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JCL[1] is the name given to the new fans of Portsmouth F.C.[2] who have become regular attendees[3] since promotion to the Premier League[4] by their more long standing counterparts. It is intended to be derogatory, a way for these "old-timers" [5] to feel superior[6] to the newer fans. It is unclear whether one can evolve[7] from being a JCL into a 'proper fan', or indeed where one draws the line[8] for falling into this category[9]
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- ^ Ist known reference 1839 C. F. BRIGGS Adv. H. Franco I. 249 ‘But it's Johnny Comelately, aint it, you?’ said a young mizzen topman Oxford English Dictionary Vol 15 p798 (1989,Oxford,O.U.P) ISBN 0198612273
- ^ The term is commonly used on the Rival site [1]
- ^ Muscling in
- ^ Related to success
- ^ Whose perception is that they suffered years of, at best, indifferent football. The News(Portsmouth) Sports Mail November 8 2003 Johnny Moore column
- ^ However, some would say that as the old-timers supported the club and kept it going through those dark years then they deserve to feel superior. Sports Mail(ibid) 10 April 2004 "Say it with Bowers" column
- ^ This evolutionary process is itself a combatative process. "Old timers" lure JCLs into discussions of events from the "Hungry Years", probing their prey into revealing their ignorance. Sports Mail(ibid) 1 February 2006 Steve Bone column
- ^ Frank Skinner in his eponymous autobiography asserts that everyone who attends fewer matches than them is a parvenu and someone who attended their first match after they have an ingénu (2002, London, Arrow) ISBN 0099426870
- ^ At its most extreme there is a (very) small group of fans who assert they were at a meaningless end-of-season Division Three match against Exeter in May 1982, by their own estimation about 50 in number: if they are the standard against which all others are to be judged roughly 99.755% at a Fratton Park full house are JCLs
