I admit that I start supporting Man Utd due to their attacking play (Cantona, Yorke, Cole, Giggs etc) and of course them winning trophies. But that time I was quite young and again I admit I didn't know much of their history (internet access was a limit then). Heck, I didn't even know who won more trophies at that time! Just that Man Utd was that season champion and I start following them on TV. And till now I support them with a quite in depth knowledge of the team.

Every supporter starts to support a team for a reason, one of it undoubtedly is the success which comes along. I have seen countless friends who started knowing nuts about football supporting each club based on the season which team won. For my age group, I can deduced most of the fans is influenced by the results. For Ars fans, most of them start supporting during the Bergkamp/Henry era. Che fans during the Abrahmovic/Mourinho success. Liverpool fans is most probably due to the influence of family members (no offense) or the Owen/Fowler era. Do i classified them as glory hunters then? No. Not until they switched clubs after seeing their team slipped up. Thankfully, my group of friends consists of loyal and passionate fans. We can have a very good conversation on football with some bickering in between.

For me, glory hunters is those that comes out of their closet gloating when their team win or other team that they dislike lost. I don't judge true fans from the number of games they watched nor whether they buy original merchandise or not. It sickens me to see that a friend who know nuts about football (eg : what is offside?) starts gloating and celebrate when <insert team> won. I don't mind if that triggers him/her to know more about football but after the football fever subsided, he went straight back into the closet. And when another/same team won, he came back out claiming as a supporter of that particular team!