Did your father force you to support the same team as him?

We are all bastards on here

Thankfully not. I'd be bitter and twisted now if he had

No, but i made my daughter support reading. Well i didnt actually make her, i just took her to games.

She was a typical 13yo man u fan so i took her to Reading games home and away for a couple of seasons and she actually liked it.

There's a massive difference between what you did Sonko mate and forcing a child into supporting a club.

The pathetic ones are the fathers who have got 4-5 kids and have them kitted out in the full strip.

My old man only watched Rugby Union, so I supported the local rugby side for years as a kid.

My son is a Man U fan............

I'm still seeing a shrink!

Agree mr e.

Fair play to my brother, he supports liverpool/reading but takes all his kids to Reading games, all 4 of them support Reading. His boy was originally a liverpool fan but now wears a Reading top all of the time and doesnt fall to pressure from his friends+ to support a big club.

My old man said be a Man U fan......


I said bollocks..... You're a ****

Only joking I still travel from Dublin to Donegal with my dad to see Finn Harps fc.  And when I go to see Dublin vs Donegal play in Gaelic Football I nearly get killed when people hear me shout "C'mon Donegal" in a thick Dublin accent.


You can take the boy from the country but you can't take the country from the boy.

I've never understood how anyone can "choose" a club to support without any real ties to the area. I support the same club as my Dad because that's who he took me to see as a kid. If he hadn't, I'd probably just support my local team.

Most people follow their family in the team they support. Nowt wrong with that.

I agree aka. It's the notion of just "choosing" a team to whom who have no ties i.e. not local and no family links that I can't quite get my head around.

Well I am from Belfast and here it is almost compulsory to support an English team. Back in the seventies I choose Chelsea my brother Leeds, and today I am not just a Chelsea fan but a Chelsea fanatic.

Did you get that bird who left you for the bald bloke to follow your team?

Same as Stu said, my Dad didn't like football, he loved his rugby union. We moved to South East London when I was 5 and Selhurst Park was very nearby so have been a Palace man all my life.

Mr Eboue chose to support Arsenal?

Good job his Father did not force him to support a team he can't spell imo

mancunian dad made me support united, went to pretty much every game from 87-99 but most people think am a gloryhunter so its a bit annoying, i dont think id do it to my son, prob let him support who he wants

I find it strange that youngsters choose a team and obviously it's usually the currently most successful one.
I grew up mid way between Villa and WBA so it had to be one of those 2. As my dad took me to see Villa that was my team. Birmingham was the other side of the City and I never heard of anyone supporting them.

didn't even know you were allowed to choose

indoctrinated from birth, cannot remember not being a Hammer

me dad was a gateshead fan, we moved when i was very young, and gateshead were non league,
he only took me to see newcastle after i badgered him, i got an engerland strip for xmas
1966, and was hooked on football. the 1966 world cup is about my first football memory.
(i can remember the 1964 olympics.)

he wouldnt go to big games, so i had to pick games against teams that had england players,
that were at best mid table. first game v stoke, gordon banks !

saw quite a few anglo scottish cup, and texaco cup games

my mate and his dad had season tickets so me and my mate went to reserve games and i used
his dad's ticket

me mam's best mate married an ice hockey player so we learnt to skate, and developed a love
for minor sports played by local teams, and for some reason i loved watching wales rugby union
team, barry john was my hero. i guess thats because rugby internationals were on tv, i didnt
really support england rugby union over wales until some of my mates were coached at school by
roger uttley.

funny old world innit

You and your mates went to Harrow then donny I take it?

uttley was at cramlington high school

i missed going there by one year, a new school was built
closer to where i lived

My Dad is a Liverpool fan
My Godfather is a Blackpool fan

Used to go Anfield one week, Bloomfield the next for about two seasons, then decided I had to pick one and support them 100%

Definitely made the right choice. BFC!

I imagine most Birmingham city fans would have to say yes to the question.

My dad was a united fan, so no.

I forced my dad to support the Baggies.

Can't Catch Me
26 Oct 14 19:40


Thankfully not. I'd be bitter and twisted now if he had


Well at leat your Da isn't called Olaf..

I'm trying to keep my kids away from football.  The players are mostly d1ckheads, as are the fans, the cost of going to games is ridiculous and the atmosphere at English grounds is pathetic.  That said, I only have girls - if I have a son it will be a harder choice as I wouldn't want him being poached by a friend/relative who supports another club...

No, he was a rugby man, and couldn't give a shiny **** about football.

Sorry Guinness.. I don't get it?!

my dad is a Man U supporter and didn't influence me one bit, so I became and Arsenal fan aged 7 (born 1974). I'm from Yorkshire so that was a bit of a strange choice at the time!

Oct 27, 2014 -- 11:40AM, donny osmond wrote:

me dad was a gateshead fan, we moved when i was very young, and gateshead were non league,he only took me to see newcastle after i badgered him, i got an engerland strip for xmas1966, and was hooked on football. the 1966 world cup is about my first football memory.(i can remember the 1964 olympics.)he wouldnt go to big games, so i had to pick games against teams that had england players,that were at best mid table. first game v stoke, gordon banks !saw quite a few anglo scottish cup, and texaco cup games my mate and his dad had season tickets so me and my mate went to reserve games and i used his dad's ticketme mam's best mate married an ice hockey player so we learnt to skate, and developed a lovefor minor sports played by local teams, and for some reason i loved watching wales rugby union team, barry john was my hero. i guess thats because rugby internationals were on tv, i didnt really support england rugby union over wales until some of my mates were coached at school by roger uttley.funny old world innit

I can remember the 94 World Cup as one of my earliest memories and there is a camcorder VCR tape of me crying as Baggio skied his peno in the final..... Got my nickname "Bruno" because of that game. (After an English kid in a nickelodeon programme about a woeful English schoolboy football team player who is English but thinks he Italian even though I am Irish) I think "Tony" after Tony cascarino is a more appropriate nickname for me. An English born Ireland player who thinks he is Italian.


Always supported my local club team Shelbourne fc though..... But it leads nowhere as any team who wins the League of Ireland goes out of business 1 season later after going broke

My dad supports Tranmere and I support Ipswich! The simple explanation is my dad lived up near Liverpool until his early 20s and then moved down South and eventually to Suffolk when he was about. 30!

Then when he had children, he took us to the nearest (big-ish) team which was Ipswich!

I support Tranmere as my "second" team!

mr eboue don't you think its natural that a father will want to take his son to watch football with him? I'd expect thats why a lot grow up supporting the same team their dads supported. You must surely be on a wind up using the word abuse....

My father was never interested in football and I was already a jambo before he took me to my first Hearts match in 1962,a 2-2 draw with Aberdeen.

My younger brother was a Rangers fan but I successfully inculcated my youngest brother into becoming a jambo,taking him to his first Hearts match away to Airdrie in 1968,where we won 4-1,and which he still remembers,as do I the Aberdeen game.

My father was much more interested in horse racing and got me started at that.Nowadays I attend in excess of 50 meetings per year and, generally,only watch football on TV or the internet.

My Dad and Grandad were Spurs fans.

Luckily I saw the light and rebelled. I'm the black sheep of the family now

i had to go to highbury but never liked it