Quirkafleeg
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Who do you follow over in there Alan ?
Chicago for the moment, though I won't hesitate much to turn tail on them if a franchise gets place in Charlotte.
If Penkridge started a team in the conference should I change my elegances to them?
I would imagine your ties to Wolves run a bit deeper than for that to happen. I have no such ties to Chicago; I simply like the city and so it makes sense for me to pull for them whilst there is no one else worth pulling for. But my connection to them is superficial at best, I have no real emotional connection there. If a franchise opened up in Charlotte, however, the city in which I was born and raised, that emotional connection would be there.
I root for Chicago but I don't really qualify it as "supporting" them.
Just a cultural thing I suppose.
Orlando City are in MLS now but the franchise was moved from Texas a couple of years ago. Which to me is complete anathema but totally normal for Americans.
I would imagine your ties to Wolves run a bit deeper than for that to happen. I have no such ties to Chicago; I simply like the city and so it makes sense for me to pull for them whilst there is no one else worth pulling for. But my connection to them is superficial at best, I have no real emotional connection there. If a franchise opened up in Charlotte, however, the city in which I was born and raised, that emotional connection would be there.
I root for Chicago but I don't really qualify it as "supporting" them.
I mean the whole concept of franchising (and new teams randomly appearing in different cities) is something I disagree with. If it crept into our sports as normality then I think I'd give up watching them. Never going to have anything but contempt for McDons.
However if that is what you had grown up with as 'normal' then it wouldn't bother you to switch teams when it ended up being your town's turn at running a franchise. Especially if you knew it could be taken away just as quickly as it were awarded.
EPL.