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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

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Originally Posted by MTVN

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

West Ham must be the biggest name club that has never been English champions. I still find it bizarre that they've never been champions. Because they've always been a big well supported club.

The only time England won the World Cup. The goals were scored by Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters. Both of West Ham and the Captain was West Ham's Robert Moore.

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Originally Posted by Alf

West Ham must be the biggest name club that has never been English champions. I still find it bizarre that they've never been champions. Because they've always been a big well supported club.

The only time England won the World Cup. The goals were scored by Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters. Both of West Ham and the Captain was West Ham's Robert Moore.

Yeah I feel now really grateful to my 7 year old self because I picked a team with such history and a great fan culture. It's a proper club and I can get to games quite easily now but none of that was in my mind at the time haha

And yeah we never win the league and have had so many disappointments over the years but I'm not sure I'd have it any other way. That's something I knew even as a kid that I didn't want to just support the team who were winning the most