Fake fans!

Today I'm writing my first blog, I used to have another blog so I have experience, but now let's get to the story.
Last Sunday was the second last game in the Eredivisie and the team I route for every week is Feyenoord.(I seriously go crazy for Feyenoord, I am in the Carribean, but I have a computer and put up three scoreboards that follow the game live). That Sunday Feyenoord was playing the team that is second from the bottom with 18 points, their name VVV-Venlo. Feyenoord is or rather was in the running for an Europa League play-off spot. The rankings that are important in this case looked like this:

     Team                     Points                          +/-                         

8. FC Utrecht *            44                            49-47
9. Heracles Almelo       43                            60-55
10. Feyenoord              43                            50-50

* Europa League play-off spot

The game Feyenoord is playing should be an easy win, especially when they beat second placed PSV the week before, clearly that didn't end up as it should, they lost 3-2. That puts them in a position where they have to hope Heracles Almelo loses and they have to get a better goal difference, meaning Feyenoord has to
score come back and score 6,5,4,3,2 or 1 goal determined by what Heracles Almelo does. They all have to play at the same time on the last Matchday, so Feyenoord has to shoot as many goals as possible.

This really made me angry and I started ranting at myself thinking "Why isn't Feyenoord a team like Barcelona or Manchester United or even Liverpool in their "Glory days"?", but then I realized if you're a real fan then you don't move to the next team every time your old one loses.



That's what this post is about, fake fans. You live your life and then once in a while you have a soccershirt on and you say hi to a guy sitting next to you in cafe, then he says " You know I'm a fan of Barcelona, I'm guessing that's your favorite team, Feye.........noord, who are they?" With that you already know he's a fake fan, he acts as if he was the biggest fan in the world but he probably just checks the scores once in a while and went to a game 3 years ago. It's something different if you say "Feyenoord, I know them, they won the Uefa Cup back in 02". You like this guy and chat to him some more and find out he's got 27 AC Milan shirts at home, now that's a fan. Not somebody you see in the  cafe every day saying "How's Barcelona?", when you try giving him an answer he doesn't know what you're talking about.

 Fake fans shouldn't try to act real, because a real fan has a favorite team and he will stand by that team forever, so I was just happy there is more excitement routing for a team that I really like than routing for a team that you don't even really care about, and if they start losing then you think "Ehhh, Liverpool sucks, I'm a fan of Man. City now."

  Feyenoord is a team that fills up their Stadium with 43'000 Feyenoord fans every week and has fans from japan, private investors who buy players for them, that's awesome even if the players do suck. That is a team that only has real fans and not idiots who are fake fans, and that's why even though I was so miserable I sat on the couch for 3 hours watching sports and then pretty much wanting to burn all my shirts of Feyenoord, wanting to punch Stefan De Vrij in his face because he made that stupid mistake that led to a goal, wanting to hit Tim De Cler because that guy sucks anyway and most of all I wanted to see a headline saying"Coach Mario Been has been sacked, sadly none of these things hapenned, after every game I think that when Feyenoord loses, but the next day I regain hope even under this circumstance because I love Feyenoord and am a real Fan and won't go wandering off to the next team.

I know one day Feyenoord will win the title again.



                           FEYENOORD IS AWESOME!!! I live by that rule.




             This Blog was written by Yor.