Quote Originally Posted by Majorblue View Post
I simply refuse to have a go at anyone who chooses to not support their home town team. Quite often their choice was influenced by friends or family and those tend to be more powerful than some link by a quirk of birth .More importantly, for generations, this club was hardly an attraction be it the owners who hardly bothered , the teams who bounced around the lower leagues, the none existent facilities and lack of any significant community engagement. Frankly, that we attracted anyone to see us at some points in the last 4 decades is a minor miracle. Should this cycle fellow choose to get enjoyment from following Arsenal then good luck to him and hopefully he will pop down to see them in his home city and he will have a thorough miserable afternoon where his and his teams yellow shirts ( if they still play in yellow away)will be told ,in no uncertain terms , where they can be inserted.
Horseshit.

You have one question, and one question only.

1) Do you like football?

If the answer is yes, you will go and watch your local football club

The only exceptions to that rule are your personal circumstances (work, skint, family) and whether or not the football club treats your support with the respect it deserves.

It is not a valid excuse to say "I would support Stanley, but they're shit", "I would support Rochdale, but they've lost 6 on the trot and have only won one promotion since the war", "I would support Torquay, but they're in the Fourth Division", "I would support Gillingham, but the owner never buys players". In fact, those counter arguments are rendered useless when you say "I would support Gillingham, but they never buy players so I support Liverpool instead". Isn't it strange how people don't seem to live in Dorchester and support Tranmere Rovers?

Picking a team based purely on success is pathetic. It's also the easy way out.