interesting.....
SO you think the emotion invested in supporting a team leads to their success? This would explain how people feel they are part of their team's victory. I hadn't realised this, it makes sense of a few things.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 10 Aug 2011, 17:14, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

I know it makes a difference to me personally in playing sport
When you have strong support from the sidelines, yeah. I'm guessing that multiplies up when it's 50,000 people screaming for you.

I'm being facetious about the whole Scots/Welsh thing though - they are passionate supporters of their own teams really. It's just the hatred for English sporting teams even if they have nothing against actual English people that I find amusing.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 17:17, Reply)

well, it helps explain the 'we' thing a bit for me.
cheers for that. I still think it's bollocks, but nice to understand the mechanism.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 10 Aug 2011, 17:22, Reply)

I agree with you about club stuff, I just feel there are more important things to worry about in the world than that
but internationals, they represent their countries so they represent the people, so "we" is OK in my mind.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 17:24, Reply)

I'm not even sure about that in politics, never mind sport.
But that's a discussion for another day I think.

Suffice it to say that for me personally someone does not represent me just because they were born in the same geographical area, I am aware most people feel differently.

I'll just about allow some one represents me if I voted for them and they got in, but this very rarely happens.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 10 Aug 2011, 17:28, Reply)

I'm not saying you have to think "we"
If you don't feel they represent you, then that's fine, I'm just saying that if I think they do then it's OK for me to say "we"

although, I'd never have fucking picked Ravi Bopara so perhaps I should go back to "they"
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 17:32, Reply)