Supporting Two Teams?

Vienna_70 said:
Is it possible to support two teams equally?

Whom would such people want to win, should their two clubs face each other?

I know a lot have a "second" team, whose results they keep an eye on. As far as I’m concerned, that’s Exeter City, as a mate used to play for them.

Many years ago, a lad I went to school with, a Spurs fan, couldn’t understand why I’d want City to beat Plymouth. I didn’t think to ask him, which team he’d want to win, if Argyle played Tottenham.

I’m asking, because I don’t believe that it is possible to support two teams equally, but others might say differently.
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No and ANYONE who changes their team during their lifetime should be avoided at all costs, a sign of a weak, poor character without question.
 
No, not for us City fans but we support a 'big' even in the bad days top team and mostly if match goers live close enough.

I'd suggest someone in say Exeter who likes going to games would go to St. James Park but would also like to feel connected to TV football, not everyone has the money or available tickets to travel all over the country.

How strong the bond is between being there v TV is an individual thing.
 
Apparently you can have several - just turn the comments section on when you're watching a foreign stream - "Come on PSG" Charlie:- Liverpool, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich Bayer Leverkusen and PSG fan.
 
Betterdeedthan red said:
Exactly.
Unless your like this new form of fans??.
Who support a player
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They annoy me to an extent that as Spock would say, isn't logical. We've had them on here as well. Remember the influx of Bosnians when Edin was here? And, to a lesser degree, Mahrez as well? Players come and go, the club is the constant.
 
Vienna_70 said:
Is it possible to support two teams equally?

Whom would such people want to win, should their two clubs face each other?

I know a lot have a "second" team, whose results they keep an eye on. As far as I’m concerned, that’s Exeter City, as a mate used to play for them.

Many years ago, a lad I went to school with, a Spurs fan, couldn’t understand why I’d want City to beat Plymouth. I didn’t think to ask him, which team he’d want to win, if Argyle played Tottenham.

I’m asking, because I don’t believe that it is possible to support two teams equally, but others might say differently.
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I dont believe you can do it equally.
Ive supported City since the early 70s but having been brought up in Cardiff, i went to loads of Cardiff games when i couldnt get to City games. I still follow Cardiffs results & wish them well.
Whenever the two have played though im 100% behind City & all my friends know it.
I even took my life in my hands & celebrated then City player Trevor Francis scoring the winner in a Wales v England home nations game back in 1982 at Ninian Park.
My mates were amazed i didnt get battered that day in the bob bank ha
 
Has Wirral MCFC been on this thread yet?

I think he can give the definitive answer.
 
I was born in Plymouth and watched Argyle at Home Park as often as I could. As Plymouth was (and is again - it's complicated!) the largest town in England to never have been represented in the top flight, Argyle fans were permitted a glory team. I chose my glory team in the late 60's which led to a couple of fallow decades! I now live in Kent, have a City Seasoncard and still try to fit in a couple of pilgrimages with the Green Army when I can. City always takes priority. In the unlikely event of Argyle ascending to the Premier League, maybe I will lose my "Glory Team" privileges?
 
I've teams that I don't mind winning, and don't mind losing. Doesn't go any further than that. I've tried to imagine a hypothetical scenario in which an FC City rose from some form of ashes and I couldn't do it all over again, it's like how a good dog never entirely replaces a very beloved dog, no matter how fun it may be.
 
You can only support one team and anyone claiming to support more than one probably doesn’t really truly support any.

City are a team I like to see doing well and I’ll go to the odd game but I’d never call myself a City supporter.
 
growl said:
I was born in Plymouth and watched Argyle at Home Park as often as I could. As Plymouth was (and is again - it's complicated!) the largest town in England to never have been represented in the top flight, Argyle fans were permitted a glory team. I chose my glory team in the late 60's which led to a couple of fallow decades! I now live in Kent, have a City Seasoncard and still try to fit in a couple of pilgrimages with the Green Army when I can. City always takes priority. In the unlikely event of Argyle ascending to the Premier League, maybe I will lose my "Glory Team" privileges?
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I see what you did there.

;-)
 
jimharri said:
They annoy me to an extent that as Spock would say, isn't logical. We've had them on here as well. Remember the influx of Bosnians when Edin was here? And, to a lesser degree, Mahrez as well? Players come and go, the club is the constant.
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Half of the problem is nob heads on tic tok and Instagram bollocks
 
There's only City for me.

I have a number of teams whose results I look out for and hope they win - West Ham, Rangers, Hibernian, AC Milan, Sampdoria, 1.FC Koln, Eintracht Frankfurt....

The nearest I come to "supporting" another club is Hull City but it isn't a patch on what I feel for Manchester City. I've lived in Hull for 20-odd years and because of that, often get offered mates' season tickets when they don't go for whatever reason. My Godsons are Hull City fans and I went with them and their Dad, my best mate up here, to their first ever match.

I dearly want them to win for the people around me and also so I can get a taxi home from an away match when they're in the Premier League but there's nothing in my blood for them.

Earlier this season, one of the Godsons asked me at a match why I wasn't angry at the referee who was having a piss poor match, I thought "because it only really bothers me when it's my Citeh" but replied to him - "I want you to win but it's not my team, like your Dad when he watches Manchester City with me."
 
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My pain dr and i talked football, he is an irish rag and he asked me who i supported as well as city , odd question to say the least i thought
 
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