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What it's like to support Stenhousemuir Football Club
By Brian Sherman
Growing up as a child in Scotland usually means when it comes to football, you are brainwashed into supporting either Rangers or Celtic, usually for religious reasons. Supporting a different team is seen as being unfashionable and you usually get ridiculed. Heaven forbid that you end up supporting your "local" team. These days you will find coaches and minibuses parked outside your local ground on match day but they aren't unloading supporters. Quite often they are picking up supporters of the "old firm" and driving them hundreds of miles to glasgow for a home match. Long gone are the days that you were brought up to support your local team, however good or bad they were. Now we have gloryhunters and people just supporting them because of religion, sadly. I am one of the few who grew up supporting my local team and still do, even though I have moved away from the area. The kind of person who has to browse loads of sports pages online to get info about my team because most papers, tv channels and websites seem to think that Scotland only has one football division. I support Stenhousemuir FC and have done for about 35 years, I'm 42 now. We are at the moment in the lowest division in Scotland, the third division but hopefully this will be the year we get out of there. I have seen many lows and some highs but the highs will always be in my memories whereas the lows are always soon forgotten. Fans like myself resign ourselves to the fact that our team aren't world beaters but we are happy, as long as we beat our local rivals. We all hope that we can manage to play a big name team in the Cup competitions and, although we know that our team wont stand a chance probably, it gives our team a little bit of publicity and hopefully some well needed cash. Over the years we have had some memorable results, beating teams like Aberdeen, Dundee Utd and Falkirk in various cups and I was proud to see those victories I don't think "glory hunters" would feel the same thrill.
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