This thread has started to fill me with existential angst about my role as a supporter of the Millers.
If we are saying that all regions are basically the same and there are no defining qualities about the town or region we live in, how can we be proud of our town or our football team?
Isn't it just a delusion to think we are anyway better than our neighbours from Sheffield, Doncaster or Leeds?
If the defining qualities of human beings is not region specific then local pride is utterly meaningless.
Maybe we should, after acknowledging this fact, watch football in a new spirit. Rather than goading our rivals, who we have now established are no different to us, why don't we applaud skill from the opposition team and stop antagonising rival supporters, who we have now admitted are exactly the same as us. Extrapolating on this even further we can also say that winning and losing is also meaningless.
If we continue base our support on local pride, we are supporting something we don't really believe is true.
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