Have you ever given your unconditional support to any other team than the Toon
In my youth, it was the Toon first, Gateshead (then in the 3rd Div North), and almost every season within a shout of promotion to the then 2nd Div, now the Fizzy. and remotely England.
Moving away from the North briefly to the Midlands I watched Coventry under Jimmy Hill and West Brom in preference to the other local clubs then in '67 made the move to the South and visited all of the clubs down here with a preference to the then great Spurs with Jimmy Greaves and the great Dave Mackay, they were a different club in those days, a local supporters' club just like us, West ham and also Brentford.
Although the nearest clubs to me now are Palace and Brighton I could never even think of giving them and the other clubs mentioned above what I could call support with feeling. All right to watch and even enjoy a win for them but I could never get anywhere near emotional as I ever was with my hometown clubs.
How does anyone else who has moved away been affected by local clubs? I wonder if it is just an indigenous thing or anything else.