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Discussion Glory Hunter, How you'd define one?

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matyrze
post May 12 2009, 02:55 AM

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QUOTE(miketee @ May 12 2009, 02:06 AM)
I suppose it's just the easiest thing to do lah... especially to those who barely watch the sport... they just want to pick a team for the sake of being "in the crowd". A strong, winning team is a reason good enough for many. I guess only the more dedicated fans will take the trouble to find a deeper reason to support a team and to learn more about them.

This not only applies to football... there were also a lot of Ferrari "fans" some years back and they know nuts about cars except that Schumacher wins every race!

In general I've nothing against glory hunters, coz they will always be around. The only thing that gets me is the gloating lah - what gives you the right to make so much noise when you barely know your own team, while I've supported my own team through thick and thin for over 15 years!

Comon, altogether now, sing with me!
"Glory, glory, glory hunter... glory glory glory hunter..."
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I'm so agree.

I'm not against Glory Hunters as well, but sometimes, maybe because they just love havoc places or situations, they also tend to create havoc in the threads here in LYN doh.gif doh.gif Creating turbulence in the most calmest of places is their best source of adrenaline doses.
matyrze
post May 19 2009, 01:41 PM

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Not trying to teach anybody on how to be a better supporter. Just wanna share my input.

Barca lost 1-4 in Bernabeu in EL Classico last year. Plus, we, the supporters, had to watch our beloved players, to perform the guard of honor for the Madridistas, in their own stadium. For them, it was a dream came true. For us, it was the biggest of nightmares came true.

But nothing won't persuade me to switch off my PC (I was streaming). I didn't. I watched the whole 90 minutes. Only God knows how painful for me to stay. But I stayed, because, well, it was Barca playing, and I had to watch. Because its BARCA!! I dare to say, I am proud of myself that night tongue.gif

For me, Glory Hunter is a term which carry the meaning of - football fans who like to enjoy/watch/feel a glorious sense of winning from their team. These hunters will run away when they think they are not getting the glorious sense from their team, in other words, their team is loosing. Of course they still feel the pain, since they are still the fans of the team. But they just can't see their team go crushing down, hence they leave.

I won't ever do that to Barca. It is just ridiculous. Plain ridiculous.

Buying merchandise, season tickets or whatnot won't make one a better fan. Material is nothing, it is all about one's passion to the supported team. I will still hail one as a true fan if he stays loyally to his loosing team, although he has no team merchandises, because, for me not everybody can afford them.

Somebody gave out the girlfriend analogy before. I am agree with the analogy.

QUOTE(aboogee @ May 17 2009, 03:53 AM)
With due respect to your beliefs on the appropriate traits of a "REAL" fan, I dont think switching on the tv or switching off the tv wud make a difference to the way the match is being played or the final outcome. Neither do i believe that I have to sit and swamp myself in public whenever the team plays immaterial of the result. Its not about what you're doing during the match that counts, its your stance after the match.
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Actually, our stance during and after the match are all that matters bro.

And actually it is not about the TV we are focusing now, its our willingness to stay by our team's side smile.gif smile.gif

 

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