Comments on: Glory Fans – Not So Bad After All?

By: Joel

Joel — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:38:42 +0000

good article, the truth is that most chelsea fans have supported the club all their lives, even before abramovic our average attendence was around 40,000 and we were still a top club, in 98/99 we finished 4 points from winning the league, and I feel sorry for you being called a glory hunter, I live in sheffield but my family is from chelsea and I have been brought up as a chelsea fan and of course growing up my hero was zola, and at school all I get called is a glory hunter, people say I “support every team in the world” and when chelsea lose a match they say “who are you going to support now?” and this makes me so angry, its nice to see another true football fan having the same problems as me, sometimes, I wish abramovic had never bought my club.

By: HullCity Till I Die

HullCity Till I Die — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:35:00 +0000

I watched the Barca vs ManU final and thought that they didn’t even play with any quality. But saying that ManU’s reserves beat my local club in the last match of the season, who I am a diehard fan of. Ah well =)

By: John

John — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:05:23 +0000

You have missed the point. Gloryhunters the phrase is directed as those muppets who use a big club as a means to wind up other fans and try to pretend to be English. If you jump on board a big club at least have some manners and not try to be something you’re not (like manchester united, dont try to be Mancunian). You give the rest of the real foreign supporters who just love the game a bad name. If you support your club fine, if you use it as a means of wind up then you’re an idiot

By: Athena

Athena — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 10:11:44 +0000

I am a greek girl born in Souh Africa. Still live there. I have been a Man United fan for the past 18 years. My dad supports Liverpool and so does his older brother, who lives in South Africa, and his younger brother, who lives in Grrece. They also support the greek team Olympiacos. My mom is a United and Panathinaikos fan. My uncle’s daughters used have posters of Bryan Robson, Lee Sharpe, Brian McClair and many more. Giggsy came later and so did Becks. But as a 4 year old i used go into my cousins rooms, who at that stage were 12 and 9 years old. and see all of the man united players and I started supporting them. The same thing happened with my a sister a few years earlier. Why did none of us start supporting Liverpool, especially my cousins, which the older one can remember most of the success Liverpool had in the 80′s. Does that make us glory fans? I do support Panatihaikos as well. We used only get English premier league and maybe thats why Man United are my first team. I do not support them because of Becks or Ronaldo or Giggs. I do think they are good lookuing but like my cousin says we are girls and allowed to think footballers are sexy. Great article.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:27:59 +0000

look at you all from southern cunts complimenting this bullshit article like it justifies the fact that you’re all glory supporting twats. Weren’t so great without that portugese prick on sunday, were you?

By: FrankF27

FrankF27 — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:33:29 +0000

Really brilliant article!

By: Omaha Bhoy

Omaha Bhoy — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:08:55 +0000

Being a fan’s about how you feel inside based on your team’s performance. It shouldn’t matter what someone else has to say about your sartorial style (though I’d point to Toluca and say they’re doing more with El Diablo Rojo than I’ve noticed at OT). I am not a ManU fan but I’ll watch their games because I expect to see attacking football.

By: Terry Adams

Terry Adams — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:03:12 +0000

‘…as time has gone by, I’ve become a lot more understanding of these people we refer to as â€˜glory supporters”

I bet you have you lying bastard.

By: kopite

kopite — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:47:16 +0000

im from india and i can assure you that the biggest glory hunters are from india,china,south east asia.
awareness of football to the massess spread here in the 90′
s and 2000′s hence most people support chelsea,manu and liverpool(after istanbul).
i started watching football in 2006 itself and became a fan of steven gerrard wacthin the fa cup final against west ham.i foundit really inspiring nd started supporting lfc and now i am a mad lfc supporter regardless of who ever plays for us as this team and and its liverpudlian supporters are really inspiring.

By: Five Brothers Fat

Five Brothers Fat — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:01:16 +0000

For many of us being a United fan is a result of a series of accidents – the simplest one to target for ABU’s is the geographical one. An additional one for me was watching the ’79 cup final with a United fan who was a couple of years older than me. (Some of those accidents don’t work out as you’d like them to – 10 years living in Leeds as opposed Manchester in my case)

I watch United with a regular crowd of about 30 Reds in a pub in New York – passionate and knowledgeable fans, with a good understanding of the songbook and the culture of the club, English, Americans, and Irish lads. There is a smattering of ex-season ticket holder Mancs in the group. There are plenty of lads who go to England once a year for their annual trip to OT(Probably nicking tickets from Scotts mate for big games in his ROM post on this topic) and there are lads who stood on the strettford end all through the 70′s and 80′s, who have stories about maurading reds travelling all over england in the bad/good old days – (one lad still goes to all Euro aways to keep that particular buzz alive), you’ve got the hard drinking/ singing lads, the lads who know too much about tactics and formations for their own good, the bandwagon jumpers who want you to know that there they’ve absorbed Uniteds Wikipedia page in the last week, the big games only lads, So there are a lot of different animals involved.

Where I diverge from the general theme of many of the above comments above is on the question of being a lesser or greater fan due to you origin and location. We’re deluded if we compare ourselves with matchgoing reds, people sacrificing in numerous ways, week in week out, home away, midweek, europe, using all your holidays for games , dealing with the wife and kids in a manner that would have most on the fast track to the divorce lawyer.
Lining up the pay per view or in my case getting ont my bike to my local, even at 7am, is not remotely the same thing in action or experience. And I believe that a couple of pilgrimage trips to OT to load up on gear is not the same as the obsessiveness of the regulars. I wish I could (dont we all), but all of lifes other accidents have offered up routes in a different direction for me.