Do you support your Local team?

[Kev]

Plus they can use Google Maps and find their way.

 

[Will_NA]

Hmm, all we have to do is drive past London, though Birmingham, take a right turn, drive up past Leeds and we're at Old Trafford. Easy peasy.

 

[PhilD123]

Not if you drive past Leeds you're not. You need to drive back an hour.

 

[Will_NA]

You didn't let me finish. If you reach Leeds, you've gone too far.

 

[Leicester Fox]

You know my point is tht they never go to any games which is hardly supporting your team whilst they seem to think being able to tell me how many games Kleberson played is.

 

[Kev]

I wouldn't mind betting there a Man Utd season ticket holders living in London though. Making that trek up the country each weekend, going to all the away games too. Are they undeserving of being a Man Utd fan just because they don't happen to live in Manchester?

 

[shefellover93]

Did you see it DPRA?

Anyone else bother to tune in either?

CHAMPIONS OF IRELAND!!!!!

 

[m_vaughan]

You know my point is tht they never go to any games which is hardly supporting your team whilst they seem to think being able to tell me how many games Kleberson played is.

You are saying as if they do not go to games by choice. They do not go because they cannot go.

 

[.::Stevo::.]

I wouldn't mind betting there a Man Utd season ticket holders living in London though. Making that trek up the country each weekend, going to all the away games too. Are they undeserving of being a Man Utd fan just because they don't happen to live in Manchester?

Depends, if they started supporting them because they are the best, then yes, they are twats.

 

[Leicester Fox]

You are saying as if they do not go to games by choice. They do not go because they cannot go.

Well support a team whose games they can go to then.

 

[Kev]

Depends, if they started supporting them because they are the best, then yes, they are twats.

I don't go along with that. In general you like something because you enjoy it/rate it/admire it (or whatever) you buy music because you like the band. Is everyone who has ever purchased a record that was number 1 in the charts a twat? You watch films because you like the story or the actors, not because it was filmed near your house. You don't buy trainers that are made down the road from you. You don't drink your favourite drink because it's made in a factory near to you. Why should following a football team be any different? I think generally when you pick a team you pick one you enjoy watching, now that may happen to be one local to you and that's all very well if you live next to a top team (if you are actually going to go to live matches anyway) but most people find their favourite team by watching them on tv, especially these days. If they then stick with them what does it matter if they aren't local? You are a twat if you don't enjoy watching a lower league team but go anyway then tell everyone you like watching it because you think it makes you look cool. If you happen to like watching lower league football then fine. You are also a twat if you sit there claiming moral ground because you happen to live near a big club and another person doesn't. Why should you only be entitled to watch top flight football whereas a person in a different town is denied? If that is the case then I make a claim to stop showing all football on tv. Let the big clubs lose the cash they get from tv money and let's wait 10 years and see if you still think the same when clubs like Man Utd have gone bust.

 

[Highlander999]

Well support a team whose games they can go to then.

So let me get this straight. I could support Newcastle when I lived near Edinburgh because I could go to games, because it was just 2 hours there, but I can't support them now because it is 5 hours away and too far for me to travel? Pretty weird logic, imo

 

[m_vaughan]

I don't go along with that. In general you like something because you enjoy it/rate it/admire it (or whatever) you buy music because you like the band. Is everyone who has ever purchased a record that was number 1 in the charts a twat? You watch films because you like the story or the actors, not because it was filmed near your house. You don't buy trainers that are made down the road from you. You don't drink your favourite drink because it's made in a factory near to you. Why should following a football team be any different? I think generally when you pick a team you pick one you enjoy watching, now that may happen to be one local to you and that's all very well if you live next to a top team (if you are actually going to go to live matches anyway) but most people find their favourite team by watching them on tv, especially these days. If they then stick with them what does it matter if they aren't local? You are a twat if you don't enjoy watching a lower league team but go anyway then tell everyone you like watching it because you think it makes you look cool. If you happen to like watching lower league football then fine. You are also a twat if you sit there claiming moral ground because you happen to live near a big club and another person doesn't. Why should you only be entitled to watch top flight football whereas a person in a different town is denied? If that is the case then I make a claim to stop showing all football on tv. Let the big clubs lose the cash they get from tv money and let's wait 10 years and see if you still think the same when clubs like Man Utd have gone bust.

Brilliant posts. Kev, you have said this many times actually but some really arrogant people just cant accept the fact.

 

[PhilD123]

Then why do United fans constantly get hammered for having fans outside of Manchester and why are Hull and the likes praised for thinking its funny every time they come to Old Trafford to inform us that they support their local team.

 

[Leicester Fox]

So let me get this straight. I could support Newcastle when I lived near Edinburgh because I could go to games, because it was just 2 hours there, but I can't support them now because it is 5 hours away and too far for me to travel? Pretty weird logic, imo

Well that is different I am talking about people who live nowhere near the ground, never have done and then act like they are good supporters. If you don't go to games you are nowhere near as good a supporter as the bloke who pays a grand and turns up every week and actually shows support for their team and helps inspire them to win. Either support a side you can go and see or stop acting like a top red. I don't go every week. I accept it. I get called a glory hunter the first time I meet someone and half the time i cba correcting them and explaining my entire life story.