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I wouldn't underestimate how many EFL/Non-league fans are also fans of PL clubs. Loads of Man City/Liverpool/United fans go to clubs like Stockport, Rochdale, Oldham, Crewe etc. I'd guess most of Salford's average gate is ex-Man U/FCUM types. Even reasonably successful clubs like Wigan and Bolton attract a shitload of people who are basically Liverpool fans 99% of the time. Huddersfield had gates of almost 15,000 for years and years but most of them when pressed would say they support Man U/Liverpool over "town"
Down South I guess we're more inclined to go to our local non-league clubs, rather than another EFL club. But the same thing exists at places like Borehamwood, Dagenham etc - Full of Arsenal, West Ham fans. I believe a large section of the Stevenage fan base is actually Tottenham. And I think quite a lot of Spurs fans will stop going to Stevenage now they've lost the consistency of 3pm Saturday kick offs, but we shall see.
Barry supports England as an act of progressive defiance, as a means of reclaiming the cursed red-and-white flag from the reactionaries and the hooligans and the white supremacists........You think you are, but you're not fooling anybody.
Maybe young people are just tired of being told that older generations selling off their cultural inheritance is a good thing when we can all see that it isn't.
Oh well, that means we should ignore the large communities of extremists who have just elected MPs in our parliament, pretend the grooming gang thing never happened and wasn't covered up by complicit Labour Party types who should all be in jail, pretend we haven't had people walk into hospitals carrying bombs with the intention of blowing people to pieces because their holy book told them to.
Some Asian lads celebrated England's win yesterday while at a Cricket match supporting Pakistan. That makes it all ok then.
Edit - Didn't your family white flight your way out of this anyway? Not sure you're really best placed to speak on this one.
Not to mention the 1000 odd ISIS returnees living amongst us. (That's jus the ones who already have a British passport, sure there will be more living in hotels "seeking asylum")
They're about to tell us that Children are taking their own lives because they're being denied access to gender-affirming care before the age of 16. In fact, they are already saying this, but Kier had to pretend he disagreed in order to get elected. He doesn't have to pretend anymore.
The debate around consent will not start with Grooming gangs. Obviously.
It will start with Puberty Blockers, or child suicide, or one of the many other angles from which you could begin to manufacture public consent to make these kinds of drastic changes.