella's support of the scouse might not be "worth" as much as those that go, but it still exists.
 
Why do they do it?

if you look at football as a sport and how any sport becomes more enjoyable if you back one of the competitors, then here is your answer.

Take a Boxing Fight, two fighters, the odds favourite, champion, and the newcomer, underdog.

Some people will back the kid, the underdog, for the sheer excitement of snatching a win, and experiencing the shock of everyone who backed the favourite.

Most people will back the champion, they have heard of his name, seen a few fights before (on tv), and thus have more faith in him.

I've never been one to find excitement from backing the odds favourite, as I already worked out who was more likely to win.... Boring!

Yea City have changed alot now, we have become the favourite, and hopefully will be the champion, But I find myself enjoying the football more rather than the actual result.

This may change, we become spoilt and bang - before we know it we become Rags?
 
Unknown_Genius said:
I find the worst glory hunters to be the ones who are from small towns, like Yeovil and Grimsby. Clubs that are usually around League One or Two, or non league. When the team from that town does something special like reach the playoffs or draw a big team in the FA Cup third round, they jump on the bandwagon, and pretend to be super diehard fans. You can spot them from a mile off. They're the ones in the curly wigs, their faces painted in the clubs colours, usually sporting foam hands, or tin foil FA Cups. Parade around for the big occassions, but when they're facing the likes of Macclesfield or Accrington in League Two, oh no, they're nowhere to be seen. When the game is finished, and the novelty has worn off, its back to supporting the rags, and not giving a shit how the local team do. They sicken me the most, because they "support" the local team only when it suits them, when the TV camera's are on, and can gain brownie points.
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Darlington, who are about to go bust, are a case in point. Last season they won the FA Trophy, they took circa 10-12,000 *fans* to Wembley. Their average attendance for the last 3 seasons was around 1900........

If they'd even got 50% of their "glory day" attendance on a regular basis they probably wouldn't be going bust and may even have had money to invest in better players.........
 
Truth is, the South is a shithole & the North is a shithole, in fact the whole Country is a shithole tbh!
 
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