Why do fans support non local teams

Because I'd rather not watch football or have to interact with bigots here as it's rubbish and it's vile.

United/Chelsea /City fans are only glory hunters and arsenal fans enjoy 90 minutes peace and quiet a week
 
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We've had these threads before, but here goes.

As a child, nobody in my family (including aunts, uncles and grandparents) was interested in football so my only exposure was via TV, typically "The [Big] Match" on ITV. I think ended up supporting Arsenal because they were the 'underdog' in the 88-89 season.

In terms of local teams, the city I grew up in has a non-league team but there was no publicity so I basically had no knowledge of them. They were the first team I went to see live however and I did go to a couple of other matches in later years.
 
It is different types of support really. I support my local team because I was born and raised here... The club is part of the community, providing jobs and having countless effects on the area. Albion In The Community works with local businesses and charities etc. I am happy to go along and give them my money, and my support... And they mean a lot more to me than any number of teams that might play 'nicer football', however you might define that. Add to that the social aspect; my friends and I all have a team in common that we can go along and support, sitting with people we know, cheering along together and feeling part of a community.

There are other clubs that I watch on tele and would like to win, but I don't claim to support them.
 
I don't really have a local team. The nearest League side to me is about 45 minutes away and with my Dad being a Liverpool supporter, by the time I was old enough to consider my local team, my loyalties were already set in stone.
 
Pigeon_Killer said:
My uncle bought me a Crowns Paint Liverpool shirt when I was 3 or 4 so the decision was taken out of my hands.
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BaZ87 said:
I don't really have a local team. The nearest League side to me is about 45 minutes away and with my Dad being a Liverpool supporter, by the time I was old enough to consider my local team, my loyalties were already set in stone.
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So neither of you live in Liverpool?

Glory hunting ****ers...............hang on
 
drunkenmaster said:
Many many times more fans only watch football on tv, and like anything entertaining enjoy watching someone good and thus end up supporting whoever was entertaining to watch when they first got into football.

Why should football be a local thing, think about it, should a disabled kid who can't get to football games not be allowed to find football entertaining on tv, can he not watch football on tv and come to enjoy watching a particular team? What about Utd's Asian fan base, should they be banned from watching higher quality football with the worlds best players because they were born somewhere in Asia?

The idea that football is anything but entertainment and that somehow it's strange to enjoy watching better rather than worse teams is nothing short of ridiculous.

For people who enjoy watching their local team, great, for people who only ever watch on tv and pick a successful team(why, dear god would you watch an awful team say like Stoke and CHOOSE to support them?), great, it's something to watch, nothing more, nothing less. Why does someone have to choose to watch football or pick a team the way you did?

Would you choose to in the future only watch terrible films made by a specific director because once you watched a truly terrible film made by that guy? No, why would football be any different?
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Complete tosh but that last paragraph reveals you know nothing about football so it's forgivable. Comparing it to favourite directors? That's a first! When you've watched your local team play in front of 2000 fans and seen them rise from the 4th tier to the premier league and playing in Europe, I don't care what anyone says, you can't get that buzz from cherry picking some random team because they win a lot. Cue all the 'super fan' comments but really that's just a defence mechanism for glory hunters! Football is tribal at the end of the day and that's why hang'er on'ers and glory hunters are held in disdain.
 
I support Arsenal because of my old man. I asked him who he supported when I was about 5 or 6 which was Arsenal and so I started supporting them. Then I found out I was named after Liam Brady :D

It was great moving up north and being the only Arsenal fan at school
 
Support Arsenal due to family playing for them. I guess Northampton / Luton would have been the closest "big" teams to me in Milton Keynes when I was growing up although they were far enough away for me to have no affinity.
 
I follow the same team as my Dad, Wolves. The rest of my family are Manchester United supporters.

I couldn't tell you why my Dad supports Wolves at all!
 
Perry is my Dad's cousin but they rarely communicated / saw each other. I have only seen him twice, at his Dad's wedding (which I barely remember, was battered!) and my Nan's funeral. I never got free / cheap tickets etc :(.
 
I ended up being amongst a rare breed of people supporting Newcastle back in Mauritius. Everyone else either supported Manchester United or Liverpool. But I didn't want to support my brother's team and I liked Alan Shearer. I also liked Blackburn...

It was a bit difficult supporting a "local" English team there...
 
stonewall_jack said:
Complete tosh but that last paragraph reveals you know nothing about football so it's forgivable. Comparing it to favourite directors? That's a first! When you've watched your local team play in front of 2000 fans and seen them rise from the 4th tier to the premier league and playing in Europe, I don't care what anyone says, you can't get that buzz from cherry picking some random team because they win a lot. Cue all the 'super fan' comments but really that's just a defence mechanism for glory hunters! Football is tribal at the end of the day and that's why hang'er on'ers and glory hunters are held in disdain.
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Glad to hear that football is so very important to you but some of us just enjoy it like any other aspect of our lives. I think you'll find that most clubs haven't gone from the 4th tier to the premier league and then Europe, they are still in the lower leagues playing rubbish football I wouldn't waste my time watching.

If thats what you enjoy then fair enough but some of us watch it because we enjoy watching good football and don't take is so seriously as to think that supporting your local team through thick and thin makes you an authority on football or being a supporter. I don't think you'll find that anyone who you consider a glory hunter or hang'er on cares about the fact and the only person who is angered by it is yourself.

Don't you want new fans for your club unless they have lived within spitting distance of the ground or do they have to have also supported them for 20 plus years?
 
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