Supporters and Rivalries
Ashington's average home attendance for the 2009–10 season was 228, one of the best in the Northern League. The long history of the club in the town and former Football League glories help maintain strong support.
A poll on the team's forum asked readers to identify the team's biggest rivals, and the voting was nearly evenly split between the Blyth Spartans and the Bedlington Terriers. The former is the more traditional rival, having played with Ashington a hundred years ago in the East Northumberland League, but have moved two steps above in the league system, while the latter is a local derby in the same league.
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“The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense.”
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