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Fighting back at the glory hunters?

By Matt, in General Football and Sport

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Sparky

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some geezer was saying to me "yeah enjoy your trips to yeovil and northampton " But you see thats the difference , i will go to them places . you go and enjoy sky sports 1

WetFlannel

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What about a fan in the same situation but supports a team like Fulham? Doesn't attend many games, has no real links, but isn't a top four fan? Im just curious to see what people would think about these types of fans, which are effectively the same as 'glory' supporters, but it just happens its a lower premier league club...

Finchy

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At the end of the day, they can have all the success they want, but I gurantee they won't feel the passion we do. That feeling when you get drawn against Forest. The feeling when you score away at Preston. None of the feelings like that, 'cos it's not in there blood. That's something you'll always have over a glory fan.

Spot on.

I just couldn't support a team that i have no connection with. The greatest thing about supporting a football cub for me is the local rivalries and how you're not just supporting the football side your supporting your hometown. The pride i get when i stroll passed the huge group of Cov fans at college, wearing my City shirt after we've just beaten them 2-0 is unbeatable. Going through the good and bad times with your club is what supporting a football team is all about.

Even if i was from Manchester or Liverpool etc i don't think i'd enjoy supporting one of the big teams as much as i would Leicester. Simply because when we go to a Leicester game we know, every single person in the home section of the ground is a proper Leicester fan. You only need to watch a Chelsea game on the TV to see the amount of tourists with cameras that go to their games. I mean i even hate it when Leicester are playing well and you get all these people that suddenly decide to support Leicester again.

Glory supporters are missing out on the best bits of supporting a football team, they don't know they are but they are, simple as.

Finchy

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What about a fan in the same situation but supports a team like Fulham? Doesn't attend many games, has no real links, but isn't a top four fan? Im just curious to see what people would think about these types of fans, which are effectively the same as 'glory' supporters, but it just happens its a lower premier league club...

My mate supports Fulham, he has lived in Leicester all his life and he's never even been to a Fulham game! :mellow: Don't get that at all.

Corky

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What about a fan in the same situation but supports a team like Fulham? Doesn't attend many games, has no real links, but isn't a top four fan? Im just curious to see what people would think about these types of fans, which are effectively the same as 'glory' supporters, but it just happens its a lower premier league club...

I wouldn't think they were a glory-hunter, because you don't randomly choose to support Fulham do you? Or maybe you do? People choose the "big 4" because it is easy, a safe option, you can look cool to your mates who also support them. I'm sure you would have some kind of link to the club if you supported Fulham for example?

Also, this type of supporter probably wouldn't go around boasting, that is the main annoyance that comes with these glory-hunters.

Samilktray

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What about a fan in the same situation but supports a team like Fulham? Doesn't attend many games, has no real links, but isn't a top four fan? Im just curious to see what people would think about these types of fans, which are effectively the same as 'glory' supporters, but it just happens its a lower premier league club...

Strangely enough my maths teacher last year was a Fulham fan.

He managed to get to around half of there home games.

So i think if your like that you escape that tag.

Tommeh

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At the end of the day, they can have all the success they want, but I gurantee they won't feel the passion we do. That feeling when you get drawn against Forest. The feeling when you score away at Preston. None of the feelings like that, 'cos it's not in there blood. That's something you'll always have over a glory fan.

Best thing I've read on here in a long time.

I never reallly get the "glory hunters problem" as the majority at our college are city fans and we'll just sing songs at random times together and shut the ones that arn't up.

A lot of the lads we hang around with if they don't support Leicester, they are their 2nd team at least.

There's only really 1 villa "fan" who abngs on a bit but we just say - yeah we've seen your club more times than you this season, What was that?? Matty Fryatt, 79th Minute? Holte end? Go home son.

And a Bolton fan who gets ripped about everything!! But he's genuine

Corky

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Most people here just go "Leicester who the fooks that" or "What league are they in know".

I would be very offended if people where I live didn't know who we are and what league we are in. Just tell them that we are going through a transitional period (of about 5 years) and should take our place back in the Premier League in the near future.

The People's Hero

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How do you do it? How do you silence them?

I'm having really trouble at the moment, Everyone taking the piss out me and my club because of the wasters we watch on the pitch, and they had even more to laugh and take the piss out of when they listened to the Radio Leicester Phone-In last night. Its only friendly banter but can go abit too far sometimes.

Their all the usual Chelsea, Liverpool, United "fans" who really know how to support their clubs :rolleyes:

I use the same old thing "How many times you been to see your team this season?". Reply "Last week, On Sky" :rolleyes:

So today I decided to show them how easy it is to be "one of them" i've decided to "support" Man Utd, I've got my old United shirt out from when I used to support them as a kid (Until I saw the light and changed allegiances to Leicester :unsure:) and show them how much of a United fan I am - I'm doing it mostly to wind the Chelsea fan I know up. I might get my old Leicester shirt with Heskey on the back, that might get him biting abit, maybe.

So how do you silence the glory hunters?

I'll admit our team is shit, I'm not gonna lie for our bunch of wasters but when someone slags your team off it's hard to stay quiet and its hard to reply when what they are saying is true.

Why fight back?

Leave them to it.

Do you have no initiative/backbone/individuality?

Finnegan

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I use the same old thing "How many times you been to see your team this season?". Reply "Last week, On Sky"

Walkers, start the wave, Walkers, Walkers start the wave. ;)

/internezbullyin

Matt

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Why fight back?

Leave them to it.

Do you have no initiative/backbone/individuality?

Fair comment, but why do people reply and fight back when other fans come on here and slag our team off (Like the Coventry fan last week, or the Plymouth invasion we had on here) i'm sure they'd actually be even more annoyed that they didn't get a reaction, but instead we get pages and pages of replys to them giving the opposing fans even more ammunition to wind us up.

I took my old Man Utd shirt and hat in today, and you should have seen the Chelsea fans reaction - Face dropped "Oh you really are a Man Utd fan then"...Jesus if thats all it took to be a "proper fan" of a team :rolleyes::frusty:

-It just confirmed everything we know about glory-hunters.

Webbo

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Most people here just go "Leicester who the fooks that" or "What league are they in know".

I was talking to a women on holiday the other year. When I told her I came from Leicester she asked me where that was. She was from Birmingham FFS.

Finchy

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I took my old Man Utd shirt and hat in today, and you should have seen the Chelsea fans reaction - Face dropped "Oh you really are a Man Utd fan then"...Jesus if thats all it took to be a "proper fan" of a team :rolleyes::frusty:

-It just confirmed everything we know about glory-hunters.

You should have just said in a camp voice, "no i just really like the colour of the shirt hehe" ^_^ . Probably a better reason to support a team than theirs.

Uncle Albert

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Out of the 'Glory Hunters' there arent many Chelsea fans. They all seem to be United or Arsenal.

Probably because they were the best teams around when they were 5 years old.

LeeCovFox

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I was talking to a women on holiday the other year. When I told her I came from Leicester she asked me where that was. She was from Birmingham FFS.

I've had this myself from people from Birmingham, London, and Glasgow. Thats got to take a special kind of ignorance has it not, not to know one of the biggest cities in your own country?

Corky

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Now you see why it is great to be a proper fan. We are all ecstatic after yesterday's win, a glory-hunter would never feel that passion, that elation, and in many ways, I feel sorry for them. Don't let them get you down, just sit back and think "I'm Leicester City, I'm proud to support our club, and these people are not going to annoy me".

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