Life/death experience

Supporting your club is a lifelong experience, but now, it seems, it carries into the afterlife also. Joe McNamee and Mark Gallagher reports on the latest fan craze.

YOUR CLUB, supposedly, is for life. When they created that marketing slogan for the club championship, one life, one club, they rarely coined a truer statement.

You develop fondness for your club because of your father or an older sibling or a player you enjoy watching, but this fondness is developed early in life and should never leave you. You stick with the hand you were dealt in early childhood, a hand that will affect moods and the way the rest of your life is lived.