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12 Jul, 14 tweets, 3 min read
1) OK, here’s a drunk thread (as in I’m in a pub and currently drunk) / guide for picking a Premier League club to support if you’re not from the UK. N.B. I’m from the US so no regional ties to any club; Tottenham chose me in 2008. ...
2) Let’s get the obvious out of the way. On the one hand it’s easier to follow a rich superclub (Chelsea, Man U, Man City, Liverpool) because their marketing reach is huge, so if you’re abroad they’re present in a way that, say, Crystal Palace are not. ...
3) (N.B. I said ‘are not’ and not ‘is not’ bc British take clubs as a noun in the plural, whereas US would say eg ‘Crystal Palace is winning...’). I digress...
4) On the other hand it’s kind of annoying if you have the privilege of just picking a club and you take the easy route and pick one of the superclubs. I feel like it’s less meaningful to become a City fan now than to have been one when they were shit. ...
5) That unpleasantness out of the way, some people take a kind of geographical / cultural affinity approach. For example, I’m from Pittsburgh so I have a soft spot for Sheffield clubs bc steel cities. But that brings me to another consideration...
6) If you pick a club that’s not really a mainstay in the PL / top division, you could find it difficult to find streaming access to matches of your club gets relegated. So, you could go all-in for Norwich (Nor-itch), but they could be relegated, so be careful. ...
7) By the way, would you want to wear yellow and green??? Again I digress. No shade @ Norwich, Oliver Skipp is a Tottenham player. ...
8) So in general I’d go for a club that’s likely to hold position fairly consistently in the PL—bc unlike US sports leagues the PL has relegation, where clubs who finish bottom 3 go down to the lower league and are replaced by top clubs in that lower league—but not a superclub...
9) Once you narrow things down that way, you have a lot of nice options which might suit your interests and personality. For example, I’ve always been a talented fuck up prone to disappointing myself and others, so Tottenham Hotspur called my name and I answered. ...
10) I love supporting a club (say ‘supporting a club’ instead of ‘rooting for a team’) that constantly let me down while tantalizing me with hope of greatness. It’s just like someone has externalized my depression into a football club. Amazing! Digressing again...
11) So those are the general guidelines; here’s the lightening round:

Tottenham, West Ham, Leicester, Arse*al, Leeds, Everton, Villa are all pretty fun to watch, can pay decently for talent, have ambition, and have a lot going going for them. ...
12) Wolves, Palace, Southampton, Brighton...you like to live dangerously. ...
13) If you have questions about individual teams I’m happy to answer. Another thing: it’s hard to make analogies w/ US teams bc again relegation system makes like the lovable Mets or whatever a bad analogy since the Mets can’t be sent down to AAA if they have a bad season. ...
14) The only other thing I’ll say is fuck Arse*al.

But Saka is the man, love for him, and fuck racists ✌🏻 /end

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