Have you converted all your kids to BFC fans

BFC76

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Living away from Blackpool, I am facing a tough fight to keep my eldest lad interested in Blackpool. His school mates are either Liverpool or Man United fans and he says he wants to support one of them! Anyone else lost the kids to another team!
 
My eldest son was a Liverpool and Cods fan but coming to Bloomfield Road this season he's realised that supporting Fleetwood was a fairly soulless enterprise so has come over from the dark side. Eventually he'll drop the scousers 😎
 
Yes but only my eldest lad actually goes, youngest lad now & then & daughter possibly. I got them all ST's when we got into the Championship then the Prem, after that they were all old enough to buy their own. They don't bother with other teams, so the seeds were planted. As we're only just recovering from the Oyston lockdown & along came another I'd expect 2 of them to show a bit more interest when normality returns.
 
My son wasn't really into football when he was younger and changed football teams regularly he kind of liked it was more to do with who he was hanging around with at the time but I did draw the line when he said Bolton!

Then by chance my mate pulled out of a game the season we got promoted to the Prem so I took my lad instead he was totally hooked and then he came with us and his mate every game followed by the famous trip to Wembley.

He's now obsessed with football watches it every day and if he can get to an away match he will wherever in the country following the pool and still recalls that Yeovil trip!
 
I bought my lad a half season ticket when he was five, he’s had a season ticket next to me ever since ( apart from the boycott years) , he’s 26 now . My daughter isn’t interested.
 
Yep my son is 6, started this season been to Portsmouth match, morecambe in fa cup and Fleetwood. Keeps asking to go again which is a good sign 👍
 
I haven't lived in Lancashire since 1977 but two of my sons are committed BFC fans. My other son and daughter dont really follow football
 
Lived in Newcastle for the majority of my life. My son supports Blackpool and attends. He now lives in Sheffield. My eldest daughter went to Sunderland but has gone to watch Newcastle in recent years. My other daughter supports Newcastle. The girls have been to 30 odd away grounds each watching Blackpool
 
My dog Stanley is a big fan. He’d shit on the floor whenever I mentioned Oyston as a dirty protest
 
Living in Sheffield my son’s interest in watching football has arrived a little too late and he is a blade rather than the Seasider he should have been. They were flying when we were boycotting....
 
My daughter, who was born in Oldham but came to Blackpool when she was 3 months old, was a Blackpool fan until she got married.
Her husband, born in Bolton and adopted from Manchester very young, became a Manure fan for some unknown reason.
Grew up in Thornton so should have been Pool or Fleetwod.😕
They have brought my 2 Grandsons up to be Manure fans also.
1st G/G/son is a manure fan even though his maternal Grandpa is a Pool STH.
Work that one out.🙄
P.S. I am a Pool fan.😁
 
19, 21 and 24...been to all 3 playoff finals together. Son is a ST holder with me... when he can’t go one of my daughters fills in ... tangerine blood in our house 👍🧡
 
With girls it’s hard. They’ve been to many matches but then find boys 🥴 they know there is only one option though if they decide to re engage with the game 👍
My two girls know full well one question I will ask any potential suitor 😁....they both think I am an open minded father...except football...if he’s PNE it’s a no from me😁😁🧡
 
Living away from Blackpool, I am facing a tough fight to keep my eldest lad interested in Blackpool. His school mates are either Liverpool or Man United fans and he says he wants to support one of them! Anyone else lost the kids to another team!
That is awful news 76 and I really feel for you. I would sooner eat my own tessies than support one of them teams! Good luck and tell your son that if he changes now, he'll regret it for ever when he's older.
 
With girls it’s hard. They’ve been to many matches but then find boys 🥴 they know there is only one option though if they decide to re engage with the game 👍
We've two daughters in their 30's Lala and the eldest has tangerine blood despite having lived in Manchester since leaving uni. Brett & Charlie (& Sir Kenny) sent her wedding messages. The other who lives in Cheshire supports BFC but isn't as committed, as her husbands not bothered about football (a closet toffee). I'm proud to report that her 3 year old son our grandson has been a Seasider since birth & for as long as I live I swear he will stay that way!
 
With girls it’s hard. They’ve been to many matches but then find boys 🥴 they know there is only one option though if they decide to re engage with the game 👍
I found going to secondary school had an impact on the girls, supporting Blackpool became a source of ridicule and the girls hated that. The son wore it as a badge of pride and for 12 months was on the front page of Consett F C website wearing a Blackpool shirt surrounded by bar codes.
 
The other side to that is both my parents were massive Newcastle United fans but had to move away for work and settled on the Fylde before I was born. I remember showing an interest in Newcastle but my mates at school went to Bloomfield Road and thus shunned the family love of 'toon army to become a Seasider. We've had some good battles over the years!
 
I found going to secondary school had an impact on the girls, supporting Blackpool became a source of ridicule and the girls hated that. The son wore it as a badge of pride and for 12 months was on the front page of Consett F C website wearing a Blackpool shirt surrounded by bar codes.
I can associate with that Cuth. As a youth living in Warrington, surrounded by Mancs & Scouser fans (1 Chelsea, heaven knows why), I was like your son and saw supporting the Seasiders as being unique etc. I had many a scrap defending my honour and my team. However, it's not the done thing for girls to smack someone on the nose over football!
 
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