I want to support a football team :(

If you don't have interest in football, don't bother. Don't be a half-arsed fan of team you've picked at random.

what's wrong with suqqorting a team half-arsedly?

That's fair enough, you're supporting your local team.
It's the ones living in Manchester supporting a team from Trafford that wind me up.

Why?

Well I live iin London..
The nearest teams to that are somwhat good
is 1.Tottenham
2.Arsaenal..it's just like few stops with train :/

The thing is i LIKE football..but i cant choose a team :/
I'm waitngfor barca vs Arsenal 2nd leg in nou camp :/
dunno it's harddddd

I just think people should support a team they have a connection to. Like the team from their town, the team their parents support or most importantly a team that represents them and their community.
Personally I don't like it when people say "I support United because they're class" etc. They won't always be a top team (probably) so who will these people support then.

What about foreign fans? They don't technically have a physical connection to their team but there are still strong Man United/Man City/Liverpool etc supporters clubs in different countries. Do they irritate you as well?

My mum&Dads divorced so i didnt have the chance of supporting what my dad supports but yh anyway what makes you support a football team?
why do you support the team you support?
recently it's become important for me,and i feel like something's missing in my life..
so yh..
people around me generally support either
Tottenham,arsenal,man u,chelsea

Please read the article below. It was written when MCFC were in the **** basically. Gives and insight in to what it's actually like supporing a team. It's not an easy ride. I hope all football fans can relate to it.

CITY OF LOST SOULS

To support Manchester City is to believe that God might have trouble running things on this planet, but he's in control of the next world. He has to be. The Devil rules this world and always will, because his team are Manchester United, and they are world famous and monolithic.

Manchester City, who's name travels the world about as well as Gracie Fields or Pulp, are on the side of the angels; the poor, sapped, unfortunate angels who still believe in quaint antiquated notions of earthly good. To support Manchester City is to accept with heroic willingness the dead-flat that the universe is cold and hostile, and nothing good will become of it. To support City is to tackle head on the crushing pointlessness of existence and to attempt to make something of it. It is hard work. So why do it? Because somehow this seems ultimately more dignified and fulfilling than taking the easy way out and supporting the lulling and obnoxious United.

To support United is too easy. It's convenience supporting. It makes life too easy. There is no challenge. It is a cowardly form of escapism, a sell-out to the forces of evil. United fans have no soul and will spend their eternity neck deep in boiling vomit. City fans retain their soul and will spend their eternity forever reliving the moment their team beat Newcastle 4-3 away from home to win the League Championship in 1968, beating United into second place. Surely we will have such eternal bliss again, for why do we spend so much time suffering in this life watching our team climb to the summit only so that we can watch them dive, dive, dive to their pitiless bottom of the heap while United, of Manchester, but nothing really to do with it, float every more triumphantly skywards?

Heartless United are the incarnation of shamelessness and to support them is heroism in a can. Cavalier City, however awry their football, however dire their straits, glow with something mystical and transcendental. City have soul. United do not.

When they are great again, City will have shown that they are worth their extraordinary fans. To this day these fans will walk a million miles for one of Joe Mercer's smiles. They'll sing a million songs waiting for some new Mercer-like magic. Because they are City, and Christ do they know they're born.

Paul Morley
November 1998

Support Arsenal, it's fun being Arsenal fan!

You get to see them knocked out of every competition and fall out of the running for the league every April!