This is exactly the way I see it down on the Isle of Wight, The locals who have season tickets at Southampton\Portsmouth\ Bournemouth in my local have no issue with us and appreciate the football we play and prefer to see us win over the rags\dippers. There's no match going rags or dippers whatsoever that I've met so all their fans fall into the typical armchair trolling wanker mode.Very clear split for the ones I know. If they are in any way regular match goers then this very rarely gets mentioned. Even rag ****s never bring it up. At least not to my face.
The ones who support their team from the pub or armchair try to use it to justify their personal shortcomings. To which they get very fucking short shrift. Usually something like come back when you been to more matches than my lad. Who lives and born in a different country btw.
Just don’t entertain the ****s at all. They’ve expressed a preference for a football club in the same way you might choose between Burger King or MacD, Corra or Eastenders. Very good but why should I be interested in the opinion of someone who makes zero effort to follow their team. Fuck that. Not lending them any credibility at all.
The rest of them tend to support the London clubs and their attitude seems to be predetermined based on whether they cross the water and go to matches a few times a season or take the rag dipper esque support approach.
Special mention to the Mackem that goes to pretty much every home and away game (about 5k in ferries alone) who actually admitted he would rather sit and watch Newcastle win a game than see Liverpool win the league.