Why do people say you are not "manly" if you dont follow football?

Because they want you to buy into the whole scam that they've been fed on since they were children. Football as a game is fine, football as an industry is a whole different ball game (ho ho). It has become a one-way money transfer system from supporters to clubs and players. I fail to see how sitting in a plastic seat in the wind and rain, shouting abuse at people who can't hear you and in any case don't care, makes one "manly". In my book it makes one a mug. It never fails to make me smile, watching the masses of baying morons in pubs shouting at a screen and referring to teams as "you" or "we", I wonder if the teams ripping these people off week in week out use "we" in the same way. If these people put as much effort into fighting for a better society as they do fighting with each other over something so utterly pointless, we'd be getting somewhere. Being manly is having the courage of your convictions and not doing things that others do because you feel pressurised into them, that's for sheep. In any case, teams are transient at best and don't give a real reflection of the abilities of people from the area they represent, surely to play for Yeovil for example, you should actually be from Yeovil, otherwise it becomes a case of the richest win and the game loses its meaning.