Supporting multiple teams: Wrong?

[cmonurz]

Not sure what's funny m8. Non passionate fans like you = no atmosphere. Pretty straight forward that.

I just hope you're not one of those that watches a game through their camera phone.

I’m passionate when I attend games. But this thread isn’t about that.

[Extended-Phenotype]

TheMaraudingDog is just bitter because he has a tardis small cock bursting with acres of AIDS.

[The Prisoner]

I'm not gonna bother reading all the rest save to say that supporting multiple teams usually breaks down into a "biggie" and your local team (who are by default usually crap) - therefore when your crap local team evolve to become a "biggie" you have an explanation as to the plastics who sort of convert to you, but are mutants who still "quite like" Chelsea. Remind you of anyone?

[TheMaraudingDog]

A non attending Yank with the same views as a two teamer. Who'd have thought it.

[soggy biscuit]

I just hope you're not one of those that watches a game through their camera phone.

[cmonurz]

Comes back to my original point, TMD. On the odd occasions I go to Reading games, I’m as passionate as the next fan, but when I leave the game that’s what I do, leave it behind. Football doesn’t matter that much to me. For more rabid supporters like yourself, football is much more than a game, it’s the fans’ rivalry, the pre- and post-match camararderie/fighting, the one-upmanship etc. It’s a different type of football fan. Take out all those who aren’t that type of supporter, and you’d have only a few thousand fans at any game.

[LoyalRoyalFan]

TMD has a very blinkered view of football. He's the only plastic fan around here because he supports Manchester United.

[The Prisoner]

Comes back to my original point, TMD. On the odd occasions I go to Reading games, I’m as passionate as the next fan, but when I leave the game that’s what I do, leave it behind. Football doesn’t matter that much to me. For more rabid supporters like yourself, football is much more than a game, it’s the fans’ rivalry, the pre- and post-match camararderie/fighting, the one-upmanship etc. It’s a different type of football fan. Take out all those who aren’t that type of supporter, and you’d have only a few thousand fans at any game.

Interesting point. I was invited to a Tranmere game last night as a guest of one of the Directors and there were people going who clearly supported the team through thick and thin who had obviously being going all their life. They all knew each other by name, had their usual seats in the ground and could only talk about Tranmere and the sub culture of transfers, history and past-meetings with your club that you get when you meet an oppo fan. I am at an age now where I have a wife, children and all the pressures that 2012 brings....I was amazed that I didn't feel as devastated as I walked out of Wembley as I thought I would, and that is because I have grown away from being the "rabid" supporter urz refers to.

[just some bloke]

TMD has a very blinkered view of football. He's the only plastic fan around here because he supports Manchester United.

Go on then, TMD. What's your claim to be a 'non-plastic' United fan, then?

[TBM]

TMD has a very blinkered view of football. He's the only plastic fan around here because he supports Manchester United.

TMD is a Manc though?!

[LoyalRoyalFan]

TMD has a very blinkered view of football. He's the only plastic fan around here because he supports Manchester United.

TMD is a Manc though?!

Some of us didn't know that.

[TBM]

So then surely you and just some bloke cant be calling him a "plastic" without knowing for sure?!

[Maguire]

Thought he was from Oldham

Boundary Park's that way

[LoyalRoyalFan]

So then surely you and just some bloke cant be calling him a "plastic" without knowing for sure?!

Vice versa. Why can they call us 'plastic' if they don't know us?

[3 veesinarow]

It makes them JCLs and a JCL isn't a loyal fan.

In footballing terms London is not a neighbour.

Erm, yes it did. But i wouldnt expect a JCL to understand that.

What's a JCL?

A term commonly used by English football supporters to describe the likes of you.

Genuine question cos I'm not sure if I've got the right person, but am I right in thinking TMD did not originally support MUFC? Honest query, not trying to stir things up, apologies if I'm barking up the wrong tree.

[TBM]

So then surely you and just some bloke cant be calling him a "plastic" without knowing for sure?!

Vice versa. Why can they call us 'plastic' if they don't know us?

I thought he was talking to those who have admitted they dont come from Reading or support two teams

[Extended-Phenotype]

I thought he was lonely, and was posting on this board hoping for some sort of serotonin boost from misaligned superiority.

[just some bloke]

TMD has a very blinkered view of football. He's the only plastic fan around here because he supports Manchester United.

TMD is a Manc though?!

Aaaaaaaye. 'E were born n raised within earshot o' the Stretford roar. Years ago, his da' came out from t'backyard where he'd been tending his pigeons and he took off his cloth cap and said, 'Son, it's time. It's time yer went to see the boys play'. And he took him through the Salford Streets at two thirty on a bleak November afternoon for his first game. Wonderful, it were. He can remember the warm crust of the meat and potato pie. The bovril, which hit the back o' his little throat just as Bestie's 30-yard screamer hit the back of the net. He were hooked. Never looked back. He goes to every game and all the fans know him. Travels away by train. Never on t'bus. TMD smokes his pipe at the back of the terrace every Saturday, sagely watching the match, pausing occasionally to offer wisdom to less knowledgable men or to ruffle his own boy's straw-blond hair.

[No Fixed Abode]

I just hope you're not one of those that watches a game through their camera phone.

Wasn't my picture m8. Lifted from Facebook last night.

[soggy biscuit]

Thought he was from Oldham

Boundary Park's that way

Wasn't Maine Road closer to Oldham than Old Trafford?