Conroy wrote:
I watch other sports and 'follow' teams in them, but I don't go crazy in the same way as I'm not really a 'supporter'
When I was in England I was 100% following Chelsea and the Rhinos. TBH with the time that they consumed I cannot really see why you'd even bother to even follow other sports.
But it's your choice to follow other sports, even though you have English clubs who you support.
But what if you didn't have English sides. Don't you think that if the British Govt outlawed English sports but allowed access to foreign sports your level of support for teams in other countries would grow?
For me, watching sport is pretty much pointless unless I'm passionately rooting for one side. That's what you want their sporting experience to be like. I'm with them on this. If they're going to support an English side, then they should do so fully.
I have more respect for a genuine Asian football supporter than I do for your following.
I just think that people have vastly different upbringings. As a working class boy, football and RL were a massive part of my life growing up. Those sports are part of me. An English middle class kid might not be brought up to like sports. But that doesn't mean that they should be excluded from the sport because they got interested in the 20's rather than when they were young kids.
I'm all for genuine support, however it comes about. There will be people born in the shadow of Anfield who merely follow Liverpool FC, they won't feel it in their bones. But there will be kids in Mumbai and Shanghai who do feel total support for LFC. I'd much rather watch a game with the passionate supporter from Shanghai than I would be the follower from Liverpool.
