Is it ethically wrong to change your team?

[Brovion]

Following on from the discussions in the 'Hart or Ward' threads is it wrong to change teams? My own view is 'no' simply because I did! I was born in Purley and supported Chelsea and Palace. Even when I moved to Sussex I continued to support them - indeed I went to the Goldstone once and supported Fulham on the grounds they were neighbours of Chelsea!

My conversion to the Albion was gradual but obviously is now absolute. I hope if I ever moved away from Sussex I would never support the local team.

So can I be excused because I was a kid? Or am I a dirty turncoat? Or is changing your alliegance always acceptable?

 

[WATFORD O]

Idiot. No one should change their team. Youre a plastic fan. If Orient died I couldnt follow another team. I couldnt love another.

 

[Yorkie]

I couldn't ever change but persuaded my husband to.

 

[CAFC Matt]

I support CAFC and will never change. You can have a 'second team' that you follow, see some games but don't support if you know what I mean.

But no no one should change their team. AFC Wimblmdon have just got a load of Wimbledon fans going so they are not true supporters

 

[Easy 10]

I was born in Purley and supported Chelsea and Palace. Even when I moved to Sussex I continued to support them

Brovian, Brovian, Brovian.
I CANNOT let that lie. There this thread was, lurking inconspicuously around mid-table with only a couple of replies, and what do I see when I open it up ? Probably the most shocking admission since Sam Malone admitted he wears a wig.

I cannot believe you have masqueraded all this time amongst our ranks. Now your secret is out, things will never be the same. There should be some kind of warning permanently under your username as to your murky football-supporting past.

I am shocked, appalled, and rocked to my very core.

 

[Brixtaan]

Don't worry Brovian, being from Kent i was still supporting Liverpool when i first went to the Goldstone at the ripe old age of 11.

I'm not excusing myself because i was old enough to know exactly what i was doing.

 

[The Large One]

It's not a problem if you were once a Maidstone United fan...

 

[tedebear]

I should be excused from this type of labelling as I wasn't born here... I used to be a St. George Dragons fan!!

 

[Icy Gull]

Er, I was a long distance Tottenham fan as a child (lived abroad) and never saw them play.

Came to Brighton in 75 and only went along to watch the highly rated Peter Taylor in Malcolm Allison's much vaunted Crystal Palace side. Went in as a neutral and have been following the Albion ever since.

When we eventually played Spurs, I had forgotten I ever supported them . What an effing turncoat eh?

 

[Life After Bobby]

your team is the one which your heart lies with. it's possible to start off a plastic fan, only to discover your true love.

i've always been a brighton fan (born in worthing) but, without proper attention from those near me, liverpool usurped the seagulls as me main team. comes from living in surrey. wasn't until i went to uni, saw liverpool during the hillsborough season and realised over a year and a half that this wasn't my team.

finally came to a head when we played them in the FA cup - no choice who i wanted to win, no choice who i supported.

 

[Marshy]

You cant change and you cant have this 2nd team bollox either.

 

[Seagull over NZ]

I think Life after Bobby has hit the nail on the head. Until the point when you become emotionally attached, its a bit of a free for all.

The common theme as to when you first go to live games and then become emotionally attached is the key.

i too was a Liverpool fan up to the age of about 9 or 10 when I first went to the Albion.

Marshy is too simplistic. I too have a second team so to speak - lived in Southampton for 6 years when at uni and then afterwards so knew aload of Saints fans and went to a few games. Obviously when BHA play Southampton there is only one result i want but doesn't stop me looking out for them in the premiership and wantig them to do well.

 

[Fran Hagarty]

You cant change and you cant have this 2nd team bollox either.

I've never changed - I've always supported Brighton. However, it is possible to have a second team - QPR is mine but definitely comes second place to Brighton and, of course, I want us to win when we play them. I lived and worked in London and although I came back to Brighton for every home match, I couldn't make many away matches so went to Loftus Road when the fixtures worked out. It's strange going therein the away end, though. The home areas are much nicer, with better facilities.

 

[Brovion]

Re: Re: Is it ethically wrong to change your team?

Brovian, Brovian, Brovian.
I CANNOT let that lie. There this thread was, lurking inconspicuously around mid-table with only a couple of replies, and what do I see when I open it up ? Probably the most shocking admission since Sam Malone admitted he wears a wig.

I cannot believe you have masqueraded all this time amongst our ranks. Now your secret is out, things will never be the same. There should be some kind of warning permanently under your username as to your murky football-supporting past.

I am shocked, appalled, and rocked to my very core.

Well should read my posts more often then! *folds arms and look sulky* I've mentioned several times that my first tase of professional football was at Selhurst Park in 1965 and that both my Dad and Grandad were Palace fans! - and in the 1950s my Mum used to be secretary of the Supporters' club!

 

[Marshy]

I dont understand, and never will understand this 2nd team thing.

You should all be ashamed of yourselves.

 

[Brovion]

I dont understand, and never will understand this 2nd team thing.

You should all be ashamed of yourselves.

I should just like to point out that Palace and Chelsea are most emphatically NOT my second teams. Stenhousemuir, Bradford (Park Avenue) and St Pauli on the other hand .....

 

[chips and gravy]

I lived away from Sussex for quite awhile and missed the whole Saturday afternoon thing. I spent three seasons around Greater Manchester and in the first season I used to go to whatever game took my fancy with a load of mates in a similar position (ie exiled from their teams). In the second and third seasons I followed Stockport on a Friday night and Oldham on a Saturday afternoon. You can get into it, but it is never the same. I used to love Saturdays when the Albion were north of the Watford Gap - tried to get to all those games.

I then went to live in Plymouth. They were crap then, with the highlight of the season being either of the Devon derbies against Torquay or Exeter. I never did get excited about watching Plymouth and gave up quite quickly.

 

[Easy 10]

Re: Re: Re: Is it ethically wrong to change your team?

Well should read my posts more often then! *folds arms and look sulky* I've mentioned several times that my first tase of professional football was at Selhurst Park in 1965

You're probably right Brovian, but up until now I think I was in denial. It was just a bit of a shock to see you speak so....brazenly about it, as if it were no more alarming than discussing your favourite Pot Noodle flavour.

 

[The Large One]

Re: Re: Re: Is it ethically wrong to change your team?

Well should read my posts more often then! *folds arms and look sulky* I've mentioned several times that my first tase of professional football was at Selhurst Park in 1965 and that both my Dad and Grandad were Palace fans! - and in the 1950s my Mum used to be secretary of the Supporters' club!

Unclean, unclean!

 

[Jambo Seagull]

I was going to start a similar thread along these lines. Someone said that if they moved to a different part of the country they would not go and support the local side but would continue to support Brighton from afar. For me it's not quite as simple as that. I was born in Edinburgh, moved to Windsor when I was 2 and Brighton when I was 7. The first game I went to in England was at Stamford Bridge and until I moved to Brighton in 1973 I was a Chelsea "fan". I started going to Brighton games with my Dad shortly thereafter and went most weeks until I went to Uni in 1985 in Edinburgh. I have lived in the Edinburgh area ever since only returning occasionally to Brighton and seeing the odd game when I'm down. I still regard myself as a Brighton fan and always will even though I have been to about half a dozen games in the last 10 years. I don;t pretend to be the most diehard of Brighton fans but they are my English team.

I also have a Scottish team which also happens to be the team my Dad supported. My Dad's dead now but I regarded him as a genuine Brighton fan who spent a lot of money taking me and my brother to watch the stripes despite the fact that he had supported another team before moving to the Brighton area. His first love was Hearts, mine was Brighton but we loved and I still do love both of them as much as each other. Fortunately the only time I believe they have ever met was in a friendly at a pre-season tournament in Romania in 1991. A couple of my Jmabo mates were there but I can't remember the score. IF they ever played each other competitively I'm not sure who I would support.