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Football in General |
| Date: |
04/07/01 (28 review reads) |
| Rating: |
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Advantages: local support, passionate, loyalty
Disadvantages: living far away, being accused of being something you are not
I look at the situation in football today and laugh! I myself am a Rangers fan, first amd foremost. I happen though to live in Newcastle, I am also a Scotland fan. I am originally from just outside Glasgow, from a family of Rangers supporters.
The glory hunter business infuriates me. I go to Ibrox as often as I possibly can, support my team through the purchasing of merchandise from the club shop, and am proud to be seen anywhere in the world in my light blue shirt.
However, I was moved down to Newcastle as a baby, therefore I have a Geordie accent. I get called a plastic Scot, a glory hunter, and worse. In Portugal I was accused of adding to the sectarianism problem in the west of Scotland because I supported Rangers but was from the outside of the city(these alligations came from a Celtic fan).
Now I deal with all this, but the thing that does annoy me is real glory hunter, bandwagon jumpers. Living in the North East we have two big clubs in Newcastle and Sunderland. Both claim to have loyal fans, but the fact that the crowds swelled when promotion called is something that cannot be missed. Where were these people before then?
The Man United situation is a fiasco. There are people who have never set their foot in Manchester, who have been no further North than Watford, and yet claim to be reverent Man United fans. They also buy their kits from the local sport's shop, unwittingly denying "their" club the merchandising money.
I do, however, follow my local non-league side. When I'm not at Ibrox, I travel the length and bredth of the North-East of England following them. I do support sport at grassroot's level. Admittedly I do have the Ranger's score texted to my phone, if the lads are playing, but my love for my non-league side is almost as strong as my love for Rangers.
I have no problem with exiled fans supporting their hometown club, but what I cannot stand is people supp
orting the biggest team, just because its cool. They should thing without the likes of Hull, Barnet, and Hartlepool the bottom will fall out of football. Maybe instead of playing play-station on a saturday afternoon they could walk to their nearest football ground and chear the local lads up.
You never know, they might enjoy it!!!!!
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