Bandwagon supporters

[Dragons Cross]

I started supporting Villa in about 1980 as i used to love watching the highlights on ABC. I loved watching Peter Withe and Morley so they became my team (plus i loved their colours ... go the claret and blues !! Like a combo of NSW and Qld). 81 we won the League and Euro Cup and i was in heaven. Then it all went pear-shaped and has ever since, but ive stuck with them through thick and thin, mostly thin lol. I think the true definition of a bandwagon supporter is one who deserts their team for a more successful one all the time. Pick a team and stick with it !!

You're right there OVP, if you pick a team which is successful at the time then you may be called a Bandwagon fan but if you stick with that team, even when things are bad then you're not a bandwagon. A bandwagon fan would be someone who supports Chelsea but last season supported Arsenal and the season before that Man Utd.

 

[Manu Vatuvei]

I've been supporting Arsenal since 1999/2000 I think. I don't think it matters how you become a fan, as long as you stick with it.

 

[Raider Ultra]

There is a difference between glory hunter and bandwagon. A glory hunter originally chooses their team because they are succesful, a bandwagon switches from team to team as success dictates.

 

[KevinArnold]

I started supporting Chelsea when Ruud Gullit transferred from Sampdora to Chelsea in 1995. I remember having a jersey when "Autoglass" was the major sponsor in 1996 or 97 cant remember , and also had the season review video with the lame rendition of "Chelsea, Chelsea" at the end of it, was so funny :lol: (Think that was 97 with the FA Cup Win). The DiMatteo goal was awesome, 1st minute! Suweet!

 

[Raider Ultra]

You mean before Chelsea became a money laundering operation for a bent Russian criminal?

 

[Tommy Smith]

There's three type of fans.

The bandwagoner
The follower
The diehard

Most people on here would be classified as followers. (probably me as well to an extent even though i've also lived in Sheffield for quite a few years) Certainly not bandwagoners but not one of the diehards that lives and breathes it and is able to go to games week-in, week-out.

And thats not an insult at all. I think its great tha people take up supporting football teams overseas. But I mean would any of you expect someone in England who took up following the Wests Tigers to be as passionate as the bloke who grew up loving the Tigers as it was in the family and went to the games every week? More than likely not.

 

[Jae]

I think the amount of passion you can have for your team depends on the kind of person you are, but I'd definitely be a follower.

 

[KevinArnold]

You mean before Chelsea became a money laundering operation for a bent Russian criminal?

Its kind of old dude (Wheres the "Yawn" emoticon when you need it?)

 

[PJ Marshal]

toon supporter since 1997

go the magpies!

 

[Misanthrope]

I've been supporting Leeds for as long as I can remember (that's a thankless task, these days). Never been to Leeds, nor do I have any 'story' behind why I support them.

That said, I'm a Newcastle fan in the NRL, despite only having lived in Newcastle for about six months. Been a fan for years, but prior to that, I'd never lived even close to the city.

 

[watto]

Well Ive been playing soccer my whole life, but I never actually took a serious interest in following it as my father was a die-hard rugby league fan. So I was thrown into the world of rugby league.
Untill about 3 or 4 years ago and I cant remember how it happened. But one of my mates is a Man U fan and the other I was with at the time is a Man City fan and the game on TV was about to be the Man U v Man City. They where talking about who the team they play next was going to be and Man U played Everton, so feeling out of the action of mates rivalry I began to follow Everton so I could go at my mate the next week and I have never taken a backward step from there.
I stuck with them even when it looked likely we would be relegated and then bang, we make the Champions League, so I choose a team on the rise.

 

[mr panama]

i've been a liverpool fan since i was about 5 or 6. main reason for supporting them was because craig johnston was playing for them. and him being an aussie rubbed off on me. most vivid memory of the early years of supporting liverpool was hillsborough. seeing all those people crushed to death was very sad for a lil aussie scouse like me. it definately made me a reds fans for life.

 

[Foz]

Believe it or not I was reading a magazine about the upcoming Newcastle-Liverpool F.A.Cup Final.
A music magazine.
The column was titled Paul (as in McCartney) Predicts.
He predicted Liverpool would win 3-0 and Steve Heighway and Kevin Keegan would score the goals.
Being a massive fan of McCartney I immediately supported Liverpool.
It was 1974. (I think).
Not long after Band On The Run was released. (it was released in 1973).
Liverpool won 3-0 and guess who got the goals.
Spooky.

 

[TiTTieS_[CNTDN]]

Gee, there's a few reason for taking up a certain team. I follow Leeds and Newcastle as my primary teams. Leeds was the initial one as they are in Yorkshire where a couple of show I like are set. Newcastle I follow because they have the same strip that I wore for my junior soccer team and they have Alan Shearer - what more could you ask? I used to be fairly interested in the progress of teams with Aussies in them so teams like Middlesbrough and Blackburn are good examples.

I think a lot of the posters have summed up the bandwagon question nicely. Bandwagoners jump ship when there is a more successful club going around. I think starting to follow a highly successful team is glory hunting but only if that is the reason you chose them.