like I have always maintained and you have just confirmed our global fanbase is built up on gloryhunting fans, Chelsea are the fastest growing fanbase in the world since Roman took over and it's for the same reasons ours was built all those years ago...
Again you are getting confused. A glory hunter is one who will support the best performing team of the moment and change for a better team when that happens unless you have a different definition. It's true that most global fans will choose the winning team when they start to watch and understand the game, but, they rarely change after that, just like a local fan.
a glory hunter chooses a team because they are successful or famous please don't compare a local fan to that as it's very insulting we are not lucky enough to get to pick a team. The local fan is the bread and butter while the emergence of the Out of Town fan has ruined football at lower and grass roots level...
Are you saying there is only one team in your locality? By the way, whether you are local or not, LFC is not your property and you do not have any more rights on it. There is hardly any players from the town anyway and the owners are Americans. I hope not all local fans are narrow minded as you and also note that the world has gone global since you could grasp anything.
but that's just it locals do see the club as there property, if you come from the city the club represents you there's a clue in the badge and in the name if you didn't know.
Ok let's get to the nuts and bolts of the matter and try to get this thing sorted sensibly. I think Out Of Town fans have killed most lower league and grass roots football and I will tell you why.
If you look at the attendences from the 90s onwards when fans stopped supporting there local clubs and started to support more successful and fashionable clubs the days of the smaller clubs flourishing started to die. A young lad born and brought up in Brighton, Hartlepool or Sheffield thought my club is rubbish and never wins anything so I think I will go and support a United or Liverpool because there famous and win stuff, the local team then started to struggle attendence wise and if you check the attendences around the country from the 90s onwards you will clearly see they have got lower and lower to the point some are in danger of going extinct.
Hers a little story which happened a couple of years ago to back up my point, I went to a stag weekend in Nottingham, next day we goes to the pub and there's two rooms with matches on, the pub was quite busy in one room Forest were playing I think Cardiff City and in the next United were playing Southampton, there was about 6 people watching Forest and about 40 watching United, how is that rite, Nottingham a fantastic sporting City, Forest European Cup winners twice, Notts County oldest football Club around and the same club Juventus took there famous black and white stripes from, a cricket ground and race track and there they have football supporters from there own city turning there backs on the local team to support United, absolutely disgraceful.
Another thing where do you think football would be if all supporters did what most Out of Town supporters do and support a Club from another City because they were better than there own local Club, football would be finished as everyone can do that.
Sorry if people don't agree with my view but I base it on my own experience and thoughts, it's an interesting debate tho but like I say you only have to look at the attendences of the lower league clubs since the 90s to see the impact of this Out Of Town glory hunting fan movement...
