sweyid
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- Jun 25, 2011
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Someone posted a link to Arsenal-mania (http://arsenal-mania.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=169882&start=2250) about some of the Arsenal fans being glad we beat United. I clicked the link, read it and took my dog for a walk. Came back home and hit F5 just to see that a debate about foreign fans had started and I just wondered how people here look at foreign fans.
The common sentiment on the Scum forum seems to be that you should support your local team and no other team and that foreign support hurts the local fans (i.e foreign fans occupying seats that should "rightfully" belong to a poor local kid).
I played football as a kid all through my youth and have always loved the game. Where I come from, northern Sweden, we don't really have any big football clubs, and pretty much everyone I know follows a Premier League team (mostly United, Arsenal and Liverpool, with a couple of people born in the 50's and 60's supporting 'Pool and Leeds). Of course we do follow our local team, which in my case plays in the local 4th division, which is as far away from being a professional league as you can come. I go to every match during the summers and know most of the players etc. But as I said, the Premier League has always been the league where I come from. We don't really follow the Swedish Allsvenskan, the nearest team being almost 600 kms away (so we follow hockey instead and do so with massive passion). In fact, it's cheaper and quicker for me to get to London than it is for me to get to my closest Allsvenskan game, with a bit of luck at least.
Anyway. I've followed Spurs since I was 7 (man-crush on Jürgen), and I consider myself a "real" (albeit foreign and not all that knowledgeable about all the finer aspects of everything) fan. My passion and my love for the club is real. I don't go to that many games, mainly cause I'm poor, got big loans and just started working after 6 years at university.
Anyway... enough about me. What's your, as proper local fans, view on foreign fans? Are we 'real' fans, or just glory hunters who hurt the club?
The common sentiment on the Scum forum seems to be that you should support your local team and no other team and that foreign support hurts the local fans (i.e foreign fans occupying seats that should "rightfully" belong to a poor local kid).
I played football as a kid all through my youth and have always loved the game. Where I come from, northern Sweden, we don't really have any big football clubs, and pretty much everyone I know follows a Premier League team (mostly United, Arsenal and Liverpool, with a couple of people born in the 50's and 60's supporting 'Pool and Leeds). Of course we do follow our local team, which in my case plays in the local 4th division, which is as far away from being a professional league as you can come. I go to every match during the summers and know most of the players etc. But as I said, the Premier League has always been the league where I come from. We don't really follow the Swedish Allsvenskan, the nearest team being almost 600 kms away (so we follow hockey instead and do so with massive passion). In fact, it's cheaper and quicker for me to get to London than it is for me to get to my closest Allsvenskan game, with a bit of luck at least.
Anyway. I've followed Spurs since I was 7 (man-crush on Jürgen), and I consider myself a "real" (albeit foreign and not all that knowledgeable about all the finer aspects of everything) fan. My passion and my love for the club is real. I don't go to that many games, mainly cause I'm poor, got big loans and just started working after 6 years at university.
Anyway... enough about me. What's your, as proper local fans, view on foreign fans? Are we 'real' fans, or just glory hunters who hurt the club?
