Support: Celtic.Follower of Sampdoria and Universidad de Chile.Sympathiser of Barcelona, since Henrik signed.
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 30 July 2011 00:03 (thirteen years ago)
also we can go further than just listing, e.g.
sampdoria. my genovese great grandfather enrico causa supported sampdoria from their foundation in 1946. i don't know who he supported before that, presumably one of the two teams that formed the club. he died 6 months before they won the scudetto for the first and only time in 1991. they have had some great teams, have an amazing strip and logo, and are not at all hard to love. for these reasons i follow them.
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 30 July 2011 00:06 (thirteen years ago)
are there any rangers supporters on ilx?
― mookieproof, Saturday, 30 July 2011 00:08 (thirteen years ago)
merdeyeux, iirc
― MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Saturday, 30 July 2011 00:10 (thirteen years ago)
continental philosophy loval.
he's actually described, quite apologetically, his reasons.
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 30 July 2011 00:15 (thirteen years ago)
LOYAL even fucking hell.
FC St Pauli looks like home games would be a blastactually get to go to FC Dallas games but I'd jump ship in a heartbeat to PortlandLiverpool are kinda owned by the Red SoxBarca, but they start out with too much money in FIFA 11.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 30 July 2011 00:26 (thirteen years ago)
oh yeah i like pauli because of the celtic connection. only real connection celtic has imo (groups and individuals may, and do, have their different connections).
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 30 July 2011 00:27 (thirteen years ago)
oh aye and in england i've turncoated from newcastle to sunderland.
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 30 July 2011 00:33 (thirteen years ago)
srsly dislike or despise stoke, rangers, birmingham, red star belgrade, real madrid racing santander, sheffield utd (apols caek), juventus, benfica, chelsea, west ham, millwall, getafe, zenit st petersburg
mildly enthusiastic about football in general
― MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Saturday, 30 July 2011 00:37 (thirteen years ago)
do you actually no follow any cunt, really?
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 30 July 2011 00:39 (thirteen years ago)
yah i guess i sympathize fairly strongly with barcelona, tho i think it's pretty shameful that anyone would actively support them
― MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Saturday, 30 July 2011 00:44 (thirteen years ago)
Supporter: Spurs
Could have gone either way between Spurs / Arsenal. I grew up in Highbury, went to primary school opposite the stadium and have two Arsenal-supporting parents, including one who started following them when he was still living in Trinidad. Mother's side of the family is straight Spurs, though, and i always sympathised with their philosophy of losing elegantly.
Follower: CSKA Moscow, St Pauli, Shakhtar Donetsk
Started out with mild pro-Spartak leanings but ex-girlfriend was a CSKA fanatic and beat them out of me. St Pauli for the same romantic political reasons as everyone else. Shakhtar because they've been a joy to watch for the last couple of years and various things have led me to be less favourably disposed to Dinamo Kyiv in the post Rebrov / Shevchenko era.
Sympathiser: AC Ajaccio,
Pretty much just because French pop star Alize was there mascot for a while.
― HIS BODY IS FAT BECAUSE HE HAVE BIG HEART (ShariVari), Saturday, 30 July 2011 00:58 (thirteen years ago)
*their mascot*
― HIS BODY IS FAT BECAUSE HE HAVE BIG HEART (ShariVari), Saturday, 30 July 2011 00:59 (thirteen years ago)
xp. you aesthete ye. would never have followed football if it wasn't for celtic.
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 30 July 2011 00:59 (thirteen years ago)
alize otm
Rabid unreasonable fan: WolvesScottish team: Celtic (loved the kit when i was small then got hardened by my dad's inexplicable but horrible sectarianism)Irrational unshakeable love: Barcelona but Tiki-taka as a concept beyond thatExterminate the brutes: Birmingham City, Real Madrid (Everton at one time but married an Evertonian plus endlessly amused by Moyes)Contrarian delight: the Man City project, not when they was some shit indie no-hopersGreatest footballer ever in my head: Tino Asprilla, marginally ahead of Steve BullWho bombed Old Trafford?: Uwe Rossler's grandad did iircFirst kit owned: that Liverpool Hitachi one, long story but I think the 77 European Cup Final is the first game i have serious coherent memories ofHe's fat, he's round, his arse drags on the ground: Sammy Lee. Sammy Lee.
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 30 July 2011 01:14 (thirteen years ago)
don't have any, tbh. Will happily criticise any team/player.
― CH3C(O)N(CH3)2 (darraghmac), Saturday, 30 July 2011 01:16 (thirteen years ago)
Thudd?
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 30 July 2011 01:17 (thirteen years ago)
lol at darragh.
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 30 July 2011 01:23 (thirteen years ago)
srsly, i'm a clean slate every time
― CH3C(O)N(CH3)2 (darraghmac), Saturday, 30 July 2011 01:25 (thirteen years ago)
just fucking come out with it ya gobshite ye.
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 30 July 2011 01:27 (thirteen years ago)
big Rafa Benitez stan iirc
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 30 July 2011 01:27 (thirteen years ago)
? I'd be all for rafa the first day he wasn't a malicious chancer tbh
― CH3C(O)N(CH3)2 (darraghmac), Saturday, 30 July 2011 01:29 (thirteen years ago)
i'm actually interested in whether he has a league of ireland fancy (bohs all the way btw).
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 30 July 2011 01:30 (thirteen years ago)
oh i've got a Cork City shirt a friend gave me but i mainly love it cos lol Cork
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 30 July 2011 01:31 (thirteen years ago)
what is the least racist team in the league of ireland so we can make them ilx cause célebres
not sure what the least racist english team is tho
― MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Saturday, 30 July 2011 01:34 (thirteen years ago)
ya bohs tbh but not really an ardent follower tbh
― CH3C(O)N(CH3)2 (darraghmac), Saturday, 30 July 2011 01:35 (thirteen years ago)
least racist french team probably psg cuz the difft ethnic hatreds balance out
― MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Saturday, 30 July 2011 01:36 (thirteen years ago)
yas, ilx bohs supporters, let's do it.
haha, psg is amazing, nationalists vs blacks and arabs = dead racist = absolute mayhem.
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 30 July 2011 01:37 (thirteen years ago)
iirc there's another hun or two, but I guess not anyone who posts regularly these days. My story there is that it's a family thing, mostly - not just the fact that my brothers would disown me (srsly), but that it's pretty much the sole social connection between us. Not to say it's all for show, I still have remnants of the genuine affection I was indoctrinated with, but it can be hard to remember that when it's put up against everything else that being A Rangers Fan means.
Besides that I generally get behind Arsenal for the reasons I think nakh has suggested make them appealing - good to watch and lots of drama and ups and downs to keep you interested before you can quietly step back and join in the lols come the closing weeks of the season. I think for the most part, though, I have too much sympathy to really cut it as a 1st class partisan football fan. All too easy to find worth in everyone and wishy washily wish them all the best of luck and be inevitably disappointed when only one team wins. As is de rigueur, aestheticism is generally the factor that will sway me in any particular direction, be it footballing (Barcelona obv, anyone-but-Stoke obv), sartorial (Fiorentina, Croatia) or personal (Zanetti, Berbatov).
― Sir Chips Keswick (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 30 July 2011 01:58 (thirteen years ago)
HUN BASTARD.
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 30 July 2011 02:12 (thirteen years ago)
rofl
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 30 July 2011 02:13 (thirteen years ago)
some of my best friends are HUN BASTARDS.
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 30 July 2011 02:15 (thirteen years ago)
'Support': Liverpool. Goes in inverted commas because claiming to support anyone feels a bit embarrassing when faced with one-eyed, ranting, partisans. Mostly, when faced with these, I withdraw and pose as an effete, bookish type and so get classed as uninterested, but it beats trying to talk about it. I put this down to growing up surrounded by friends like that and never being that sort of kid myself, it was kind of an uncomfortable existence sometimes, especially finding oneself periodically the target of abuse for being a secret X sympathiser when things went wrong. Dunno if this is a universal or not.
I do like Liverpool most though & always have, even if it took many years to realise it - I read something by Simon Kuper saying he always thought he was a proper neutral 'til one day it occurred that he always looked for the Ajax result first, spent huge amounts of time reading about them, always wanted their opponents to lose, etc. It's a bit like that. My heartbreak at the human failings of the spice boys can be explained no other way. It goes back much longer though, I remember any number of Dalglish moments, being gutted Juventus won at Heysel (I was only eight), numbed by Michael Thomas, and so on.
I also like the fan culture, though when it gets down to the one-eyed types it's as unattractive as anywhere else, maybe more so because there's more to be unattractive about.
Other sides: disadvantage of being unpartisan is that I have some liking for most teams. Still hate Birmingham, mostly hate Newcastle, did hate Chelsea but they're winning me over.
Scottish football: officially no view, due to embarrassment at the whole affair. I did like Dundee United as a nipper, then Motherwell, and retain an affection there. Secret sympathies for Celtic in a European context mostly, maybe because with them it's easier to pretend the horrible side of it doesn't exist. That is one whiny culture though, makes Liverpool fans look stoic in comparison.
Foreigns: jeez, nearly everybody. My internal world's forever been enriched by Milan, Real, Red Star, how could I pick just one? Apart from Bohs obviously. As with everything else, this is subject to personality & whim, so Real were villains this year ('cept not really).
Secret hate: little foreign teams punching above their weight. Piss off Chievo, Villarreal or Braga, when I could be glorying in a giant instead.
Secret greatest pleasure: the death of a giant. Juve, River Plate, Leeds, doesn't matter; I'll be having the time of my life.
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 30 July 2011 07:59 (thirteen years ago)
Support: PSV. Probably 95% percent of the young boys and girls in this country are brainwashed via water and chemtrails to support Ajax. I was the one who got away and rid my genes of the arrogance filth, and found refuge with PSV. Of the traditional big three (Ajax, PSV and lol-Feyenoord (who've already been replaced by Twente in the big three tbh) PSV is most friendly, also most shamefully provincial and smdh-inducing in odd board decisions but also the most clever, almost farmer's luck, with Hiddink (who's named as Ajax' next director, smdh) etc.
Support/most sympathy: Heerenveen. Local club that made it big. Will never win the league, will never do great European, but will also never relegate again. Friendliest, most rural club there is.
England: The Ongoing Utopia that is Arsenal. Team that comes closest to being a Mark Rothko or Barnett Newman painting, in it's effort to become one flowing organism of euphoric and zen-like perfection, yet somehow always manage to end up like a Pollock, or worse, Francis Bacon. In theory the best club ever, but it never materializes. There aim of how to play football unrealistically high given their quality, but I without any sarcasm I praise them for dreaming on and keep trying every year.
Scotland: Celtic, always has been. But to be honest, the competition is so very dull that at the end of the season I only end up looking if either Rangers or Celtic won the league and go "hey whaddyaknow only a gap of two points between them this year, and 30 points with the rest, interrrstinggg zzzz"
Aesthetic, uncontrollable love: Barcelona. Ever since I went there on holiday when wee, doing the stadium tour, dad was a fan etc. Best team I've ever seen play in real life too, last couple of years. No contest. If you love football you cannot deny this. End of story.
Secret joy and support: Saint-Etienne. Their end of the 70s game was unearthly (Santini, Platini, Rep etc). Losing to Bayern in the EC final in 1976. Destroying PSV in the EC1 in 1979 with 6-0 with godlike football. Still have that match on my pc somewhere. Fantastic kit then, too. Always pray they do well, even though I don't follow them closely anymore.
Destroy/exterminate/kill: Real Madrid for being Franco fascists even though I know they aren't hardcore like that anymore and I acknowledge how childish this viewpoint is but it brings me lols all the same, so fuiud. AS Roma for existing merely for the glorification of fucking Totti's massive ego. And obv Ajax. Their past is brilliant, great football, will never deny that and enjoy seeing it and acknowledge it's significance. Now though it's just a bunch of arrogant fucking pricks that have been leeching off that success for decades. Ajax is the smug bastard you, after years of being subjected to their ridiculous bullshit and fakery, really want to punch in the face.
Most lol-worthy: ManCity. Parody of a football club. I secretly think the people running this club fire up Football Manager every morning and base all their decisions on this. With overusing the editor for cheating lolz and shopping sprees.
― I for one am (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 30 July 2011 11:00 (thirteen years ago)
Support: Manchester Utd. Basically everyone in my primary school supported Liverpool apart from my best friend. He informed me that Utd was the way to go, so that was that.Finn Harps. Nearest League of Ireland team to where i grew up. Still have fond memories of Jonathan Speak's goalscoring exploits.Ireland (with attendant overrating of Shay Given's abilities)Cristiano Ronaldo. I can't help it, the magnificent bastard.
Dislike: Don't think i'll ever hate a team as much as i did Arsenal in the late '90s/early '00s. Great days. Mourinho's Chelsea did come close, and John Terry's penalty miss remains my greatest moment of footballing schadenfreude.Carlos TevezEngland. In a typically cliched and hypocritical Irish manner.Juventus. Just always hated em.Celtic/Rangers. Being from Donegal, i grew up hearing a lot of tedious sectarian shit about these two. Put me off Scottish football for life.
― Number None, Saturday, 30 July 2011 11:27 (thirteen years ago)
Oh yeah, Wayne Rooney. I'm in favour of him.
― Number None, Saturday, 30 July 2011 11:30 (thirteen years ago)
Support:Liverpool. Am not entirely rational on the subject.
Support/Most Sympathy: This has to do with players rather than clubs tbh. Hence when Laudrup played for them I rooted for Rangers and when Larsson played for them I rooted for Celtic. And so on - Juve when Zizou was there, Madrid when Zizou/McManaman were there etc etc. Guess I'm an unabashed star follower.
Destroy/Exterminate/Kill: Man Utd(obv) but I always kinda loved Cantona tbh and Ferdinand is the only one of the current team I outright loathe, well Nani too I guess. Starting to really dislike Arsenal now as well and I loved them during the Bergkamp era.
― pandemic, Saturday, 30 July 2011 11:38 (thirteen years ago)
supporter: liverpool. older brother is a liverpool fan so i seemed to latch on to liverpool (i think i may have been 9 or so) despite having no real interest in football (besides the WC) until i was 13 (1990), so i missed all the glory years of the 80's. two other brothers are spurs fans. oh yeah republic of ireland team ofc as well.
team i always kinda like for reasons im unsure of: aston villa
hate: man united, chelsea, england
scottish football: Hibs (dont care about scottish football really though)
follower: deportivo toluca (mex)
sympathiser: barcelona, juventus
― Michael B, Saturday, 30 July 2011 13:03 (thirteen years ago)
I'm a Sellick man through and thorugh obv but other sympathies include...Greenock Morton - local team innit. Most of my family support them. First team I ever went to see. First ever brush with football hooliganism when I was about 7 and my Dad had to take me home and explain my black eye to my mum after I was attacked by a jambo cunt.Slight soft spot for Hibs as a friend supports them and I have family in Leith and they mostly have an attacking attractive footballing philosophy (that their keepers and centre hoffs fuck up for them on a regular basis)Charlton Athletic - used to live in SE London and it was them or Millwall. Great times when they won that marathon penalty shoot-out against Sunderland in the 98 play-offs.Welling United - first and only non-league English game. Fans changed ends at half time.AC Milan - mostly because they were my team in Sensible Soccer (Papin/Van Basten era) though I once traitorously owned a nice Inter away top. Hate Rangers, Hearts (see first brush with hooliganism. dirty cunts), Kilmarnock, Dundee, most other SPL teams. Love to watch Barcelona but my love diminishes with every passing trophy and them unnecessarily being a bunch of cynical gaming cunts.English premier league...hmmm this is tough - I grew up "supporting" Man U as everyone at school chose them or Liverpool but I loved the great Forest team in the late 70s and couldn't help but admire Liverpool for most of the rest of my childhood/youth. I have lots of Liverpool supporting friends and I ended up favouring them as a result and because I didn't actually have an affection for Utd. These days I mostly like to watch whoever is playing attractive football i.e. Arsenal & Spurs but don't really support anyone - it's mostly about the lolz & stupid money & eternally waiting for the bubble to burst.
― a million anons (onimo), Saturday, 30 July 2011 13:52 (thirteen years ago)
Oh and I like Wolves but always want them to be struggling for survival as Noodle Vague cracks me up with his despair.
I think ILF has shaped my views on a lot of teams. I find myself rooting for teams I shouldn't give a shit about so I can see the reactions here.
― a million anons (onimo), Saturday, 30 July 2011 13:55 (thirteen years ago)
Mick has promised us a top half finish this season so obviously i will be much more chill.
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 30 July 2011 14:05 (thirteen years ago)
I think ILF has shaped my views on a lot of teams. I find myself rooting for teams I shouldn't give a shit about so I can see the reactions here.― a million anons (onimo), Saturday, July 30, 2011 1:55 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark
― a million anons (onimo), Saturday, July 30, 2011 1:55 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark
THIS x 1000!
― pandemic, Saturday, 30 July 2011 14:07 (thirteen years ago)
yeah when i have friends who like a side i tend to reevaluate. even know a couple of likeable Leeds fans
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 30 July 2011 14:11 (thirteen years ago)
Yeah it's true, this place is having an influence. Pete has certainly humanised Chelsea for me, and unhappily he's now working on humanising the players as individuals. I don't know what we're going to do if some charming Real Madrid, Birmingham or Rangers fans show up.
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 30 July 2011 14:17 (thirteen years ago)
bun dem
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 30 July 2011 14:18 (thirteen years ago)
think you've just inadvertently called 3 or 4 posters on this thread "not charming" btw
I don't know what we're going to do if some charming Real Madrid, Birmingham or Rangers fans show up.
We don't have 51 ILF users - I think we need mods to lower the threshold for this board.
― a million anons (onimo), Saturday, 30 July 2011 14:23 (thirteen years ago)
Hm yes, sorry 'bout that, I got confused by trying to imagine what a group of witty, urbane bluenoses would be like.
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 30 July 2011 14:24 (thirteen years ago)
o_O
― second only to popcorn (or something), Thursday, 11 August 2011 14:44 (thirteen years ago)
iphone autocorek?
― I am Louise Boat (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 11 August 2011 14:47 (thirteen years ago)
not a true skouser
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 11 August 2011 14:49 (thirteen years ago)
Liverpool too. Growing up in north-east Wales (Ian Rush's hometown) in the 80s you seemingly had to choose between Liverpool and Everton, not really sure why I chose Liverpool - my family weren't emigrant scousers or anything, my dad hates football, and in recent years my mum has become an awful LFC/Stevie G apologist - but I think it was cemented in '86.
Was quite interested in Tranmere in the mid-90s (being on Granada and City FM regularly and having a few good cup runs and almost making the play-offs), and I try to keep an eye on Wrexham, and went to see them a couple of times before they left the league.
― Skrillex Ferguson (useless chamber), Thursday, 11 August 2011 15:00 (thirteen years ago)
My parents met on the Royal Iris. Which is apparently moored somewhere near Woolwich now. I need to make a pilgrimage before they scrap it altogether.
All Blues, all down the line. Some Red cousins now though, which is sad, but you just have to accept them the way they are. The power of a late David Fairclough goal can cloud a young boy's mind.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 11 August 2011 15:20 (thirteen years ago)
your parents met on a SQUATTERS' DRUG DEN!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Royal_Iris
On Saturday, 6 February 2010, it was reported that Police and the RNLI had been called out to her berth on the River Thames, near Woolwich, after a passing vessel noticed she had taken on water up to her passenger deck. At the present time, it is unclear how long she has been in this state. There was evidence found to suggest that squatters had been living on board. Also found on board were various items of drug paraphernalia.[17][18]
― the other onimo that runs the laboured dn (onimo), Thursday, 11 August 2011 16:59 (thirteen years ago)
have only been following football with regularity since 05/06 so most of my biases are still half-formed.support spurs, it was between them and fulham, and i really liked edgar davids and then the keane-berbatov strike partnership sealed it.hate all the big teams basically: united, chelsea, real, barca, inter, milan, bayern. also liverpool. arsenal never seemed as worthy of hate as the others, but i would still be estatic if spurs finished above them. everton are kind of my second team now, not sure why.hoping to watch a lot more bundesliga this year, where my team is hamburg, due to spending time in northern germany. dortmund are really awesome, though, and i will be rooting for them in the CL.other team with my full support is USA, other national teams come and go (korea, croatia, netherlands, like the current german team a lot), argentina 2006 was one of my favorite teams ever, always hate the italians.
― mizzell, Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:40 (thirteen years ago)
all seems fair and reasonable imo
― 10/11 of a dead jesus (darraghmac), Thursday, 11 August 2011 22:25 (thirteen years ago)
I keep meaning to get around to writing up my hates.
― My heart goes out to the people of platitudes (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 11 August 2011 22:33 (thirteen years ago)
Born in Whiston into a long line of Huytonian Reds, so had no choice but to follow Liverpool.
Grew up in Stevenage but never cared for the football team until they signed my nephew to their youth squad. Though they've now let him go and he's on QPR's books.
― Stevie T, Thursday, 11 August 2011 22:54 (thirteen years ago)
support spurs, it was between them and fulham, and i really liked edgar davids and then the keane-berbatov strike partnership sealed it.hate all the big teams basically
when, if ever...
― the other onimo that runs the laboured dn (onimo), Friday, 12 August 2011 11:54 (thirteen years ago)
My uncle reckons your favourites fade with time into just-for-laughs, but your hatreds (in his case, Alex Ferguson) diminish not one iota. I kind of like that.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 12 August 2011 12:00 (thirteen years ago)
I dunno about retention of hatred, because I love that Rangers just have a conveyor belt of twattery, so that when one hate figure goes, another rocks up in his place. I've almost forgotten how much I used to detest Nacho Novo since Kyle Lafferty and Steven Naismith arrived to take over the mantle of evil.
― ailsa, Friday, 12 August 2011 13:37 (thirteen years ago)
And before that lovenkrands,gazza,Andy 'uvf shrine' Goram etc.
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Friday, 12 August 2011 13:39 (thirteen years ago)
I know there's some kind of obscure rivalry at work there, but Gazza as a hate figure is all wrong.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 12 August 2011 14:54 (thirteen years ago)
rong
― 10/11 of a dead jesus (darraghmac), Friday, 12 August 2011 14:55 (thirteen years ago)
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/11/10/article-1084563-026CB546000005DC-421_468x512.jpg
A loveable rogue, earlier today
― Looking for Ms Nutbar (Noodle Vague), Friday, 12 August 2011 15:25 (thirteen years ago)
despise man u, ferguson obviously one of the most dour classless people ever to have become famous, rooney just a brainless ogre, really hate evra too. can tolerate the non-descript man u players, fletcher or carrick don't really annoy me, rio is probably a good person really, don't like vidic, giant visigoth. nani kind of
dislike arsenal but more out of exasperation at wenger and his stubborn nonsense, i guess this tide has swelled over last year or two, many people i know have lost good will towards him. my particular wenger-hate is when he does those awful "WE WILL WIN AT OLD TRAFFORD" press conferences or "WE WILL STILL WIN LEAGUE" etc and you're just like "do you even believe this yourself", he's like an overzealous parent or something. i don't mind arsenal per se other than this whole changed goalposts stuff of recent years.
don't really like man city but only in recent mancini incarnation, i find him boring and totally lacking in charisma.
sort of dislike sunderland after years of irish/man u dumping ground status.
― LocalGarda, Friday, 12 August 2011 15:57 (thirteen years ago)
Right. Hate Liverpool. Have always hated Liverpool. To an irrational extent. I hate the shade of red they use for the kits (too orangey!). I hate 'You'll Never Walk Alone'. I hated them finishing above United every single fucking season for year after year after year after year and winning the league most of the time. I hated ugly Ian Rush banging in goal after goal, miserable Dalglish as a manager (NB - he seems more cheerful nowadays), Souness and then McMahon kicking everything that moved, identikit perms and moustaches all round, the grinding inevitability of victory. And when finally, finally, after God knows how many years, we finished above them in 1992 we still contrived to lose the league to Leeds with three defeats in a week, the last of which was at Anfield. That said, for some reason I liked the Anfield Rap. And I'll acknowledge the 1987/88 team was good to watch. And I was genuinely pleased when they won the European Cup in 2005.
In the same way that my 'likes' (as opposed to teams I actively support) have nothing to do with current personnel, they're just a vague feeling towards the kit / the geography / the history / some personal connection, my hate of Liverpool has nothing whatsoever to do with the people there now, and everything to do with the 1980s. Although, to be honest, I don't think there was anything for the neutral to find endearing about the majority of either the Houllier or Benitez eras - largely dull, negative affairs.
― My heart goes out to the people of platitudes (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 14 August 2011 20:34 (thirteen years ago)
My other hates tend to be reactions to people who hate United. Growing up where I did, when I did, I didn't really encounter people who hated United because nobody could be arsed - they weren't good enough and there plenty more relevant local rivalries. So at the time I had no negative feelings towards, say, Man City or Leeds. I didn't encounter anyone who supported either club until I was 18 and for a large part of the 80s neither club was in the same division as United. But the more I witnessed first-hand the vitriol towards United of both sets of supporters from the early 90s onwards, the more I grew to dislike both.
By the same token, but to a lesser extent, there are one-sided 'rivalries' with clubs like Bolton and Blackburn (one-sided in the sense that while the loathing between United and Liverpool or City or Leeds is mutual, Blackburn and Bolton are never going to find themselves public enemy number one at Old Trafford but both seem to consider United their most-hated rivals). Again, I never encountered anyone who supported either club until I was 18, and neither club was in the same division as United until then, but the encounters I've had since then have left me unfavourably disposed to these two.
― My heart goes out to the people of platitudes (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 14 August 2011 20:51 (thirteen years ago)
gazza is a wifebeater, is educationally subnormal, wasted his talent, gave himself a terrible injury trying to injure another player, did the flute celebration, scored a winnning goal against scotland in euro 96 (when i was a kid i still cared about the scotland team). the only thing that slightly tempers my hatred is his suffering from mental illness and substance abuse issues, which make him somewhat pitiable. although otoh i think i would laugh if he died and/or join in in offensive chanting after his death.
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 14 August 2011 20:58 (thirteen years ago)
scored a winnning goal against scotland in euro 96
That was pretty good, though
― My heart goes out to the people of platitudes (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 14 August 2011 21:02 (thirteen years ago)
great goal, undoubtedly.
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 14 August 2011 21:06 (thirteen years ago)
I find the HDR photo of the vessel on the Wiki page more offensive than its decline from 1950s venue for Mersey romance to squalid Thames estuary filth palace.
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 14 August 2011 21:30 (thirteen years ago)
gazza... is educationally subnormal
seems a bit harsh to hate the dude for it
― Looking for Mrs Nutbar (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 14 August 2011 22:50 (thirteen years ago)
will even grant that myself, tbh.
His twenty year habit of revelling in his own boorishness is a far bigger reason to hate him.
― 10/11 of a dead jesus (darraghmac), Sunday, 14 August 2011 22:55 (thirteen years ago)
martin jol seems like a lovely fellow and i wish him all the best in his future endeavours.
― 10/11 of a dead jesus (darraghmac), Sunday, 14 August 2011 22:57 (thirteen years ago)
any footballer that squanders undoubted talent without even bothering to be a tragic cautionary tale like gazza or best, there's a cunt i'll hate. Bentley front and centre.
R Keane, to a large extent, though he had a great if nomadic career until recently, could have been another level better were he not an appallingly lazy and arrogant player.
Rafa benitez's public persona as manager of liverpool was almost perfectly dislikeable. No more on that.
I never had the benefit of seeing bryan robson play but he's taken food out of the mouths of the children of more deserving managers for so long and in such a dour yet clownish manner that it's easy to despise him.
― 10/11 of a dead jesus (darraghmac), Sunday, 14 August 2011 23:05 (thirteen years ago)
idk deems
robbie keane more or less got the best out of his talents, david bentley was always slow, weak, technically limited and a fucking cunt
― nakhchivan, Sunday, 14 August 2011 23:09 (thirteen years ago)
dunno i've seen bentley outpace plenty
Keane? Nah, not maximised, tho he's done well for his technical ability, granted. But i'll tell anyone who'll listen that he'd have another hundred career goals if he didn't stop play at every opportunity in order to dive, argue with the ref or berate a team-mate since prob 2001 for ireland and oh say 2008 for spurs.
― 10/11 of a dead jesus (darraghmac), Sunday, 14 August 2011 23:13 (thirteen years ago)
well ok but definitely 50
― 10/11 of a dead jesus (darraghmac), Sunday, 14 August 2011 23:15 (thirteen years ago)
two fanatical utd supporting brothers mean that i have a soft spot for them from 93-2003 odd. Since then they're a poor shadow of that team to watch, ferguson gets worse, the likes of the execrable rooney are celebrated, refs cover their inadequacies more blatantly and necessarily frequently than i seem to recall and they still grind their way to titles despite being shit by any reasonable measure
I dunno tho some of that may be me.
― 10/11 of a dead jesus (darraghmac), Sunday, 14 August 2011 23:31 (thirteen years ago)
Shakhtar because they've been a joy to watch for the last couple of years and various things have led me to be less favourably disposed to Dinamo Kyiv in the post Rebrov / Shevchenko era.
Can add this to list of reasons:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9dynDCN1AE
― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Monday, 9 January 2012 18:15 (thirteen years ago)
Reviving this FWIW.
I support St Johnstone. Grew up in Perth, still work there. Suits the more Eeyore-ish elements of my personality. Didn't grow up in a football household, but my Grandpa took me and my cousins to my first ever game - official opening of McDiarmid Park, against Man Utd.
In terms of other Scottish clubs, I have a fondness for Arbroath, mainly for the number of ex-Saints players there in recent years and the fact that Gayfield is a cracking wee ground. As I now live in Dundee I'm developing reduced animosity toward the two Dundee clubs, Dundee are mostly comedy though. Don't mind seeing either do well as long as we're doing better.
Can't be bothered with Rangers or Celtic domestically, but was pleased to see Celtic do so well in Europe this season and would like to think that I'd show the same magnanimity to Rangers one day. I have an irrational strong dislike of Kilmarnock and sometimes a little rivalry with ICT.
In terms of English teams, I have no fixed loyalties, I mostly flit between the underdogs, the unfashionable and the fallen. Due to friends and family holidays I have a general Yorkshire bias. That said, I do follow the exploits of Isthmian League South high-flyers Dulwich Hamlet as a friend picked them up as his local team when he moved to London. Plenty of Arsenal supporting friends, so that's seeped in a little.
― michaellambert, Sunday, 7 April 2013 12:38 (twelve years ago)
Worship/live for: Charlton Athletic - even moved to Charlton to be nearer to them
Dislike: Having a second team
Loathe: Birmingham City, Real Madrid
Root for: Tom Huddlestone :(
― delete (imago), Sunday, 7 April 2013 13:00 (twelve years ago)
I've developed a soft spot for St Mirren since I last posted on here. Local team, mates support them, play nice football, manager's not a dick.
Then they do things like beating Celtic and conceding goals that put our title party on hold and I forget I quite like them.
― ailsa, Sunday, 7 April 2013 13:04 (twelve years ago)
can there be any dispute that all things considered real madrid are the worst football club in the world
― bleeding like a stoke pig (imago), Friday, 17 May 2013 22:12 (eleven years ago)
by a fucking light year
― bleeding like a stoke pig (imago), Friday, 17 May 2013 22:13 (eleven years ago)
can't even begin to imagine the sort of pathological hatred of life's mystery and joy that would lead one to support those opulent, bloodthirsty cunts
― bleeding like a stoke pig (imago), Friday, 17 May 2013 22:15 (eleven years ago)
Kick a man while he's down. Have only seen the stats, but this looks like it must've been fun?
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 17 May 2013 22:25 (eleven years ago)
find it hard to ever get worked up about rm tbh
― r|t|c, Friday, 17 May 2013 22:29 (eleven years ago)
it's better when they're down
― bleeding like a stoke pig (imago), Friday, 17 May 2013 22:32 (eleven years ago)
francoista scum
This is my favourite thread, you're going to have to do better than that.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 17 May 2013 22:40 (eleven years ago)
look closer to home sonny, blue is the colour fascism is the game
― r|t|c, Friday, 17 May 2013 22:42 (eleven years ago)
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lf554y3wEN1qzliefo1_400.jpg
― bleeding like a stoke pig (imago), Friday, 17 May 2013 22:42 (eleven years ago)
yeah rm may be "francoista scum" but they dont have john terry
― Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Saturday, 18 May 2013 01:07 (eleven years ago)
Would sooner be a Real Madrid fan than a Liverpool fan
― Windsor Davies, Saturday, 18 May 2013 10:03 (eleven years ago)
rapidly becoming IK's least-favourite thread
― bleeding like a stoke pig (imago), Saturday, 18 May 2013 10:22 (eleven years ago)
real >>>> lazio
― tell me more (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 18 May 2013 18:47 (eleven years ago)