British mentality when it comes to following a football team

Absolutely crazy, in the grand scale of things we're a tiny island everywhere's a fight ferry or Eurostar away, yet their cant be many clubs that travel like our clubs in Europe do, or even following there national teams, even at home every week people travel up and down the country spending fortunes on match tickets following their team, even fans of lower league clubs, there's not a decent national team out of all 4 country's yet fans travel as though they have a track record like Italy, Germany, and Brazil tonight thousands will have traveled some without tickets spending thousands of pounds, why ? what makes us do this

 

Must be blind optimism or blind stupidity