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Supporting your local team.
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butchasteve
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blue jim said:Its different for us that werent born in England matey! We dont have local teams in this league.yankblue said:I don't have a local team! Closest teams are 2 hours north in New York, or 2 hours south in DC and there is no fucking way i'm supporting any one of their teams. Rivalries from other sports, you see.
true, but i don't buy in to the idea that we all have to choose a prem team to support from OS just because it is what is done..
i am an aussie born and living blue.. but i have lived in longsight, i never had a team local or OS and was forced to become a blue by the local lads when city played.. they taught me the game, offside, the tactics etc. The best thing that ever happened to me... but if that had never happened, i don't think i would have had any right to support anyone bar a local aussie team.. I am so sick of the sheer amount of plastic rags i meet in australia who have no connection to the rags or manchester at all, some (well one or two) even congratulate me when i say man city, thinking they are the same team!!
City was my first, even though i am aussie.. but now back in aus i support the brisbane roar, and even go to the queensland league matches where i support the academy team as it is my MOST local team.. It is our duty as OS fans to also support our local leagues, no matter how small and shite (believe me a-league and q-league are rubbish).
That said, loyalties are loyalties and there is nothing of higher importance as a football fan IMO.
City till I die. Big shout out to all the Longsight Blues out there..
Citysmith
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I'm with you on this one, but there is no way that they won't be City fans, so I take them to the games as often as possible, esp with kids season tickets at the price they areDubai Blue said:If you intend to actively support City throughout your kid's childhood and inlcude her in it by taking her to games whenever possible, then you're doing the right thing.
But if you intend to just pack it all in and only follow them on the TV, then I can see the argument for letting her follow a team closer to home so that she can experience it for real (although that's probably not as easy as it sounds due to you living on the island).
For example, if I lived in London and couldn't be arsed to go up to Manchester for the occasional match, it'd be wrong to force City onto my kid cos he'd miss out on everything it means to be a proper fan just cos his dad was a lazy shit!! Would be much better for him to follow one of the local cockney sides and he could go with his mates then.
paul37
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keep it city blue,but what else did you expect from on here,i think you knew the answer just wanted comfirmation
BurnCK
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Is it fair to say that the majority of us were influenced by our parents first regardless of where we were born and raised ?
I was born in Old Trafford but I can say that I support City because of my Dad. He is one of 5 brothers and the only one not to support the rags.
As 90% of my whole family are rags I can only assume that if it werent for my Dad wanting to be different (or if he hadnt liked football) then I too would be most likely be a rag. I can only thank God that Im not.... :)
I was born in Old Trafford but I can say that I support City because of my Dad. He is one of 5 brothers and the only one not to support the rags.
As 90% of my whole family are rags I can only assume that if it werent for my Dad wanting to be different (or if he hadnt liked football) then I too would be most likely be a rag. I can only thank God that Im not.... :)
Cheltblue
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Wheelsy OSC Sydney said:Definitely. Keep it in the family.
(Nothing wrong with supporting a team that's not your local one by the way... unless its the Rags)
Bang on the money, on both counts.
pissedagain
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noel can be such a knob at times, listen mate you can support whoever you like, you dont have to be born around the corner, something tells me that you wont be able to stop yourself pushing city forward, its in your blood as a lifelong city fan, it wont do her any harm,as a lot of kids, in those type of places will support city in a couple of years, let her get in first and lead the way
carlislemancity said:I've always agreed with the sentiment about supporting your local team - a very easy thing for me to do being brought up in Manchester and therefore only having City or City reserves to choose from.
But its not always that simple.
Now exiled in Carlisle, and dispite introducing the kids to Maine Road when they were 3 years old, I decided to take them to see Carlisle a few years ago. As we approached the ground we heard a chant of "United"; I couldn't go through with the child abuse so we went home without going in.
Needless to say they are proud to be Blue and can hold their own at school.
PMSL.
Would have done exactly the same mate.