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I FOUND MY FOOTBALL SOUL IN THE ORIENT

Adam Michie committed the cardinal sin and swapped allegiances. How did it workl out?

In 2010, I committed the cardinal sin of football fans. I switched clubs and bought a season ticket for a club that was not my own. I wrote a book about the season that followed – Orientation, published by Chequered Flag – but the question that I get asked most often is, ‘how could you abandon your team and move to another one?’
Choosing a football team to support can be a touchy subject. Many scoff at the mere notion of being able to ‘choose’ the team you suppor...

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