aeroswfc Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 He supports both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mirodo Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 You must be unusual in being a Sheffield United fan who watches Wednesday too? Well, I’ve lived in London for 35 years and I do follow the fortunes of both. It’s more a token of feelings for the city where I grew up. Sheffield people will say to me: “You’ll say ‘up the Blades’ then you’ll say you’re a Wednesday fan, what’s going on?” United were the club I supported when I was growing up, mainly because their ground was the nearest to our house. I used to see Wednesday supporters as a different type of person, just... deeply disturbed. But then I was always excited when either club was involved in a big game and Wednesday tended to be involved in bigger games. When I first came to London, it was 1966 and Wednesday were in the Cup final, so I couldn’t say I wasn’t interested because they were from my city. Eric Idle was a big Chelsea fan and I used to go there to see either Sheffield team play. I found myself being sucked in as a sort of associate Wednesday fan, though I would have been disemboweled in Sheffield if they’d known that. http://www.wsc.co.uk/the-archive/100-Fan-culture/3967-call-yourself-a-football-fan--michael-palin Q. YOU ARE A BLADE BUT YOU FLIRTED WITH WEDNESDAY. WHY? My first affinities were with United when I was at school in Sheffield. Then in 1965 I came to live in London and just any victory for a Sheffield team was to be welcomed. But I had to “come out” when I was up in Sheffield eight years ago and someone said: “Come on, you can only support one team.” So since then I have found it easier to say I am a Blade — though I am still keen to see them both do well. https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/news/738302/my-club-michael-palin/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAL Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 Funny how when he was asked to pick one, he went back to his team as a schoolboy, probably because they were doing better than us at the time they asked him. Ah, schoolboy error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WatfordOwl Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 "easier to say I'm a Blade" That poor bstard must have had one hell of a hard life to come to that conlusion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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