I just need @hayvis to let me know if it's okay for me to be happy and content. I wanted to cheer and delight in the victory, but I wasn't certain if it was allowed.
-YTC
So excited to watch Bucket Bob in the EPL. I'm sure he'll finish mid table the next two years and then get sacked because of no reason.
Good lord, Newcastle.
@TrojanMan @Orlando just curious why you guys ended up Chelsea fans?
Was just curious as recently the Chelsea fan base (maybe just a minority of it) seems to be going back to their roots. These roots being racist, anti Semitic, homophobic, white supremacy and just general hooligan thugs.
Not sure if @hayvis will agree with me but if there are a group of fans more odious than Chelsea right now, it's West Ham.
Obviosuly what happens on the field and off the field are two separate things but it's just a grim domestic fan base.
Doesn't racist, anti Semitic, homophobic, white supremacy and just general hooligan thugs cover about most of England in general?
Kidding aside.
I'm kind of like Trojan Man. They were on TV, wanted to follow a bigger team. I like the player at the time. I started watching heavily a couple of years ago and just found I liked watching them and their style of play more than other teams.
@hayvis Maybe London can stage a Lexit. Or secede from the UK along with Scotland, and it'll be like West Germany and West Berlin.
Interesting also to me how people who didn't grow up in the European soccer culture, and who didn't grow up watching these teams "pick" a club to root for when they live 10,000 miles away. How do fans in the UK (or non-Americans in general) decide to root for American sports teams? My guess is that it's almost always the big teams with big advertising budgets who get their names out there (Lakers, Cowboys, Yankees, Red Sox) teams that have recent success, or teams that happen to have a fellow countryman on the roster (the Houston Rockets were quite the popular team in China when Yao was there).
As for me, I haven't really 'picked' a team that I consider myself a genuine fan of, but I guess I gravitate toward Barcelona because, not only do they play an exciting style and have a lot of good players and win a lot of matches, but because of the whole dynamic between them and Madrid, where Real, for much of its history, was basically the Spanish State Football Team under Franco. If ever there was any team to root against, it would have to be the subsidized, sponsored show horses of an oppressive dictatorial government.
Watching Barca to me is always boring as fuck watching them pass it around for 70% of the match. But maybe it is just the matches I've been able to see.
I decided to support the Jets when I was about eight years old. I have no idea how that fits in with a profile, but I do remember that I was old enough to know that it was one of the closest teams to go and watch live.
Interesting. Was it any one player in particular? Not that conversant with the Jets fan base other than that their history is pretty much Joe Namath and Superb Owl 3 and.....not much else. My late uncle was a big Giants fan, and thought Jets fans were just contrarian anti-traditionalists. I guess I could liken them to Clippers fans.
@Travis7401, I thought you were a LIFELONG Leicester fan? As far as Barca, I never said I was a genuine fan, just that I would lean toward them due to the history of Spanish football. It's kind of like being a Red Sox fan, even though, in recent history, the Sox have way more success (and chance of repeating that recent success) than their evil nemeses the Jankees.
Plus, when my in-laws vacationed in the Med several years back, one of their stops was Barcelona and they bought a bunch of Barca gear, among which was a toddler-sized T-shirt that fit my son. Had they stopped in Rome and gotten Lazio gear, I'd probably be goose-stepping and Heil Hitler-ing along with their fans.
I don't know about @Travis7401 , but aren't you thinking of Liam, as the Leicester fan on the boards? I definitely picked the Jets because of New York, which was a good move, as I've been able to go easily. I think when it came down to Giants or Jets the Jets uniforms looked cooler. I set myself up for a wonderful time over the last 30+ years, and DEFINITELY picked the right team.
Travis became a LIFELONG Leicester fan last year, IIRC.
How many Jets games have you been to, @hayvis? Pretty cool you're willing to fly an ocean away to cheer for a team. And yeah - Jets do have cooler unis than the Giants, whose togs are about as plain and uninspiring as any.
Shoulda been a Gnats fan
@chibob, West Ham fans have always been up there as the most organised hooligans. Chelsea attracts thugs, but doesn't have the same presence week in week out like West Ham.
UK outside of London and Scotland is brimming with racists, hence the recent political swing. The type of person that says "I'm not a racist, but I believe in British jobs for British workers. And why do we let foreigners use our health service. But Im not a racist. But there's a finite amount of space, and we're full up. And I want my country back." You know; the type of person that says we've had enough of experts, because of their fancy figures that point out that the country benefits in every sector from immigration. FUCK THIS COUNTRY, I'M FUCKING GLAD I LIVE IN THE REPUBLIC OF LONDON.
Can we edit this guy: to wave a USSR flag instead, for Comrade Hayvis?