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[Football] Is it OK to support more than one team?







grubbyhands

Well-known member
Dec 8, 2011
2,308
Godalming
I think it is perfectly fine if you have a legit reason for doing so and not just to be a glory hunter.

Besides Albion, I also support and run the North Carolina Fan Club for VfB Stuttgart. Why you say? Very simple: I traced my ancestry to Stuttgart and been a fan ever since.

Also follow Charlotte FC (Local MLS club) and NK Tabor in Slovenia. Odd one there I know haha; my brother and I both invested over a 1000 bucks into the club via the Wefunder site after seeing an add on Facebook. Very cool we thought! Have gotten stickers from the club, season ticket passes, etc.
Hasn't Zaha just signed for them? How d'you feel about that then?
 


portlock seagull

Well-known member
Jul 28, 2003
18,192
Brighton
Worthing
Ajax - lived in Amsterdam for 10 months in 2015
Melbourne Victory - lived in Melbourne for almost two years 2013/2014
Vancouver Whitecaps - lived here for 8 years now
Just to say, I don’t think this thread is really about such loyalties ie following a non league side as well, plus other overseas clubs. Scorn is really reserved for those professing love to Chelsea AND the Albion which is utter WTF in my book. Being a fan as you are, with that collection, is completely fine. You can go about your business. Move along.
 




Marshy

Well-known member
Jul 6, 2003
20,015
FRUIT OF THE BLOOM
Non league local team of course is acceptable

Any other League side is a hard no imo.

West Ham though... jees how could you even possibly consider it
 




Mellor 3 Ward 4

Well-known member
Jul 27, 2004
10,371
saaf of the water
I've been a Brighton fan since I went to my first game at the Goldstone aged 6. I grew up in Mile Oak in the 70's/80's.

When they lose I feel depressed and don't watch the game on MOTD, or other highlights. I always thought you could only support one team.

I am also a season tiicket for Worthing who are my local non league team having moved there 20 years ago.

I've always rationalised it that it was OK to support Worthing as well because they are non league therefore don't clash.

I've come to the realisation that I might also like West Ham. Members of my family are West Ham fans so there is a connection there.

Am I just having a football midlife crisis?

Am I doomed to be cast into the pits of hell?

Is it OK to support more than one team?
Worthing & BHA is fine (IMO)

How can you 'might also like WHU' ?
 


slartibartfast

Active member
Sep 11, 2004
393
Henfield
Cards on the table. I do. But it was wholly accidentally and circumstantial.

I was born in the early 60s in Newcastle - grew up on the banks of the Tyne. My first game was in 1969 with my Dad taking me to St James Park. Ive been a Newcastle fan since 1969.
Fast forward to 1992. I'd travelled around a bit , and had always gone to see local games wherever I was living , as a neutral. By now I was 28. I went to Sussex Uni as a mature student, and met a lady who became my wife in Brighton, settled here. Still a massive Newcastle fan. Started nipping down the road to watch the struggling lower division club playing at a ramshackle ground, - by 1994 I was living just round the corner from the Goldstone. I started to go regularly , as a casual at first, but then as the crisis at the Albion unravelled I became more and more passionate about the cause.
By the Build a Bonfire season of 1996-97, I was paying at the gate every home game, desperately supporting my new local "Div 4" team, whilst also supporting Kevin Keegan's Toon from afar. The two clubs were sometimes 90 places apart from each other at that time. There was NO WAY this would ever become a clash of interests, so I threw myself wholeheartedly into supporting my struggling local team. I was at almost every home game that season - the 4-4 with Leyton Orient is STILL the best game I have ever attended, for drama, passion, tension, goals, etc. I only missed the last two matches because they were no longer Pay at the Gate, and I c*cked up the arrangements for the Doncaster tickets, so spent that day outside in the Hove park kiddies play area with my 2 year old son listening to the crowd.
On the return to Withdean, I became a season ticket holder - was there for the Mansfield Town 6-0 and have been a STH ever since (apart from a couple of years in 2008-09 for financial reasons).
There would be NO CLASH of interests with Newcastle United - how could there be? The two clubs were 3 divisions apart.
Fast Forward 18 years and my two teams are suddenly going neck and neck for promotion to the Premier league. I have accidentally become a fan of two premier league clubs. After 30 years of going to watch Brighton, I am as passionate about the Albion as I am or ever have been about Newcastle, who Ive supported since 1969.

With Saudi , I am slightly more alienated by the Toon than I was in the past, but still - they are my birthright, my local team from the early years of my life. Brighton and Hove Albion are my local team from the last 30 years. My son is Brighton through and through.

The days when they play each other are hell. I feel like the father of the Williams Sisters when they used to play Wimbledon finals against each other.

I am NOT a glory hunter in any way - both clubs are my local club, from different parts of my life, - neither have won a flipping major trophy since I started watching in 1969, so no glory there. I came by this accidentally - I chose neither club "off the telly" , "cos they're the best" etc etc .

OK - I'm out now. :)
 


Jackthelad

Well-known member
Mar 31, 2010
1,162
I notice a fair few have said Worthing and Brighton I think possibly that’s acceptable, but the folk that support say Lewes FC & Brighton I don’t see how that’s not loving to different rival women. Lewes FC is a puffed up fanbase I’m not saying that’s a bad thing but they are deeply proud of their own culture which is not our culture and not our story.
 




kojak

Well-known member
Jan 17, 2022
894
Cards on the table. I do. But it was wholly accidentally and circumstantial.

I was born in the early 60s in Newcastle - grew up on the banks of the Tyne. My first game was in 1969 with my Dad taking me to St James Park. Ive been a Newcastle fan since 1969.
Fast forward to 1992. I'd travelled around a bit , and had always gone to see local games wherever I was living , as a neutral. By now I was 28. I went to Sussex Uni as a mature student, and met a lady who became my wife in Brighton, settled here. Still a massive Newcastle fan. Started nipping down the road to watch the struggling lower division club playing at a ramshackle ground, - by 1994 I was living just round the corner from the Goldstone. I started to go regularly , as a casual at first, but then as the crisis at the Albion unravelled I became more and more passionate about the cause.
By the Build a Bonfire season of 1996-97, I was paying at the gate every home game, desperately supporting my new local "Div 4" team, whilst also supporting Kevin Keegan's Toon from afar. The two clubs were sometimes 90 places apart from each other at that time. There was NO WAY this would ever become a clash of interests, so I threw myself wholeheartedly into supporting my struggling local team. I was at almost every home game that season - the 4-4 with Leyton Orient is STILL the best game I have ever attended, for drama, passion, tension, goals, etc. I only missed the last two matches because they were no longer Pay at the Gate, and I c*cked up the arrangements for the Doncaster tickets, so spent that day outside in the Hove park kiddies play area with my 2 year old son listening to the crowd.
On the return to Withdean, I became a season ticket holder - was there for the Mansfield Town 6-0 and have been a STH ever since (apart from a couple of years in 2008-09 for financial reasons).
There would be NO CLASH of interests with Newcastle United - how could there be? The two clubs were 3 divisions apart.
Fast Forward 18 years and my two teams are suddenly going neck and neck for promotion to the Premier league. I have accidentally become a fan of two premier league clubs. After 30 years of going to watch Brighton, I am as passionate about the Albion as I am or ever have been about Newcastle, who Ive supported since 1969.

With Saudi , I am slightly more alienated by the Toon than I was in the past, but still - they are my birthright, my local team from the early years of my life. Brighton and Hove Albion are my local team from the last 30 years. My son is Brighton through and through.

The days when they play each other are hell. I feel like the father of the Williams Sisters when they used to play Wimbledon finals against each other.

I am NOT a glory hunter in any way - both clubs are my local club, from different parts of my life, - neither have won a flipping major trophy since I started watching in 1969, so no glory there. I came by this accidentally - I chose neither club "off the telly" , "cos they're the best" etc etc .

OK - I'm out now. :)
Nothing wrong with that and completely understandable
 




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