8 types of football fan

Suppersalmon

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Fan #1 - The Statto: This guy has never played the game in his life, but can tell you everything about the game, pre and post-war. It's impossible to win an argument against him. He will tell you who has made the most assists, tackles and cups of tea this season and whose fans are the loudest to the nearest decibel. But does he really care?

Fan #2 - The Season-Ticketer: This guy has not missed a home game for 46 years and knows all the songs. Though he rarely sings them. He prides himself on 'being there' the last time the team won anything. He hates those who don’t go to games and always, always drives there. Can usually be seen sitting in 'his seat' at half-time moaning about the team (even though they are 2-0 up) and the 'fairweather fans' (even though there are 42,000 in the ground for a Carling Cup first leg)

Fan #3 - The Ignoramus (Ig-nor-ray-moss): This ancient, primitive type of fan was suspected to be extinct during the Eighties. However, and quite remarkably, it re-emerged when ManYoo started winning again in the Nineties. Rarely violent, but always aggressive, this animal can be seen boasting about 'them' beating 'you', shortly before asking what the home ground's called, where it is and who are they playing, again?

Fan #4 - The Fair-Weather: I hate this breed. This fan thinks football is the best game ever when his team go unbeaten four games in a row and buys the home, away and third kit as well as putting the sticker on his car. Then, after two defeats (including one to the local rivals) suddenly claims he’s got 'more important things to worry about than football', calls you an ignoramus and then does some filing. Then when your team lose on Monday night (or whenever Sky decide games should be played) reiterates to you just how important this football lark is.

Fan #5 - The Journey Man: This guy goes to EVERY game. Home, away, abroad, outer space. He knows the songs and actually sings. He buys the fanzine. He has tattoos. He names his kid after the last player to score 30 goals in a season. He doesn’t like other fans and hates his fiancé’s brother because he supports 'them'. Can be scary.

Fan #6 - The Psycho: Doesn’t go to games. Just wears the 1987 strip every day and scowls. Never laughs. And that's never.

Fan #7 - The Bizarro Psycho: The opposite to above. Always smiles, even after a 5-0 drubbing by the team that’s bottom of the league. Doesn’t have a shirt; all money is better spent on alcohol.

Fan #8 - The Stalker: Goes to the training ground for pictures of him with the players (who look scared). Knows everything about his club, but nothing about other clubs. Truly believes his team have won the league every year for the past decade. And if you can convince him that they haven’t he starts to think it must be his fault. Then cries for the next two days.

Which one are you ?
im Fan #2 - The Season-TicketeLink
 
Dunno. None of the descriptions above fit me... :confused:
 
Nope!
 
None really. If I must pick one from the list it would be:

#7A: "A" because of the modification "delete alcohol and add good food".

Perhaps they should add

Fan #10: Couch Potato: He'll watch every match played from the comfort and safety of his couch in front of the TV screen.

which would be me :)
 
Well if I had to pick one, I suppose it would be #2, as I have a season ticket. I wouldn't willingly put myself into any of those categories though...
 
i might be a number one, but i play football all the time even though im out of high school. I dont care to win arguments, i like to talk facts, and i really care about football, and most off all basketball. When i was young i used to make my own fantasy stats, Jordan averaged 30 points a game, Gary Payton, my favorite player, averaged 22 points and 12 assists per game.

i used to go outside and instead of pretending that i was jordan or shaq, i believed that i was like jason kapono when he was still in high school or dejuan wagner or Baron Davis. Yeah im a UCLA fan. I followed high school more thatn pros. Bla bla bla you guys probably dont care but i just thought id add on.

You forgot one kind, the kind that has a gambling problem.
 
I'm sure Suppersalmon would'nt mind your additions to the list - I've already taken the liberty to add mine with the misnumbered #10 above :)

Edit: Typo with the thread-starter's name - must be my subconscious tagging him Super instead of Supper :)
 
I'd be somewhere between number 1 and number 2. I don't have a season ticket though. The team I support doesn't exactly play within walking distance, and I don't have that much of a connection with the home town team since this isn't my place of birth.

I was there when my birth town home team won for the last time though. Cambuur, proud champion of the dutch first league in the season 91/92.
 
If I had to choose, I think I'd admit to be a variant of #4, the Fair Weather thing. Not from being upbeat when the teams I support are winning, but it can just get so damnably depressing when the season is effectively over in early Feb (as it is for Hearts), or the most loathed opposition team is going to stroll to the title with everyone oohing and ahhing over them (as it is for Man U). I get in a real black cloud over such things, can't bring myself to read the football pages of the paper (as I couldn't this morning, following the Man U - Boro game), and just wish the rest of the season would disappear.

Still Colchester United (local team, and the only one of the three I have seen recently) are still in the FA Cup, & have a 2nd leg of the LDV Vans (or whatever) Southern Area playoff final coming up (but we did manage to lose the first leg 3-2 at home to Southend). We are dropping down the league like a brick, it must be admitted...
 
I'm none of those. I watch every game of the club, but mostly on TV (almost always). I am quite alot of #2 in that way, but what isn't covered is the religion-like devotion to the club and its fate.
 
Talking about devotion, a relative of mine has missed a single figure number of Cardiff City home games (quite a low number) in more than 40 years...
 
I'm none of the above, but I usually go to see more away games than home.

But I could add #9: that is common to almost every supporter of my city team.

Fan #9 - The politician: he doesn't care that much of the team, but considers himself a Red Army soldier. He doesn't wave his team flags, but USSR, Iraq, Palestinan and Cuban flag. Other team supporters if communist are friends, if fascists are enemy. Writes banners in Cyrillic but doesn't know who Stalin really was.
He can treathen anybody who wears a black casual shirt only because it's black. In the other days of the week, goes out with a KGB uniform.


This is very common between Livorno supporter.
Instead, in other italian cities this happens in the opposite form (fascism), and that is really worse. I'm lucky that I live in Livorno, after all....
 
Need a new type for me:

Fan #10 - The Foreginer - Comes from a country where football ranks below curling in popularity but gets up early on weekend mornings to watch the token games offered by local broadcasters. Chooses his favourite team based on people he knows from the UK.
 
#11 The REAL Football Fan: Even though he use to play throughout highschool, still laughs at a sport that records "tackles" when the only person that got tackled was the drunk streaker at halftime. Knows that real in football the two people that kick the ball are the team's *****es. It's called soccer you crazy foreigners!:p:crazyeye:
 
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