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I heard this discussion on talksport earlier and agreed with Goldstein

If you come from a big football family and going to your local team regularly is ingrained in you as a kid then it makes sense to support them. A lot of people aren't like that though and so will just pick a team for random reasons. I genuinely think I started supporting West Ham because I liked the name as a kid. We didn't have a 'local team' as such as it was a small village in Gloucestershire. There were the two Bristol teams but I never went to see them and they weren't that close. My nearest professional team was Forest Green and as an adult I've gone to watch them a lot but they were conference relegation battlers through my childhood. My Mum is from Newcastle and supports them but that was hundreds of miles from where I lived so never felt that bothered about it.

So West Ham it was and whilst I picked it I don't think that matters too much. I do appreciate though that there are many West Ham fans who grew up by the Boleyn, go back generations etc and it runs a little bit deeper for those people than it might do for me