| Can you ever stop supporting your football team? 12:01 - Mar 29 with 1175 views | Chris_ITFC |
Whether it's self-made or forced upon you, the decision about which football team to support is usually taken before you learn to ride a bike or even tie your shoelaces.
At such a young age, you're clearly oblivious to what you're are signing up for. You're subjected to an unwritten contract, where blind devotion is exchanged for intermittent moments of joy - and large amounts of heartache and pain.
And best of all… it's a lifelong pledge of loyalty.
Or is it?
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| Can you ever stop supporting your football team? on 12:05 - Mar 29 with 1137 views | positivity |
of course you can, wimbledon being the most obvious example when they were franchised out, also plenty of man u fans have never returned to the club over the glazers |  |
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| Can you ever stop supporting your football team? on 12:07 - Mar 29 with 1125 views | J2BLUE |
Only in extreme circumstances (MK Dons etc) |  |
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| Can you ever stop supporting your football team? on 12:08 - Mar 29 with 1127 views | NederlandseBlue |
There's data to show a growing number of (especially younger) people are supporters of specific star players and follow whichever club they are at. If the player moves on, so does their support. This is driven by social media, where the best players in the world are more "accessible" and become brands in themselves, whereas what might be happening at the local club is seen as not as glamorous or (ironically) accessible because of cost.
Being there physically is a big part of it, for me, but if that is not an option for people then I can see how club loyalty becomes less important. | |
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| Can you ever stop supporting your football team? on 12:35 - Mar 29 with 1040 views | Churchman |
It is for me. They’ll always be my club. I might not attend in person for any number of reasons. I could, can and on odd occasions do watch other teams. Good fun. But they are not my club and never can be. It kind of chose me, not the other way round as often happens with big city clubs.
In terms of football and morality, Newcastle are owned by essentially one of the Arab countries. When they execute people, they drain out five pints of blood first. That means the condemned have little idea what’s going on, the volume of blood is much less so the crowd are less upset, the cleanup is easier, there’s five pints of red for the transfusion unit and the execution team have less trouble dragging the mush out. Everyone’s a winner! Then they watch the football.
This is according to my geordie mate whose chum went to the executions while out there working. These countries don’t do uman rights. Trials are errrr a tad unreliable and if you are a foreigner you are in a world of trouble. Women’s rights? No, thought not. And so it goes on. These are the owners of Newcastle United.
Does my mate and his geordie chums care? Nope. They’ve followed the club all their lives, their fathers before them. As long as the club grows, new stadium etc, they look no further than that. How I’d view that I’m not sure. Was I bothered about us being owned by a tinpot ticket seller? Actually yes, but it was still my club and was still heartbroken when he left it to rot.
It goes back to my point that the club is its supporters, area, history, not the headchoppers or even staff. |  | | |
| Can you ever stop supporting your football team? on 13:04 - Mar 29 with 926 views | urbanpenguin |
Wimbledon fans when the club emigrated to MK.
Man Utd fans that broke away to support FC United
Clapton fans who formed Clapton Community FC as a response to what happened to their former club
Zagrab fans did a similar thing when their club turned right wing
Other clubs, often lower leagues, have seen fans leave in the face of commercialism or political issues, usually with the fans forming community focused, socially active and politically progressive new projects. |  | | |
| Can you ever stop supporting your football team? on 13:23 - Mar 29 with 886 views | harrygunter |
| Can you ever stop supporting your football team? on 12:08 - Mar 29 by NederlandseBlue |
There's data to show a growing number of (especially younger) people are supporters of specific star players and follow whichever club they are at. If the player moves on, so does their support. This is driven by social media, where the best players in the world are more "accessible" and become brands in themselves, whereas what might be happening at the local club is seen as not as glamorous or (ironically) accessible because of cost.
Being there physically is a big part of it, for me, but if that is not an option for people then I can see how club loyalty becomes less important. |
Like Wallingford boy with Natasha Thomas [Post edited 29 Mar 13:24]
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| Can you ever stop supporting your football team? on 13:33 - Mar 29 with 833 views | hoppy |
Team, or club? |  |
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| Can you ever stop supporting your football team? on 13:40 - Mar 29 with 802 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Can you ever stop supporting your football team? on 12:05 - Mar 29 by positivity |
of course you can, wimbledon being the most obvious example when they were franchised out, also plenty of man u fans have never returned to the club over the glazers |
Wouldn't those Wimbledon fans say they have remained true to their team by setting up and supporting the club at Wimbledon?
Would those Man Utd fans still call themselves Man Utd fans but are waiting to get their club back?
To a degree I get what you are saying but I can't imagine a situation where I actually stop supporting Ipswich - only ones where I am unhappy/embarrassed etc by what the club is doing/has become and live in hope that it would return to its senses. I guess if the club went bust and ceased to exist the decision is forced upon you. |  |
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| Can you ever stop supporting your football team? on 14:48 - Mar 29 with 715 views | positivity |
| Can you ever stop supporting your football team? on 13:40 - Mar 29 by Nthsuffolkblue |
Wouldn't those Wimbledon fans say they have remained true to their team by setting up and supporting the club at Wimbledon?
Would those Man Utd fans still call themselves Man Utd fans but are waiting to get their club back?
To a degree I get what you are saying but I can't imagine a situation where I actually stop supporting Ipswich - only ones where I am unhappy/embarrassed etc by what the club is doing/has become and live in hope that it would return to its senses. I guess if the club went bust and ceased to exist the decision is forced upon you. |
yes, guess they'd see it as a pause in their support.
for me, it would have to be extreme, but if itfc became the works team for a racist, anti-semetic party, i would certainly pause my support and support fc ipswich or whatever came along in its place.
same if the current owners decided to play our home games at badiddlyboing, odawidaho
(or if we signed another ex-norwich manager!) | |
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| Can you ever stop supporting your football team? on 15:33 - Mar 29 with 639 views | NederlandseBlue |
| Can you ever stop supporting your football team? on 13:23 - Mar 29 by harrygunter |
Like Wallingford boy with Natasha Thomas [Post edited 29 Mar 13:24]
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He'd love to be considered a younger person... | |
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| Can you ever stop supporting your football team? on 15:35 - Mar 29 with 632 views | bariotneblue |
Difficult to say as I still feel there’s more to be done to appease some sections of the fanbase after the week we’ve experienced. It has certainly been the toughest week as a supporter for me personally. This is owing to the fact that I have taken friends and family of the LGBTQ+ community and with backgrounds that Farage has tried to alienate. I took them knowing that the club was accepting and promoted inclusivity throughout the 32 years I’ve supported them (even more so since the takeover)
Without Ipswich Town, there is no football for me. I have a passing interest in international tournaments when they come about but that is nothing compared for my love for the club. Everyone is entitled to their opinion but the weeks events severely damaged my love not only for the club but football in general.
I’ll be very interested to see what happens in the coming weeks and months. I don’t have the answers (people are paid more than me to decide the best course of action) but it’ll take quite a bit to rebuild my passion. I’m still hopeful that this will be the case. | | | |
| Can you ever stop supporting your football team? on 15:36 - Mar 29 with 626 views | DeepBlueSea |
Stop supporting completely? I doubt I’d be capable of that. But spend far less time thinking about all
things ITFC? Definitely.
Teenage me could probably have remembered the score in every match we’d played in a given season, and would probably be able to name the next 5 or 6 fixtures coming up. Today I can do neither of those things | | | |
| Can you ever stop supporting your football team? on 17:05 - Mar 29 with 565 views | KBsSocks |
Interesting question.
I didn't stop following ITFC while RK was manager, but I was not as gutted as usual when we lost ... just waiting for him to leave. |  |
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| Can you ever stop supporting your football team? on 19:02 - Mar 29 with 482 views | blueoutlook |
| Can you ever stop supporting your football team? on 12:35 - Mar 29 by Churchman |
It is for me. They’ll always be my club. I might not attend in person for any number of reasons. I could, can and on odd occasions do watch other teams. Good fun. But they are not my club and never can be. It kind of chose me, not the other way round as often happens with big city clubs.
In terms of football and morality, Newcastle are owned by essentially one of the Arab countries. When they execute people, they drain out five pints of blood first. That means the condemned have little idea what’s going on, the volume of blood is much less so the crowd are less upset, the cleanup is easier, there’s five pints of red for the transfusion unit and the execution team have less trouble dragging the mush out. Everyone’s a winner! Then they watch the football.
This is according to my geordie mate whose chum went to the executions while out there working. These countries don’t do uman rights. Trials are errrr a tad unreliable and if you are a foreigner you are in a world of trouble. Women’s rights? No, thought not. And so it goes on. These are the owners of Newcastle United.
Does my mate and his geordie chums care? Nope. They’ve followed the club all their lives, their fathers before them. As long as the club grows, new stadium etc, they look no further than that. How I’d view that I’m not sure. Was I bothered about us being owned by a tinpot ticket seller? Actually yes, but it was still my club and was still heartbroken when he left it to rot.
It goes back to my point that the club is its supporters, area, history, not the headchoppers or even staff. |
Sorry Churchman. Down voted you when I meant to upvote you. I’ve heard similar stories about the UAE from mates. Doesn’t stop them being Newcastle fans though. I will never give up on Town, the club is bigger than Farage or Ashton always has been, always will be. |  | | |
| Can you ever stop supporting your football team? on 19:08 - Mar 29 with 471 views | armchaircritic59 |
| Can you ever stop supporting your football team? on 12:08 - Mar 29 by NederlandseBlue |
There's data to show a growing number of (especially younger) people are supporters of specific star players and follow whichever club they are at. If the player moves on, so does their support. This is driven by social media, where the best players in the world are more "accessible" and become brands in themselves, whereas what might be happening at the local club is seen as not as glamorous or (ironically) accessible because of cost.
Being there physically is a big part of it, for me, but if that is not an option for people then I can see how club loyalty becomes less important. |
I wonder how many people have recently started " supporting " us because of the Ed Sheeran factor? Specifically those who had little or no interest in football before. |  | | |
| Can you ever stop supporting your football team? on 19:10 - Mar 29 with 471 views | bluelagos |
Can't see myself stopping supporting Town.
Could see myself doing only away games for a while but I'd be devastated if it comes to that. |  |
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| Can you ever stop supporting your football team? on 19:11 - Mar 29 with 464 views | blueoutlook |
| Can you ever stop supporting your football team? on 19:08 - Mar 29 by armchaircritic59 |
I wonder how many people have recently started " supporting " us because of the Ed Sheeran factor? Specifically those who had little or no interest in football before. |
Not me, can’t stand the guy. Pleased how he has helped promote us,but his music just doesn’t do it for me. | | | |
| Can you ever stop supporting your football team? on 19:29 - Mar 29 with 442 views | KBsSocks |
| Can you ever stop supporting your football team? on 19:08 - Mar 29 by armchaircritic59 |
I wonder how many people have recently started " supporting " us because of the Ed Sheeran factor? Specifically those who had little or no interest in football before. |
Same with Wrexham, only more so.
If they support for a few years then just follow, or even lose interest, it's fine by me. So long as they enjoyed their passing pastime of support / following. | |
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| Can you ever stop supporting your football team? on 19:41 - Mar 29 with 415 views | Radlett_blue |
Big difference IMO between supporting - which I would define as someone who regularly attends a few live games - and following, under which category I would put someone who never goes to see "his" team live but watches them on TV. Now there is so much football on TV, it's easy to pick a big club and see most of their games live on TV. I think it's been quite common for youngsters to pick a PL team & then switch to another after a couple of poor seasons.
For a season ticket holder to give up, that's a much bigger decision. |  |
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| Can you ever stop supporting your football team? on 20:06 - Mar 29 with 387 views | KBsSocks |
| Can you ever stop supporting your football team? on 19:41 - Mar 29 by Radlett_blue |
Big difference IMO between supporting - which I would define as someone who regularly attends a few live games - and following, under which category I would put someone who never goes to see "his" team live but watches them on TV. Now there is so much football on TV, it's easy to pick a big club and see most of their games live on TV. I think it's been quite common for youngsters to pick a PL team & then switch to another after a couple of poor seasons.
For a season ticket holder to give up, that's a much bigger decision. |
I'm a supporter, but cannot go to live games of late.
I follow a few other teams, but don't support them.
I also follow a few players, but only follow their teams because I am following that player.
I watch ITFC on TV when I can, wherever I can, or radio commentary when I cannot, or even text-based commentary.
The stuff I follow is more than "oh, it's on at the moment", but not an active planning-to-watch or hear process. | |
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| Can you ever stop supporting your football team? on 20:24 - Mar 29 with 364 views | Swansea_Blue |
Er, I don’t think you can unless you fall out of love with football altogether (as per Steve in that article).
It’s no secret on here that I’m a regular at the Swans because of geography and the family, but there’s no way I’d choose their home end when we visit. I’ve had season tickets at Wrexham, Chester and Swansea but would never prioritise any of their matches over ours. It’s just that life moves on and sometimes you have to move with it. I couldn’t choose to not support us. We were a big part of my formative years, so I may as well choose not to walk, eat or breathe. |  |
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| Can you ever stop supporting your football team? on 20:27 - Mar 29 with 357 views | bazza |
| Can you ever stop supporting your football team? on 19:11 - Mar 29 by blueoutlook |
Not me, can’t stand the guy. Pleased how he has helped promote us,but his music just doesn’t do it for me. |
Can’t stand his music then.? |  | | |
| Can you ever stop supporting your football team? on 20:40 - Mar 29 with 332 views | Churchman |
| Can you ever stop supporting your football team? on 19:02 - Mar 29 by blueoutlook |
Sorry Churchman. Down voted you when I meant to upvote you. I’ve heard similar stories about the UAE from mates. Doesn’t stop them being Newcastle fans though. I will never give up on Town, the club is bigger than Farage or Ashton always has been, always will be. |
No worries blueoutlook.
You are 100% right. | | | |
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