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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm
I often think it's a tribal thing. Your tribe (or team) has just publicly defeated an opposing tribe. Either channeled violence/energy release/tension release, or stylised/ritualised warfare. I can kinda understand that.
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that does make sense in an abstract, intellectual way, but i guess i just don't have that tribal instinct. or maybe i do, but it has different catalysts.
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What I find much harder to understand is why this still persists when players move from club to club, country to country; and even play for a league-type team in one country but in things like the WC play for a completely different country (the Serbian who scored the goal in their match against Germany also plays for Liverpool, according to several Liverpool supporters at work). I mean, I understand it in commodity and earnings terms, but with all that movement I don't understand what the fans are supporting.
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i didn't know about that, and now i'm even more baffled by the whole phenomenon, to be honest.
