English Football Thread 2012/2013

[shravi]

I have a confession to make. I support Liverpool.

Aha! I knew it!

In all seriousness, if you are not from the country, the chances are you'll pick a team that wins all the time. You don't feel a personal affinity straight away and might not ever, so why not just pick the team that wins a lot so you can celebrate more often, rub it in your friends' faces and drink to their victories.

 

[barmyarmy]

I did try describing myself as a glory hunter round about the 1995 season but my friends weren't buying it...

 

[ste_mc_efc]

That's how I feel as well. Pick a club, and stick with it no matter what happens, that's the way I see it.

not really. I don't see supporting a team as a choice. you can't really decide to choose a team. it's a subconscious thing that just happens.

My dad started to taking me to games when i was about 5 or so. as long as i can remember i supported everton. i didn't choose to do it.

Last season (ice hockey) i started watching nhl. I haven't chosen a team because it doesn't really work like that. eventually a team will just leap out and i will want them to win more than any other team.

I'm not just going to choose the Kings because they destroyed everyone in the play-offs. the fact they were bottom seeds and did it is a nice underdog-type story which may lead me to supporting them, but it's not something i can just choose.

If you ever find yourself thinking "which team should i support?" i think you don't really understand sport.

 

[MasterBlaster76]

Either way, whether you pick a team, or 'it picks you' - the principle is the same: stick with them.

 

[ste_mc_efc]

again that's just the definition of supporting them. you can't just choose to support someone else.

 

[MasterBlaster76]

again that's just the definition of supporting them. you can't just choose to support someone else.

I agree entirely - yet people still do that. Our friend 'World Champions', for example - how many teams does he 'support'? I couldn't imagine supporting anyone other than Utd.

 

[Epic]

My City story would be the total opposite, I was "supporting" them before I had even watched them play, how you may ask? Well I had been growing tired of Cricket for a bit and just wanted to experience another sport and during that time I would go to a website called StickSports(flash game + forum). There I met 2 dudes(a kiwi who lived in the States and a welshman who lived in duh, Wales) and they were both very well into Football(the welsh guy would take 3 hour trips very weekend to watch his 'away' team play and he was like 15), so I asked them who to support. One guy said Man City(the kiwi), the other said Swansea City, but I couldn't really choose because well I didn't know what they essentially were so I figured I would Google their kits and the one that impresses me the most would be 'my club', well the blue City won.

I do regret getting behind Man City from time to time(especially when we won the title), everything the club represents today makes me cringe(????$$), but I'm hopeful that in the future the club will transform into something that I can be proud of.

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Pardon the first paragraph, bit long winded eh.

 

[MasterBlaster76]

So, but for some light blue, you could've easily been a Swan?

You said that City these days make you cringe - what was your reaction when the takeover was announced? Mine was probably 'it had to be City, didn't it'? Followed by 'nothing'll come of it' - that was a bit wide of the mark...

 

[shravi]

My reason was Michael Owen. Needless to say I was distraught when he left. I didn't know much about football and didn't watch very much, but Owen was the reason I began supporting Liverpool.

I felt even more love for Torres. I idolized him. When he left, that was one of my worst days as a Liverpool fan. I was inconsolable.

In the past four or five years, I have drifted away from cricket (although I still watch all test matches) because ODIs and T20s just don't interest me anymore. I've started to watch a lot more non-Liverpool matches.

 

[Manly]

I did try describing myself as a glory hunter round about the 1995 season but my friends weren't buying it...

I tried the same through the late 70s and early 80s.

not really. I don't see supporting a team as a choice. you can't really decide to choose a team. it's a subconscious thing that just happens.

My dad started to taking me to games when i was about 5 or so. as long as i can remember i supported everton. i didn't choose to do it.

Last season (ice hockey) i started watching nhl. I haven't chosen a team because it doesn't really work like that. eventually a team will just leap out and i will want them to win more than any other team.

I'm not just going to choose the Kings because they destroyed everyone in the play-offs. the fact they were bottom seeds and did it is a nice underdog-type story which may lead me to supporting them, but it's not something i can just choose.

If you ever find yourself thinking "which team should i support?" i think you don't really understand sport.

Pick Vancouver! Pick Vancouver!

(If they start playing again, that is.)

I flip-flopped around baseball teams for a couple of years, as well as NFL teams as it happened, but I've plumped for the Nationals in baseball because they were crap for ages and ages and ages and had a good season in the one that just finished, and a Redskins fan because of RG3. That boy's good!

Just so happens they're both from Washington, purely by chance.

 

[ste_mc_efc]

Pick Vancouver! Pick Vancouver!

(If they start playing again, that is.)

by the time they are ready to play again global warming will have raised the temperature enough to make ice hockey unfeasible.

most canuck fans seem to be ridiculous, so likely to give them a miss.

 

[Manly]

If you ignore the rioting they're pretty cool!

 

[ste_mc_efc]

the rioting is their one redeeming feature...

 

[shravi]

CANUCKS! Nah, honestly, I live here but I couldn't care less about hockey.

 

[barmyarmy]

not really. I don't see supporting a team as a choice. you can't really decide to choose a team. it's a subconscious thing that just happens.

I remember at junior school having these long lists of teams you supported in each league. I tended to go for players rather than glory so in Italy I was a Sampdoria fan because of David Platt (rather than Lazio's Gazza). In Spain I liked Real Betis because of Alfonso Perez (if you ever played CM97/98 you would understand!).