[QUOTE=johncorrigan;718523][QUOTE=Lat-Literal;718305]Still not sure which team to support in Scotland.
Brechin can't be a million miles from you, JC. But I am guessing that the Dundee clubs, Forfar and even Arbroath are probably nearer geographically? The nearest I came to that area on my one and only trip was Pitlochry. And I should really be choosing a team from near to one of the places I visited - Arrochar, Glencoe, Fort William, Inverness, Culloden, Strathpeffer, Ullapool, Nairn and Pitlochry - but apart from Fort William and Inverness, I wouldn't immediately know what they are.
On whether we have choices, maybe there is a distinction to be made between supporter and follower. At club level, I support Arsenal and York. The first was where I was taken. A slight family influence. The second was just up the road at a time when I was of an age to choose another one for myself. Association with mates. It was easy to add in Marseille in France, AC Milan in Italy and Ajax in Holland as I later went to matches there. But I follow them rather than support them.
Another in Holland and another in France - smaller - became defunct. I've sort of got Braga in Portugal because I was at an international there just as its very unusual stadium opened. Spain is a lot trickier. It should, by rights, be Valencia what with the Benicasim Festival but I dunno. I had a photo taken outside the Nou Camp. I like Deportivo for the idea of the immediate area though I've never visited it and Betis for the history and stadium. With Germany, I have no feeling at all.
If I wasn't a Buddy, Lat, and had the choice to support any other team (apart from them) I think I might be inclined to Brechin City. Mostly I have to say because of the ground with its iconic beech hedge, and also Brechin is a pretty crazy place. I often think that Oor Wullie looks like he comes from Brechin and that the Stoorie Burn is in fact a tributary of the Esk. Nothing to do with the footie - just a good place to watch it! But we just don't really have the choice, do we?
On whether we have choices, maybe there is a distinction to be made between supporter and follower. At club level, I support Arsenal and York. The first was where I was taken. A slight family influence. The second was just up the road at a time when I was of an age to choose another one for myself. Association with mates. It was easy to add in Marseille in France, AC Milan in Italy and Ajax in Holland as I later went to matches there. But I follow them rather than support them.
Another in Holland and another in France - smaller - became defunct. I've sort of got Braga in Portugal because I was at an international there just as its very unusual stadium opened. Spain is a lot trickier. It should, by rights, be Valencia what with the Benicasim Festival but I dunno. I had a photo taken outside the Nou Camp. I like Deportivo for the idea of the immediate area though I've never visited it and Betis for the history and stadium. With Germany, I have no feeling at all.
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