The case for the defence: The "we" thing...
As a die hard football fan I feel the urgent need to defend this action within fans. I think it stems from the fact that football (especially lower league football) is very tribal, in my league (Conference) most of the teams have about 2000-500 die hard season ticket holders who go to every game and traipse across the country following their team.

If you're one of those people (as I am) you experience every high and every low and, while it sounds very stupid to outsiders, it's very emotional, to the point where you see fans crying when their team's relegated. Not only this but as a fan and paying customer you're actually the club, if you all stopped going there wouldn't be a club, it wouldn't be able to survive.

I think that's where the "we" stuff comes from, after you've experienced a couple of seasons you're part of the whole thing and it's hard to escape it's grasp. My mood is based solely on whether we've won our previous game or where we are in the league and that's the very reason I'm currently bouncy and happy (4th in the league w00t!). It is stupid but it's also very, very fun.
(I Am Plague @Mistication92, Mon 5 Apr 2010, 4:38, Reply)