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It can't be done. The parking space next to your heart is only big enough for one team's bus.

I moved to London 9 years ago and thought: "Right, I'll support my new 'local' team for the Prem now." The reality is that it's forced support, you don't really care if they win/lose deep down. 

If someone has 2 teams: they support one and follow another. Question is: which is which?

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I can see how it may happen in practice - lifelong city fan moves from Bristol to, say, Hartlepool and then watches the monkey hangers for a fix. Clubs then draw each other in the cup, fan is still city first and foremost but there is a part of him that would be happy if Hartlepool won. No issues in that, and having affinity for a second team in that circumstance is fine.

However, lifelong Bristolians with no family links to Manchester cheering Utd on? Nah, not having that. Just a bit sad...

NB - The correct answer is, of course, Bristol City and Bristol City U23s

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5 minutes ago, bris red said:

No respect for any grown man that supports two teams, complete nonsense that you'd expect to hear from a primary school kid. Bristol City and Bristol City only for me.

"Primary school kid" is the key here, I think.

Little kids are simple glory hunters, so choose a big club to follow - especially if their local team is lower league.

That can lead different ways. Many genuine fans will see their glamour club allegiance fade way as they concentrate on the team they go to watch in real life. Others will maintain a dual interest. Others will not be true fans and just watch their glamour club on TV while never watching football in the flesh (though some, oddly, will travel to Manchester or wherever despite having no connection with the area).

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I haven't always lived in Bristol and as a very young boy my first recollection of Football is seeing fans of crying on the telly after their team had lost. That team was Manchester. Being a compassionate sort, I developed an interest and my father even took me to a few of their games. 

Fortunately we moved as a family to Bristol and I could see Ashton Gate from my bedroom window. As I had grown up in firstly a village outside a main town and then a city with no football club, I was super excited to now have one local to me and the day after moving here I was at my first game. 

I haven't looked back since and I hope we absolutely smash Manchester.

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36 minutes ago, E.G.Red said:

Being born in London I first supported a London club. When I moved to Bristol 20 years ago I wanted a team to support and my son went with a friend to Ashton Gate and I became a City fan by default and a season ticket holder. Still a soft spot for my original team and another south London team when I lived there for a few years. NB They all have one thing in common, RED.

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I have a soft spot for Exeter due to going to uni there. I look out for their results but wouldn't be able to name their players and I'm not a 'fan' as such.

Also, I hate to say it but I have similar feelings towards Man Utd.  When I was a kid I had no one to guide me in choosing a team. Despite living in Hotwells I supported Utd. Sorry.

Once I reached my teenage years I saw how ludicrous that was, switched to Bristol City and have never looked back.  But those early days sit deep in your soul and my earliest football memory is the Everton win over Utd in the 1995 FA Cup final...and weirdly it still hurts.

Having said all that - I 100% want us to stuff Utd in December.

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My Dad took me to watch rovers (not kidding) when I was 14 years old. That's why I started supporting city  :P. Up until then I had from the age of about 8 watched and followed  football via TV radio etc and decided that I would follow Spurs and would you believe Everton ?. Of course as soon as I started watching city I was hooked. John Atyeo coming to the end of his career and then getting us promoted to the old second division. Signing players like Chris Crowe, Hugh Mcilmoyle. Watching Gerry Sharpe,  Gerry Gow, John Galley and Chris Garland as I was a young kid was to me amazing. But I still look out for Spurs and Everton and still have that odd affection for those two clubs. They would never replace city though and the thought of me supporting them instead of city if they came to the gate would a 100% no.

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5 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said:

I have a soft spot for Exeter due to going to uni there. I look out for their results but wouldn't be able to name their players and I'm not a 'fan' as such.

Also, I hate to say it but I have similar feelings towards Man Utd.  When I was a kid I had no one to guide me in choosing a team. Despite living in Hotwells I supported Utd. Sorry.

Once I reached my teenage years I saw how ludicrous that was, switched to Bristol City and have never looked back.  But those early days sit deep in your soul and my earliest football memory is the Everton win over Utd in the 1995 FA Cup final...and weirdly it still hurts.

Having said all that - I 100% want us to stuff Utd in December.

For a while in my teens I was also a United 'fan' one day I found myself watching the FA Cup final against Liverpool, the one where Cantona scored the winner late on so I followed them for a few years through the glory years. 

However in 99 I was taken to my first City game and never looked back. Nothing g beats watching a live game of football in the City where you were born. Instantly I lost all interest in United.

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2 hours ago, Edge1981 said:

This may have been done before (I’m sure it has) but the cup draw has got me thinking about how people support two teams. I know a couple of City season ticket holders who are also Manchester fans (both born and bread in Manchester) Both will be going and in the home end but say it’s the will be quietly supporting the away team. I just don’t get it? I’ve never supported any other club other than City and just don’t understand it. 

How do these fans support City but also support a premiership team?

I know city fans who also support Spurs, Liverpool, Chelsea, Newcastle, Everton and Southampton. Funny that their support of the other team is a watching them when they are on Sky and maybe making a trip to watch them once every three seasons. They would still say that the Premier League team is their first team and City are their second despite going fairly regularly to watch City play  

Anyone else care care to admit to supporting another team and explain how supporting two teams work. Who would you support if City played the other team?

I would support Bristol City

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No-one other than Bristol City for me. Born and bred in Bristol, have lived here most of my life and my dad is a City fan so there was never a pull from another team.

I can understand people having a second team if they have lived somewhere else or have a family connection. Also lots of football fans will look at results of games and have a preference for one team over another.  What I really dislike is when people "support" a team like Manchester or Chelsea but rarely see them live and have no connection with them other than they are successful and on TV a lot.

Over the last few years I've actually lost interest in watching games on TV apart from the international tournaments like the World Cup. Nothing beats watching live football at your local club (even if it does mean sometimes suffering games like the Leeds one last week!)

 

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Moved to Bristol from London 25 years ago, used to go to Highbury but couldn’t afford to once I’d moved - so, went to City v Port Vale in 1994, I think (0-0 I think, awful game) and have been going ever since - still keep an eye on Arsenal (and, yes, they still wind me up a bit) but City are my team. My wife worked at AG and my kids are born and bred City fans and ST holders. If City were playing Arsenal I’d only be supporting one team.

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It's easy enough to have two teams and to care about both of them.

I was brought up in South West London and fell in love with Wimbledon as a teenager back in the Plough Lane days. I was a season ticket holder when we used to play at Selhurst Park in the late 90s / early 00s and joined the protests as the owners sold our league postion to MK. And I was a founder member of the Dons Trust which set-up AFC Wimbledon... and then we had kids and moved to Bristol. Couldn't afford London prices for a family home and got a job down here.

My kids went to Ashton Gate primary school, and my son has been playing in Ashton Boys since he was 5. So occassionally at first and more regularly over time, we've been going to the Gate. I bought him his first City strip and have always been proud that he supports his local team rather than some distant over-commercialised brand. I love watching football live and although I go to a handful of Wimbledon games each year, we've got City season tickets. So although I still call Wimbledon my first team. I know more about the City players' various strengths and weaknesses because I watch them a lot more. When City play badly I groan. When they play well I cheer. That's the definition of support!

Of course I know you're meant to swear allegiance to a single team - that's the tribal way. But I've just got to admit it, I love 2 teams now.

 

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I'll go against the grain of this post. 

City and united for me. Simply followed my dad. Started going to city around 90 when I was 6.

My dad liked united and was a big cantona fan (he worked in leeds), so when he moved to united, It seemed logical to support them.

Quite a few times in the 90s, Liverpool v united and city v gas was same weekend.

Whether it was roberts v Mansfield, or Macheda v villa. For me the emotion was the same, both shared with my dad, the only difference, one was in the stadium, the other on TV.

I see a lot less now I live in madrid, 6 years. The hardest part is not going to city, I miss it more than any other part about living in Bristol. I mean I'm looking forward to Birmingham away and it's 2 months away.

But I'm definitely in the two team category.

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1 minute ago, The turtle said:

I'll go against the grain of this post. 

City and united for me. Simply followed my dad. Started going to city around 90 when I was 6.

My dad liked united and was a big cantona fan (he worked in leeds), so when he moved to united, It seemed logical to support them.

Quite a few times in the 90s, Liverpool v united and city v gas was same weekend.

Whether it was roberts v Mansfield, or Macheda v villa. For me the emotion was the same, both shared with my dad, the only difference, one was in the stadium, the other on TV.

I see a lot less now I live in madrid, 6 years. The hardest part is not going to city, I miss it more than any other part about living in Bristol. I mean I'm looking forward to Birmingham away and it's 2 months away.

But I'm definitely in the two team category.

Surely you're now in the three team camp? ;) #AúpaAtleti 

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13 minutes ago, The turtle said:

I'll go against the grain of this post. 

City and united for me. Simply followed my dad. Started going to city around 90 when I was 6.

My dad liked united and was a big cantona fan (he worked in leeds), so when he moved to united, It seemed logical to support them.

Quite a few times in the 90s, Liverpool v united and city v gas was same weekend.

Whether it was roberts v Mansfield, or Macheda v villa. For me the emotion was the same, both shared with my dad, the only difference, one was in the stadium, the other on TV.

I see a lot less now I live in madrid, 6 years. The hardest part is not going to city, I miss it more than any other part about living in Bristol. I mean I'm looking forward to Birmingham away and it's 2 months away.

But I'm definitely in the two team category.

you have to get with it, son. It`s "Manchester", not "United"! :whistle: ;)

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