| If you weren't a Town fan 21:39 - Feb 27 with 1707 views | Coastalblue |
say you moved to this country and were a big football fan but had no affinity to any club. Who do you think you'd pick to support, and what sort of criteria would you look for?
Would you want to glory hunt, choose one of the big boys with chances of seeing finals and trophies or would you want a smaller team were you felt perhaps a bit more relevant?
Maybe you'd go non league?
I think I'd probably veer toward what Town were once, a smaller club with a chance of winning something. I'm not sure if you support a Man Utd, Chelsea, City that seeing your team win something has quite the same feeling. |  |
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| If you weren't a Town fan on 21:43 - Feb 27 with 1678 views | itfcjoe |
I think I’d go relatively local, wherever I was as you can’t beat the buzz of a live game |  |
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| If you weren't a Town fan on 21:45 - Feb 27 with 1661 views | Swansea_Blue |
I’d do what I always do - support my local team. The only way you can support a team is by watching them, otherwise you’re not supporting them (you’re just interested in them, which isn’t the same thing at all). I can’t imagine how you could build an affinity towards a team without watching them regularly. |  |
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| If you weren't a Town fan on 21:45 - Feb 27 with 1660 views | textbackup |
if I lived in London - millwall
north - everton
midlands - villa |  |
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| If you weren't a Town fan on 22:01 - Feb 27 with 1593 views | WeWereZombies |
St. Johnstone |  |
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| If you weren't a Town fan on 22:05 - Feb 27 with 1571 views | Scuzzer |
Yeah I would probably support the biggest club nearest to me locally. It works for me when in the States. My son used to live in Ohio and so we all became fans of Columbus Crew.....funny story....bumped into another Town fan in the car park...right out of the blue. It works for grid iron also. My son is a Browns fan, with being a Town fan as well he is fast facing saturation point in dispair...he now lives in Knoxville Tennessee so I have a soft spot for the Titans.
Good question Coastal. |  |
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| If you weren't a Town fan on 22:06 - Feb 27 with 1567 views | Plums |
I’m not sure you ‘pick’ clubs, I think they pick you. I.e. in some way you get carried along by watching them or sharing an experience with them and their fans. It’s an affinity thing. It would probably be Notts County for me. Small club, loyal fans base, in the shadow of a bigger neighbour but a club you can get close to. |  |
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| If you weren't a Town fan on 22:27 - Feb 27 with 1517 views | monty_radio |
| If you weren't a Town fan on 21:45 - Feb 27 by Swansea_Blue |
I’d do what I always do - support my local team. The only way you can support a team is by watching them, otherwise you’re not supporting them (you’re just interested in them, which isn’t the same thing at all). I can’t imagine how you could build an affinity towards a team without watching them regularly. |
But I do think that if you have indeed watched them over a formative period that many can go on to remain almost as avid when their lives take them to other places yet they still continue to pore over results and tables from afar.
There is no substitute for watching live though Town have spent nigh on two years trying to prove that false. |  |
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| If you weren't a Town fan on 22:33 - Feb 27 with 1507 views | Lord_Lucan |
Always support your local team. I would go with that. |  |
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| If you weren't a Town fan on 22:40 - Feb 27 with 1484 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| If you weren't a Town fan on 22:33 - Feb 27 by Lord_Lucan |
Always support your local team. I would go with that. |
While living in various parts of the country I have followed and then supported....Blackburn Rovers, Huddersfield Town and Ipswich Town(none of which was during the premiership years)...luckily during the 8 years or so that I lived in Brighton I wasn't that bothered about football. |  |
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| If you weren't a Town fan on 22:50 - Feb 27 with 1459 views | Sharkey |
If I moved to the country, I’d support a small local team. But if I wanted to ‘adopt’ a club in a foreign country with the idea I might visit as a tourist, I’d go for a small one with a silly kit, or a cool name, and possibly Matijn Reuser as an ex-player. Go-Ahead Eagles maybe . |  | | |
| If you weren't a Town fan on 22:53 - Feb 27 with 1456 views | StochesStotasBlewe |
Local team.
Lived in Warwickshire back in the 80,s. On the occasions i couldn,t get to a Town game, which was rarely, i would go to watch Villa, Birmingham, Coventry or West Brom.
Not the same, but got to really enjoy watching them all at times. Still have a bit of a soft spot for the "Baggies". |  |
| We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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| If you weren't a Town fan on 01:30 - Feb 28 with 1332 views | Doctor_Earman |
Immigrants will tend to support the big boys or clubs with players from their nation of origin. | | | |
| If you weren't a Town fan on 09:05 - Feb 28 with 1164 views | BigManBlue |
I've actually just done this in reverse. Gotta go with the local club you can actually go and see or what's the point? |  |
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| If you weren't a Town fan on 09:16 - Feb 28 with 1146 views | HARRY10 |
| If you weren't a Town fan on 21:45 - Feb 27 by Swansea_Blue |
I’d do what I always do - support my local team. The only way you can support a team is by watching them, otherwise you’re not supporting them (you’re just interested in them, which isn’t the same thing at all). I can’t imagine how you could build an affinity towards a team without watching them regularly. |
Yep, assuming you had not for some allegience before you moved to the UK
it waould also mean that most of those living around you supported the same team
nothing like having fellow supporters to have a good moan with
and the further down the league you go the more likely those who you meet are not 'glory hunters, you can get into games and it's much easier to feel part of something.... rather than sat on a bus from Penzance to Old Trafford to sit among a bunch of Swedes on a hospitality package
and terraces, proper outside toilets and you don't need to be in your seat 30 mins before the game | | | |
| If you weren't a Town fan on 09:19 - Feb 28 with 1135 views | Pecker |
| If you weren't a Town fan on 21:43 - Feb 27 by itfcjoe |
I think I’d go relatively local, wherever I was as you can’t beat the buzz of a live game |
Same here. If I lived around the Manchester area, more likely to support Oldham/Salford than Man.Utd/City. |  | | |
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