Why shouldn't i be a Blade??

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Driving home today i was listening to Talksport with Darren Gough and Adrian Durham. There was a debate about who you should support. Durham as you may know is an avid Peterborough United fan and it would appear that although Goughy is a Barnsley lad, it would seem he has more clubs than Tiger Woods!! (He even has a box at MK Dons!!!!)
Anyway, Durham was of the opinion that it would be ok to flirt with supporting other teams as a youngster, but, at the age of ten you should choose your loyalties to a team. Goughy was saying that the chances are, growing up you will be a fan of the team which is generally winning the most! Which then got me thinking.
I'm born and bred a Norfolk carrot cruncha but is as big a Blade as i feel i could ever be. I fell in love with this football club when they were in the 4th division, which begs the question, was i mentally unstable as a child? I don't think so!:confused: I could never be accused of being a glory hunter that's for sure!!
As a season ticket holder/member for many, many years my love for The Blades could never be questioned.
I guess what i'm really asking is, should you support your local club?? If i was a Man Utd fan from Norfolk but still went to their matches, i'd probably still be regarded as a tossa!
People i speak to always have an admiration for my efforts to follow the Blades and long may that continue.
I for one wouldn't swap this badge for anything.
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GAZBLADE said:
Driving home today i was listening to Talksport with Darren Gough and Adrian Durham. There was a debate about who you should support. Durham as you may know is an avid Peterborough United fan and it would appear that although Goughy is a Barnsley lad, it would seem he has more clubs than Tiger Woods!! (He even has a box at MK Dons!!!!)
Anyway, Durham was of the opinion that it would be ok to flirt with supporting other teams as a youngster, but, at the age of ten you should choose your loyalties to a team. Goughy was saying that the chances are, growing up you will be a fan of the team which is generally winning the most! Which then got me thinking.
I'm born and bred a Norfolk carrot cruncha but is as big a Blade as i feel i could ever be. I fell in love with this football club when they were in the 4th division, which begs the question, was i mentally unstable as a child? I don't think so!:confused: I could never be accused of being a glory hunter that's for sure!!
As a season ticket holder/member for many, many years my love for The Blades could never be questioned.
I guess what i'm really asking is, should you support your local club?? If i was a Man Utd fan from Norfolk but still went to their matches, i'd probably still be regarded as a tossa!
People i speak to always have an admiration for my efforts to follow the Blades and long may that continue.
I for one wouldn't swap this badge for anything.
UTB
COYRWW
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Gaz. Just curious. Why the Blades? Have you Sheffield connections? Or was it a random selection, and you're just unlucky/contrary?
 
fishpie said:
Gaz. Just curious. Why the Blades? Have you Sheffield connections? Or was it a random selection, and you're just unlucky/contrary?
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No Sheffield connections fishpie. My cousins took me to a Norwich v Blades game when i was about 9 and it was purely love at first sight!!
 
As with a lot of fans,me being one will always be a blade,but for personal(more financial than owt else) will always support them but cant always make the match`s.
I for one,if i was in a position to be able to attend every match would do home and away if i wasnt a providing father doing what every parent should do-putting hungry mouths first.
My days will return when the season ticket will again be my monetary priority,and the match days will begin in the pub at 11 am and finish at 11pm,but as life pulls you along in its own way,life has to adjust to its ways.
But one things for sure,nothing will ever change the colour of my stripes.
 
Ballinpigpubs13 said:
My mate from Norwich always makes his daughter walk around the city centre with a Blades shirt on when they play the pigs.
He's a city fan but we're his second club.
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I love this. My wife's a Norwich season ticket holder who always insists our two sons do the same and wear their Blades shirts when they play the grunters!!
 



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You can all blame AdelaideBlade for corrupting me as a small child, forcing me to drink 15 in Portsmouth at 17, and for quite a few other things.

When I was a small child my Dad was a Palace fan and my mother wasn't interested in football apart from a teenage crush on Alan Birchenhall but my Grandfather and 3 uncles were all and still are staunch Unitedites.
 
For me it's hereditary and it will be for my kids. I'm selfish like that.

I will say though, if they don't wanna support united I'd rather them support Wednesday than Man U, Chelsea, Liverpool etc.
 
Born Leeds and bred on West/South Yorkshire border but as soon as I could make my own decision aged 12 it's always been the Blades for me. Funny though I don't hate Leeds as much as I used to even though I was surrounded by the fuckers. Surprising really as I had my nose (metaphorically) rubbed in it by Leeds supporting friends and family for decades
 
As I posted a number of years ago now, I supported my local side (Port Vale) until the Blades came to town in 1989 then that was it for me. I was 16 at the time so according to the muppets at Talksport i'm a glory hunter, turncoat or whatever who cares. I'm now 40 and have seen everything go in full circle in the last 24 years and never wavered. As I have got older family life and finances have gotten in the way of my Blades supporting life but I've never been tempted anywhere else.
 
GAZBLADE said:
Goughy was saying that the chances are, growing up you will be a fan of the team which is generally winning the most!
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A fine fast bowler he may well have been (indeed he's in my Yorkshire top 5) but that is as big a pile of bollocks as he can come out with.
There might be a general glory hunting culture (and always has been) but you still get more kids supporting their local team than donning the colours of the current "winning" team (in my view of course).

Stick to cricket Goughy (or dancing).
 
Living In a Fantasy World said:
hate the glory hunters... :mad: sick of seeing kids wearing Man u/ Chelsea shirts around city center...
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Blame to TV for that, every time you turn it on we all know the usual suspects are all over it. Unless you have a parent or uncle who is a mad blade, pig, dingle the kids will support who is always on the tele or front of the latest xbox game.
 



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