midtablethatsallwewilleverbe Posted 8 January 2007 Posted 8 January 2007 unlike my self and many others on this forum i find my self speaking to people who are not real fans for example: ARSENAL: most people started supporting them after the unbeaten season. CHELSEA: money, money, money MAN UTD: rooney, rooney, rooney LIVERPOOL: champs league miracle why cant people just be faithful like us city fans who dont have the best of times supporting our team but we stick with them FOXES NEVER QUIT
Janx Posted 8 January 2007 Posted 8 January 2007 unlike my self and many others on this forum i find my self speaking to people who are not real fans for example: ARSENAL: most people started supporting them after the unbeaten season. CHELSEA: money, money, money MAN UTD: rooney, rooney, rooney LIVERPOOL: champs league miracle why cant people just be faithful like us city fans who dont have the best of times supporting our team but we stick with them FOXES NEVER QUIT Balls... I agree with Chelsea only, the rest have had massive support since year dot!
Ultra Posted 8 January 2007 Posted 8 January 2007 Glory hunters have always been around, but there seem to be a lot more of them about these days. The fact so few teams win trophies on a regular basis doesn't help.
MC Prussian Posted 8 January 2007 Posted 8 January 2007 Since the Premiership has been established, it's practically become a three-team competition: Chelski, ARSEnal or ManU. (With Liverpool poking every once in a while)
potter3 Posted 8 January 2007 Posted 8 January 2007 Since the Premiership has been established, it's practically become a three-team competition: Chelski, ARSEnal or ManU. (With Liverpool poking every once in a while) What about Blaackburn??
Tevez Posted 8 January 2007 Posted 8 January 2007 the person who made this thread is a liverpool fan.
Finnegan Posted 8 January 2007 Posted 8 January 2007 Disagree with you on the Arsenal point. I'd like to see you live down here and tell some of the die-hard Gooners they're rent a fans. And that's nearly all of them. Very few glory supporting types down here. Whether you like Arsenal or not, they've got great support.
lookwhaticando Posted 8 January 2007 Posted 8 January 2007 There are lots of glory supporters around, but Man U, Arsenal and Liverpool all have pretty solid support without the glory supporters. Liverpool has quite strong support... I mean, they weren't exactly much in the glory sense during the 90s, relative to previous eras at Anfield. Manchester United couldn't possibly fill a 76,000 seater stadium with at least a decent number of proper fans. Arsenal are similar. After all, if all of Arsenal's fans were plasticky rent-a-fans, the Tottenham-Arsenal game wouldn't be so significant for the fans. But because a lot of the fans are local supporters, there's a proper rivalry amongst fans.
dandannieldanok Posted 8 January 2007 Posted 8 January 2007 I think some people are ruling out that Chelsea have proper fans pretty unfairly. Granted they have many glory supporters but that is the people's choice. It's not Chelsea's fault that more people are beginning to like them. I bet the fans that travelled in the UEFA cup to Tromso in the late 90s and had to suffer a poor result/weather up there would be angry at the stereotypes attached with the club.
Webbo Posted 8 January 2007 Posted 8 January 2007 leicester are my team no matter what, but if i had to pick a side to win the premiership i'd pick arsenal. mainly because i hate all the other 'big teams'.
MC Prussian Posted 8 January 2007 Posted 8 January 2007 What about Blaackburn?? Jeez, how could I? ONE Premiership title in... how many years? And with one of the dullest football grounds in England?
Head Honcho Posted 8 January 2007 Posted 8 January 2007 Since the Premiership has been established, it's practically become a three-team competition: Chelski, ARSEnal or ManU. (With Liverpool poking every once in a while) Liverpool have never won the Prem. Have they not
MC Prussian Posted 8 January 2007 Posted 8 January 2007 Liverpool have never won the Prem. Have they not I said "Liverpool poking". But I didn't say they were ever in on a title run.
Poakey Posted 8 January 2007 Posted 8 January 2007 I think some people are ruling out that Chelsea have proper fans pretty unfairly. Granted they have many glory supporters but that is the people's choice. It's not Chelsea's fault that more people are beginning to like them. I bet the fans that travelled in the UEFA cup to Tromso in the late 90s and had to suffer a poor result/weather up there would be angry at the stereotypes attached with the club. Before they won the treble i would rarley see Chelski shirts being worn,but since then there forking everywhere,we had a few days at great(?) yarmouth(it was very nice..ahem)last summer and the amount of people walking around in Chelski shirts outnumbered man utd,liverpool and arsenal put together.
Joe. Posted 8 January 2007 Posted 8 January 2007 Glory supporters really really really piss me off bigtime. I hate the fact that people cannnot support their home-team club just because they aren't a big-time charlie. They refer to their team as 'we' when they know bugger all about the team and have very usually never been to watch them. Why support a team that's not where you're from? I just don't get it.
Thracian Posted 8 January 2007 Posted 8 January 2007 We took F4CUP down to the Liverpool/West Ham Cup final last year and watched the game in a pub commandeered by Liverpool fans some 400 yards from the ground. It was an unforgettable experience. I've never known such passionate fans. Whatever went wrong the support was constant and unbending. Whenever a Liverpool goal was scored the contents of every pint in the pub went straight up in the air and landed on the floor. The place was awash. But when a guy slipped on the beer and fell to the floor I've never seen so many people get their bodies over the fellow to protect him before he got trampled to death. The day shocked me in a way. I wondered how many people were in that ground who weren't supporters of Liverpool or West Ham while thousands upon thousands of ordinary fans thronged the town with absolutely no chance of getting a ticket. Anyone thinking Liverpool's support is based on glory hunters should have been in that pub. We talked to lots of the fans beforehand and their knowledge of the club was encyclopaedic, even when they'd had a few. And wit?. The banter was so brilliant we laughed ourselves almost to tears at times.
Floating Fox Posted 9 January 2007 Posted 9 January 2007 Glory supporters really really really piss me off bigtime. I hate the fact that people cannnot support their home-team club just because they aren't a big-time charlie. They refer to their team as 'we' when they know bugger all about the team and have very usually never been to watch them. Why support a team that's not where you're from? I just don't get it. Completly right What is worse is when they think they are the same level as fans that go and watch the game - the ones that go up and down the coutry following their team
lookwhaticando Posted 9 January 2007 Posted 9 January 2007 Glory supporters really really really piss me off bigtime. I hate the fact that people cannnot support their home-team club just because they aren't a big-time charlie. They refer to their team as 'we' when they know bugger all about the team and have very usually never been to watch them. Why support a team that's not where you're from? I just don't get it. That's why a mate of my dads (Derby fan) praised me for choosing to support Leicester City back then. He declared himself annoyed at the increasing number of glory fans he encountered, supposed supporters of the big clubs - those who didn't have the first clue about football. He said he was pleased I went alone with the team I felt was my local side (born in Castle Donnington, I consider myself from Leicestershire) rather than the team of the time - which I believe was Blackburn around that time. Or any of the other bustling sides at the time - Manchester United and Newcastle most probably. Not that you could accuse any Newcastle Fans of being glory supporters!
Scarby Posted 9 January 2007 Posted 9 January 2007 i dont think we are to judge who are real fans or not! people like man utd have fans all over Europe many of whom back the trip to Old trafford every week! that IMO is being a great supporter. why is this thread here! the 'fans' know they are fans and thats what matters
Ashley Posted 9 January 2007 Posted 9 January 2007 leicester are my team no matter what, but if i had to pick a side to win the premiership i'd pick arsenal. mainly because i hate all the other 'big teams'. I'd pick sheff utd or aston villa
lookwhaticando Posted 9 January 2007 Posted 9 January 2007 I'd pick sheff utd or aston villa Wigan, Bolton, Liverpool, Sheffield United for me. In no particular order.
Floating Fox Posted 9 January 2007 Posted 9 January 2007 Wigan, Bolton , Liverpool, Sheffield United for me. In no particular order. You are joking right?
dandannieldanok Posted 9 January 2007 Posted 9 January 2007 You are joking right? Hmm strange choices I do agree. Both rarely, if ever get a full house of fans at home and barely any fans show-up at away grounds.
lookwhaticando Posted 10 January 2007 Posted 10 January 2007 You are joking right? Deadly serious. I have a particularly soft soft-spot for Bolton, have done for years. I also approve of Wigan. Decent side I reckon. But yeah... I stand behind my four chosen teams.
Finnegan Posted 11 January 2007 Posted 11 January 2007 Reading for the Prem! Hahaha. Not 'cos I buy into any of that second team shit, but I do think they've some quality players. ... and I like their kit.
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