10 signs your mate is just pretending to be a football fan

#4 He switches loyalties from time to time

There is a popularly used and perfectly suited phrase for ‘fans’ who change the club they support every once in a while – plastic fans. Those friends of yours who can’t stick by a single club for an extended length of time do not understand the meaning of supporting a football club through thick and thin.

If football were to be likened to a religion, professional footballers would be analogous to the guardian angels, while football clubs are the sects of the religion and switching from sect to sect is not an easy thing to do.