For people who mentions that Chelsea (and Manchester City) fans support Chelsea

(Manchester City) only after 2003 (2011), and that Manchester United, Arsenal and
Liverpool have a huge history, I would like to ask you a question.
This question is valid for people who live outside UK, and/or does not have any other
emotional attachment with the city.

How did you start loving your club, and start supporting them?
I can only find three possibilities.

1. Your favourite player was playing for that club at that time.
2. Your club has won a significant match, or a significant tournament, or
did some cool with the ball tricks in one of the matches.
3. Some of your near ones follow and support that club, and you keep on
hearing about that club all day long, and start loving it.
I am sure, you did not sit up on the Google with a list of clubs, and checked their history,
legacy, bank balance and all of those stuffs, and then made a "wise" decision to
support a particular club. You learn the legacies as you start following their matches,
their moves etc.

So, what is the fault of the Chelsea and Manchester City fans, and how they are the
plastic fans? They fall in love with the club, yes when the clubs were at their pinnacles,
but, they love their clubs enough to cling to that even after 10 years.

A fan always wants his club to win, and I am sure, being a fan gives the right to criticise
what I don't like about the entity I love.

Edit (actual history):

The reason I put the actual history to the last part of the answer is because Chelsea fans
are blamed to be gold-diggers and most of the people call Chelsea fans as Plastic fans
not because of the history, but because others are calling them as Plastic fans.

Anyhow, a quick visit to the old times:

In UCL 2007 semifinal first leg, Chelsea hosted Liverpool FC. Chelsea management
distributed plastic flags for fans. and this led to the then Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez
saying: "We don't need to give away flags for our fans to wave - our supporters are
always there with their hearts, and that is all we need. It's the passion of the fans
that helps to win matches - not flags."
[1]

The term plastic fans was coined since then, for fans who are given plastic flags, for fans
who don’t own official merchandising or bring real flags on match days. In other words,
these are not fans.

Footnotes
If Chelsea has 'no history' according to those who choose to support the most successful
clubs, then there's a heck of a lot of other clubs who have 'no history' either. Basically,
this sort of stuff is spouted by those who have a very odd conception of what 'history'
actually means and how ridiculous they sound when they use it as some kind of jibe. It's
like when you get a fan of, for example Arsenal, sneering that the team of another fan is
a 'small club'. What is that supporter actually saying beneath the jibe? That they,
themselves couldn't support a small club? Do they actually think that they are somehow
better as a fan than someone who supports a club like Rochdale, who are unlikely to ever
win a major trophy and become a giant institution? What does that say about them
then? Yesterday is history just as a hundred years ago is. Each and every club, no matter
what size or how successful, who have existed for so long has a rich history. Chelsea are
no different. The colourful characters. Players like George Hilsdon, the clubs first scorer
of a century of goals and whose playing career was wrecked by Mustard Gas in the First
World War trenches. His memory is kept alive by the weathervane that overlooks the
Stamford Bridge pitch to this day. The great cup matches, promotions, relegations,
amazing wins against the odds, disastrous cup exits. Chelsea, for many years, were
nicknamed as 'The Pensioners' but they were also known as the 'great underachievers'.
Because despite the enormous crowds they got at Stamford Bridge and some of the top
forwards they had, they always fell just short of winning the major prizes. FA Cup finalists
in 1915, another great striker, Vivian Woodward refused to deny another his place in the
team because he'd also been on Western Front (and injured) during the earlier rounds of
the competition. They also came close to winning the league title in 1920. For a club with
supposedly 'no history', it is actually surprising how many 'firsts' they have achieved. The
club set a number of 'biggest attendance' records. First to employ ball boys and wear
numbered shirts. Their match vs. Carlisle Utd in 1974 was the first to be played on a
Sunday. They should have been the very first English club in the European Cup in 1955
(they'd even already been drawn to play Djurgardens of Sweden in the opening round)
but the football authorities put the block on it. They still became the first London club to
play in European competition a few years later(the old Fairs Cup). They are joint holders
of the biggest aggregate win (21-0) in any European competition. They are one of only a
handful of clubs to have won all three major Uefa trophies. Their stadium, Stamford
Bridge opened in 1877, is one of the oldest sporting arenas anywhere used for
professional football. It has a rich history all of it's own. It's Chelsea's only 'home' and
great they are going to rebuild it into a much bigger stadium in the next few years.
Maybe I should decide to become a Real Madrid supporter and sing '12 European Cups
and 33 Leagues, That's what we call history' at Liverpool fans. See how absurd it is?
Anyone who thinks only 'trophies won' equals 'history' is frankly thinking like a glory-
hunter. Sad. But True.