that just proves my point, most off you lads are not proper fans you'se are football supporters
I've had this discussion with fans before, and it's a mundane one. It was Newcastle fans I believe, those who's whole life is taken up by supporting their club. Some people prefer to do other things with their time than become totally enveloped in their club, that's their choice. What qualifies you as a great fan? By spending thousands watching your team? Do you see it as a badge of honour because you have nothing else to do with your time? That is up to you, but don't look down on other people just because you choose to spend your time that way.
Personally speaking I have been a season ticket holder for 18 years at my local club Coventry, but I am probably not going to get one this year because that is my choice, looking at it objectively, I will go to many games but at this point want to spend my time doing other things as well. If people don't see me as a proper Coventry fan anymore I don't care, it doesn't lessen my support, the opinion of others matters little. If you don't go to every away game you are seen as a lesser supporter, I wonder up to what point do you need to qualify to be a super fan? Buy every shirt, short and socks including the goalkeepers? Get a tattoo of your teams emblem inked onto you? Perhaps you score more points if it's on your face?
In case you are wondering I am Juventino through family but it's also my choice to follow this team, I could quite easily not do that, but because I don't spend every weekend, hundreds of hours and tens of thousands of pounds per year travelling from Coventry to Turin don't start taking some kind of moral high ground on what makes a supporter. I make a couple of games per season, but I could make more if I wanted to take my whole weekend up with football and put my time and money into that. You are a local fan who supports your team, that's fair enough and great for you, but you have no idea what it means to follow anyone else. If you or your family moved to mainland Europe or North America or Australia and you couldn't go to most games does that mean you are not a proper Shamrock supporter anymore? Of course there will be people here with varying degrees of allegiance to Juventus but I'm really tired of this 'I'm a better fan than you' argument, it is a source of pride for those who put a lot into their team but nothing more.
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