glory hunters the meaning of the word ?

[spartanstokie]

question for everyone

8 year old daughter asks me "dad whats glory hunter really mean"

to which i say " people that follow a team because they win more then lose"

she replies "are stoke fans glory hunters"

me "no why"

she then says " then why is there more noe then last year and the year before ??"

my answer was maybe yor right hun


just wondered what other people think

[wembley4372]

I think you have to make your own mind up about it.

[DannyStokie]

best definition is wembley4372

[spartanstokie]

she had to burst my bubble though hey i loved telling everyone what great fans we are too lol

[Deleted]

There's a guy I used to work with about twenty years ago. Big Liverpool fan back then. I bumped into him about a year ago - big ManU fan now. I said to him at the time that I was sure he didn't used to support ManU and he told me that he had switched his allegiance from Chelsea.

I guess it's not just about supporting a team only when it's winning, you need to support the team even when it loses and it certainly never switch clubs.

[coggy]

I think it would be good to explain that yes a % of the fans at Stoke, and most clubs because the attendances always go up when they doing well would be classed as Glory Hunters

BUT
100% of the shit are Glory Hunters because none are from Manchester and they support them as a child in the play ground because they are the best.......................... even though they are from every other city in the world apart from Manc............. and never grow out of it !!!!

[Inverness Stokie]

A glory hunter is a term used for people, such as WStore's own Sean Winstanley, who are suspected of supporting a particular club (mainly a football club) due to its size, hype and/or popularity in the media.[1] Glory hunters revel in continuous success of their chosen team(s), with relatively few failures to worry about, and this can be regarded by more loyal fans as less dedication. They are often cited as:

* Having no family history of supporting a particular team
* Changing the team they support
* Having little or no knowledge of the team's history
* Living outside the town or area where a particular team is from, and may, in fact, live in a different country altogether.

Glory hunting may have increased since a higher level of television coverage of football and other sports, as well as the ease of travel to other towns and cities. Given the global popularity of the Barclays Premier League, its participants are particularly suscepitible to glory hunters.

Indeed, it is estimated that half of Putney supports both Fulham and Manchester United, a clear indication of the loyalty of those fans. When challenged on this point, Mike Richards, a local glory hunter responded 'I get the best of both worlds - local Premiership football every week and the glory of United winning their trophys. I hate Manchester, but just love Manchester United, always have done - ever since 1999.'

Generally, any successful club from a country will attract more fans and so called 'glory hunters', than other less prominent sides.

MATCH! magazine recently conducted a survey into the issue, discovering numerous 'fans' supporting more than two clubs. Upon interrogation, one ear-pierced man by the name of 'Dominic Mclean' disclosed his passionate love for Liverpool, Southampton and Millwall, regardless of the fact these lie on opposite sides of the country. 'I've been supporting Millwall ever since they reached the 2009 league one playoffs and despite not knowing any of the players, my commitment to the club cannot be questioned as I have borrowed my dad's shirt'.

[starkiller]

I ask gloryhunters what being a Man U/Liverpool fan consists of. They have very little to say.


It means watching a team in red on the TV and wanting them to win. Maybe buying a top from jjb. Not a lot really.