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The EPL season has begun – what does it mean if you don’t follow a club?
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Arsenal's Gabriel celebrating their 1-0 away Premier League win over Manchester United on Aug 17, 2025. For many people the football season offers familiarity and their club is a refuge.
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If there is no figurine, poster, sign, scarf, mug or plaque on your office desk or home living room which displays your allegiance to some suburban club in a foreign land whose accent you can’t quite mimic, don’t worry. It is still legal in Singapore to not follow an English Premier League club.
It’s August and if you think they’re speaking a foreign language at the water cooler, don’t panic. Football season has begun and on footballpoets.org – a place where you may not necessarily find the literary equivalent of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, himself a fan once – someone wrote last week:
