I guess I'm a bit like the Op; neither my parents nor my brother followed football and I was from a non-footballing town; Rugby, so influenced by what was on TV and what the talk of the playground was. I know one thing; as much as United in the 70s were still a fashionable club to follow, by doing so you were also declaring yourself as anti-l'pool, two badges of honour in one which was great for a school kid.
We moved to Coventry and I've been to see them many times, and cheered them on and enjoyed many great games, so can go watch a local team but you'll always be a fan of the one that grabbed you as a kid, and there's nowt you can do about it and nowt to be ashamed of. My Dad followed Leicester in his youth, if he'd kept it up after I was born and had taken me to games, I may have been a Leicester fan, but I got lucky!
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posted on 20/8/12
I guess I'm a bit like the Op; neither my parents nor my brother followed football and I was from a non-footballing town; Rugby, so influenced by what was on TV and what the talk of the playground was. I know one thing; as much as United in the 70s were still a fashionable club to follow, by doing so you were also declaring yourself as anti-l'pool, two badges of honour in one which was great for a school kid.
We moved to Coventry and I've been to see them many times, and cheered them on and enjoyed many great games, so can go watch a local team but you'll always be a fan of the one that grabbed you as a kid, and there's nowt you can do about it and nowt to be ashamed of. My Dad followed Leicester in his youth, if he'd kept it up after I was born and had taken me to games, I may have been a Leicester fan, but I got lucky!
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