BIG FISH? or little fish?

With English top flight football clubs being owned by very rich very ambitious foreign owners is it more rewarding to support a local football team that is not as rich as premiership clubs and not as successful as premiership clubs.
This argument is like a typical pub conversation can either split opinions or unite them. With supporting a local club that has a poor financial status the benefits of you supporting that team is that you could actually help the clubs situation, okay you most likely wont be able to do this by yourself, unless of course you have a couple of million pounds to spare. With the lower reputation teams you’ll notice the difference in quality as the team better which could be very rewarding if you have been supporting them through a rough patch and they have com out of it looking stronger. On the other hand supporting an unsuccessful team over a long period could lead you to simply become fed up of watching a team constantly fail and this is where the top flight teams have a positive over the smaller teams, however the margin of success for the big teams is so small a good season your eyes could be a poor one in many others.
At the end of the day perhaps it is good to support your local team simply for the prospect of seeing them go onto the big time, knowing you’ve been there from day one.