A franchise acquired across a national border. Fans of a Welsh league club support England in tournaments?
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Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View PostFans of a Welsh league club support England in tournaments?
Then the Euro 2016 bandwagon happened and people who never knew the pain of Paul Bodin's penalty, four years of Bobby Fucking Gould, Egor Titov juiced off his tits and Stevie Evans winning seven caps were having Y Ddraig Goch painted on their faces.
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I find it an odd question. Many people's club supporting has nothing to do with their national supporting.
Pete Davies (of "All Played Out" fame) was an English Wrexham supporter. I am a Welsh Bath City supporter. There have always been huge amounts of Welsh Manchester United and Liverpool - and, I assume now, MAnchester City, Arsenal and Chelsea - fans.
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Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View PostShrewsbury have a large contingent of fans who come down from the mountains of mid Wales and support Wales, not England.
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I know a guy in Oswestry who speaks with a strong mid Wales accent, supports Spurs and was a Tory member of the Town Council
Remember Rhyl late summer 2008. England flags for a tournament they didnt qualify for weeks after it finished
Bog Annette to threadLast edited by Duncan Gardner; 25-06-2018, 06:16.
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Originally posted by Walt Flanagans Dog View PostMaybe you just don't know the Welsh for "bookshop"?
I'm wondering if there might be a niche one opened recently but I'm pretty sure my dad would have told me about it. He bemoans the death of bookshops. There used to be several independents or small chains, and second hand places as well. Most have gone.
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Originally posted by jwdd27 View PostMy colleague from Rhyl turned up today in a new England shirt, which surprised me a bit.
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Thinking on it, dual national identification should not be odd, especially given population flows between England and Wales. I just think that if you were an Oswestry fan with a very strong English identity, you might have cognitive dissonance when you watch your team represent Wales in Europe, but that depends whether you normally express your Englishness in an exclusionary way (Tebbit test style) or conclusively (open to dual identification)
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Also worth noting the original Oswestry Town were founder members of the FA Wales, which is why the phoenix club were allowed in, and why TNS were allowed to move there. The Oswestry that was swallowed up was part of the Welsh system. The football going public in Oswestry have had a century and a half to get used to this conundrum.
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He's from Rhyl, now lives here (Huddersfield), but only for the last 6 or 7 years, so moved to England as an adult. I didn't bother asking, but I guess it could be a family or ancestral thing, in the same way that I proudly support the Welsh rugby team because of my "heritage".
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