Can you be a supporter if you don't attend the matches?

sherlock

sherlock

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Interested in comments here. I'm being told on another thread that because I don't actually attend the matches I can't be a supporter.

This despite explaining that in my almost 54 years I have had a season ticket almost 20 times. I no longer live locally and have to avoid crowds due to ongoing covid CEV risk, hence why I don't go at the moment.

This apparently means I can no longer be a fan of the club.

This is clearly nonsense. People can't attend for a myriad of reasons and following this logic, Boro could only ever have about 30,000 fans at one time.

Just interested in other views?
 
sherlock1969 said:
Interested in comments here. I'm being told on another thread that because I don't actually attend the matches I can't be a supporter.

This despite explaining that in my almost 54 years I have had a season ticket almost 20 times. I no longer live locally and have to avoid crowds due to ongoing covid CEV risk, hence why I don't go at the moment.

This apparently means I can no longer be a fan of the club.

This is clearly nonsense. People can't attend for a myriad of reasons and following this logic, Boro could only ever have about 30,000 fans at one time.

Just interested in other views?
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There's folks all over the world who have never been to a match..
 
The way I read it is if you put money into the club, i.e, purchase match tickets or season cards, then you are a supporter of the club.
If you don’t attend, but follow from afar, or just watch out for the results, then you are a follower.
Being a fan (fanatic) possibly falls into both categories.
Yeah, I know, just rambling now…
 
The whole supporter/fan thing for me comes up when you have folks saying ah the manager is crap he doesn't know what he is doing, this player is rubbish etc etc etc..
when they haven't been to matches and they don't know what they are talking about.. you know the sort! Fans have an association or liking for the club, it's the club they associate themselves to. Supporters follow the games and show their support.
 
My Dad is 75. He started taking me when I was 2. He lives the other side of the country and cannot drive so far. He barely goes. He, my uncle in Singapore and all my other family all over the world are definitely Boro supporters.

Complete nonsense to say you are only a supporter if you go to games.
 
We don't all live locally so can't always attend home games but we are all diehard supporters.
My nerves are already kicking in about tomorrow's game and I have supported Boro for 50 year's ,the feelings never go away. All I need to say is
C'mon The Mighty Boro
 
Don't live locally. Haven't done so for years. However, it's much easier to follow Boro from afar these days, and still as interested as ever.
 
It's one of those things that really needs context.

If it's your local club then, in my opinion, you can be a supporter regardless.

If you only really care about the one club then you're probably a supporter.

If it's a club you've always followed from a distance, or care about along with other clubs, then you're more of a follower (it's in the name).

Fans is tricky but I'd have those in the category of "like it when they win" but don't really care otherwise - I know other people will use fan to mean "even more than a supporter" but I don't think general usage in other areas (e.g. music) supports this - and we now have the word "stan" for the deranged obsessives...

For the majority of UKians you'll only ever really follow one club so by default you'd tend to be considered a supporter if you make some attempt to keep up with what's going on.

You'd probably "follow" a few foreign clubs (or like myself you might have a WSL team you follow that has no relation to your men's team).

You might also be a fan of a particular player and then follow whichever team they're currently at.

In short, I haven't got the foggiest.
 
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