Why do you support your team?

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Fraggr

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Just wondering why people support teams other than their home team, e.g. people from Oxford support Man U/Chelsea rather than Oxford United.

I've only recently got back into football (as in, the last year), and I support Chelsea. People called me a glory, which I guess at the time I was because I only supported them because they were very good (still are). I asked them why they support their teams, and they said "because <insert friend's name> supported them" and "I dunno". Fair enough one guy supported the team from where he lived, no problems with that.

So why do you support a particular team?
 
Ive supported Man Utd since i was about 3-4, mostly because i used to always watch them and i was a fan of Cantona, Beckham, Giggs etc. So basically just kept supporting them ever since.

However i do also support Fulham locally, as they are close to me & i go to see them most weeks (season ticket soon :)).
 
started supporting Arsenal in '96 because of the Dutch connection being from the Netherlands myself and Dennis Bergkamp playing for the Gunners was the ideal choice.
 
Home town club, I've grown up supporting Man U. Even though I now live 200 miles away from them and have become yet another United fan in London :rolleyes:
 
I support a non-local team for two reasons. When I was a kid, my uncle saturated me with the team I currently support's scarves, hats and other paraphernalia - and the local team didn't exist until I was about 12, so by that point I already had one.

I still went to see the local team when I wasn't at my team's matches though :)
 
I moved to Sheffield when I was 2 and a half, and my dad had just bought a factory/office approximately 100 steps away from Brammall Lane which donned the Cross Scythes in their history. I support Sheffield United because they were my home team (before I moved to Leeds), the location was better, and red is better than blue anyways, Wednesday are rubbish.

I could never support Leeds even though I live here now.
 
My Dad supports Liverpool (went to a couple of European Cup finals, lucky sod :p) so I grew up in a Liverpool supporting household, so I just went from there I guess. Sucks a bit living so far from the ground, but I can't imagine supporting another team.
 
my dad supported man united...his dad supported united so it seemed only right. the very first match of football i ever went to at was at old trafford nearly 15 years ago also.
 
i think mine is a family thing we live in liverpool and everybody i know in my family supports liverpool so its only natural i support them aswell

i do go and watch chester city now and again tho but thats only because the tickets are cheap and its normally a good afternoon out but i aint bothered if they win lose or draw
 
Have supported Man Utd as long as I have even known about football.

Wasn't like there was even any choice in the matter, that's just how it worked out, probably as a mix of friends/family being the same, that's how I ended up.
 
When I was old enough to get into football it was the 91/92 season, and I started watching highlights on TV. Man Utd - in my own young opinion - played the most exciting, best to watch football.

And when I first watched Cantona play, well, that was it really. :D :)
 
I been supporting Newcastle as far back as i remember.. (so about 15years ago, im 20)

My earliest memories are i think 93/94 season, well.. i guess the hayday with Keegan is obviously the fondest era i know of.

And shearer being my generations legend

But its got progressively worse i guess, maybe my fault for supporting them :p nah..

I from up here and i love the city itself. Even though they are tripe at the minute ill continue to be disappointed til eventually some glory years will come... and they will :rolleyes: :cool: ;)
 
Born in Wetherby, not far from Leeds so basically my local, Dad was a Leeds fan, brought up supporting them.

I do follow Harrogate Town also as me and my Dad both played for them for a while and I lived in Harrogate for 15 years.
 
Started playing and getting in to football at the age of 6ish, just watching it on telly generally without supporting anyone. Then one day while routing through some old clothes in my parents wardrobe I found an Arsenal goalkeeping top and from then on I've supported them. They could have been a conference side for all I knew at that time. :D
 
Local team so supported them since I can remember. Went to my first game when I was 6 (1986). My support came very close to be short lived but luckily the club was saved.
 
Two teams in Bristol, you could say that one is rubbish and one is not, but it also tends to be which side of the river you live on as to which team you support. I picked the team who arent rubbish, the one and only, championship side Bristol City!!!
 
I support my home-town team over here in NI.

But I started supporting Man Utd too after big Norm scored the winner in the '85 cup final.
 
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