Exeter Blue I am here
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I wouldn’t want fans from Plymouth either, but for different reasons to you I suspect (Green and White shite).Personally i don't want fans from Plymouth, support your local team ..utd and Liverpool never understand that. Pair of capitalist wankers stealing from small clubs purses
That unfortunate issue aside, the arrogance of birthplace on here never ceases to amaze me. Aside from a corridor about 40 miles wide that runs down from Lancashire to London, the bulk of this land is rural and people growing up outside that corridor can have up to 70 to 80 miles of open country between them and the nearest PL team geographically. However, the PL is what they are force fed from cradle to grave, so it should hardly be a surprise when people from places like Herefordshire, Cumbria, Devon, Cambridgeshire and Dyfed support PL teams, and nor does it mean that they don’t support their ‘local’ teams either. How many City fans also go and watch Rochdale, Stockport or Bury on an occasional basis? Loads I’ll bet.
Although I no longer live there, I still go and watch Exeter 4 or 5 times a season and have done for more than 40 years. Some of the crowd there will follow a PL club first and Exeter second, and some the other way round, but very few will only support Exeter.
I’m in the former camp, with Francis Lee my absolute hero as a little kid, I first went to watch MCFC play in 1974 and I’ve been going home and away since 1982. I can maybe understand criticism of adults picking a successful team to latch on to, but youngsters can be influenced by a multitude of factors - individual player loyalty, friends, kits, even good old fashioned contrariness - and my class at Primary School had kids in it who were passionate about a whole raft of teams, with geography an utterly inconsequential factor.
Whatever, as long as there’s TV sets you’d better get used to out of town support, or you’re going to be disappointed