Isn't that your choice, what women get away with? I don't get your point. Are you under the thumb? Drowning your sorrows in Newkie Brown? Good stuff btw. As for the supporting, I agree with you, more or less. You can of course, but you'd end up wanking to Kylie rather than being in love with a real girl, like RichardL cunningly observed.
I have a friend who is alleged to have once supported A*senal. Now he supports Spurs. Mass confusion reigns. What is the direct opposite of a 'Glory-Hunter'?
WOMEN HAVE THE VAGINA, GET IT PAL. LOADS OF BLOKES HAVE BEEN THROUGH YOUR LASS. SORRY FOR BEING BLUNT, BUT HEY HO, THATS NOT CRICKET. Woman are snakes with tits. I have an ex-wife, she was like a noose around my neck. The only girl in my life is my 4, nearly 5, year old Daughter. So i am not under the thumb.
Sorry. But you're wrong about women, you just had bad luck. Good luck to you in the future. I went out in Newcastle, good place to meet girls (but maybe not the ones you want to meet..)
I do, as it happens. Which is why I am in such a perfect position to explain to you that, much like kiddy-fiddling, changing one's team is a rank and malodorous deviancy.
I don't think it's a non-sequiteur at all. You stick with your parents through thick and thin. Same with your team: they are part of your identity. Ergo, there is no justification for changing allegiance. It's a bit like claiming to support multiple teams, another Yank passion judging by these boards.
Because only one man and woman can beget you or give birth to you. So it's impossible to 'change' your parents. 'Part of your identity'?! Oh please. So 'kiddy-fiddling' which harms a child equates with changing a team, which harms no one?! Are you mad?
You see, that's your problem right there. Did I say that? It's not a "to-scale" comparison, naturally. But changing your team is still an unnatural act, a perversion ... a deviancy.
It's different here because a) so many people don't have a local "pro" team and b) we have franchises, not clubs. The Cleveland Browns' football fans were some of the best in the NFL, and then their piece of sh** owner moved 'em to Baltimore and renamed them the Ravens. (Edgar Allan Poe was from Ballamore.) Also, few towns give you a choice. The nature of fandom in, say, Detroit, is different from what it is in London or Manchester, or even Bristol (Rovers or City?) The better analogy would be college teams. People pick one and stick with them. But even that's not a good analogy, because if I root for UNC but I want to study engineering, I go to a different school. Then what should I do? Maybe the best analogy is Crips 'n' Bloods. They don't switch.
I agree, college basketball is about the closest comparison. I'm from Philly. I grew up loving Temple, followed them my whole life, now I go to Temple. I think college basketball is about the only comparison to "football" in England. My best friend is from Newbury (lives here now) and he says college basketball is the closest thing to the level of support that they get there. I may be biased since being in Philly we have the Big 5 (Temple, Villanova, St Joes, Penn and LaSalle) and college basketball is so big here.
To continue to chime in...I agree that college sports are about the closest thing. The problem in the US, as someone mentioned, is that the vast majority of people do not have a "local" pro team of any sort. There are only about 40-50 cities in the US with pro teams (in MLB, NBA, NHL, NFL, and MLS). While this poster is from a dominant college basketball area (philly), someone from Alabama will almost certainly be a college football fan. This is about as close as it comes in the US. The only way your college sports allegiance changes is if you actually attend a different college AND your college plays Division 1 sports. You'll notice the teams by my name...US national team, DC United (I didn't have an MLS team until I moved to DC...since I've lived here, I've become a United fan), and Wake Forest (my college and username). If you asked me which of the 3 I support the strongest, there would be no hesitation...Wake.
I am on the Crystal Palace bandwagon isnce they won promotion last year from the 1st division. Neil Shipperly is my hero, who could forget his famous goal in last year's play off against West Ham. Only a true champion could have finished it off like he did.
I'll keep supporting the same team. But I'm going to pretend to switch teams whenever a new team takes over the spotlight, just to annoy all of the dogmatic crazies here.