Football The 2010/2011 Season Thread

[ileks]

TBH if my uncle didn't take me to Orient games when I was a kid (I must have been naughty) I probably would have supported Arsenal. You pick your team as a kid... only those with cruel family members end up supporting the "local team" In London anway.

edit- saying that, kids that support united/liverpool in london deserve to get their heads flushed down the toilet...

 

[cHodAX]

If i was born in a city that didnt have a big football following i dont know who i would support.

newcastle like proper north-easterners!

/runs!

 

[cHodAX]

TBH if my uncle didn't take me to Orient games when I was a kid (I must have been naughty) I probably would have supported Arsenal. You pick your team as a kid... only those with cruel family members end up supporting the "local team" In London anway.

edit- saying that, kids that support united/liverpool in london deserve to get their heads flushed down the toilet...

good on your uncle, those lower clubs are dead without people like him.

 

[Influenza]

newcastle like proper north-easterners!

/runs!

Lol well i worked out football started before 1992 unlike most Newcastle fans so i wouldnt fit in

 

[Aoami]

I was forced to support man united as a kid by my dad when living in Windsor, where the closet clubs were probably Reading or QPR. Moved to Southampton when i was 8 and started supporting them because they were my local club and I could go to games. Moved away from Southampton when i was 18 and have been to few games since, because it costs me £60 odd to get the train there, plus £30 odd for a ticket. I don't have that sort of money. It's stupid to assume that this makes me any less of a fan. What a load of bollocks.

 

[Marc]

I grew up near Arsenal but now I have moved I suppose I need to stop supporting them and start following Colchester.

Some who thinks you can transfer you alligence like that is far more of a plastic fan than someone who loves a club but cant go.

Sssshhhh! Turamber is a proper fan

 

[Keitanz]

Tis just my opinion, that is all. I cannot see the attraction of following a team that is based in another locale, even another country. I can't see the point of gloating about the results of a team that I only watch on the television.

Perhaps I'm lucky in that Birmingham has plenty of football teams. However I suspect that even if I had been born in the back of beyond I'd have found a local team to follow ... not a team who I watch on television and call 'my team'. And when many of those "supporters" choose to follow teams that win everything in sight at the top level it gives the impression they are gloryhunters.

Not Liverpool though, obviously, their television fans are just masochists.

So you are saying the closest team to where you are is Aston Villa...? right.

 

[Everz]

You pick your kid when your a kid and thats that. I don't and won't ever understand the logic of a londoner supporting the likes of pool and united of course. Over the past 2 seasons I've been to 3 games, when you can't afford to get back home it doesn't make you any less of a fan tbh. Though again, if you have never gone to a ground then, again, I don't understand how you can class them as 'your team'. At least make the effort to go once.

If I didn't get dragged into supporting Wolves then I would have ended up most likely as a Villa fan.

 

[megadave]

i picked my kid when i was a kid

 

[Everz]

Pro as ever ;D.

 

[Marc]

Pro as ever ;D.

Lay off the WKD brother

 

[Vladamir]

Sick Puppies™: Alex Ferguson wakes up to a banner in his driveway

 

[Ormorof]

No? And I don't understand how somebody can claim to be a fan but not attend games or move from their living room/pub to watch it. I also don't see the attraction of following a club that is not local or they have no ties to.

Gloryhunting at its finest.

what a load of bollox, i live nearly 2000km away from the team i support i follow them as much as possible, would cost me several hundred euros just in travel costs to see them, does that make me less of a "fan" than someone who happens to live down the road?

if you feel passionately about a team that you support then thats good enough for me

(and i am a Hull city fan so i am hardly a glory hunter)

if you ever ended up living in Manchester or London would you suddenly think "oh no i cant support Villa anymore, time to support Chelsea or Arsenal" like hell you would

 

[Marc]

A hull city fan living in Finland. Now THATS a proper fan!

 

[DaGaffer]

Turamber has past form about talking shit about supporting your "local" club. That's fine if you're the type of yokel who's never moved more than 10 feet from the house you were born in, but most of us have more complicated lives/histories than that. Half my family are Mancs, the other half are scousers (well, Widnes, Runcorn and Liverpool), my Dad had no interest in football and it was one of my Widnes cousins who started taking me to United games. At the time I started watching football I lived on Anglesey and the nearest league side was probably Wrexham or Chester, should I have supported one of them? Should I bollocks, I've only even been to Wrexham once, and I wasn't "from" Anglesey anyway.

Personally I think you should support who the hell you like and ignore all the "true" fans whining about glory hunters. They're only bitter because life gave them a shitty deal.

 

[gohan]

Turamber has past form about talking shit about supporting your "local" club. That's fine if you're the type of yokel who's never moved more than 10 feet from the house you were born in, but most of us have more complicated lives/histories than that. Half my family are Mancs, the other half are scousers (well, Widnes, Runcorn and Liverpool), my Dad had no interest in football and it was one of my Widnes cousins who started taking me to United games. At the time I started watching football I lived on Anglesey and the nearest league side was probably Wrexham or Chester, should I have supported one of them? Should I bollocks, I've only even been to Wrexham once, and I wasn't "from" Anglesey anyway.

Personally I think you should support who the hell you like and ignore all the "true" fans whining about glory hunters. They're only bitter because life gave them a shitty deal.

i support liverpool because my dad's from liverpool, my brother chose arsenal because we're from stevenage which is just north of london

i also support stevenage because they were my local team, had a season ticket for a few years when they were in the confrence

i now live in southampton and most of my mates support saints and have season tickets, i've been to about 8-9 games at st mary's and only 1 at anfield (seen liverpool play at highbury white hart lane stamford bridge and the millenium stadium aswell tho)


does that mean i'm acctaully a saints fan now?

 

[Embattle]

BBC Sport - Qatar's Bin Hammam accused of buying 2022 World Cup

 

[Marc]

BBC Sport - Qatar's Bin Hammam accused of buying 2022 World Cup

In before someone mentions Barcelonas new sponsor

 

[Everz]

Fucking lol

BBC Sport - Qatar's Bin Hammam accused of buying 2022 World Cup

EDIT : ffs did a cho :E

 

[Aph3x]

I have always felt you should have some kind of tie to the club you support. I grew up in Sunderland and follow them because of that but I also keep an eye out for Rangers as my Uncle played for them in the 60's and he gae me a club crest from his FA Cup final suit jacket when I was around 6.

Cant get my head around people following a club that they never see. Some team they have no connection too, just seems a bit strange to me.

 

[soze]

To me that's a little like saying you can only buy a car made in the town you live in.

If you watch a team on TV and you really like the way they play you decide you will watch the next game. After a season of following that team week in week out you can be considered a fan IMO.

 

[Ch3tan]

Blather conference at 5pm today. FIFA thought they'd dodged the bullet but warner has just stuck two fingers up at the lot of them. Australian government are considering pursuing FIFA for the cost of their failed bid for 2022. The only outcome now is surely an overhaul. Every single FIFA executive committee member has to go.

 

[Marc]

Panaroma are now bigger than American.

 

[Marc]

Steven Gerrard taunts Manchester United following defeat to Barcelona | Mail Online

 

[cHodAX]

Steven Gerrard taunts Manchester United following defeat to Barcelona | Mail Online

Micheal Owen has more league titles than that paedo.

 

[Everz]

Rejoice georgie, the bottler has left.

BBC Sport - Cardiff City part with manager Dave Jones

 

[Shagrat]

Blather conference at 5pm today. FIFA thought they'd dodged the bullet but warner has just stuck two fingers up at the lot of them. Australian government are considering pursuing FIFA for the cost of their failed bid for 2022. The only outcome now is surely an overhaul. Every single FIFA executive committee member has to go.

If he comes out at 5pm and says its business as usual while the current investigation is going on I'll be so pissed off.

 

[Shagrat]

decent news for us:

Lille coach Rudi Garcia confirms Yohan Cabaye will join Newcastle United - Goal.com

 

[JingleBells]

To me it's nice to have a local team to follow, but the most important thing is to stick with a club once you've reached a certain age - it doesn't matter why you pick them, be it nice kit, great name, to spite a relative etc...

I picked Spurs because as a kid I followed Teddy Sheringham around (great first name), so I became a Spurs fan in '92 when he joined them, by the time he'd moved to United in '97 I'd grown up enough to realise you don't switch teams (and moving to United would've really made me a glory hunter). It helped that my Dad was a Spurs fan who's actually from the area, but I grew up in the Midlands with no other connection to Spurs.

As for my local team, Kidderminster Harriers, my Dad took me and my brother to games as a kid, but not regularly - however when the club + schools did kids for free with adults deals on boxing day/new years day we nearly always went. When we won promotion in 99-00 for the second part of the season they did a U-16s for £1 deal, so I went to the games with my schoolmates and cheered us to the title. I had a student season ticket for our first two years of league football (£69 and £70 for 23 games of football, now that's a bargain) then I moved up to Manchester for Uni.

People often ask who I'd support if Spurs ever played Harriers, this isn't going to happen in a long time based on current finances, but I'd probably pick Harriers seeing as I've been to more Harriers games - most of the Harriers fans also support a prem team, Wolves and Villa mostly.

I still live in Manchester, and I manage to get to about 10-15 Harriers games a season - travelling to glamorous places like Fleetwood, Grimsby, Wrexham and Mansfield - along with home games if I'm visiting the parents or working in the area. I also usually get to 3-5 Spurs away games, Bolton, Blackburn, Wigan, Man City and Man Utd are all nearby. Wigan, Blackburn and Bolton often have tickets for only £20-£25! This season I've not had chance due to the games often being midweek when I'm away, or me forgetting and the tickets selling out

This season I've also been to Anfield to watch Blackpool win (I was in the away end too ), The Hawthorns to catch a Carling Cup tie vs Man City, The Giant Axe to watch Lancaster City vs Trafford and The Victoria Ground, Bromsgrove to watch them play Enville Athletic in the Midland Football Combination Division Two - along with two games in Hong Kong when I was on holiday.

Oh, and watching football in a stadium is always better than watching it on TV

 

[Marc]

travelling to glamorous places like Fleetwood,

Dude, thats where I live! If you make next seasons trip here gimme a shout. Will meet you at the game for a WKD