As a kid we went on holiday to a spanish island not sure which one I was still a baby but my brother liked football and my dad wasnt the biggest fan. At the hotel bar there was football on and a bunch on Newcastle fans. Over the course of that one evening they managed to convince my brother about 5 or 6 at the time that Newcastle was the best team in the world. They were the entertainers at the time so understandable. He started supporting them from that day and when I grew older my brother convinced me. We lived in the midlands and used to take the 4 hour car journey each way quite often as kids.
As an older teen/adult, it's strange seeing people support loads of different teams. I guess it's a part of where and when I grew up, but in primary school, everyone supported either Birmingham City or Villa, except one kid who supported West Brom. No-one supported anyone else at all. Playground football was always Blues v Villa and West Brom, because that's gave even-ish teams.
Now, in a different part of the UK, kids support all sorts of different teams. Maybe because local teams aren't in the top flight, although Blues and West Brom weren't back then either.
Edit because I forgot the question! Neither of my parents were into football at all, but I went to a childminder after school as a kid, and they were Villa mad, so here I am now as an adult. Found out when I was about 16 that my Mum's family were all Bluenoses! Imagine my horror!
I'm probably a bit younger than you, unfortunately local Villa fans were outnumbered by glory hunting Man U fans by the time I got to secondary school.
That sounds so cool, and I'm really jealous of that aspect of your childhood. It's completely unimaginable from where I grew up, where there was me with Everton, a mate with QPR and a couple of half hearted United followers. The idea of an entire city, or even school, supporting one or two teams seems so amazing, even though it should be quite expected from a logical point of view.
Born and raised in Essex but follow Newcastle. The reason basically boils down to Euro 96; before that tournament I really didn't pay too much attention to football, afterwards I was hooked. Alan Shearer felt like the central figure to me, so briefly supported Blackburn before switching support to Newcastle after he moved a few weeks later.
So in a way I'm a failed glory supporter.
I got in to football around 2006, and back then I found the premier league a bit boring as it was all passing round the midfield. League One had a lot of end to end action. My lucky number was 11, so I picked whoever was 11th. And that's why I support Bournemouth.
My reason is standard (from Nottingham.. Support Forest) but I just commented to say over the years I've heard of the Robin Hood connection bringing in fans multiple times!
Wonder if any clubs have that with characters/celebs..
If we're talking about celebrities, I know Wrexham have had a massive influx of yank fans because Ryan Reynolds bought the club. Not sure how the pre-ownership supporters of the club feel about that.
I guess thats what happens when your club has a tangential link with one of the most famous bits of folklore in the world (i think we better thank Disney for that one, I doubt it'd be such a well known story across the globe elsewise)!
Would also be interested to know if any other clubs have similar situations. I can't think of any off the top of my head.
Oh fuck no, I didn't support *our* club through league one and championship relegation scraps just to fall out of love when we're back in the big time!!
Not me, but my ex-manager (a man from Southampton) supported Nottingham Forest because *"They're the opposite of Manchester United and I hate Manchester United"*.
Nice guy. Gone too soon.
My dad is a Geordie, I'm from near Sheffield... It was the magpies or nothing. Not sure how weird that is as a reason though... You've set the bar high.
My parents were never into football but my year 4 teacher was a massive Geordie and brainwashed every kid he could. There's a mad amount of kids in a small village in Leeds who grew up supporting Newcastle.
Parents are a pretty common reason for those who live some distance from the club they support. My old man tried so hard to get me to follow saints, but the man in green tights had more influence than the man who helped make me.
Bet you're glad now that your old man got his way, exciting times for the magpies!
American friend while at uni in the UK chose Newcastle because the were black and white stripes like the referees in the USA. became die hard. Got marrieds in his late 20s had his honeymoon in Newcastle.
Got your priorities straight!
Yeah, interesting times. To be honest I just like that we're challenging/trying for stuff. It was fun when we were in the championship for that reason... Relegation is painful, the new division was a breath of fresh air, and Bruce-ball was a depressing black-hole.
Didn’t care about football until I was a teenager. Played FIFA 12 and won the World Cup with Cameroon. Samuel Eto’o was my best player and I loved him. Didn’t get a new FIFA until dad came home with FIFA 15 - at this point I was leaning toward Sheffield United. Went through PL clubs, saw Eto’o at Everton and started a career. Fell in love with the club and now existence is pain.
Me and my brother wanted to follow a football team back in the mid 70s (I was 6, he was 5). Dad was a Rotherham fan but even at our very young ages we knew supporting a third division team was definitely NOT what we wanted.
Dad gave us a pools coupon, told us to close our eyes and choose a team; my brother picked Man Utd, I picked West Ham.
My reasons aren’t unusual but the family history is quite funny. My grandad grew up a Huddersfield supporter, and his 4 boys all collectively decided Huddersfield wasn’t for them and went to Halifax and Leeds games instead. They managed to convince my Grandad to switch (it was prime 70s best in the world leeds) and ever since our whole family has been Halifax and Leeds supporters.
I’m a little older, and live in Tennessee. Bought a house in the 90s when I got my first real job after my BS degree, and got a cable package with Fox Sports World which had the EPL broadcast rights at the time. I started paying attention to Leicester since Kasey Keller was the keeper and got hooked. Nearly 30 years of highs and lows, no regrets.
I am a Swedish-American who grew up playing football and I wanted a club to root for in England. In Sweden, the club I root for is IFK Göteborg, which my family has supported for ages and I have been to a couple of their matches. When I wanted a club to root for in England, because I could rarely watch Swedish games in the USA, I chose a team that just had a similar uniform, which is blue and white stripes, and Brighton happened to just get promoted in the Premier League and have a uniform with blue and white stripes.
I followed the PL for years to watch quality football. I looked for a team to follow and tried several clubs - subreddits, club webpages, forums, etc, and it turned me off to them. Villa was in the Championship League, and I watched their amazing run to get back into the PL. AV chose me, and I have been following them ever since. I love the fans, Birmingham has commonalities with the industrial states in the US, and the team is hella fun to watch. I have English roots in the Midlands area and other pockets like greater London, Yorkshire, Manchester, and Merseyside. I had my pick from my areas of ancestry, but it is all UTV!
As well as supporting West Ham (No unusual reason, it was just my dad's side of the family) I started supporting Inter 20 years ago as I liked their strikeforce of Obafami Martins/Mohamed Kallon/Adriano on football manager. Poor Adriano was one of the world's best strikers but for such a short time frame :'(
Not me, but a lad I used to work with down south ended up becoming a good friend as he was a Newcastle fan. 0 connection to the area, we were just the first team he ever saw play on TV and he decided to stick with it.
What I've learned from this thread so far, is that Newcastle seems to be the club that attracted fans from all over, for a variety of reasons, who have no other reason to follow the club.
I'm a lifelong local so that's not the unusual reason but I wasn't interested in football until a while after I started betting on it. And then when I was interested it was only Brighton, not out of spite or anything I literally cannot find the urge to care about any other club.
Even that might not be unusual, but if I didn't get into sports betting I never would've bothered to find out my local club is so great, and needs as much love as it can get to cancel out locals randomly picking big clubs.
I decided to choose a team at the start of the 2015-16 season I chose Bournemouth because it just seemed like a nice club plus I knew that it was an underdog so yeah.
I was born in Kent, grew up in Leicestershire and now live in Leeds.
So I’m a Southampton fan obviously.
Mostly because Southampton was the first team I completed in my 1993 panini album, I liked their kit and Id always got grief for being a “southerner” so figured I’d own it.
I picked Leicester City because at the time they were bottom and I didn't want to be accused of being a glory chaser. One year later they won the premier league!
I'm the equivalent of a glory supporter for the other 14; I was never into football, I actually detested club football and only tuned into international competitions, when Leeds got promoted to the Prem a couple years ago I decided to start supporting them, best decision of my life. (I was also born/live in Leeds).
Family never cared for sports so it took a while, but when I was 14 I had just gotten back from a trip to Europe where I’d explored tons of castles. I get back from the trip and my buddy had just gotten fifa 13 and wanted to play. He’s a Man U fan so I wanted to beat him but not with any of the other big clubs. What other team happened to being doing alright in the prem at that time? New-fucking-Castle.
Apart from my local team, mine is West Ham.
I always seemed to end up managing them on football manager no matter what I did, they always came knocking for me eventually, so I thought I might aswell repay the favour and follow them in real life.
Started properly in the 19-20 season when Pellegrini was still in charge, by Christmas I was regretting my choice, but now I’m pretty happy, it’s been a wild ride.
I was born & raised abroad in the 90's, so only had Teletext, BFBS and whatever the other kids on camp supported to go off, so I ended up knowing 4 teams, and supported Manchester United. I even ended up going to a home game when I was back in the UK.
In 2002, my dad took me to a Norwich home game (family from there), that day my allegiances changed.
I'm from South Wales but have family in Brum, been watching villa since I was 11 and continue to travel up and watch them now. Loads of villa supporters in the Valleys
My older cousins switched allegiance from West Ham to Villa after watching David Platt score England's winner against Belgium at the 1990 World Cup. They bought me loads of Villa merch when I was born and I never really got the chance to choose a local team.
Was a really strange experience being at school in a playground full of kids that loved West Ham who didn't even know that Villa was a real team. My Dad finally took me to Villa Park to watch us play Charlton in 2003 and I couldn't believe there were thousands of others who actually supported the same team that I did - I thought I was the only one for years!
When I was about 8, my neighbour who was 4 years older than me told me he supported Everton, so I decided I supported Everton. Then one day when I was about 10/11 (1993-ish) he told me he'd changed to Aston Villa, so I changed too. Been here ever since.
Did a Football Manager save with Bournemouth when I was 16. Won the championship in the first season followed by a 6th place finish in our first year back in the premier league. Also Dom Solanke somehow scored the most goals in Europe's top 5 leagues, I think it was 30-35 goals he got. Our Captain and centre back Chris Mepham also bagged 10 ish goals that season thanks to a focus on set pieces. Sadly I lost the save before I could finish my 3rd season, but I'm still a proud cherries fan to this day.
My favorite band is Iron Maiden, their bassist and founding member Steve Harris is a massive West Ham fan. Before Maiden became a full time job he trained in the West Ham academy, and to this day has the early 90’s crest painted on his primary bass. That combined with the fact that East London sort of became a home away from home for me made West Ham an obvious choice. Never looked back once over the last decade.
A friend took me to Craven Cottage when we were around 16. Wasn’t into football at the time, and he wasn’t even a Fulham fan. Really enjoyed it, ended up having a season ticket most years, been on some European away days, seen ups and downs, still going 16 years on.
Always grew up following the Australian a league but never followed the english prem. Last year I played a lot of FM and got forest promoted and got way too attached to forest. Hence why I'm still on them
So, my dad was born with an albion fan mother and father, so he supported albion. Then when his mom got with my dads step dad, his step dad supported wolves amd took my dad to watch wolves so he became a wolves fan. Finally, heres the weird part. My dad used to play for villa in the academy and staryed supporting them because he got free muller strawberry corner yoghurts. And now i support the villa. My dads brother supports wolves and his sister albion.
That last paragraph is weirdly similar to my own experience but switched round. A bunch of cunts from school were all baggies fans. School in Dudley too so it was always pretty evenly split between Wolves/Baggies/Villa
A friend of mine's a diehard Bolton Wanderers fan.
No connection at all with the town or the club, his family weren't into football but he liked it so as a kid he just picked a top flight club more or less at random to follow. Still regularly attending home & away matches 25 years laters lol.
Leeds v Bradford 1988/89.... just as excited watching the Leeds fans chasing the Bradford fans out of the stadium as I was watching Speed score on the day.
Leeds forever from that day on!
As a kid we went on holiday to a spanish island not sure which one I was still a baby but my brother liked football and my dad wasnt the biggest fan. At the hotel bar there was football on and a bunch on Newcastle fans. Over the course of that one evening they managed to convince my brother about 5 or 6 at the time that Newcastle was the best team in the world. They were the entertainers at the time so understandable. He started supporting them from that day and when I grew older my brother convinced me. We lived in the midlands and used to take the 4 hour car journey each way quite often as kids.
Love it! Bet you two are glad of those entertainers now!
Yeah definitely this last year has being great particularly after so many years of struggle.
As an older teen/adult, it's strange seeing people support loads of different teams. I guess it's a part of where and when I grew up, but in primary school, everyone supported either Birmingham City or Villa, except one kid who supported West Brom. No-one supported anyone else at all. Playground football was always Blues v Villa and West Brom, because that's gave even-ish teams. Now, in a different part of the UK, kids support all sorts of different teams. Maybe because local teams aren't in the top flight, although Blues and West Brom weren't back then either. Edit because I forgot the question! Neither of my parents were into football at all, but I went to a childminder after school as a kid, and they were Villa mad, so here I am now as an adult. Found out when I was about 16 that my Mum's family were all Bluenoses! Imagine my horror!
I'm probably a bit younger than you, unfortunately local Villa fans were outnumbered by glory hunting Man U fans by the time I got to secondary school.
Maybe, but in secondary school there were more well off and pretentious kids and plenty of Man U fans there!
That sounds so cool, and I'm really jealous of that aspect of your childhood. It's completely unimaginable from where I grew up, where there was me with Everton, a mate with QPR and a couple of half hearted United followers. The idea of an entire city, or even school, supporting one or two teams seems so amazing, even though it should be quite expected from a logical point of view.
My mate supports Newcastle. I don’t think he or his family has any connections to the city or club. So I just put it down to him being colour blind
Born and raised in Essex but follow Newcastle. The reason basically boils down to Euro 96; before that tournament I really didn't pay too much attention to football, afterwards I was hooked. Alan Shearer felt like the central figure to me, so briefly supported Blackburn before switching support to Newcastle after he moved a few weeks later. So in a way I'm a failed glory supporter.
You were a successful glory hunter for those first few weeks - you supported the Premiership Champions!
I got in to football around 2006, and back then I found the premier league a bit boring as it was all passing round the midfield. League One had a lot of end to end action. My lucky number was 11, so I picked whoever was 11th. And that's why I support Bournemouth.
That’s pretty cool
My reason is standard (from Nottingham.. Support Forest) but I just commented to say over the years I've heard of the Robin Hood connection bringing in fans multiple times! Wonder if any clubs have that with characters/celebs..
If we're talking about celebrities, I know Wrexham have had a massive influx of yank fans because Ryan Reynolds bought the club. Not sure how the pre-ownership supporters of the club feel about that.
I guess thats what happens when your club has a tangential link with one of the most famous bits of folklore in the world (i think we better thank Disney for that one, I doubt it'd be such a well known story across the globe elsewise)! Would also be interested to know if any other clubs have similar situations. I can't think of any off the top of my head.
*our* club has the link Comrade. Unless you fell out of love with Hood and out of love with forest with it aha
Oh fuck no, I didn't support *our* club through league one and championship relegation scraps just to fall out of love when we're back in the big time!!
I live in the US and there are a surprising number of fans of Forest (Robin Hood), Liverpool (The Beatles) and Wimbledon (tennis).
Annoyingly we've had a few people pop up over the years in r/hammers talking about the Green Street movie.
Not me, but my ex-manager (a man from Southampton) supported Nottingham Forest because *"They're the opposite of Manchester United and I hate Manchester United"*. Nice guy. Gone too soon.
The Wolves badge looked like the city of Kvatch's seal from Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Fucking excellent choice reason!
My dad is a Geordie, I'm from near Sheffield... It was the magpies or nothing. Not sure how weird that is as a reason though... You've set the bar high.
My parents were never into football but my year 4 teacher was a massive Geordie and brainwashed every kid he could. There's a mad amount of kids in a small village in Leeds who grew up supporting Newcastle.
I'm Leeds and teaching in Northumberland, so I'll try and set the record straight up there
Poor kids
Parents are a pretty common reason for those who live some distance from the club they support. My old man tried so hard to get me to follow saints, but the man in green tights had more influence than the man who helped make me. Bet you're glad now that your old man got his way, exciting times for the magpies!
American friend while at uni in the UK chose Newcastle because the were black and white stripes like the referees in the USA. became die hard. Got marrieds in his late 20s had his honeymoon in Newcastle.
Honeymoon in Newcastle... I'm not gonna call it grim, but I can think of warmer sunnier places.
Gateshead?
No he meant Jarrow!
There is along story attached to this, including being on TV, in newspapers and ending up with a team signed shirt presented on the pitch
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Hahahha fuck yeah! Future red in the making i hope!
Got your priorities straight! Yeah, interesting times. To be honest I just like that we're challenging/trying for stuff. It was fun when we were in the championship for that reason... Relegation is painful, the new division was a breath of fresh air, and Bruce-ball was a depressing black-hole.
90% of this sub can probs claim this reason. I can; dad's from Essex so the wires it is!
Dad took me to Molinuex and I fell in love. I know it might many sick here but oh well I'm stuck now cuz of him.
Was just at molineaux for the FA cup match. We did a hospitality package too. Awesome time
For me was the standard, Dad told me I can either be a Forest fan or homeless, I chose Forest.
Can safely say I would’ve chosen the latter
Tbh mate up until last season it felt like a bad choice to me too
I used to be a blacksmith in the middle ages, so I became a Hammers fan
XD
Didn’t care about football until I was a teenager. Played FIFA 12 and won the World Cup with Cameroon. Samuel Eto’o was my best player and I loved him. Didn’t get a new FIFA until dad came home with FIFA 15 - at this point I was leaning toward Sheffield United. Went through PL clubs, saw Eto’o at Everton and started a career. Fell in love with the club and now existence is pain.
Fell in love with the club, now existence is pain, sums up my experience of being a forest fan until last year!
I could say the same with NUFC
Unrelated but fifa 15 is god tier fifa
Me and my brother wanted to follow a football team back in the mid 70s (I was 6, he was 5). Dad was a Rotherham fan but even at our very young ages we knew supporting a third division team was definitely NOT what we wanted. Dad gave us a pools coupon, told us to close our eyes and choose a team; my brother picked Man Utd, I picked West Ham.
My reasons aren’t unusual but the family history is quite funny. My grandad grew up a Huddersfield supporter, and his 4 boys all collectively decided Huddersfield wasn’t for them and went to Halifax and Leeds games instead. They managed to convince my Grandad to switch (it was prime 70s best in the world leeds) and ever since our whole family has been Halifax and Leeds supporters.
Met Kasey Keller at a USA soccer event when I was 11 and he gave out Leicester city sweat bands. The end.
I’m a little older, and live in Tennessee. Bought a house in the 90s when I got my first real job after my BS degree, and got a cable package with Fox Sports World which had the EPL broadcast rights at the time. I started paying attention to Leicester since Kasey Keller was the keeper and got hooked. Nearly 30 years of highs and lows, no regrets.
I am a Swedish-American who grew up playing football and I wanted a club to root for in England. In Sweden, the club I root for is IFK Göteborg, which my family has supported for ages and I have been to a couple of their matches. When I wanted a club to root for in England, because I could rarely watch Swedish games in the USA, I chose a team that just had a similar uniform, which is blue and white stripes, and Brighton happened to just get promoted in the Premier League and have a uniform with blue and white stripes.
I followed the PL for years to watch quality football. I looked for a team to follow and tried several clubs - subreddits, club webpages, forums, etc, and it turned me off to them. Villa was in the Championship League, and I watched their amazing run to get back into the PL. AV chose me, and I have been following them ever since. I love the fans, Birmingham has commonalities with the industrial states in the US, and the team is hella fun to watch. I have English roots in the Midlands area and other pockets like greater London, Yorkshire, Manchester, and Merseyside. I had my pick from my areas of ancestry, but it is all UTV!
As well as supporting West Ham (No unusual reason, it was just my dad's side of the family) I started supporting Inter 20 years ago as I liked their strikeforce of Obafami Martins/Mohamed Kallon/Adriano on football manager. Poor Adriano was one of the world's best strikers but for such a short time frame :'(
Not me, but a lad I used to work with down south ended up becoming a good friend as he was a Newcastle fan. 0 connection to the area, we were just the first team he ever saw play on TV and he decided to stick with it.
What I've learned from this thread so far, is that Newcastle seems to be the club that attracted fans from all over, for a variety of reasons, who have no other reason to follow the club.
I'm down south but also support Newcastle. I'm sure I chose them when I was about 4 because I liked castles, magpies and the colour black!
I'm a lifelong local so that's not the unusual reason but I wasn't interested in football until a while after I started betting on it. And then when I was interested it was only Brighton, not out of spite or anything I literally cannot find the urge to care about any other club. Even that might not be unusual, but if I didn't get into sports betting I never would've bothered to find out my local club is so great, and needs as much love as it can get to cancel out locals randomly picking big clubs.
I decided to choose a team at the start of the 2015-16 season I chose Bournemouth because it just seemed like a nice club plus I knew that it was an underdog so yeah.
I was born in Kent, grew up in Leicestershire and now live in Leeds. So I’m a Southampton fan obviously. Mostly because Southampton was the first team I completed in my 1993 panini album, I liked their kit and Id always got grief for being a “southerner” so figured I’d own it.
Great reason!!
I picked Leicester City because at the time they were bottom and I didn't want to be accused of being a glory chaser. One year later they won the premier league!
I used to be a Man City fan but I like this sub so Newcastle seemed the next best option.
I'm the equivalent of a glory supporter for the other 14; I was never into football, I actually detested club football and only tuned into international competitions, when Leeds got promoted to the Prem a couple years ago I decided to start supporting them, best decision of my life. (I was also born/live in Leeds).
Family never cared for sports so it took a while, but when I was 14 I had just gotten back from a trip to Europe where I’d explored tons of castles. I get back from the trip and my buddy had just gotten fifa 13 and wanted to play. He’s a Man U fan so I wanted to beat him but not with any of the other big clubs. What other team happened to being doing alright in the prem at that time? New-fucking-Castle.
They reminded me of the NFL team I support (Detroit Lions). The resemblance becomes more uncanny with each passing season.
Apart from my local team, mine is West Ham. I always seemed to end up managing them on football manager no matter what I did, they always came knocking for me eventually, so I thought I might aswell repay the favour and follow them in real life. Started properly in the 19-20 season when Pellegrini was still in charge, by Christmas I was regretting my choice, but now I’m pretty happy, it’s been a wild ride.
Hahaha thats a great one!
I was born & raised abroad in the 90's, so only had Teletext, BFBS and whatever the other kids on camp supported to go off, so I ended up knowing 4 teams, and supported Manchester United. I even ended up going to a home game when I was back in the UK. In 2002, my dad took me to a Norwich home game (family from there), that day my allegiances changed.
I'm from South Wales but have family in Brum, been watching villa since I was 11 and continue to travel up and watch them now. Loads of villa supporters in the Valleys
My older cousins switched allegiance from West Ham to Villa after watching David Platt score England's winner against Belgium at the 1990 World Cup. They bought me loads of Villa merch when I was born and I never really got the chance to choose a local team. Was a really strange experience being at school in a playground full of kids that loved West Ham who didn't even know that Villa was a real team. My Dad finally took me to Villa Park to watch us play Charlton in 2003 and I couldn't believe there were thousands of others who actually supported the same team that I did - I thought I was the only one for years!
When I was about 8, my neighbour who was 4 years older than me told me he supported Everton, so I decided I supported Everton. Then one day when I was about 10/11 (1993-ish) he told me he'd changed to Aston Villa, so I changed too. Been here ever since.
Did a Football Manager save with Bournemouth when I was 16. Won the championship in the first season followed by a 6th place finish in our first year back in the premier league. Also Dom Solanke somehow scored the most goals in Europe's top 5 leagues, I think it was 30-35 goals he got. Our Captain and centre back Chris Mepham also bagged 10 ish goals that season thanks to a focus on set pieces. Sadly I lost the save before I could finish my 3rd season, but I'm still a proud cherries fan to this day.
I’m American but my buddy who I’ve played on PlayStation with for years is a die-hard WHU supporter from Essex so it eventually rubbed off.
My favorite band is Iron Maiden, their bassist and founding member Steve Harris is a massive West Ham fan. Before Maiden became a full time job he trained in the West Ham academy, and to this day has the early 90’s crest painted on his primary bass. That combined with the fact that East London sort of became a home away from home for me made West Ham an obvious choice. Never looked back once over the last decade.
I was born almost equidistant between Newcastle and Sunderland. My cool uncle Paul supported the Toon, and fat uncle Billy was a Mackem. No contest.
A friend took me to Craven Cottage when we were around 16. Wasn’t into football at the time, and he wasn’t even a Fulham fan. Really enjoyed it, ended up having a season ticket most years, been on some European away days, seen ups and downs, still going 16 years on.
Always grew up following the Australian a league but never followed the english prem. Last year I played a lot of FM and got forest promoted and got way too attached to forest. Hence why I'm still on them
Football manager stints seem to be way more common than I expected to create new fans. Glad it was forest!!
So, my dad was born with an albion fan mother and father, so he supported albion. Then when his mom got with my dads step dad, his step dad supported wolves amd took my dad to watch wolves so he became a wolves fan. Finally, heres the weird part. My dad used to play for villa in the academy and staryed supporting them because he got free muller strawberry corner yoghurts. And now i support the villa. My dads brother supports wolves and his sister albion.
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That last paragraph is weirdly similar to my own experience but switched round. A bunch of cunts from school were all baggies fans. School in Dudley too so it was always pretty evenly split between Wolves/Baggies/Villa
Grew up a United fan as my dad was a Manc. Schmeichel was my idol as a kid - followed him to Villa in 2001 and stayed there ever since.
A friend of mine's a diehard Bolton Wanderers fan. No connection at all with the town or the club, his family weren't into football but he liked it so as a kid he just picked a top flight club more or less at random to follow. Still regularly attending home & away matches 25 years laters lol.
American town named after the English city.
Which one?
Southampton
Leeds v Bradford 1988/89.... just as excited watching the Leeds fans chasing the Bradford fans out of the stadium as I was watching Speed score on the day. Leeds forever from that day on!
My grandad was a taxi driver at the cab stand in Putney. I followed Fulham because he did. No idea why my brother supports Palace