Ten reasons why you should support local football

It's no secret that modern day football is trying to replace local, die hard fans with tourists who are more willing to spend huge sums of money.

This is making a lot of people turn their attention to smaller, community-driven local clubs who don't present the same issues.

There's quite a few reasons why you could do the same, here's 10 of them:

1. The money you spend on a local club will allow kids from your village, town or district to play football at an affordable price.

2. Your local club will never price you out: Premier League and Champions League tickets could cost you hundreds of euros/pounds, while local football will always be the price of a couple pints.

3. With social places rapidly disappearing, your support for a local club could help preserve a space which is crucial in the social life of your town. People might struggle to find a place to spend time outside of their home-work routine, and football is a great help for a lot of them.

4. Local football hasn't been polluted by the corporations: it is in fact as far as you could possibly be from modern day profit-driven sports. The game is still at the centre of it all.

5. You can cheer for kids from your town who will appreciate your support and play for passion, unlike multi-millionaire professionals whose main interest is (understandably) their wage.

6. You are actively investing in the community you live in: the money and time you spend on a local club will directly impact your town and its people.

7. You can drink a pint in the stands without repercussions. Matter of fact, you can actually STAND in the stands.

8. Non-league football is exciting. Unlike the best leagues in the world, you won't start the season already knowing who will win what: every trophy is to play for, and every single match is unpredictable.

9. There's no VAR, no goal-line technology, no close up shots of controversial referee decisions. There is only pure football, where what happens on the pitch stays on the pitch and doesn't drag on for weeks.

10. You will not be a customer to milk for money nor a mere number, but a member of a community which takes care of its children and its public spaces to preserve for the future.

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