Priceless comment from a Liverpool fan

[splott parker]

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You could say the same about City fans who aren’t from Cardiff. How far do you want to strip this back?

I’d imagine the ones from far flung places have a connection with the area, born here, parents from here etc. I doubt if many randomly plucked us out to follow.

[William Treseder]

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I’d imagine the ones from far flung places have a connection with the area, born here, parents from here etc. I doubt if many randomly plucked us out to follow.

I’m talking about folk from Barry, the valleys etc.
They have local teams they could support, albeit not professional, but local.
How far do we strip this back?
What affinity does someone born and living in the Rhondda have, with the City of Cardiff?, or its football team?
Live and let live is a good motto.

[MacAdder]

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I’d imagine the ones from far flung places have a connection with the area, born here, parents from here etc. I doubt if many randomly plucked us out to follow.

Its funny you should say this.
I remember hearing or reading that after our "heroic" run and appearance in the FA cup final in 2008, people chose us as their team.

I reckon there are quite a few teenagers around the world who have Cardiff as "their team"..... poor feckers! :hehe:

[Trigger]

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I’m talking about folk from Barry, the valleys etc.
They have local teams they could support, albeit not professional, but local.
How far do we strip this back?
What affinity does someone born and living in the Rhondda have, with the City of Cardiff?, or its football team?
Live and let live is a good motto.

Yea can support who they like but when you start driving past 1 or 2 pro clubs to support another you have no connection to then it's a bit odd for me. But each to their own.

My United supporting mate thinks I'm mad for spending money to see city. I thought he was missing out on plenty, and having watched on tele the last year I think it's even worse. Yea we are generally shit but even if we had got promoted this season watching on stream would still have been a pretty bland and poor version of the game for me.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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I’m talking about folk from Barry, the valleys etc.
They have local teams they could support, albeit not professional, but local.
How far do we strip this back?
What affinity does someone born and living in the Rhondda have, with the City of Cardiff?, or its football team?
Live and let live is a good motto.

You are being daft for the sake of it here

Pontypridd is 12 miles from Cardiff

What connection do people from there have with Cardiff ? Its their nearest football club

St helens is 12 miles from Liverpool.?.......the connection is again that Liverpool and Everton are their nearest clubs

The difference is down here loads of people within 12 miles of Cardiff wear Liverpool tops because ........they are plastic football fans 🙄

Live and let live my arse , Cardiff will never be a big club with people like that around

[William Treseder]

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You are being daft for the sake of it here

Pontypridd is 12 miles from Cardiff

What connection do people from there have with Cardiff ? Its their nearest football club

St helens is 12 miles from Liverpool.?.......the connection is again that Liverpool and Everton are their nearest clubs

The difference is down here loads of people within 12 miles of Cardiff wear Liverpool tops because ........they are plastic football fans 🙄

Live and let live my arse , Cardiff will never be a big club with people like that around

Talking bollox as usual.

[Moodybluebird]

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You are being daft for the sake of it here

Pontypridd is 12 miles from Cardiff

What connection do people from there have with Cardiff ? Its their nearest football club

St helens is 12 miles from Liverpool.?.......the connection is again that Liverpool and Everton are their nearest clubs

The difference is down here loads of people within 12 miles of Cardiff wear Liverpool tops because ........they are plastic football fans 🙄

Live and let live my arse , Cardiff will never be a big club with people like that around

In total agreement with you in this one Sludge.

As you say, it's helluva difference supporting your nearest professional club, usually within a 15 mile radius, and throwing your lot in with a historically successful team 100-200 miles away.

I think we as fans and the club itself have to accept that this will always be the case but the club in particular have a responsibility to
help maintain and increase our fanbase. Results on the field are the number one priority obviously but they must take great care not to distance themselves from the local community

[Hilts]

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Plastic Liverpool fan alert on this thread I reckon.😂

[Des Parrot]

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I’d imagine the ones from far flung places have a connection with the area, born here, parents from here etc. I doubt if many randomly plucked us out to follow.

I'm a City fan because my uncle wanted to see the great Arsenal side of the late 60's. Just after Christmas in 1968, he took me to my first game to get a Hull stub (honestly) as you needed to get a stub to get a ticket for the Arsenal game. I was 8, my first time in Cardiff (my first time in any City). City beat Hull 3-0, Toshack, Clark & King and this randomly plucked out person with no connections to Cardiff became a through & through Bluebird.

Ironically many decades later I found out that my Grandmother was born in Cardiff (to Geordie parents who had been transferred from Durham to Splott steelworks).

It started with me and at last count I'd infected, wife, 4 sons, 2 cousins, 1 niece & 1 nephew all now Bluebirds, the closest 45 miles away from Sloper Road.

[life on mars]

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Comment on the BBC website from a North Walian Liverpool fan, posted a few minutes before the end of the Real Madrid game.

"I've never been so disappointed in my 50 years following LFC through thick and thin - goodbye Jürgen and thanks for the lovely memories". Mark, North Wales.

My heart bleeds for him.

They are a very insular people .

[life on mars]

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I’d imagine the ones from far flung places have a connection with the area, born here, parents from here etc. I doubt if many randomly plucked us out to follow.

We were born and bred and lived in the City of Cardiff why support anyone else , not bothered with glory hunters and the awful new world of the big clubs ,they can have it , few good seasons here and there , are fine for me and the match day social interactions pre and post game are very equally or better sometimes .

[William Treseder]

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Plastic Liverpool fan alert on this thread I reckon.😂

Wahey!! The CCMB way of dealing with folk who voice a different opinion. Gotta love it 😀

[splott parker]

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I'm a City fan because my uncle wanted to see the great Arsenal side of the late 60's. Just after Christmas in 1968, he took me to my first game to get a Hull stub (honestly) as you needed to get a stub to get a ticket for the Arsenal game. I was 8, my first time in Cardiff (my first time in any City). City beat Hull 3-0, Toshack, Clark & King and this randomly plucked out person with no connections to Cardiff became a through & through Bluebird.

Ironically many decades later I found out that my Grandmother was born in Cardiff (to Geordie parents who had been transferred from Durham to Splott steelworks).

It started with me and at last count I'd infected, wife, 4 sons, 2 cousins, 1 niece & 1 nephew all now Bluebirds, the closest 45 miles away from Sloper Road.

I did say ‘I doubt if many’.

[NYCBlue]

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I'm a City fan because my uncle wanted to see the great Arsenal side of the late 60's. Just after Christmas in 1968, he took me to my first game to get a Hull stub (honestly) as you needed to get a stub to get a ticket for the Arsenal game. I was 8, my first time in Cardiff (my first time in any City). City beat Hull 3-0, Toshack, Clark & King and this randomly plucked out person with no connections to Cardiff became a through & through Bluebird.

Ironically many decades later I found out that my Grandmother was born in Cardiff (to Geordie parents who had been transferred from Durham to Splott steelworks).

It started with me and at last count I'd infected, wife, 4 sons, 2 cousins, 1 niece & 1 nephew all now Bluebirds, the closest 45 miles away from Sloper Road.

But you went to a game. And I assume you went to many more. I'd have (slightly) less of a problem with some of these folk if they went to games. Most of them just buy a top and watch it on the TV.

[Grangenders]

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I used to like Man Utd as a kid, and was lucky enough to get to old Trafford for a game in the late 80’s as a teenager. Whilst I enjoyed watching a big football match, I strangely felt out of place - the people sounded different, it was a long way from home and I never felt that I fit in there. The enjoyment of the atmosphere prompted me to check out Ninian Park after I returned home and despite the much lower attendance and significantly worse standard of football, I felt at home.