L'pool /Spurs/W.Ham Why/where did it turn toxic

[Foxmeister]

On 31/05/2022 at 14:19, Scotch said:

I went to a Chelsea game with friends when they won the league at Bolton in 2005 and I was taken aback by them singing a song that specifically mention us. I don't remember how it went only that the verse finishes with ".... AND LEICESTER". 

 

I asked about what it meant but don't remember too much about the explanation. Something to do with the casuals fighting our fans and were set upon by the police or something along those lines but can't validate the truth of that. 

“We will follow the Chelsea over land and sea… and Leicester” something to do with a road sign on the M1 I believe. Can’t remember hearing that since 2002.

[filthyfox]

I ****ing hate Spurs.  Probably cos all the bullies at school were Spurs fans.  TOSSERS

[Guest Basildon Fox]

On 31/05/2022 at 15:41, Mark_w said:

Because of the feed the scousers, god save the queen, lazy stereotype based ‘jokes’ and general bullshit that an awful lot of Leicester fans bring to encounters with Liverpool.

 

How can you hate fellow Leicester fans. Proper weird.

 

Look at me, I am a modern football fan and I have the right to be offended on other peoples behalf. 

[RonnieTodger]

On 31/05/2022 at 16:07, sdb said:

I don't even blame the Liverpool fans. Some of our chants have been absolutely disgusting and totally ott. It makes us look pathetic as a club, as if sinking to the lowest of the low is the only way we can be relevant.

This is nail on the head.

 

There’s a section of our support that revel in being “vile” because our support is extremely uninteresting aside from that. 

[Daggers]

On 31/05/2022 at 13:28, Finnegan said:

I don't think you should take Football Twitter as an accurate depiction of how the average Joe football fan feels. 

 

Good example for me this is Sunderland. 

 

Back around the early to mid 2010s I used to hate Sunderland fans, they were so obnoxious, entitled, seemed to have this obsession with sneering at us and comparing themselves to us because they thought they were this massive club with a massive stadium and we were scruffy little tinpot Leicester. They seemed intimidated by our progress under Pearson and Vichai and always seemed to be comparing our squads and making out our players were all rubbish. 

 

Really came to a head while we were surging up the table in the "Great Escape" and title winning seasons while they were nose diving towards a collapse that would see them end up in League One. 

 

I had them pegged as some of the most arrogant, delusional fans in the country. 

 

Then I went to Sunderland away in April 2016. We were on the finishing straight, really closing in on the title and starting to believe. Not only were their fans superb to us, really friendly, chatty, welcoming before the game but after we beat them two nil and piled on their relegation woes whilst deliriously celebrating another step towards a title that must have inspired envy in some of them, they stood up and applauded. 

 

Didn't just applaud us in the ground, as our coaches pulled out of the Stadium of Light and started heading home they were in the streets, outside pubs, chip shops, bars, all the way out of the city they stood and applauded as the coaches went by. I've never seen anything like it, it was completely nuts. 

 

It's really stuck with me that and it always reminds me of the same thing - Internet trolls do not represent the majority. Football social media is toxic af in general, its full of fragile, easily triggered kids. Look at the Do They Mean Us threads on here. An embarrassment of fans obsessing over what other people think of their football club. It's bonkers. 

 

We don't have any rivalry with West Ham or Liverpool and even the Spurs stuff fades every year in reality. It's just muppets on the Internet. 

I’ve always ended up going along to see clubs where I’ve lived and getting to know people. Spent two years in Sunderland and loved it - got to know the lads producing ALS and doing the Sunday night quiz at the Vaults. 
 

Most people everywhere following every club are decent. It’s why I’ve never got the hate for Forest fans. 
 

People driven by such rivalry just need to get out more. 

Edited 17 June 2022 by Daggers