Well, that was a nice way to spend a couple of hours on a Friday wasn't it?

Every fan's story as to why they support their club really is unique, but together it feels like a real football community.

Thank you for joining us for this special live and here are some of the highlights from today:

• 'My great-grandad won the FA Cup
• 'The Penalty King' was my uncle
• 'A place that feels like home'
• 'Followed every game since Mabbutt wrote me a letter'
• 'Clough kissed my grandad's head

Plus, find the best from the My Club My Passion campaign in our very special feature, external

Arsenal

Time for one more?

Let's leave you with this tale from Richard...

The time when Pele made me an Arsenal fan - meeting Pele as he has a film premiere and sat next to Liam Brady and Terry O'Neill.

They were fantastic and talked football all night. From that day I was Arsenal through and through.

BBC Sport

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Jonny Buchan
BBC Radio Leeds sports editor

BBC Radio Leeds sports editor Jonathan Buchan credits Leeds United for his entire career:

"1995 was my first trip to Elland Road. My grandad Denis had been a season ticket holder for many years but ill health meant he could no longer go to games. As a result, I forced my dad, who is not a football fan, to take me and my mate on the half-mile or so walk down to the stadium.

"Personally, I owe a lot to that trip - a lifelong passion, friendships lasting decades... oh, and my entire career.

"Thirty years on from that first trip - a trip I have now made with my daughter and will do with my son - the journey to Elland Road is still my favourite to make. It is a journey that links generations.

Read more about Jonny's story here

And find more on our dedicated Leeds page

Bradford City

Matthew: From the highs of the 2012-2013 League One Cup final, beating Arsene Wenger's Arsenal and Jose Mourinho's Chelsea in the FA Cup and promotion this year to relegation and administration.

Also, we are the only EFL club to wear claret and amber!

Love my club and my city.

Our bespoke Bradford City page

Everton

Milo: I luckily get the chance to go and see the mighty Blues play once a year with my dad and sometimes my brother - every time feels magical.

The blue smoke, the crazy fans singing: 'it’s a grand old team' and the players walking out to Z-cars. That’s what makes the experience.

Check out our Everton page

Lincoln City

Jamie: Having my grandad taking me to my first Lincoln City game at Sincil Bank is one I will never forget.

I am now a proud dad myself with a baby boy who will also have to go through the highs and lows of lower league football.

Image source, Getty Images

Karl: Ever since choosing them on Championship Manager 2000, I've followed Yeovil.

FA trophy wins, promotion to the Championship and all the way back down again! Up the Glovers!

There's a whole separate Live page on teams/players/managers loved and lost playing Championship Manager, Karl.

I'll pitch that one.

West Ham United

Tim: I'm Barnsley-born but started supporting West Ham purely because my older brother's best friend played Subbuteo with a West Ham team - and he only did that because of the colours.

I looked up to him so I decided I'd support West Ham. By the time I was 10, my family had arranged for me to be mascot for West Ham in 1987 against Barnsley at Oakwell. I'll not forget the night meeting John Lyall and the first team, nor will I forget the subsequent loss at Upton Park in the second leg.

My school was ready for me the next day with 'Underdogs' written on the blackboard and my classmates laughing at me. I quickly learned what it meant to be West Ham.

Check out our Hammers page

Not just Tom shouting out Gary Mabbutt for his letters to diabetic fans.

Nigel: The Gary Mabbutt story gave me a massive flashback (13:47 BST) as I also got a letter as a type 1 diabetic from Bristol.

However, as a Bristol *City* fan, Gary wasn't on my list of favourite people (he played 131 times for Bristol Rovers) - but I forgave him as he was then at Spurs.

What a lovely guy!

Isn't it nice to see Sir Gareth again!

Middlesbrough

Callum: Back when I was 10, I got given four VIP tickets to Middlesbrough v West Ham back in 2008.

I got to see the players and the boss, Sir Gareth Southgate. Thanks to Boro and NHS for giving me these after surviving from encephalitis.

For that, Boro never leaves my heart!

Go straight to our Middlesbrough page

Leeds United

Love for our clubs is at the heart of all your stories. Like Anna, whose affection for former Leeds centre-back Gordon McQueen helped her fall for the Whites.

Anna: Like many little girls in the 1970s, I watched on as my big brother played football, followed the 'big' team and even got given the shirt.

He lost interest - I didn't. I stayed a Leeds fan for life, through all the ups and the many downs.

I'm pretty sure it's made me who I am, as a woman and a writer. I'm not sure I want the world to know about my teen fan fiction in this picture though!

See some more on our Leeds page

Liverpool

Rosario: This is a picture of my boyfriend proposing to me in May 2024 while we were doing the Anfield Stadium Tour. That day was very special also because I finally got to see my Anfield Stone outside the stadium for the first time.

The ring is engraved with YNWA on the inside. It was an unforgettable trip - as I later got to attend Jurgen Klopp's last match, but I did it alone because my boyfriend went to London to see his beloved Arsenal!

Visit our Liverpool page

Tottenham Hotspur

Tom: I was diagnosed as a type 1 diabetic aged seven in 1987.

My dad, a Bristol Rovers fan, knew of Gary being diabetic and watched his dad Ray Mabbutt play for Rovers.

My dad wrote to Gary telling him about me, and Gary sent me a letter back asking me to never let diabetes stop me doing whatever I wanted in life.

Included in the letter were two tickets to a match, and tickets to meet him and the other players in the players' lounge after the game. See the below photo.

Spurs lost 2-0 that day but I've followed every game since.

Head straight to our Tottenham page

Coventry

David: Coventry City - three generations of season ticket holders.

We take in around 10,000 miles a year following home and away as I don't even live locally now... Would not swap my days out and ruined weekends for anything else.

Welcome to my world... roll on Saturday!

Check out our Coventry page

Hearts

Shanade: I’ve been a season ticket holder at Heart of Midlothian since I was six years old, going with my mum to every home game no matter the result.

Hearts has been in my life through the toughest of times, giving me a place that feels like home.

Visit our dedicated Hearts page

Wolves

Our club pages are also a trove of wisdom from our army of reporters stationed all around the country.

BBC Radio WM's Mike Taylor has been reflected on what he's seen in his years covering Wolves for local radio..

"Listening on the concourses, you are reminded that football clubs are so much more than scores and numbers," Taylor says.

"They are a community, drawn apparently at random from all classes and generations, united by one devotion. Like all relationships, it goes through times of strain - and faith can be tested - but the love remains."

Think we can all relate to that!

See more on our Wolves page

Leicester City

Rossi: My club is Leicester City - I loved Leicester since I was three years old.

When everyone wanted to be Beckhams and Henrys, I wanted to be Muzzy Izzet.

I've seen the massive highs and lows of this amazing club but will always support them no matter what.

Find our Leicester page

Danielle Sarver Coombs
Researcher and co-writer of the Routledge Handbook of Sport Fans and Fandom

Image source, Danielle Sarver Coombs

There are psychological processes at work and physiological ones in terms of how we respond and engage with football and our clubs.

An example that I always give is when I take the train to work, I go past Arsenal's stadium and I feel literally nothing other than 'oh, that's a big building'. Whereas on a train to Manchester, I went by Villa Park and my heart started pounding. I got all excited and was trying to take pictures out the window.

I had a visceral reaction to this place. We can't pretend we don't have that sort of physical reaction because we do.

When someone is talking about a controversial decision and I feel myself getting wound up, even though I intellectually know that I can't control it and it's outside of my sphere of influence, that it's just a game, my body doesn't know that.

My gut doesn't know that, and so I have this really emotional response and we can't control that.

Read more from Danielle in the first part and second part of her chat with BBC Sport