Pseudo Fans of Clubs

Hoppo

Hoppo

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Watching the Robbie Williams doc (quite good) on Netflix and his Stoke roots, I was just reading about Phil Taylor wanting him to buy Port Vale with him. Would I be right in thinking that Willians is one of these who talks the talk but was actually a Chelsea fan?
 
I.do.remembwr him appearing on Saturday Superstore probably early 90's wearing a Port Vale shirt. The company I worked for then Kalamazoo sponsored.them . The sponsors lounge was a portakabin 🤣
 
FY4MIKEH said:
Port Vale fan but had a box at Chelsea, not really a proper fan then.
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Rubbish - I did watch Dulwich Hamlet and there was another Pool fan there every week - I even had a season ticket (presented by Peter Crouch no less!) but I still got to lots of Pool matches (more away than at home) and always will
Like me, or, most of us, Robbie Williams is a footie fan and can afford to watch it where he wants to - I'm sure he wants the best for Burslem but sometimes your Club simply aint the best (like ours)
 
Mark_GT said:
Were they on Mowbray drive? Selling b&m type gear wholesale?
At the time I had a Saturday job at H Parker slipper factory. I was 14 😬🤣
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I remember them as printers of office stuff like ledgers, thought they were based in Bradford
 
Goleftgoright said:
The Prince of Wales, apparently a Villa fan, yet has been seen watching their black country rivals, Wolves away.
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Tbf, his mate is a Wolves fan and he went with him to the game. He goes to quite a few Villa games as well. I've been to Blackburn games with a mate from Uni in the past. I wasn't cheering them on, just something to do when Blackpool were away and I couldn't get there.
 
I think too much is made of someone going watching another team play. When I used to travel for work, I would go watch loads of diffrent teams play. Didn't make me a fan of their team, it was just something to do whilst I was in that area, usually on a Tuesday or Wednesday night. If you're getting a season ticket at another club then that's excessive, but one off games aren't really anything. Prince William came and watched us play on a stag do, doesn't mean he supports us, he's still a Villa fan. Too much is made of nothing in football.
 
I work with a pseudo-City fan in Manchester. Doubt he's ever been to a football match in his entire life, I imagine he was raised a City fan because of his Dad who I've gathered to be a proper fan. He's clearly never been arsed about football but now City are world beaters he just uses it as bragging rights.

He has banter with the United fans at work and such, when they beat Arsenal in the FA Cup last season he came in giving it large saying: "see you said Arsenal would win the league, look what happened last night". The United fan was laughing saying that was in the cup, not the league. When he left he had to ask me what that meant, he literally couldn't differentiate between a cup competition and the league - took me a while to explain the difference, I had to track back eventually and explain it on a completely fundamental level as he had absolutely no contextual knowledge.

I often think fuck me, how often do you meet these people who give you shit about sorting clubs like Blackpool? In reality they don't have a ** clue about their own clubs or football in general.
 
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I've been to watch Everton, Middlesbrough a few times ( Lived there for couple of years late 80's ) and Celtic in the past .
All times to just watch footy and with pals who supported those teams.
It's not the same but day out ,see a different ground,few pints etc
 
I wa born in Salford, my parents were United fans so I guess that made me a United fan. We then moved to Bury and I became a Bury fan before moving to Blackpool, and yes became a Blackpool fan. If I moved elsewhere say Newcastle etc I would go and watch them and become a fan. Lifes to short to carry around football baggage like "Blackpool until I die" nonsense.
 
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