Okay, so you know I like handball, but which team do I support?
This brings me to the first aspect of looking at Handball from a “British Perspective”. As a newcomer to the sport, you initially want to watch any game you possibly can. The teams are fairly irrelevant, partly because you simply want to watch the game, and partly because you don’t have much of a clue about which team is which anyway.
After a while, you reach a point where you decide to either just continue paddling in the handball pool, or throw yourself into the deep end and start to follow a team. The trouble is, how do you decide which one?My general supporting philosophy is that you should support your local team. That doesn’t really work when it comes to picking a handball team. So what should you do?
Well you could be boring and pick one of the big teams who are always playing in the EHF Champions League or you could pick a team from one of the top five leagues in the sport. You could decide to base the decision purely on style terms (i.e. which team has the best jerseys, logo etc!). Finally you could just decide to follow the home team from your first game.
However you decide which team to support, and whatever team you end up with, making this choice plunges you even deeper into a love affair with handball. It isn’t until you start caring about a team’s fortunes that you really get a sense of what handball is all about. Of course, it isn’t the same as supporting your local football team. Following a team playing in a different time zone via the internet is a very different experience. That experience will be the subject of my next post, along with me revealing which team I decided to support.
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