Hey I know what your thinking but hear me out.
I’m 21 years old and my local is Brighton and-have a non-league team near me whitehawk 45min bus journey from me but supported Man United growing up ( bet you never heard that before). Supported United because only a couple of family members watched football and they were United fans (grandad and uncle). Grandad is sadly not here rip and uncle moved away, so don’t really have any connections or people to talk to about United.
Since about 16 I’ve been thinking about changing football team to a local, as it just seems right and I’ve lost connection with United each year growing up, as all I do is watch them on TV. When United lose it’s like I don’t care.
All I want to do is go to games and have a chat, watching a game all supporting the same team. So I’ve been thinking about supporting non league team Whitehawk across town from me as it looks like a good group of supporters and I don’t want to change to a Brighton fan now as it looks odd, especially as they are doing well. I feel like I can ease out of being a United fan going to Whitehawk games as tickets are cheap and easy to get, so I can go to games regularly. Plus, what’s better than helping a non-league team?
Is it bad to change teams? I know it’s not a popular thing to do, but surely this isn’t too bad?
Nah it’s how teams grow tbh. If it was the other way round then yes, that’s bad. But realistically people can’t get on your back anyway because they’ll say “support local” one minute then call you a plastic the next. It’s happened with us in recent years (Luton) with people jumping from Liverpool, United etc. to support us, people get irritated but we could do with the support going forward, and if they stay when we inevitably drop down to League 2 again one day, then fair enough.