Looking down on 'glory hunters' is arrogance

[St Helens Blue (Exiled)]

& why should you be so concerned at what others do? i would just say get a life. live & let live i dont give a flying fu*k, what other people do & think .what others do concerns me not in the slightest

Who is concerned?? Certainly not me,you do what you like but you posted this on an open forum therefore I am entitled to respond to your post. If not,then why post in the first place.?

You've just said 'It's the switching of allegiances that concerns me'....


....now you're saying you're not concerned.

Erm, what?

*For the record - I'm on your side here though

I am not concerned with Cyber blue or what anyone does as regards there club however if they put it out there for comment then surely they have to understand people will question the changing of teams..I will watch any football anywhere but will only ever support 1 team.

 

[Why Always Ste]

How's this one for you die hard city fans........

People who support this club who have no previous family link with City, are more die hard as they actually made the conscious decision to choose city...

Whereas we were just taken to the stadium, and socially programmed.

Looking back at my family history and looking at pictures of me in a City shirt (even though back then I didn't have a clue why I wore that shirt at such a young age)
It's almost as though I was pre-destined to be a City fan...

Sort of like a kid named Mohammed being a Muslim.
He ain't got no choice.

Whereas an Adult choosing City, he know's his own mind, he's made this conscious decision, he doesn't need a lifetime of brainwashing to come to this conclusion.
He/She

 

[Latics Fan SJK]

How's this one for you die hard city fans........

People who support this club who have no previous family link with City, are more die hard as they actually made the conscious decision to choose city...

Whereas we were just taken to the stadium, and socially programmed.

Looking back at my family history and looking at pictures of me in a City shirt (even though back then I didn't have a clue why I wore that shirt at such a young age)
It's almost as though I was pre-destined to be a City fan...

Sort of like a kid named Mohammed being a Muslim.
He ain't got no choice.

Whereas an Adult choosing City, he know's his own mind, he's made this conscious decision, he doesn't need a lifetime of brainwashing to come to this conclusion.
He/She

If someone has grown up following City whether it be through their own choice or programmed into them, so to speak, by the family/friends - not a problem.

If someone has not really followed football until their mid-twenties, suddenly attends a City game, likes what he sees and carries on watching, spending his hard earned money every week, buying the replica shirts etc - not a problem.

If someone supported a team for a few years when younger but had to relocate through no fault of their own, a million miles away from the team he watched now and again and decided that he wanted to go an watch another club through his love of the game and proceeded to then follow this team anywhere and everywhere - not a problem.

Someone who's followed a team for decades, hasn't relocated and just got tired of the hard times, and decides to pick a new club who happens to be an imminent title winning side less than 50 miles away - this is what I don't agree with.

 

[grunge]

On a slightly different note, im curious as to what people think of this.

I know a life long Arsenal fan, who now lives in the north west. Who has bought season tickets at Wigan for the last few years so he can go watch premier league matches live.

Now, Wigan never sell out of there season tickets ( even at £200 ). So he is not "steeling" someone's place... Is this a bad thing for him to be doing? Financially supporting a club that needs the cash even though he doesn't support them as such.

 

[Sir peace frog]

On a slightly different note, im curious as to what people think of this.

I know a life long Arsenal fan, who now lives in the north west. Who has bought season tickets at Wigan for the last few years so he can go watch premier league matches live.

Now, Wigan never sell out of there season tickets ( even at £200 ). So he is not "steeling" someone's place... Is this a bad thing for him to be doing? Financially supporting a club that needs the cash even though he doesn't support them as such.

fucking worst of the lot ,a cockeneeeee pie hunters :)

 

[Why Always Ste]

I was defending Vinjay in this topic but came across this:

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.blackburn.vitalfootball.co.uk/sitepage.asp?a=203497" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.blackburn.vitalfootball.co.u ... p?a=203497</a>

No need to Paste it in here, but this for me highlights where his club allegiances should truly be.

 

[Sick Swan]

Looking down on 'glory hunters' is arrogance?

what gives you the right to talk about our players like that?

i happen to know Yaya, Silva and Aguero would have loved to have played against York away.

 

[Why Always Ste]

Good post there Vinjay.

You may of elaborated in here previously but I didn't see it.... But can you answer this question: Why City?

Do you go to matches? or have any intentions to actually support this club?

Also, if ADUG hadn't of invested in City, and Rovers had the same issues, do you feel you would of abandoned Blackburn and still chose City? (with Shinawatra as our owner)

 

[Bluebee2]

I know a United fan who bought himself and his two kids season tickets for our place several years ago because at the time he couldn't get them at the swamp, just to watch Premier league football live. The lads were 12 and 11ish then, they are now 18 and 17 and are absolutely mad City fans, he is gutted to say the least, he always asks us "well wouldn't you have done similar to let your lads watch football" ? No way .

 

[jma]

Whereas an Adult choosing City, he know's his own mind, he's made this conscious decision, he doesn't need a lifetime of brainwashing to come to this conclusion.

That is the circumstance that I dislike the most.

I can appreciate that an adult might decide that the cynical choice that he made as a child, (becoming obsessed with a far away glamorous, successful team because he needily liked the idea of saying he was associated with success and glamour) actually was rather, well, child like and driven by motives that are less than noble. Then maybe actually deciding to lend his support to a team that he has some sort of genuine, geographical or family connection. I say that is a natural part of growing up, not being driven by the same shallowness that children are. It's rather, well, adult really.

But for an adult to choose to do that the other way around. To either go from supporting a club that he has connections with, to choosing to 'support' a glamorous club that he has no connections with. Or to go from having no interest in the sport to proclaiming yourself a super passionate fan of an unrelated team - that just happens to be successful and glamorous. Well, for an adult to do that. To be so open to the attraction of associating yourself and branding yourself part of a totally unrelated success. Well, for an adult to do that, free of the possibly understandable neediness of a child, that is surely cynical beyond belief?