Interestingly the majority of the postings on football allegience as an
analogy for Heortling clan attitudes arrived at the same time as an email
from my father. He rejoices that Liverpool (our clan) beat Leeds (the old
enemy clan from beyond the mountains) over the same weekend as Everton (the
ancient rivals for the best hunting land in the valley) lost to Tranmere (the
smaller allied clan in whom we take a kindly interest) and Manchester United
(the chaos loving scum whom everybody hates) lost to West Ham (the
southerners with their strange war chants and funny food but at least they
aren't Mancs).
Of course when the Leeds clan face the evil foreigners of the Anderlecht
Legion we will give them our full support. We would do the same for the
Mancs when they face the Valencian Peltasts except that we have some very
important clan ceremonies to attend to that day. What day is it? Well,
whatever, we're busy that day.
Richard Crawley