Abernethy Saint Posted April 23, 2012 Report Share Posted April 23, 2012 Thought I'd better start a thread, eventually. I have two strapping lads (police are investigating) who were born and brought up as Saints fans, taken to endless, ENDLESS Saints nil-nil draws against Brechin or whoever through good and bad days, bought the bovril, bought the scarves, bougt the programmes, won the junior saints raffles, blah blah blah. And what's the results they look for on a Saturday? MAN FECKING UNITED. Do you have similar experiences with your little princes and princesses? What to do? Discuss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANDY5565 Posted April 23, 2012 Report Share Posted April 23, 2012 mines supports Olympique de Marseille, he lives 150 klicks from Marseilles I have shown him and told him about Saints (he knows who we are and told him some of my few experiences of Saints,Muirton,Perth,Scotland,my self etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANDY5565 Posted April 23, 2012 Report Share Posted April 23, 2012 once they reach the age of reason they choose their selves take him to Saints games when their young is the only way to make them a Saintee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abernethy Saint Posted April 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2012 tried that mate. I think it's the tele. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANDY5565 Posted April 23, 2012 Report Share Posted April 23, 2012 they will return to their origins one day its a fashion thing and what ever happens they will remember Saints Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abernethy Saint Posted April 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2012 Awww mate, ta. Others: who does your laddie/lass support? why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edstar101 Posted April 23, 2012 Report Share Posted April 23, 2012 Trying hard to keep my boy a Saints fan. Living in Edinburgh will make it hard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SingaporeSaint Posted April 23, 2012 Report Share Posted April 23, 2012 My two lived in both the States and Singapore and still support the Saints. and thats after being st johns/ st columbas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Neutral Posted April 23, 2012 Report Share Posted April 23, 2012 my lad goes to all of saints home games but his 1st team is chelsea ( he is only 11 )! no idea where he got this from as no one in my family has ever supported chelsea and his friends are man utd, arsenal, OF or Liverpool fans Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wish i was Joe McGurn Posted April 23, 2012 Report Share Posted April 23, 2012 Trying hard to keep my boy a Saints fan. Living in Edinburgh will make it hard Do you have a cellar you can lock him in ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edstar101 Posted April 23, 2012 Report Share Posted April 23, 2012 Do you have a cellar you can lock him in ? Well, yeah, but the wife is already in there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wish i was Joe McGurn Posted April 23, 2012 Report Share Posted April 23, 2012 Well, yeah, but the wife is already in there Will be company for her then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ex-montrosesaintee Posted April 24, 2012 Report Share Posted April 24, 2012 My lad follows about 20 teams!! He is Aspergers, and his 'thing' is football just now. He knows every result and statistic from across europe every week. Amazing what the brain can do when it is wired up for that kind of thing!! Above all though, he is a Saints fan, and being at the games is the ultimate for him. He won't watch Saints on the TV, because it's just not the same as being there. Good lad! (just wish I could afford to take him every week!) He can't compute ideas like me wanting Hearts to win the cup, when I otherwise dislike them. It's quite interesting to see his black and white approach to things. You either like a club, or don't. No middle ground. He's probably in the right! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chips Posted April 24, 2012 Report Share Posted April 24, 2012 I have 3 daughters,the 11 yo has no interest in footie,my oldest nearly 19 has a keen interest in Saints and attends the odd game,my other lass who is just turning 15 used to come to some Saints games with me until one of the wifes family gave her a celtic top,for whatever reason this was enough to stop her coming with me,now she always looks out for the Celtic scores first Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Child Posted April 24, 2012 Report Share Posted April 24, 2012 13yr old Son and a 9 yr old daughter bother season ticket holders and both hate the Dee and the OF. Good parent I am. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edstar101 Posted April 24, 2012 Report Share Posted April 24, 2012 I have 3 daughters,the 11 yo has no interest in footie,my oldest nearly 19 has a keen interest in Saints and attends the odd game,my other lass who is just turning 15 used to come to some Saints games with me until one of the wifes family gave her a celtic top,for whatever reason this was enough to stop her coming with me,now she always looks out for the Celtic scores first I can only presume the wife's family member in question has been banned from your house and disowned Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saline Saint Posted April 24, 2012 Report Share Posted April 24, 2012 Arsenal,as he just stays a few minutes from the Emirates.The jammy sod keeps getting corporate freebies from his work.His big team will always be Saints and he comes up to see his hero's whenever he can.He and I talk fairly non stop about football but the only time I can hear true passion in his voice is when Saints are the subject up for discussion.I can relax,he's one of us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Wallace Posted April 24, 2012 Report Share Posted April 24, 2012 my 10 year old is a Saintee, even though most of the folk around us are arabs, with the odd coag thrown in, (we're in Angus, just). He's the only Saintee in his primary school, and he's quite proud of the fact. My 8 year old is not interested in football, but if you asked him who he supports he would say Saints. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chips Posted April 24, 2012 Report Share Posted April 24, 2012 I can only presume the wife's family member in question has been banned from your house and disowned The whole lot of em (they all hail from that wee village Easterhoose) so there are some positives out of this sad episode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edstar101 Posted April 24, 2012 Report Share Posted April 24, 2012 The whole lot of em (they all hail from that wee village Easterhoose) so there are some positives out of this sad episode. Your daughter was maybe a worthwhile sacrifice then. She will come to her senses in time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abernethy Saint Posted April 24, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2012 Pretty mixed picture. Is having daughters even worse than having sons who follow a foreign team? One of the last times I took the youngest before he got too cool to go to Saints, we were right at the front (late as usual) and he dropped some litter over the wall by mistake. Being a well-trained laddee (in matters other than who to support) he immediately leaped over the wall and retrieved it, to my horror. Along came a wee jobsworth, fairly frothing at the mouth, and gave me the whole "according to the terms of the blah blah act 18oatcake, entering the blah blah is a serious offence punishable by blah blah and you and your boy will have to leave blah blah". You know when in these situations you always wished you'd remembered to say the right thing? Well for once, I did. I heard him out, then said "he's no wi me, mate". He didn't know what to say, and fecked off. Brilliant - rather better than the game, as I recall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stamford Saintee Posted April 24, 2012 Report Share Posted April 24, 2012 Mine started as a Celtic fan, soon beat that out of him! (kiddin') Now Saints and of course Chelsea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wurzel country Posted April 24, 2012 Report Share Posted April 24, 2012 It's not just Saints who struggle with this. My eldest (now 12) went to loads of home games and alot of away games in the season when BCFC reached the Premier League play off final. The little sod even came back from a holiday in Tenerife with me to go to Wembley (cost me a fortune!!). We lost and guess what the little sod comes out with on the plane back to Los Cristianos? 'It's Chelsea or nothing dad, I don't like City'! The little bugger even wanted City to go down last week. His little brother is a proper Cidered thankfully. Git!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slf Posted April 24, 2012 Report Share Posted April 24, 2012 It's not just Saints who struggle with this. My eldest (now 12) went to loads of home games and alot of away games in the season when BCFC reached the Premier League play off final. The little sod even came back from a holiday in Tenerife with me to go to Wembley (cost me a fortune!!). We lost and guess what the little sod comes out with on the plane back to Los Cristianos? 'It's Chelsea or nothing dad, I don't like City'! The little bugger even wanted City to go down last week. His little brother is a proper Cidered thankfully. Git!! have ye thought about putting him down? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wurzel country Posted April 24, 2012 Report Share Posted April 24, 2012 have ye thought about putting him down? I'd better not, the Mrs wouldn't be too happy! Then again?????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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