It's pretty much the same here in the Midlands. I moved down here with my
folks when I was a nipper and at school there was only one other Leeds fan
in my year, who happily admits he pretty much chose Leeds at random - still
comes to the games with me, though! The most popular team in those days was
Liverpool, who of course were the most successful team at the time - the
Scum of their day, if you like. There's quite a few Leeds fans round here
though, mainly a little older than me, which suggests they did the same
thing when we were top dogs a few years earlier.
The closest League teams are Coventry, Leicester and Northampton, all of
which have their fans here (as do Villa, who were probably the closest "big"
team at the time) but there's no real attachment to any of those cities,
which is why we probably have a large contingent of "random big club" fans.
I work in SE Northamptonshire, which is pretty much the same - Northampton
is 20 miles distant, and the nearest league club (apart from MK Dons, who'll
we pretend don't exist) is Peterborough, who are equally irrelevant to most
people. The one noticeable thing about Northants fans though is the
increased number of Spurs and Arsenal fans, presumably due to being 20 miles
closer to London. (Oh, and the Celtic and Rangers fans, but that's
completely due to half of Glasgow's population moving to Corby many years
ago!)
Si
----- Original Message -----
From: "MATTHEW GAYNOR" <[email protected]>
To: "'David Brennan'" <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>; "Matt Anderson" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: [LU] local support
Well i think in East Anglia's case its a combination of;
1) Lots of people having no local team to automatically support - which was
partly the case with me - no club within 20 miles.
2) Kev who runs the EA branch 'persuading' people to come with us.
Though the branch is very much in line with the rest of Leeds support
nowadays - lots of 40 odd year old blokes.
Matt
--- On Mon, 24/8/09, Matt Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Matt Anderson <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [LU] local support
To: "'David Brennan'" <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Date: Monday, 24 August, 2009, 12:24 PM
I've noticed that a bit. There seems to be a lot of random no obvious link
brummie and "fenland/peterbourgh area" leeds fans.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Brennan
Sent: 24 August 2009 12:13
To: '[email protected]'
Subject: [LU] local support
Been on holiday in Suffolk recently, and whilst in Framlingham I thought it
was nice to see in the window of the local sportswear shop a big Ipswich
Town flag and Ipswich Town kit on display. Ipswich is after all their local
big club.
Compare this to the main sports shop in Leeds city centre which has scum,
chelsea scum, arse, and cesspool kits hanging in its window and behind the
counter, with not a Leeds shirt in sight! Disgusting.
Although to be fair it's not all bad in Leeds, as HMV in the White Rose do
have a Leeds section, even if it does seem a bit odd in between all the DVDs
and CDs.
I also had a chat with home kit wearing Leeds fan in Southwold, which was
nice. He came from Norwich and said there's a big Leeds contingent there.
I'm familiar with the East Anglia Branch. I wonder why Leeds is so popular
there?
DRB
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