Newcastle have no realistic chance of winning anything either. Why do you still support them?
Because that's what fans do.
Club fortunes go up and down and clubs can decide their own fate with ambition and money. With a national team it's pot luck. You either have a good pool of players or you don't. Plus clubs compete season after season unlike national teams which compete once in a blue moon.
We're America, for fucks sake. More and more kids aren't being allowed to play Football, and are being shoved into soccer because of health concerns. There's your pool.
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Exactly, you don't see us wanting Colback to do well because he's a Geordie.
You've qualified for the WC, that's the best you can hope for really, he's got you there, you can now hate him.