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The team that your children support ?

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posted on 5/9/12

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It's understandable for kids to want to support the top EPL sides especially if you're in an area that isn't exactly a hot-bed of football. My best mate for instance supports Liverpool despite growing up in Bristol- I guess the school playground wasn't exactly full of Bristol City/ Rovers shirts.

However there are good life lessons to be learnt supporting your team of birth. My little brother bless him had to grow up in a Derbyshire school surrounded by little sheep but he turned out a proud Red loyalty, faith, humility, passion, pride, these are attributes that can be transferred to the broader sphere of life later on!

posted on 5/9/12

my young lad is a proud forest supporter and he is only 11 he is the only supporter of forest in his whole school about 200 pupils in the school i brought him over for his first game when he was aged 4 (i know i was taking some chance) he was hooked on forest ever since all our families are liverpool,chelsea,manu, and arsenal at least he stayed on the right side of the tracks

posted on 5/9/12

My little girl's 4 in november and she already loves forest! She wants to wear her shirt all the time and she will randomly shout come on you reds. She sings foresttill i die and between us who are we, red army!! Sometimes whilst walking the streets.

posted on 5/9/12

off road

posted on 5/9/12

In my experience, kids only grow up supporting a top four club if their fathers don't have a backbone.

posted on 5/9/12

My eldest lad (10) is forest mad, loves going to the CG and wearing his forest kit to Footy training (his manager is a forest fan too)
But my youngest lad (6) just hates football in general. I've tried everything to get him interested, even took him with me to the Bristol city match a few weeks ago, but he was more interested in the pigeon that kept flying in and out the Trent end!

posted on 5/9/12

comment by Off road daddy * used to be daddymulletisared (its a long and painfull story)* (U9014)
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My little girl's 4 in november and she already loves forest!
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That's totally understandable.

posted on 6/9/12

My eldest is 19 and my youngest is 14 both ardent derby fans now. Mind you when youngest was about 10 his cousin whose a couple of years older decided he was a Liverpool fan so eldest had a thing about Liverpool. Took eldest and young un to a home game and bought youngest derby shirt, eldest wanted one and hey presto no more Liverpool. Told them no point in being armchair fans football is passion and both love derby despite living on notts/Derbyshire border, which tbh has far more red dogs than rams

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Cant figure out whether iwas is taking the pi$$ or not?

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Both lads are Forest fans. The eldest was a Man u fan for a while and it didn't help with some of the dross we had to watch under Calderwood.
It all changed when I took him to the last game of the season.... Forest V Yeovil.
One of the best days of my life (and I lived through the Clough years). Ran on to the pitch at the end....couldn’t help myself! Freaked my lad out for a sec but he soon got into it.
Never looked back. It’s now in their DNA.

posted on 6/9/12

I grew up in Derby, watch a few Rams games as a child and then got taken to the CG by a school friend. Seeing real football played on the ground got me hooked for life and 30 years later I'm still red through and through. Although I live in the south all four of my children a avid Forest fans, wear the kit with pride and regularly come to home and away games. Agree with the other comments - if you don't put in the effort then they will follow one of the big 4 from the comfort of the sofa. You have to take them to the CG and let them feel the passion surging through the crowd.

comment by Foreva (U13237)

posted on 6/9/12

"It all changed when I took him to the last game of the season.... Forest V Yeovil. One of the best days of my life"

Ah yes, Notts Forest's glory years. Bet you won't see days like that again for while, eh?

comment by LloydX (U6993)

posted on 6/9/12

We moved down south when I was young and my brother and I were the only Forest fans at our school. Now my two are the same although I did feel a bit guilty before this season I must admit. Saying that though their other, more local, options are Watford, Luton and possibly QPR so they're not suffering. If they chose to support them I'm fine with that, they're not supporting Spurs or Arsenal though!

comment by LloydX (U6993)

posted on 6/9/12

That scheme where your child turns 7 and gets a free shirt and two tickets is useful when it comes to brainwashi....I mean taking the youngsters along. My daughter went last year and son will be going in a couple so that'll do the job.

posted on 6/9/12

and kids for a quid helps fill the pink seats

posted on 6/9/12

I think it's a sad situation when someone supports another team other than their home town...would they support another country? Thought not! So what's the difference? Glorified glory hunters! My lad has forest firmly in his DNA! Win or lose! Though my brother split from his then girlfriend when was pregnant has now brought his son as a Direby fan! Oh how l laugh!!

posted on 6/9/12

I don't have any kids - don't worry, I'm 23, got a while yet - but it's good reading all these stories of getting your children involved in football.
I'll take note of any tips for years down the line to stop denim junior from supporting tomorrow's heavy weight sides; City of Manchester Union, or North London RedSpurs.

posted on 6/9/12

Late daddy me, but both my girls have grown up wearing Derby bibs <monday to sunday> baby grows with Rams and dresses with simalar and first animal noise being baa

Never one to distinguish between most clubs they cleaned their little Bots and Mine with Red loo Roll

posted on 7/9/12

^^^

Igor - how sad you are.

posted on 7/9/12

I initially paid the price for my belief in astrology - my daughter was born an Aries and decided to support Derby!

When they got 11 points she had a rethink and (for no obvious reason) plumped for Southampton. That's fine by me. Good to have room for debate, but wouldn't be good for her to be a football Ram.

posted on 7/9/12

My daughter is not hugely into football but still has a Forest top and enjoys coming down with my to the CG occasionally.
My brother in law is a fanatical sheep, however when his son began to get into playing football (and I add had not yet began to follow any team) he bought him his first football kit - Liverpool. A Derby fan, from Derby who open admits he wants his son to support Liverpool, whatever our views are on Derby I'm sure most fans would struggle to understand this.

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