Emily, the supporter

The news could be sometimes quite surrealist. Some time ago we knew how the Brontë sisters were Red Sox baseball team supporters and now we realize that Emily could be a Manchester City football supporter according to this article in The Times:

CATHY’S shocking affirmation of her relationship with Heathcliff — something far beyond mere loyalty — lies at the heart of Wuthering Heights. “Nelly, I am Heathcliff,” she says. “He’s always, always in my mind, not as a pleasure, any more then I am a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.”
This extraordinary statement is the daily bread of the football supporter. A football supporter does not sing: “I support City! I really like City! In fact, I would even go so far as to say that I love City!” These feeble statements do not carry the force that gives a proper expression to the loyalty being discussed.
No, a football supporter sings: “I’m City till I die! I’m City till I die!” I am City, a loyalty that goes so deep that edges of individuality become blurred. I will never support another football club, the very thought is anathema. (Perhaps this last sentence could be adopted as a terrace chant.) City is myself, a thought that makes the concept of loyalty seem weak and irrelevant.

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