Who would you follow?

[Albionic68]

I wouldn't follow anybody...... I am Albion 4ever.

Same here, it's in the 'Blood. Occasional non league fixture aside there's no way I could or would actively 'follow' any team other than the Albion. It just wouldn't happen.

[mickd1961]

I think this thread is more down the line of who you’d feel the biggest pull towards if Albion didn’t exist or had never existed.

Agreed, none of us could ever contemplate changing teams.

I think that a change in personal geography can lead to a situation where attending games featuring your club can become hard and that you can enjoy watching football more locally albeit without real passion.

I enjoyed going to watch my home town Harrogate Town the other week but if they’d lost it wouldn’t spoil my day.

Living where I have since 1967 I just feel I’d have gravitated towards Blues more than any other Midlands club if Albion had not existed.

[Albionic68]

The Hawthorns was the closest professional football ground to where I grew up as a kid. Although I loved playing the game there's no way I'd have bothered travelling to either Small Heath or Witton from where we lived. I most certainly wouldn't have gone to Wolverhampton or Walsall either.

Despite our family being Albion I honestly doubt I'd have had any particular interest in the professional game if we hadn't lived within a couple of miles of the ground. At all. If Albion had never been a consideration my dad loved boxing as much as football and I'd have ended taking that up more seriously than I did.

Albion have got a lot to answer for in financial terms, personal relationships, the attentions of the police. The list goes on and on. A one way love affair with some good times and friendships thrown into the mix along with heartbreaks.

No way on earth I would have that relationship with any other team in any other part of the country were I to move away from the Midlands.

[boingy]

Arsenal have always been my second team. Would only support them if West Brom folded as a club.

[Leicesterbaggie]

If Albion folded the only club I would to think to follow would be Hereford FC. Follow, yes, but it wouldn't be with the same passion as I have had for the Baggies over so many years.

[mickd1961]

If the Albion hadn’t existed you wouldn’t know any the better!

This isn’t a difficult question.

[9goals2hattricks3pen]

First winter I retired we went to live in our favourite Spanish resort Javea. Followed the local team playing in the Valencian Regional League (equivalent of conference football I guess.) Had a large expat following and I did go home and away to most matches for 6 months. It was great fun and a great way to integrate with the locals, see bits of Spain I probably wouldn't have and made friends I'm still in touch with 15 years later.

Even have their own English website https://www.javeamigos.com/about-us/

As someone else as touched on the huge difference with supporting the Baggies was didn't really matter if we won or lost.