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That’s interesting. I hadn’t really thought of your first point. I believe a lot people, myself included, can really relate to your second reason about over-commercialisation in football. Though, people disillusioned by the development in top football have dealt with it in different ways. I love hearing stories from people who have fallen in love with football again watching the lower leagues. I intend to read “You don’t choose your football club, it finds you: A season rediscovering the true soul of football fandom” by Gareth Platt at some point. He watched all Leyton Orient’s home games one season, fell in love with them, and gave up his Arsenal season ticket.
I am (or was?) an international Arsenal fan. I’ve been an Arsenal fan since childhood, having watched all their games in television since the mid 2000’s. But as I have grown older, I came to the realisation that it’s just much more exciting and satisfying following the top division in my own country (Danish Superliga), and I now have a season ticket at my local club (top 3 club in Denmark) and it’s so much fun. Honestly, even though average attendances at my club’s stadium is only slightly more than a third of the full capacity at Emirates Stadium, the atmosphere at the Emirates can never match Brøndby Stadion at its best.
Comment by HarryBlessKnapp at 08/01/2025 at 19:45 UTC
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Yeah, all valid points. I'm envious of you tbh. It's a double edge sword really. The quality of the football in the premier league is just phenomenal to watch, so I'm very happy to watch. It's not all bad. But itakes it really hard to drop down and watch worse teams. I went to Orient a couple of times recently. It was dreadful to watch and the atmosphere was just as bad pretty much, and it wasn't even much cheaper. I had a season ticket as teenager over there, which was great.
I'm quite happy to watch as a neutral these days, and get my kicks from England and my kids' teams.
Kind of jealous what you say about Bronby though. Football is way more meaningful when it's about a specific community. This is why I still love international football.