It’s always been the same both on this message board and across numerous other contexts, there’s always a set of people who feel you aren’t a true fan or that your opinion is less valid if you aren’t standing in the ground every week watching the match.
It completely ignores actual life, geography, cost of living and numerous other things.
Whether you pay for a season ticket and are in the ground each week, or if you pay your Sky subscription to be able to watch as many of our games televised every week as possible, if you live in another country and wake up at 2/3/4am just to be able to watch us play Sheffield United away, or if you simply can’t afford any of the above and rely on places like this for news and look for the highlights on motd or YouTube you’re just as much of a fan in my eyes.
Not everyone can afford to go to football, I know I certainly can’t every week. The idea that you’re less of a fan because you need to spend that money on your kids, food, your mortgage or rent is stupid. Aside from that the ground is never going to be large enough to fit every single supporter in it anyway.
Supporting a football team is something that you make work for you, and the ‘tourist’ fans as they’re referred to in that question are doing what works for them, I’m just glad and proud we have so many people making their own little sacrifices to cheer for our team instead of another.
It completely ignores actual life, geography, cost of living and numerous other things.
Whether you pay for a season ticket and are in the ground each week, or if you pay your Sky subscription to be able to watch as many of our games televised every week as possible, if you live in another country and wake up at 2/3/4am just to be able to watch us play Sheffield United away, or if you simply can’t afford any of the above and rely on places like this for news and look for the highlights on motd or YouTube you’re just as much of a fan in my eyes.
Not everyone can afford to go to football, I know I certainly can’t every week. The idea that you’re less of a fan because you need to spend that money on your kids, food, your mortgage or rent is stupid. Aside from that the ground is never going to be large enough to fit every single supporter in it anyway.
Supporting a football team is something that you make work for you, and the ‘tourist’ fans as they’re referred to in that question are doing what works for them, I’m just glad and proud we have so many people making their own little sacrifices to cheer for our team instead of another.