Not me, you understand, but a friend. Yes, a friend ... that's it.
What if ... you were researching your family tree and discovered that, when football was invented, all your family came from a different part of the country?
Don't you have to support that local club? Genetically, I mean.
My friend is keen to know.
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Purely hypothetical, uncle. Purely hypothetical.
Let's say ... oh, I don't know ... Ipswich or somewhere.
"Fertiliser, fertiliser ...". I wouldn't reveal too much, Dave - you'll have some fans singing THAT song.
;o)
Yep, and they might be just too good for this Charlton team.
Does that make me a murderer? I think it does.
Now ... this raises a good point.
I reckon (sorry, my friend reckons) that you should look at the main paternal line. So, grandfather, great grandfather, great great grandfather etc.
Please tell me it's Bantry Bay Rovers, stonemuse!
It's an interesting idea, but can we afford to lose any more fans?!
If it is main paternal... then it is indeed Bantry Bay Rovers :-))
Isn't it amazing how many people come from the Trafford area of Manchester?
That IS amazing. Quite a few from north and west London too...
Going back to the 1800s I had direct ancestors born all over the UK. Surrey, Essex, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Suffolk, north and south Wales, Scotland, Ireland. Probably more than that who I haven't found yet.
It's also acceptable to adopt a local team if you move but your (sorry, your friends) heart must always be with Charlton.
But my mother's family were all Cockneys, on the other side of the water ......and West Ham supporters.
My grandmother's brother played for West Ham just after the First World War - and her family were naturally all Hammers.
On a slightly different note........ Ron and Peter Springett, both 1960s goalkeepers were my Nan's cousin's sons.
Ron played for England 33 times; first choice keeper in the 1962 World Cup but kept out of the 1966 winning side by Gordon Banks, naturally.
Both brothers played for Sheffield Wednesday, and in 1967 they swapped clubs in a player exchange deal.
Ron and Peter are your 2nd cousins once removed then...
Ah, so that's how "cousins once removed" is worked out? I've always wondered, Duh!
My Nan's maiden name was Springett. I remember my Nan telling me about them in the late 60s when I was a kid.
But because that side of my late Nan's family is so distant, I had never met them.
Peter Springett died from cancer in the middle 90s I remember, but older brother Ron is still going strong.
I've got a friend who supports Arsenal on that basis - his great grandfather used to sell peanuts in the ground on matchdays apparently.
I confess that I've never bothered to look at this, but where was the original Arsenal ground located? Plumstead Common rings a bell for some reason, but is there any remaining evidence of their old ground?
Bits of terracing buried in back gardens from what I've heard.
I could be wrong but I always thought their ground was in the Harrow Manorway area.
http://www.arsenal.com/history/laying-the-foundations/woolwich-arsenal-play-their-first-game
The ground was called the Manor ground so could be Harrow Manorway area
EDIT: Could also be Plumstead Manor as the photo says Plumstead...
There's a "cousin chart" on wikipedia that makes it a bit clearer