In football, loyalty survives reason — and that is why it lasts.
— The Sage
The Sage has long suspected that football loyalty cannot be explained without doing it a great disservice. Reason would have supporters change allegiance after a bad season, a poor decision, or a decade of disappointment. And yet they don’t. Scarves are kept, seats are returned to, and hope stubbornly refuses to pack its bags. To The Sage, this is not irrationality — it is devotion.
He observes that loyalty in football is rarely logical. It survives defeats that would end most sensible relationships. But that is precisely why it endures. Loyalty, he says, is not built on outcomes but on identity. A club becomes part of who you are, not because it wins, but because it stays — and so do you.
With quiet admiration, The Sage reminds us that loyalty outlasting reason is not a flaw but a strength. In football, as in life, some of the most meaningful commitments persist precisely because they are not constantly renegotiated. They endure storms, mockery, and disappointment — and in doing so, they become something deeper than choice: they become belonging.
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