Comments on: Supporting a 2nd Team – Acceptable Practice or Ultimate Fan Treachery?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:36:10 +0000

its a tricky one. I dont believe you ever actually support a second team, you take and interest, an armchair following which will always fall short of your first love. As i Palace fan (and i write that knowing it suggests i have none/little knowledge of football) ive often supported the player and followed there sucess ie ian wright at arsenal and of course mark bright sparkling bbc career (god he makes a recall for barry venison to punditry seema realistic shout) As for jagielka, he is the benchmark of the premier league. If ure worse than him you shouldnt be allowed out of the football league. This is opitimised by his stupid name, exotica mixed with the blandness of phil. Daft. Maybe ure next article should be why do the better teams have better sounding players ie cesc fabregas v wade elliot. maybe its nominate determinism i dont know. ta ra westy

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:02:20 +0000

Well i'm a Charlton fan and I always had a soft spot for Brighton as someone who went to my school as a youth plays for them. The only problem now is that we are in the same league! Due to Charlton yo yoing up and down the leauges i've decided to support Phil Jagielka instead!

Otherwise an interesting article that is often talked about in general coverstation, good work!

Come on Phil!!

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:29:41 +0000

Absolutely nothing wrong in supporting more than one team. I am a season ticket holder at Arsenal but regularly look out for Colchester UTDs results & get to their games when I can.

With the gap between The Premiership & Leagues 1 & 2 bigger than ever, it feels like I support 2 teams from completely different worlds.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:57:47 +0000

Mr Candy,

My Life was always Oxford United growing up with a fondness for Man Utd (as the only person in my family who liked football was my uncle - a united season ticket holder - from Didcot. Of course.)

Oxford are, and always will be, my main team and now living back here - I feel it stronger than ever.

However, over the years I have inherited, like odd bits of furniture from Ex-Girlfriends and rented houses, a few add-on teams.

A Friend at Uni, in Devon was a Spurs fan and... as such... I began to follow a little. To the point now Huddlestone is that altar i worship at and the first team I use on FM is always Tottenham.

My dad was born in Torpoint, across the river from Plymouth and so Argyle are always close to my heart.

Perugia, because of Hidetoshi Nakata.

Anyone who beats Swindon.

They are my favourite teams.

By: Just Football

Just Football — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:47:20 +0000

Haha I like that. This guy above me sums it up well!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:20:26 +0000

Anonymous 22:19

I support two teams every week. Rangers and who ever is playing Celtic.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:07:18 +0000

For me the best article so far.

I feel the football fan of the premiership secretly yarns for a lower league team to support.

The globalization and the influx of money has disconnected the working man from the premier league football star.

Lower league football gives back to the local man and his dog.

Inherited Spurs through blood

flirted with Sheffield Wednesday and West Ham in my youth

have a soft spot for Charlton

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:19:59 +0000

I think all you lot following different teams are mad! One team, your team, the team you feel
pasionate about and no other!
And yes the commment about actually changing your team, that is sacrilege !

By: Paul Medhurst

Paul Medhurst — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:57:57 +0000

Nothing wrong with having a second team. the first game I ever went to was on a Boxing Day, Orient v QPR, with my family. Boxing Day at the O's was always a tradition. In 1979, I started going to Spurs games, home and away, in 1979 with all my mates for the laugh. I've lived in the U.S now for 23 years, and whenever I get home I'll try to go to see both teams. Incidentally, back in the early Eighties, Spurs played against the O's in a Cup game. I supported Spurs, but just didn't want them to run up the score too much.

By: P Shaw

P Shaw — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:38:06 +0000

There is absolutely nothing wrong with supporting every team in England! I "officially" support Sheffield Wednesday but because of my Yorkshire roots I like to see Barnsley, Rotherham, Doncaster and Bradford all do well. But I have never liked Sheffield United or Leeds United and I have a certian distaste for the constantly winning teams, Man Utd, Liverpool.

I moved to Nottingham, where because of their affiliation with the greatest English manager ever, I will always support Nottingham Forest. I lived in London for a long time, but never supported Arsenal, Chelsea, Charlton, Crystal Palace or any of the many others. I had a certain likeness for Tottenham, having liked the character that is Bill Nocholson that I read about but I never saw them play and I don't support them.

All in all, you may support as many teams as you want, but like Jonathon above you always go back to your original team, you can't change them, your in for better and for worse. And being a Wednesday fan all my life, I know it can be hard.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:33:16 +0000

As far as I'm concerned there's nothing wrong with supporting a 2nd/3rd/4th or 5th team as long as they're not in the same division or direct rivals.

I have soft spots for a lot of teams around the world based on things like going to see them once or twice (Corinthians in Brazil for example), or friends in other countries supporting them (Marseille as well, Alianza Lima) - random things like that.

What would be unacceptable I reckon though would be supporting someone like Spurs and then enjoying watching Arsenal every now and then.

And the worst of all - the worst of the worst by far is definitely changing the team you support. Once you're in, you're in come what may in my opinion.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:14:50 +0000

I support Barcelona in Spain and wouldn't like to choose between them and Spurs if they played each other. Probably side with Spurs, really.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:57:57 +0000

Passion dictates two teams in an Englishman's life England then whatever your league or premership is. To support or follow other sides is nonesense!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:48:27 +0000

Nice to see 15:03 getting into the swing of things. Mate, it's just a guys opinion. He has as much right to air it as you had not to read it.

Spurs fan too but follow Billericay Town (local side)and Leyton Orient (lower league, cheaper to watch!). Soft spots for Southend (town of my birth) and Stoke City (went to uni up near there.

Not treachery. Just love football. End of

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:03:11 +0000

I think this a 'load of crap' article. I've never come across an ego like it apart from David Bentley's.

Who do you think cares about your tastes, likes and dislikes.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:01:02 +0000

It depends, really.
I grew up as part of a large 'Irish in England' community, many via Glasgow - so pretty much everyone suported Celtic. I drank in pubs and clubs heavy with Celtic memorabilia, and, quite naturally I supported Celtic.

But my first team is and always will be Spurs. If the occasion should ever occur wherre I had to chosse between, there really would be no contest - I suppost Spurs, end of...

I don't think that makes me treacherous; funnily enough, however, most of my mates support Celtic and either Liverpool or Man Utd, but most of them just wouldn't otp for the English club in a straight competitive match. But me, it would always be Spurs first.