Have a clear memory of driving through Dunstable in the mid-1990s on a Sunday afternoon seeing several GROWN MEN wearing Blackburn Rovers shirts. The most pathetic thing I've ever seen.
ahahahaha
hmmm wonder if they're still fans
think Nigel had gone to shit by the time the first CM came out
Gheorghe Hagi's son Ianis was at Rangers for a while, though with rapidly diminishing returns
Chelsea would be worse than Man City ngl
yeah I was getting rather confused by the profile pic and what not
well, the definition of "glory" being stretched there...
My mate supports whoever Nigel Clough is managing. Really gets into it. Was massively into Burton, Derby, Sheffield United. He has taken girlfriends to Oxford v Burton (living in London). Now he is a Mansfield fan and, as an Arsenal fan, that could have been horrible this weekend.
hahahaha that is so fantastically random. was he a big Forest fan back in the Cloughie era, or... is this completely beyond natural science?
makes sense
excuse to buy more shirts
but Brexit had a long political afterlife
best version of "Messi fans" and "Ronaldo fans" I've ever heard:
ahahahaha amazing
My football-related examples: when Chiesa arrived at Liverpool I realised I remember watching *his dad* play for Sampdoria. When Oleg Blokhin was Ukraine manager in the 2012 EUROS, I could say that I remembered watching him play for *the Soviet Union*.
sigh
did it ever have mass appeal? I thought even back in its peak era it was mainly watched by social elites (which isn't a criticism)
God, has it only been two days of “how dare you suggest that my artform no longer has mass appeal. My heavily subsidised concert had a full house of 55-65 year olds and I earn as much as €26k some years”? It’s felt longer.
yeah I think they have a merchandise shop in London too
massive international marketing by these clubs now, plus the overseas friendlies etc
yeah, I just think that they've got bored - they got their Brexit, they don't really care how or whether it works, they're onto the next thing. and if they get into power, they'll come up with *ahem* other ways of "embedding" Brexit for the long term...
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oh god I can't stand that lot, though hopefully the Ronaldo v Messi tragics are fading into past tense
I reckon Klopp probably helped Liverpool's appeal to kids
lol, did Luton reaching the premiership mean nothing
lol even the vibe here is over 38...
yeah, I think it might be because its proponents have basically "achieved" that so they've just banked it and moved onto the next thing (Faragism, misogyny, fascism - none with any particular success in that age group)
yeah I can definitely imagine it abroad, wonder whether there's more of a stigma against City's spending in England
oh, lol
"when I went to Uni there were no tuition fees"
"fackinhell!!!"
