Top of the league!!!!!

[Slime]

Neigh,neigh and thrice neigh.

:rofl: :rofl:and thrice :rofl:.
Bugger, just got a sense of humour, lucky to have got out of that pool alive .

Slime.

 

[bluewolf]

Can't say as I overly disagree with anything AW has said regarding the great reasons for supporting your local team. I'm Latics since birth. I helped pay the players wages during the bad times. I helped paint the stand at Springy park during the summers. No one has enjoyed the recent glory days more than me (and no one was drunker than me at the millenium stadium, when UTD stuffed us in the Carling Cup). But, on the flip side, I do understand why people support some of the bigger clubs. My lad is developing an unhealthy fascination with Man City. This is because he's a Goalkeeper (aged 7) and his favourite players are Joe Hart and Ali Al Habsi. I'm only just keeping him interested in Latics by getting Al Habsi to tweet messages of support to him before he plays. But he will probably drift towards City when the Euro's are on and if Hart plays a blinder.

Watching Latics at the moment is no fun if you're 7. He doesn't have the emotional attachment that I have. He may never develop it. But it will be his choice...

 

[CrapHacker]

Can't say as I overly disagree with anything AW has said regarding the great reasons for supporting your local team.

I was born a Croydon boy, and everyone at school was either a Palace fan, or a Chelsea fan. I hated most of them, I hated their bullshine about how good they were and all that stuff.

I was lucky enough that one of the 'big kids' that lived over the road from me was an Arsenal fan the year after they got drubbed by Swindon.

I totally got the idea that football shouldn't be all about great expectations and low achievements - it should be about LOW expectation and abject misery when failing to achieve even that.

The fact that we went to to win the double just made the next seven years of self wallowing inadequate misery even more enjoyable.

Trophy hunters?

Don't know they're born.

 

[Liverbirdie]

Can't say as I overly disagree with anything AW has said regarding the great reasons for supporting your local team. I'm Latics since birth. I helped pay the players wages during the bad times. I helped paint the stand at Springy park during the summers. No one has enjoyed the recent glory days more than me (and no one was drunker than me at the millenium stadium, when UTD stuffed us in the Carling Cup). But, on the flip side, I do understand why people support some of the bigger clubs. My lad is developing an unhealthy fascination with Man City. This is because he's a Goalkeeper (aged 7) and his favourite players are Joe Hart and Ali Al Habsi. I'm only just keeping him interested in Latics by getting Al Habsi to tweet messages of support to him before he plays. But he will probably drift towards City when the Euro's are on and if Hart plays a blinder.

Watching Latics at the moment is no fun if you're 7. He doesn't have the emotional attachment that I have. He may never develop it. But it will be his choice...

I take my (tin) hat off to you Bluewolf, a proper supporter if ever I heard one. Slime, well done mate, glad you are a titterer and not a ti~.

This is a massive subject and I dont have any hard and fast rules. However, the worst fans by far are the bandwagon jumpers (who are mostly local supporters, BTW). Just watch when clubs like Havant & Waterloovile, Crawley etc get a plum FA cup draw,10,000 out of the woodwork.

To be honest the same with Wigan, Blackpool and most other clubs. They gain 10,000 more fans when in the prem. If I was the chairman and my team got an extra 10,000 bandwagon jumpers when in the prem, I would put the prices up to them and give the season ticket holders who had season tickets for the last 5 years a free season ticket for their first year in the prem.

All in all, loyalty and passion is what counts. If Wolfie has followed Man U all over europe and beyond, and before the 1990's I'll take my hat off to him. Bandwagon jumpers - they are the worst fans, and everyone has them!!!!!!

 

[wolfie]

well said Liverbirdie. I totally agree about so called fans jumping on the band wagon when for instance Chelski and Man City became billionaires. Thats a joke but I followed United since the 80's and that was because all my brothers and my dad did so aswell. I have no shame in calling myself a United supporter and never will. Football would be nowhere near as big and enjoyable if only locals supported their teams, The PL is global and we all benefit greatly from that. Nuf said.

 

[Slime]

I've supported Man Utd since the early 60's, largely because no-one I knew did and partly because of Denis Law. Supported them through thick & thin, and always will.

 

[Liverbirdie]

My fault there Slime i draged LB into a convo he didnt realy wana be part of .. always get a good balanced view from him in fairness, so i knew id get a strait up answer . Defo not a high horser ..

BTW, no need for an apology fella, it was still my choice to air my views.

Sorry, there is one other type of fan who is worse than even the bandwagonner, and that is the changeling.

Best example - Zoe Ball, her dad (Johnny ball) brought her up an LFC fan, decided to become a Man U fan in her 20's in the mid 1990's. They are the ones who should be in the seventh ring of hell!!!!!

 

[A1ex]

Support your local team or the side your dad supports. Anyone that picks a big club gets no respect. See all the nomarks in their Man Utd or Liverpool shirts shouting at a TV down the pub, not even football fans. Just mindless clones.

Bandwagon fans aren't that bad, these are just locals who come out for the big occasion and when a team does well. They've been part of football since it began. An example would be Hereford v Newcastle in the FA Cup back in the 70's, the vast majority of those fans would've been local bandwagon jumpers turning up for a big game. Yet it's one of the iconic moments in English football.

Totally different to someone from Hampshire or Essex supporting Man Utd or Liverpool because it represents the best chance of success! That actually costs a local team a fan and increases the gap between the super rich and the rest.

 

[Liverbirdie]

Support your local team or the side your dad supports. Anyone that picks a big club gets no respect. See all the nomarks in their Man Utd or Liverpool shirts shouting at a TV down the pub, not even football fans. Just mindless clones.

Bandwagon fans aren't that bad, these are just locals who come out for the big occasion and when a team does well. They've been part of football since it began. An example would be Hereford v Newcastle in the FA Cup back in the 70's, the vast majority of those fans would've been local bandwagon jumpers turning up for a big game. Yet it's one of the iconic moments in English football.

Totally different to someone from Hampshire or Essex supporting Man Utd or Liverpool because it represents the best chance of success! That actually costs a local team a fan and increases the gap between the super rich and the rest.

Did they get free snorkels if they turned up that day? It certainly looked like.