May 15 2009, 01:19 PM
QUOTE(aboogee @ May 15 2009, 01:18 AM)
I admit, i switch off the TV when United are down 2 or 3-0 ... but i dont think it makes me a bad fan or a glory hunter... In fact the analogy of leaving your girlfriend/best mate/ etc etc when they are in need is completely out of context! Its watching bloody television. I still brood and mourn when the team loses, but to term me or ppl like me who switch off the telly as Glory Hunters just because we're losing, is preposterous and absurd
Maybe its human nature? You've watched liverpool drop so many points and lose or play crap every season to Arsenal when they went on their invincible run!! Wudve been much easier! And to you, id be a loyal supporter! LOL !!!
I passed by a pasar malam just now and they were selling all sortsa goodies of the Big 4, and i saw cute keychains etc etc and i thought to myself, i want to get these! But i didnt! why? Cos that means im not buying original United goods, and that doesnt help my club. Some might call it stupid, others might call it die-hard loyalists ... and im the same guy who switches off the telly when my team is being throttled, and the same guy who doesnt read soccernet for a week when they lose and the same guy who doesnt look at the back pages when we drop points etc etc
But to put a measure of our loyalty to the club, on the basis of watching their game, is derogatory if you ask me.
Im studying for my exams in less than a month away, so i didnt watch the game against Wigan last nite, in that context, it makes me worse off as a supporter? Puhleeez.
So you turn off the TV when your team is losing, you stop reading soccernet news for a week (either because you're too embarrassed or you're brooding/mourning or whatever) and you find it preposterous and absurd when someone calls you a glory hunter? Look I'm not trying to offend you or anyone else here. To me the term glory hunter isn't even derogatory. And I believe that anyone who supports a big club are glory hunters in some measure even if they've stuck through the club through barren years and such. I just find your post kinda amusing actually.Maybe its human nature? You've watched liverpool drop so many points and lose or play crap every season to Arsenal when they went on their invincible run!! Wudve been much easier! And to you, id be a loyal supporter! LOL !!!
I passed by a pasar malam just now and they were selling all sortsa goodies of the Big 4, and i saw cute keychains etc etc and i thought to myself, i want to get these! But i didnt! why? Cos that means im not buying original United goods, and that doesnt help my club. Some might call it stupid, others might call it die-hard loyalists ... and im the same guy who switches off the telly when my team is being throttled, and the same guy who doesnt read soccernet for a week when they lose and the same guy who doesnt look at the back pages when we drop points etc etc
But to put a measure of our loyalty to the club, on the basis of watching their game, is derogatory if you ask me.
Im studying for my exams in less than a month away, so i didnt watch the game against Wigan last nite, in that context, it makes me worse off as a supporter? Puhleeez.
And I agree with Monstar that merchandise, fake or original, should never be an indicator of how strong your support is. And your example about not watching due to your exams is out of context. Of course you have to be responsible enough to know when you have to skip watching football matches sometimes (because of work or study or family matters etc). I myself haven't watch every single Madrid match this season. But it's about the times you do watch and you see your team getting hammered. What do you do? Your actions define you. For the record I watched Barca's mauling of my team on home ground till the very last minute.
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