Hoof_It
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Watford fans must love you.
The feeling is mutual. One of our clients is a big Watford fan. Didn't get much business in May '15.
Watford fans must love you.
The feeling is mutual. One of our clients is a big Watford fan. Didn't get much business in May '15.
SDD, I hear what you are saying but at the end of the day being a fan is about having an emotional response or connection to a particular team. There are a lot of ways that can come about. I'd agree that "place" is probably the strongest and most important of these, but not the only one.
If an alien landed from another planet would he not be allowed to enjoy football? Surely he/she would pick a team that appealed to them (for whatever reason) and support them?
I do agree that in general people should support their local team though (unless they're transplants from somewhere else).
Indeed, I have two weird brothers who support Leeds! My knowledge of football before my Dad opened my eyes was Best, Law, Charlton etc.I have an attachment to various teams for various reasons as I've moved around a bit, I'm not sure there is any hard and fast rule although I guess mine relate to birth place / fathers team and local team.. If I moved to France I'd probably support the local team as well, might even chuck some money in their buckets and lend them a shed load of money without the expectation of getting it back - let me get out my compound interest calculator.
Back in the days before the Internet your main reading material was Goal or Shoot magazine if you were a kid. Naturally that was full of the top Division 1 sides from cover to cover and this had a big influence on many . The BBC would broadcast one match live on world service (Radio), again that was usually Divvy 1 as it was back then. Abroad there was no MOTD or The Big Match just one game a week on the radio . Of course there were newspapers as well and like today it was all about the top league.
One thing I do know is that you can't tell a kid who to support, they make their own mind up. I took my lad to DC numerous times - he now has no interest whatsoever in the game.(I think they call it the SOD effect)
My son had the dilemma when he was about 3 or 4 whether to follow his dad and support AFCB, or follow his mums side of the family who are all QPR fans. QPR were a lot higher than us in those days, but, wisely followed his dad and is still having the last laugh.