This happened to me last week with the Spanish students sharing the language school with us. Their local team was Hercules Alicante and some of the kids supported them but also Barcelona or Real Madrid. This isn't such a thing in England with our strong lower league structure.
They all knew...
You're absolutely right - the regular fans need looking after and I think, in the main, the club do recognise that.
However, it's bloody lovely for the rest of us to no longer be asked if we support another, "bigger" Premier League club!
I have just come back from a language week with my Austrian school in Malahide and was blown away with just how much the locals knew about the Seagulls and just how praiseworthy they were. All the football fans I spoke to were appreciative of our style of play and thought that Evan Ferguson was...