Comments on: “Supporters” and “fans” http://kemgooner.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/supporters-and-fans/ News and Opinions on the World of Football Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:33:03 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: marooner http://kemgooner.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/supporters-and-fans/#comment-135 marooner Thu, 08 May 2008 23:05:09 +0000 http://kemgooner.wordpress.com/?p=44#comment-135 Money makes the world go round. It makes big clubs bigger and small clubs smaller, and is the main reason the divide widens. Man Utd (and more recently Chelsea, often Arsenal and Liverpool... but mostly Man Utd) lunchboxes, duvet sets, pencil cases, sticker albums etc, plague the world in disgusting plentitude, making impressionable kiddly-winks, mostly oblivious to the workings of football, "pick" their team, thinking it fantastically convenient and maybe a sign of their own innate ingenuity that their club happen to win some silverware every single season. I'm a die-hard Gooner and secretly glad we're on the top end of the pile, even if it means a bunch of people who've never watched a game in their life "support" us, but it doesn't stop me from inwardly puking at the filthy capitalism of it all. I tend to agree that the more genuine fans live near the club or, in some weird way, have inherited the genes for loving-whoever-they-love through their parents (meaning the "real" fans are often found in smaller clubs)... but of course there are always exceptions to the rules. Rant over, apologies. Me + football + economics = disaster. It was a good article and an interesting read! Thanks! Money makes the world go round. It makes big clubs bigger and small clubs smaller, and is the main reason the divide widens. Man Utd (and more recently Chelsea, often Arsenal and Liverpool… but mostly Man Utd) lunchboxes, duvet sets, pencil cases, sticker albums etc, plague the world in disgusting plentitude, making impressionable kiddly-winks, mostly oblivious to the workings of football, “pick” their team, thinking it fantastically convenient and maybe a sign of their own innate ingenuity that their club happen to win some silverware every single season.

I’m a die-hard Gooner and secretly glad we’re on the top end of the pile, even if it means a bunch of people who’ve never watched a game in their life “support” us, but it doesn’t stop me from inwardly puking at the filthy capitalism of it all.

I tend to agree that the more genuine fans live near the club or, in some weird way, have inherited the genes for loving-whoever-they-love through their parents (meaning the “real” fans are often found in smaller clubs)… but of course there are always exceptions to the rules.

Rant over, apologies. Me + football + economics = disaster. It was a good article and an interesting read! Thanks!

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