Football Focus

[Annasfield]

I love Liverpool FC even more than all of you put together. >:D< (ner, ner, ner, ner-ner ;-))

[Sandperson]

Annasfield Wrote:

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> I love Liverpool FC even more than all of you put

> together. >:D< (ner, ner, ner, ner-ner ;-))

It's starting to feel a bit like that isn't it Anna. My dad's bigger than yours though.

[Ladygooner]

Talking of Dads - my dad first went to an Arsenal match in 1944 against Reading! Beat that!

[Keef]

My dad is BA Baracus with Bruce Lee's Nunchuckas!

Some people can't afford to go and watch their team very much, but that doesn't make them any less a loyal fan!

A good friend of mine who is from from Liverpool has been living in Leeds for a long long time, and I don't know if she's ever been to Anfield, but she is still one of the most passionate fans I know.

I haven't been to Anfield in several years now, which is terrible, but mainly down to cash and travel. I still love my team though.

[atila the gooner]

I think the point is being missed here. I have no respect for people who come from say Portsmouth, and support the like od Man Ure. I met such a person on holiday and couldn't believe it whne he told me that he was born and raised in Pompey but supported the mancs. What a spanner. I took great delight in telling him how I felt when we got on to the subject of who we supported.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

If the measure of a fan's support is that he sticks with a crap team for donkey's years, I beat you all hands down! (And me Grandda tried out for Millwall in the 30s). So ner.

[Sandperson]

Anyway, I'll be changing my support to Chelsea or Liverpool tomorrow after we get humped tonight.

[Keef]

Well I am a spanner, because I was born in South London, and I support Liverpool, whereas I should have supported Millwall, Palace or Charlton... I would have included Arsenal, but it's been a while since they were a south London team.

Like I said before though, I got in to the game late, and I decided on my team because I liked their play, and their players, which I think is a fair enough reason for chosing a team. It had nothing to do with glory, because at that time, they wern't exactly winning anything.

My best friend is also from South London, and also supports Liverpool, because when he was little, his whole family were (and still are) Chelsea, and he wanted a different team, so he chose a red team rather than Chelsea blue, it's as simple as that!

There is no reason why a person should support a particular team, the only rule should be that they stick with that team through good times and bad, and NEVER EVER change their team.

Why did the Arsenal fans chose Arsenal? Is Sean a spanner because he supported the Gunners from Ireland? (sorry Sean, just making a point).

[????]

Arsenal, Liverpool and Man U fans claiming they're the realest supporters....BWAAAAAAAAAAAAH

As a Hammer I even agree with a scum supporter (well said Peckhamgk) >:D<

[Sandperson]

???? Wrote:

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> Arsenal, Liverpool and Man U fans claiming they're

> the realest supporters....BWAAAAAAAAAAAAH

>

> As a Hammer I even agree with a scum supporter

> (well said Peckhamgk) >:D<

I have to say, I am not looking forward to the weekend ???? the Hammers are a bit of a bogey side recently.

[????]

Keef, Charlton wear red...it 'just' made sense for your friend to choose Liverpool randomly as a team who wear red.

Sorry, 'newbies', fans who support teams because they were born their or its in their families blood are a class above random team supporters who happen to pick one of the obvious ones..I just can't take your support seriously, irrational maybe, but the view of most poeople who support a team through birth not choice...

[????]

you'll stuff us....but I thought that last year

[SeanMacGabhann]

No problem keef. . If its any help i also support cork city in that particular country

as for arsenal. . Well (with apologies to those who have heard me say it before) as arsenal at the time were effectively irish that was why i latched on to them. Some great players but not a great footballing team

[Keef]

???? he was about 4, and probably chose Liverpool because he'd never heard of Charlton.

Had I taken on my family team, I too would be Arsenal. The fact is it bored me to death as a little kid, I just wasn't interested. By the time I got in to it, Arsenal were doing rather well, so I guess I could have just started supporting them and told everyone they were my family team and I'd been Arsenal since birth.

Sorry ???? but I know a lot of scousers who would tell you they were Liverpool supporters, but who probably could name a player other than Gerrard, how does their "birthright" make them more of a fan than me, who follows with passion, and gets really up or down about results?

If it makes you feel any better, I have been to watch Charlton many times in the past few years, because I couldn't afford the fares to Anfield, and I wanted to watch footy... And Charlton have been my second team for a long long time (since I really fancied a girl who was Charlton mad at school)... Like I say, many different reasons, all valid so long as your support is true.

[DaveR]

Blah blah blah, real fans, rattles, woodbines, folded up newspapers for shinpads by 'eck

What a load of b@llocks

Back to important things - the Chamionship promotion/play-off race. Will Watford continue to lose to crap sides? Yes! Will Palace inexplicably fail to beat Burnley? Yes! Will Ipswich trounce Hull, sail through the play-offs, repeat their "miracle first season in the premier league european qualification followed by disastrous second season ignominious relegation amidst vicious in-fighting" Here's hoping.

Whatever happens, will Warnock continue to be the most annoying football related w@nker on earth? Certainly

[Keef]

Spot on with the last bit Dave! :))

The relegation battle is pretty bloody exciting too. Our very own Fear N' Boozin is a saints fan, and pointed out their plight to me. Any one of 5 teams could easily fall in to that last relegation spot!

[SimonM]

>There is no reason why a person should support a particular team, the only rule should be that they stick with that team >through good times and bad, and NEVER EVER change their team. :D

[SimonM]

>>Back to important things - the Chamionship promotion/play-off race. Will Watford continue to lose to crap sides? Yes! Will Palace inexplicably fail to beat Burnley? Yes! Will Ipswich trounce Hull, <<

I could live with that prognosis as long as Wolves fail to win and Sheffield United win too. We tend to do well against Ipswich in the playoffs :)) But if United miss the boat then I hope Colin makes it with Palace - who could possibly want to miss the Palace/Liverpool fixtures next season?!

P.S. Ipswich v Hull is live on Sky....

[citizenED]

What about fans who downsize - you know get a bit pissed off with all the cynicism of the Premiership so you go from supporting the likes of Man U to a local non-league club like Dulwich Hamlet. I'd say hats off to anyone who does that. I think the loyalty-at-any-cost, simply on the grounds that you were brought up in a certain town or your family supported a certain team, is a bit suspect. Rather like following a religion.

[Annasfield]

Did you guys know that Crouch had a spell at Dulwich Hamlets?

[Sandperson]

I go and watch the Hamlet and Fisher pretty regularly. Always good fun with a few pints and pie.

[Keef]

15 Games I think Anna. Scored his 1 goal on his debut.

[mockney piers]

I can't say I've completely downsized, but I do enjoy the Hamlets, especially as Premiership is SUCH a rip-off these days.

Have also frequented Broadhall Way for many years, and had a penchant for Stoke at uni at the end of their Victoria Ground days.

Can never stop loving the Hammers though, and may go a bit more often when I haven't got a wedding/honeymoon to pay for.

[SimonM]

>>Can never stop loving the Hammers though, and may go a bit more often when I haven't got a wedding/honeymoon to pay for.<<

Good God man! Where's your sense of priorities??!! :))

[mockney piers]

I knooooooow *sobs deeply*