You have ten (10) seconds to explain why being a "bandwagon

>>74027974
>You can choose
No, you can

You support your neibourhood club and/or your father's club

>>74028019
>can
can't*

if you're not a bandwagon ban you're a shitty fan supporting a team that sucks gives them no reason to improve

>>74027974
youre right OP

but some morons fall for entry level marketing tricks

>>74027974
It's a loyalty thing, but I wouldn't expect an American to understand the concept of loyalty.

>>74028019
Argentina confirmed white.

>>74027974

Because you don't really care about the team, you just care about winning.

If you're a bandwagon fan you show you aren't able to commit to anything through thick and thin, therefore you are an entitled imbecile.

>>74027974
>You aren't born with your team like a small dick or brown eyes
this hits close to home
:(

>>74028075
>>74028095

Loyalty towards what? A team of millionaires that I'll never meet in my life, and have no idea I exist?

That's like saying you have to have a loyalty towards Coke and never try Pepsi.

>>74027974

Who is this cunny bunny?

>>74028153
That mentality is exactly the problem with modern team sports, specifically modern football. Traditionally, football / basketball / etc teams would represent your city, town or neighbourhood, supporting your team was meant as a show of loyalty to the group you belong to. It's not only sports, it's culture. Since sports have been completely commercialised, people "choose" a powerful team like they choose their breakfast cereal. Culture doesn't matter, only business does.

>>74028108
And that's a bad thing?

>>74028297
this
It is only ok to pick a team if you don't have a local team, otherwise you are honor bound to support your local team.

>>74028351

lmao, this isn't fucking game of thrones, britcuck. Nobody gives a fuck about honor. I want to be a winner and I will be.

everyone's forgetting a yuuuuuge reason why one might not support their local teams...

their area sucks in general. i.e. the southeast

>>74028391
You're not a winner, you're just a dumbass.

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>not actually going to games home and away with several generations of your family who have stuck by the club through thick and thin

Actually more important than wanking off about big TV money teams you watch on laptop streams.

>>74027974
It doesn't matter because at the end of the day bandwagon money and loyal fan money both look the same.

>>74028391
t. customer

What if I am from a different continent and support a team that my best mate does just for some laughs?

That team is West Ham.

>>74027974

>americans "fans"

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He's right you know


Pic related; /lifelong/

Bandwagoning is only acceptable when you're not claiming to be a real supporter and you're not taking it that seriously.

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This is the average Patriots """""fan"""""

>>74028019
> your father's club
>excuses to wagon
voka/yiver fan here

>>74028391
>I want to be a winner and I will be
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
That is genuinely the most pathetic thing I have read on this board. (You) don't do shit. (You) don't win anything. (You) are a spoiled brat.

>>74027974
>>74028019
>born to be a Buyern fan
>even all 4 of my grandparents are/were Buyern fans
>god it feels good winning the genetic lottery

>>74032682
And he probably grew up only playing with 5 star teams on Fifa because he's a sore loser

>>74032704
>le bandwagon cuck family
ayyy

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/lifelong/ here

>>74032764
stay mad nigger

>>74033247
t. Ahmed

My story about being a Manchester United 'Glory Supporter'

>Be 11 years old in 1994, United are winning everything and literally everyone at my school in Doncaster supports them
>I'm only just getting into football, my parents can't afford Sky Sports and I never get taken to see any live sports, so I can just go from the sparse games I see on TV which almost always involve Manchester United
>Decide to support Manchester United
>Everything is fine for a while
>1995
>Blackburn win the Premier League
>Everton beat United in the FA Cup
>I am just crushed as this is my first time experiencing United losing, but keep my chin up and decide to keep on
>Go back to school after the 6 week holiday
>Almost everyone has stopped supporting United and started supporting various Yorkshire teams, mainly Leeds or Wednesday - Premier League teams at the time
>Not one had decided to support Doncaster Rovers
>They all call me the Glory Supporter for sticking with a team when they lost

I learned then that Glory Supporting or bandwagoning is not just backing the team that wins the most, it's about how you want people to view you. Those people who ditched United for Leeds or Wednesday wanted the respect of following a team that wasn't the 'easy' choice liked United, the image of being a supporter of a 'local' team that they had some tenuous link to, but also didn't want to associate with a loser team like Donny Rovers. Basically, if you don't follow your most local team, you are a bandwagoner or Glory Supporter to some extent.

>>74033484
>Basically, if you don't follow your most local team, you are a bandwagoner or Glory Supporter to some extent.

Then, this is pointless. I get what you are saying, that's what's implied in 'bandwagoning', but since no one actually follow their loser local teams, everybody would be a bandwagoner.
Still, the word doesn't seem completely useless to me. It should just mean something different: the people that start supporting when the team is winning it all, but, instead of being sad like a true fan is when their team loses (like you did), they start complaining or giving excuses to change teams (such as your friends), as if it was the team's obligation to provide them wins, not the reward for supporting them through hardship. Then, they disappear, only to reappear when the team is winning. I don't know if it's like that in Britain, but here in Brazil it's very hard for the manager to stay for more than 2 years straight, because the so-called fans (that are actually bandwagoners) want to fire him as soon as he loses, instead of giving him time to build up his work. I know, we shouldn't tolerate failures, but it is taken to ridiculous levels: Mourinho, Klopp and Guardiola might have been fired by now.

So that is objectively prejudicial, and I think we can establish that as bandwagoning, since it's superfluous on the 'supporters' part and actually hurts the team. Personally, I don't see anything bad about rooting for big teams even if they aren't close to you (here people from the North and Northeast regions root for Southern ones, for example), as long as you are actually loyal and aren't just chosing the easy way to celebrate victories. Wanting to at least have a chance in winning isn't bad at all.

I agree with OP. Why cheer for teams in your city when it's clearly an awful sports city and the teams can leave at any time?

>>74034812
>
Then, this is pointless. I get what you are saying, that's what's implied in 'bandwagoning', but since no one actually follow their loser local teams, everybody would be a bandwagoner.

My point is that pointing fingers is useless, as nearly everyone is doing it to some extent, and thats why I dismiss the Glory Supporter accusations, simply because it's rare to find someone who isn't doing this.

>>74035441

I agree with you. Might not have made sense because I'm kind of drunk

What I meant is that glory supporting in the usual sense is pointless (in other words I agree with you), but the word itself can have some use, i.e., in the case of fans who are in only for victories and actually hinder team's progress by having shortsighted opinions (such as the team needs to beat its rival RIGHT NOW instead of focusing in overall improvement in order to win the league, for example) when the team isn't doing good.

In other words, rooting for ManU like you said you do is fine, but doing like your friends is not