Why is having a team to support so Important? Does it really matter? Can we not just get through life watching lots of teams with no real allegiance to any? If you want to support a football team in England, then most people pick the one your family supports. By pick, I mean you have no choice, it's thrust upon you from birth, even before birth, as soon as the umbilical cord is off on goes the strip thereby confirming your lifelong affiliation and infatuation with that team.