Football How did you end up supporting your team?

[mjo]

I know many reasons will be geographical but there may still be some interesting stories.
For me, I amazingly used to detest football, but in 2004 I decided that I should support a football team after fluking a match on FIFA 04 (wasn't that a great game? - actually, it was crap). So, being a ten year-old boy, I could do nothing but jump on the bandwagon and start supporting Arsenal in 2004 (when they were actually winning something!!). So, from then on, I was hooked on football - but I wanted to see a live match. As Arsenal was a 50-mile trip and a few hundred quid away, me and my Dad went to watch the little known team called MK Dons at the National Hockey Stadium. Ever since, I was hooked, and me and my Dad have been going to as many games as possible since. The matchday experience got a whole lot better after moving to Stadium:MK - like watching a live match on your sofa! But the higlight for me was seeing the mighty Dons winning the Johnstone's Paint Trophy in 2008 at Wembley - a great day. It helps that the Dons play some nice football.

 

[teabagyokel]

I remember FIFA 04. I have never played a worse football game.

 

[FB]

I don't think you can choose your team, your team chooses you. I was born in Portsmouth and lived there for the first 30 years of my life so had no choice in the matter.

 

[Johnny Carwash]

Swansea City is the nearest football team to were i live, so it was a logical choice for me.

 

[Kamui-FastestChefInTheWorld]

I was born in Kent, now live in Portsmouth, and yet I support Newcastle. No logic there at all.

 

[teabagyokel]

No logic there at all.

I spotted that when the fans acclaimed the Shearer/Dowie management team/lead balloon.

 

[Kamui-FastestChefInTheWorld]

They're not doing badly now though, are they?

 

[teabagyokel]

They're not doing badly now though, are they?

Newcastle, no. Learning the very, very pleasant way that team spirit is better than a load off individuals, aren't they? They've sold their best players for fees ranging from the ridiculous to the zero. I'm very impressed!

 

[Jos the Boss]

I vaguely remember fifa 04, i agree with the rest, pretty terrible, but being born abroad it could only ever be man united somehow!

 

[mjo]

I vaguely remember fifa 04, i agree with the rest, pretty terrible, but being born abroad it could only ever be man united somehow!

98% of Man U fans have never seen Old Trafford!

 

[Jos the Boss]

98% of Man U fans have never seen Old Trafford!

Old Trafford?

 

[teabagyokel]

After the Second World War, Old Trafford had a massive crater in the middle of the pitch, so United played their home games at Maine Road. They also played their first European match there because floodlights hadn't been installed at Old Trafford.

 

[landogeorgelewis1]

My story is that i was born and bred into a Middlesbrough supportting family and have been a fan since i was a wee girl .

 

[mjo]

Old Trafford?

It's in Trafford, Manchester.

 

[Jos the Boss]

It's in Trafford, Manchester.

And I thought it was in Salford!

 

[FB]

It is in Salford.

 

[mjo]

I detest Man U - anyway it is basically the same place

 

[Jos the Boss]

Well I'm sure you'll be happy about arsenal apparently re-signing henry!

 

[MCLS]

I remember FIFA 04. I have never played a worse football game.

The first football game I ever had, at the time I bloody loved it, but looking back now it was bloody awful, so easy to score from 35 yards

 

[mjo]

The first football game I ever had, at the time I bloody loved it, but looking back now it was bloody awful, so easy to score from 35 yards

But FIFA 12... best footy game ever.

Well I'm sure you'll be happy about arsenal apparently re-signing henry!

So happy! RVP and Henry could be unstoppable, with the amount of chances Arsenal create!