It's always worth me explaining the teams I support since there are 3 of them. 🤣
Fairly simple though, but I do like to talk so this will be much longer than I plan it to be. 😁
I was born and raised in the west end of Glasgow in the 80s. While I grew up literally down the road from Patrick Thistle's ground Firhill, we always said that no one supported them and you were blue or green. I picked Rangers because I fancied Ally McCoist. 🤣 No religious reasons for me at all, I was raised without religion and there wasn't a trend either way in our area, and thankfully I didn't see any hate either way about it at the time.
Then in the 90s we moved across the country because of my dad's job and we moved to Arbroath. While I sort of followed them results-wise I actually didn't start supporting them until my DH took me to a match shortly after we met 11 years ago. I've just renewed my season ticket for the third year in a row and I sit just a few rows behind the away dugout so you'll occasionally get photos of a pie or a manager's head from me in here. 🤣
Then a good few years ago now, but I can't remember when exactly, I wanted an English team to support, both to make watching matches more fun for me, but also because my gran was from Romford. Because of that location I went with West Ham. As with Arbroath I really only followed the results for a few years but lockdown was brilliant when they started putting more and more footy on TV so I got to properly watch them and follow them knowing the players and style etc a lot more.
And for following without really supporting I do like to see Patrick Thistle doing well as long as it's not against any of my teams and my DH is also a lifelong Hibs supporter so again, as long as it's not against my teams I'll cheer for them.
As for VAR, well. 🤣 I've seen both the pros and cons with decisions. I just wish it was faster, when it was introduced I was expecting something more like what you get in tennis where it just takes a few seconds to check. Having a bloke at a screen draw lines to see if someone is a toenail offside takes it too far IMO. It's one of those things when you don't have it you wish you had it, then when you do have it you moan about it. I also think in cup games it's not fair to use it in some matches but not others just depending on if they have it at the home ground or not. It should be all with it or all without it IMO.