Can you "support" two clubs?
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Am an arsenal fan out and out but i do also follow Brentfords progress seeing as they are my local team 
cyris said:a few people here have a soft spot for their local club but would rather support a top premiership team.... why
is it to save face at the pub or your mates or the fact they win things your soft spot won't
I fall into this category. You've asked the question, so I'll give you the answer:
When I started getting interested in football, I didn't even know my local club existed. None of my family had any interest in football whatsoever, so the only way I got to see it was on TV... usually The Big Match on ITV or Saint'n'Greavsie, stuff like that. For whatever reason I latched onto Arsenal (this was in the late 80s when I was about 8, before they won the league in 89) and from then on they were my team.
Now, the reason I have a soft spot for my local side is down to a few reasons. First of all, because of the 'snobbery' in football, there are always people out to put you down if you don't support your local team. It's that trump card people like to keep up their sleeves for when they are being decimated in an argument... "well, at least I'm a REAL fan, going to support my local team - not a glory hunting armchair fan like YOU". So they look a bit of a muppet when I say that actually I do go to watch local teams - I'm still an armchair fan at heart, not a hardcore supporter, but because of their misconceptions about me the attempted insult doesn't hit home.
But more importantly, heck, I just like football, and when I go to watch Salisbury occasionally it's just a case of rolling up and paying at the turnstiles, guarenteed to get in even when there's a huge gate. "We" won the league this season (10pts clear with 2 games left) and that's something to feel proud of from a local side, looking forward to the Conference South next season. Likewise Southampton is the nearest League club to me so I've been to a few of their matches in recent years as it's not too bad from a travel/ticket availability front. Don't really care much about what happens to them though.
Going back to the original question, I reckon people can do whatever the hell they like. People say you can't support two clubs, but why not? Who are they to dictate what the personal feelings of another individual are? There are some people who give two clubs far more support than other people give to their single club. I don't support different teams equally, but that doesn't mean to say that I look down on others who claim that they do.
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HangTime said:
need to understand my argument
sounds like your the glory hunter in this instant not me as i support a club in the championship.
why do you have to support a top prem club and not a club in the lower ranks surely they need your support more
Probably the same reason i do, i grew up being an Man Utd fan and that the way i'm going to end, through the bad and the good.
I still watch Bury every now and then since you can always be assured of getting a game there.
If everyone supported a local team there would be no one supporting the premiership sides because someone is always more local.
Just another reason for the "you a glory fan" brigade, who are obviously the only real fans because they support lower division clubs
I still watch Bury every now and then since you can always be assured of getting a game there.
If everyone supported a local team there would be no one supporting the premiership sides because someone is always more local.
Just another reason for the "you a glory fan" brigade, who are obviously the only real fans because they support lower division clubs
cyris said:need to understand my argument
sounds like your the glory hunter in this instant not me as i support a club in the championship.
why do you have to support a top prem club and not a club in the lower ranks surely they need your support more
This post baffles me immensely. I don't "have" to support a top prem club, it's just that I do. As I explained in my post, a large part of that is down to what happened when I was a child, and the media coverage. You can't suddenly change your alliegance and start supporting another team.
As for who needs my support more, well, let me put it this way - I've paid more money in gate receipts to clubs 'in the lower ranks' which is surely what they need more than token support.
Not entirely sure how supporting a team in the Championship means that you can't be a glory hunter, especially considering there's plenty of teams in there who have won more than teams in the Premiership. But then, I never branded you a glory hunter in the first place, so I'm not sure why you've got so defensive
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good lad! got a sore head this morningpegasus1 said:
SAY WE ARE GOING UP!!!
cyris said:a few people here have a soft spot for their local club but would rather support a top premiership team.... why
is it to save face at the pub or your mates or the fact they win things your soft spot won't
i support Arsenal, and West ham, so im happy about this season.... and may will be fun!
Arsenal supporter because i grew up with arsenal fans (almost all my mates)
Westham support because my family support them, and its local + my current mates are all westham fans..
when they play against each other, i dont care for the result, just if its good football.
precentage wise..... im 60/40 Arsenal/Westham
My main team is Barnsley because I've had a season ticket at Oakwell for like 10 years, my Dad supports them and it's my home town.
My second team is Arsenal, because it's my Dad's second team and I just love the football they play (when on form
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My second team is Arsenal, because it's my Dad's second team and I just love the football they play (when on form
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I've supported Spurs with passion ever since they were a second division team in the 1940s. However, with moving house quite a bit, I've also followed with interest a few other clubs local to me, for example Portsmouth, Celtic, Crewe. But also now since one branch of my family lives close to the Barnet ground, I also follow them with interest, and go with my grandson (who is a junior member there) whenever I am down that way. One very big plus with going to watch Barnet, is that I can actually stand at a football match, which IMO is how football matches should be watched.