[Football] Supporting the wrong team.

[Green Cross Code Man]

That's nothing, back in the 80's my mate's dad took us to palace to watch the derby and he stood in 6-8000 Brighton fans shouting for the wrong team. I still can't fathom how no-one took a swipe at him.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

I think it's rather a nice touch and is often a stylistic convention associated with an anecdote that has a counter-intuitive trope - which indeed this has. So my pretentiousness meets your pedantry.

So, that is a great answer but I still don't like the convention.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

So I'm sat in row P of the East Upper, which is six rows closer than my normal seat, watching England take on New Zealand. Now I'll be honest, I've no idea of any of the players. So the pre match warm up and the teams are announced, still no ideas. Kick about over and the big flags are draped over the pitch. And here come the players. One team in White and one in Claret. One thing I do know about England is that they play in White!
For seven full minutes I supported the team in white and the more I think about it the more I'm convinced most of the crowd around me had no idea either and sat on the fence a bit.

Might have been a shorter post if you told us what you DID notice

 

[Lush]

I'm so conditioned to watching and cheering on the team in blue and white stripes that whenever we play Huddersfield or Sheffield Weds away it always takes me at least 15 mins to tune it out.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

It does show that women's football is totally over hyped for gender reasons.

 

[Gritt23]

Apparently, Putin promoted calling the national female beach volleyball team the Russian Dolls.

And their athletics team are known as "The Drug Cheats".

 

[Official Old Man]

It's England V Scotland and low & behold England are playing in all white as per usual.
Case closed!!

 

[Superphil]

One of the few things I know about New Zealand is that their football team are nicknamed the All-Whites.

The New Zealand women’s football team are nicknamed ‘Football Ferns’.