QUOTE(Yukieliow @ Jan 31 2011, 11:23 AM)
Your argument will never be valid unless there is a fair share of all 20teams that we Malaysian support.Then you can say you love a team for their culture their place and so on.
The actual fact is there are only 4 GLORY TEAM all you glory hunter is looking upon to...
In our eyes you might not be one bcos most of us are in the same category..but in their eyes you are one..at least in the eyes of the other 16 PL teams and the rest of the England other divisions teams...You are plastics! Glory hunter!
None of the big four teams are barring foreign supporters.
In fact, they've done lots to increase non-white participation, in turn making it easier for foreign fans to watch them.
They don't see these fans as glory hunters and I don't see why your opinion trumps theirs?
Never mind that a lot of fans of 'local' clubs are not necessarily local either. I know an Englishman who supports Dundee, because his grandad was from there. He has only ever been to Dundee a couple of times. Yet, he would still be considered a genuine Dundee fan.
Or what about St. Pauli in Germany? It's a hippy club, with hippy ideals. It's located right off the Reeperbahn, Hamburg's red light district of stip clubs where the Beatles once played and it's fans see themselves as non-conformist, anti-commercial and unmaterialistc. They welcome fans from all over the place and don't care about locality.
It is the club's own responsibility to define what sort of club they want to be and what sort of fans they want (local? global? hippies?). Even Tottenham wants to move to Stratford.
Clubs used to be highly local indeed. Celtic won the European cup with players born within a 4 mile radius of Glasgow. Such is not the case now. If a club wants to change it's makeup and core values to be less rooted in its locality, then that is their choice and their consequence to bear.
So it is not your place to define for the clubs what sort of fans they should look out for. They can make those decisions well enough without you.
Added on January 31, 2011, 11:44 pmQUOTE(IcyDarling @ Jan 31 2011, 10:07 PM)
We are locals with England because this is a non-border world aimed by the globalisation. All those ICT bullcrap is going to make us support foreign products omg pls dont do that. Pls just buy all local products.
Enuf is enuf with sticking to local. Look at Thailand. They have never been invaded by foreigners before and look at their current condition. Seriously, im sick of all this supporting local when everyone goes crazy buying Justin Bieber or Jay Chou tickets when they are coming to malaysia while local bands are not always full.
I see u guys talking about this supporting local and out there so many foreign cars.
Go to ur house all pakai foreign branded electric appliances.
See all pakai wat kind of shirt la. Gucci here Coach there. Nike here Adidas there.
Furnitures all local made ?
Cars and furniture are transportable, manufactured commodities.
Football clubs are not.
They cannot be compared.
Added on January 31, 2011, 11:46 pmQUOTE(Yukieliow @ Jan 31 2011, 02:19 PM)
Agree with that point
Other points i could think of currently
someone who swap team when he find that team he use to support keep winning.
someone who start to support a team who he find the history of that club interesting,
somone who start to support bcos he love certain top player in that club..or use to play for that club
and the most popular one usually is he thinks that this club have potential to win league this or next season.
Or above are glory hunters
i can think of many more..
I can find you plenty of Scousers who got into Liverpool when they were 8 or 9 after seeing Dalglish.
By your definition, they are now glory-hunters too.
This post has been edited by minority: Feb 1 2011, 12:18 AM