Mabbutt

comment by Bake 'em away toys (U7303)
posted 54 minutes ago
comment by hounslows-finest (U6180)
posted 2 hours, 17 minutes ago
comment by Thorgen Kloppinson - "When the facts are in your favour, you argue the facts. When facts are not in your favour you argue the process." (U1282)
posted 59 minutes ago
comment by Ace (U14461)
posted 29 minutes ago
comment by Thorgen Kloppinson - "When the facts are in your favour, you argue the facts. When facts are not in your favour you argue the process." (U1282)
posted 4 seconds ago
But then it goes back to why did someone from 5000 miles away, with no connection to the area choose to support Liverpool, Man United, Chelsea,
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The question you really want to ask is why didn't they choose Spurs.

It doesn't really matter how a fan started out, as long as they are a genuine fan, that's what matters.
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Define a ‘genuine fan’? Choosing a big successful club that you have no affiliation with, never investing yourself into the club beyond watching games on TV and leveraging the success of the club to act like Billy Big Bollox online - as if supporting a more successful club somehow makes you a big man - is hardly being a genuine fan is it.
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Yeah, but even genuine fans get this accusation thrown at them, especially by Spurs fans who don't really care about whether fans of other clubs go to games, it's just that they have little ammo and resort to going to games because they have no following outside their borough and therefore most of their fans go to games.
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You’re talking bollix again

No fans outside the borough

I told you last night there’s some Norwegians who have season tickets in the row behind my seat and they come to most home games and we’ve got fans all over the place.

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And of my mates, there are 5 Irish ST holders who fly over for every home game. You would know who they are mate.
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Fair enough lads.

comment by Striketeam7 - There used to be a football club over there (U18109)
posted 2 hours, 38 minutes ago
I also “support” the Green Bay Packers, a very successful NFL team - I chose them because they had a great QB at the time in Brett Favre. I absolutely went into that knowing they were one of the better teams and would have quite a few winning seasons.

I admit I am an NFL glory hunter. What I don’t do is bang on about trophies they won to say a Bills fan who has never seen his side lift the Super bowl but has been to watch them live 20+ times - I’ve seen Green Bay live once. I enjoy watching them, I banter with mates who support other sides and are as plastic as me and I celebrate big wins. But faaaaack me I don’t feel superior to anyone because Green Bay have won 4 Super Bowls and the Bears have only won 1
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But that's you. You do you. Others take it differently and are genuinely attached, following a club all their lives. People who have never been to England get into fights over English football. You wouldn't fight anyone's because of the Green bay Packers, would you? Well, not everyone is like you. And the NFL isn't like football.

You can't be a glory hunter because there is no local NFL league you could have followed instead of the NFL. Of you like American Football then what choice so you have but the NFL. Even if there was a local league the quality would be so sheet you'd still end up following the NFL. That's the way it is now with everything, not just sport, because the world is so much more connected than it was when these fandom rules about going to games and who can mock who were formulated. They were formulated in an age that has passed by already and we're borne out of circumstances at the time, when newspapers and the evening news was all there was and only one or two games televised, is at all. They've been overtaken by events IMO.

Bake

Hope you’re still enjoying watching your local non league team mate.

Speaking of out of town fans a guy in my local supports MK Dons. The supporters group over here has about 10 members.
Fair play though they travel over a few times a season to watch them

comment by hounslows-finest (U6180)
posted 41 minutes ago
Bake

Hope you’re still enjoying watching your local non league team mate.
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I am mate but need to get back up to spurs as wanna take my boy. Forgot how hard it is to get tickets when not a ST holder especially as I'm not even a member... Need to get my mates to give up a2 tickets for us

comment by Irishred (U2539)
posted 40 minutes ago
Speaking of out of town fans a guy in my local supports MK Dons. The supporters group over here has about 10 members.
Fair play though they travel over a few times a season to watch them
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Why MK Don's?

comment by Irishred (U2539)
posted 39 minutes ago
Speaking of out of town fans a guy in my local supports MK Dons. The supporters group over here has about 10 members.
Fair play though they travel over a few times a season to watch them
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That is all you can ask, mate - doing your best in the circumstances.

My own support / fanaticism is far from absolute, like, realy far but I do my best in my circumstances.

comment by Bake 'em away toys (U7303)
posted 37 seconds ago
comment by Irishred (U2539)
posted 40 minutes ago
Speaking of out of town fans a guy in my local supports MK Dons. The supporters group over here has about 10 members.
Fair play though they travel over a few times a season to watch them
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Why MK Don's?
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I asked him that. He just said they’re the team for him.
Admirable as most over here are United/Liverpool although city are getting popular with the kids

comment by Irishred (U2539)
posted 1 hour, 12 minutes ago
comment by Bake 'em away toys (U7303)
posted 37 seconds ago
comment by Irishred (U2539)
posted 40 minutes ago
Speaking of out of town fans a guy in my local supports MK Dons. The supporters group over here has about 10 members.
Fair play though they travel over a few times a season to watch them
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Why MK Don's?
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I asked him that. He just said they’re the team for him.
Admirable as most over here are United/Liverpool although city are getting popular with the kids
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He sounds like a misery hunter

comment by Thorgen Kloppinson - "When the facts are ... (U1282)
posted 3 hours, 23 minutes ago
comment by Striketeam7 - There used to be a football club over there (U18109)
posted 2 hours, 38 minutes ago
I also “support” the Green Bay Packers, a very successful NFL team - I chose them because they had a great QB at the time in Brett Favre. I absolutely went into that knowing they were one of the better teams and would have quite a few winning seasons.

I admit I am an NFL glory hunter. What I don’t do is bang on about trophies they won to say a Bills fan who has never seen his side lift the Super bowl but has been to watch them live 20+ times - I’ve seen Green Bay live once. I enjoy watching them, I banter with mates who support other sides and are as plastic as me and I celebrate big wins. But faaaaack me I don’t feel superior to anyone because Green Bay have won 4 Super Bowls and the Bears have only won 1
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But that's you. You do you. Others take it differently and are genuinely attached, following a club all their lives. People who have never been to England get into fights over English football. You wouldn't fight anyone's because of the Green bay Packers, would you? Well, not everyone is like you. And the NFL isn't like football.

You can't be a glory hunter because there is no local NFL league you could have followed instead of the NFL. Of you like American Football then what choice so you have but the NFL. Even if there was a local league the quality would be so sheet you'd still end up following the NFL. That's the way it is now with everything, not just sport, because the world is so much more connected than it was when these fandom rules about going to games and who can mock who were formulated. They were formulated in an age that has passed by already and we're borne out of circumstances at the time, when newspapers and the evening news was all there was and only one or two games televised, is at all. They've been overtaken by events IMO.
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We all get the game is global and the world is smaller.

But that doesn't mean all fans are equal. Some glory hunter mocking Spurs' trophy record is to me like a virgin, who loves watching p0rnos, mocking someone else for only having s3x every now and then.

I get that not everyone has access to games....in which case wind ya neck in mocking fans who have a broader supporting experience which isn't centred solely on watching your team win trophies on TV (which is the experience of the vast majority of football fans).