marshall2012

Don't be that guy, bro?. Oh, right. So you were being sarcastic. Apologies for that, bro, hard to tell through text and other people in the thread were seriously echoing the statement you made, you know. "That's true you have to be compensating for something if you got latch on to a football team 30 miles away to boost your self esteem."

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/kenny-shiels-column-i-stand-by-what-1139444 Shiels for Director of Football in my opinion. Found myself agreeing with most of the comments he made during his (far too short) time in Scottish football. Didn't really cut it as a manager but as a visionary few compare and he could do great things for the game here. Dunno how he would go about forcing people to support their local teams without some sort of legal authority but I'd like to see him try.

Jesus Christ do people even read the comments on the first page of a thread before posting in it anymore? The two rat traps are an exception to this rule. Supporting either of those "teams" is never justified or advised.

Still don't live at Glasgow Airport though when you leave through it. Do you, sweetpea. Antiochas III, if you want to support a non-league team go right ahead. But I don't think it's reasonable to expect people to support team that isn't part of the pyramid system and so can never be/become professional. As for living abroad, absolutely. I think if you're Scottish you should always support at least one domestic team.

I've support Celtic [shivers], Partick Thistle, Aberdeen and Hearts. Guess I've been lucky in the locations I moved to to generally have a team in the top tier as my local one (although Thistle were in 3rd and 2nd tier most of the time I supported them). However I genuinely would support a League Two or even Highland or Lowland League team if they were my local since they're part of the pyramid now.

Yep, although take out non-league teams from that list as has been said. And non-Scottish teams. So if you move out of Scotland just continue supporting whichever team were your local when you left. No you wouldn't, MacGafraidh.

Really as long as you don't support the two rodent traps in Glasgow I'm not massively bothered. But if everyone just followed that simple rule of following your local team it would make for a much better domestic game with our high supporting figures per capita. It's like picking up dog shit, you know, sure loads of people might not do it but if you don't you're just part of the problem you're always complaining about. Out of interest does anyone have any statistics showing allegiance to teams in Scotland? I've read them for places like Serbia and Spain and would be interested to just just how big a percentage of fans in Scotland are fans of certain teams.

Lol, "if I call everyone else an idiot maybe I won't stand out as much".

But that's not right, m8, treating them with ignorance would be you acting ignorant to them. Ignoring them would just be ignoring them.

You must have a micropenis if you support a domestic team for any reason other than locality. Psych 101 for retards! Already been explained why you would do it about 1000 times in the thread, m8, you want a more competitive game. Total fanny.. NewDomDom, how do you "treat someone with ignorance", m8? Also to the guy talking about natonal teams, that's totally fucking different. You don't pick and choose national teams unless you're a shell of a human. The amount of moronic twats in this country that treat domestic loyalties like national loyalties is fucking baffling. Great job, Scotland, once again you're unique in a way nobody else would want to be! Give yourself a clap.

I literally tried to murder another child when I was around 7 so I think you can be forgiven, hehe.

I go to support a football club, m8. What do you go to support?

Seems like you're a bit mad yourself.

Did OP say that was the best basis? I don't think he did. He just said that's why he supported them and that IF YOU CARE ABOUT COMPETITIVENESS in Scotland it's why you should support a team as well. Which makes perfect sense to a rational person. Not to someone trying to excuse and deflect from his own seedy and pointless reasons for supporting the club they support perhaps though.

Well then why are you criticizing a thread encouraging people to support teams based on locality, exactly?