The obsession of 'West Brazil'

[albion]

What is it? I mean, there are clearly some level headed posters on here but there are plenty on here too that have this irrational obsession with the Baggies.

I keep coming across threads devoted to us on this board and although they are always negative, i suppose it's quite a compliment. You do like to join in on the anti-Baggies love in don't you and get whipped up into a frenzy about us. Why is it? What is your obsession with us founded upon?

Take a look at our board and you might see a couple of threads about Stoke, thats about it, but we also have threads about Gretna and Sheffield Wednesday. However, it seems that there are new Albion threads on here almost on a daily basis.

As i have stated before, it's not like we are big rivals is it? We care about beating Wolves, Villa and then the Blues. Sure we're not keen on you but thats based upon not beating for so long. Maybe because you don't have a local derby, your trying to create one? Vale aren't a threat anymore so you are looking to us.

Is it the jealousy that you have developed thanks to us being called 'the best footballing team in the Championship' from many sources? This has led you to believe that the media loves us - although judging from the lack of attention paid to us over the semi-final alone then you can surely see that this is not the case?
The media don't give a toss about anybody other than the 'big four' and the London clubs.
I've also read ludicrous suggestions that there is a conspiracy against Stoke - please, get over yourselves.

You seem to have a real chip on your shoulder when it comes to the style of football we play. Proof in point, the ironic 'West Brazil' tag. To be fair, you lot have come under scrutiny for the style of football Pulis has adopted. It is worth pointing out though that it only seems to be Stoke who have a problem with Albions style of play, we get praise from everywhere else - at the same time, many people criticise Stoke. I suppose this has developed a siege mentality amongst some of you. After all, you are above us in the table but your only getting criticism for the way you play whereas Albion get the plaudits - and we are below you.
This fact only goes to show the narrow mindset some of you have as you look to blame Albion for that and not the media. Btw, our 'tippy tappy' football has got us 99 goals this season, a trip to Wembley and we are still in the promotion hunt, maybe we deserve the praise from some quarters.

Many of you love to believe your own anti-Albion propaganda. I can only presume this is done in an effort to feel superior to us when everybody seems to having a pop at Stoke's tactics but praising ours. Is there an inferiority complex there? I don't know, maybe a psychologist would be in a better position to say so. If that were the case though, it is irrational as you have the bag on us when it comes to playing eachother.
Suddenly, we are a cocky set of fans and yet you choose to ignore your own when it comes to posting threads about the Premiership, who you should sign when you get there and such like. Pot, kettle, black.

Some of you have also taken joy in our semi-final defeat. Fair enough i suppose but i could understand it if Wolves fans were happy about it. But you lot? Well it comes back to you not being our local rivals so taking joy out of it is again, irrational. I haven't seen Stoke City at Wembley lately either.

So, after all that, i still don't understand the obsession that you have with us. Please, can anybody explain?

[nathan]

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[Timmy]

West Brazil.

[stokieboy1]

West Brazil ;D

[pulisjr]

I saw Steve Redgrave say West Germany on SSN earlier, he must be informed that it's West Brazil!

[KevinWhimper]

I am not obsessed with your kind
I just hate the cunts.

[NE8Stokie]

I still can't understand why they're playing the semis at wembly anyway! Think it devalues the whole wembly and FA Cup experience.

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[Stick It On Cort's Head]

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[salopstick]

west brazil

[MUZZPERTH]

brazil are over rated shite

[R.I.P Fullers Nan]

West Brazil are full of over paid useless twats, who fancy themselve so much. You wait till Phillips retires. Who will u ave? Bednar = Useless...Miller = on loan ?

[Timmy]

muzz said:

brazil are over rated shite

on the other hand...

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[**** Pulling Himself Off]

Albion,

Everything you say is spot on. No doubt many of the intelligent posters on here are also getting sick of seeing all this pointless Albion bashing all over the place.

Loads of our fans are paranoid androids, so whenever another local(ish) team is praised, they hate it.

[serpico]

[Deleted]

This 'Obsession' as you call it is not born of us. It is actually borne of the media, be it radio or TV who continually 'fawn over you' as if you've been hard done to and fallen on hard times - conveniently forgetting how crap you actually were in the premier league and, the fact that you and other relegated clubs, descend into this division with a totally unfair advantage i.e parachute payments.

They then continue to bang on, and on, and on, and on about you being the 'best football team in the championship' when, any stoke city fan will tell them:-

YOUR REALLY NOTHING SPECIAL !

Your manager doesn't help either - along with Pardew at Charlton (Victor Meldrew we call him) - who talk snobbishly about the way football 'should be played' and fail to recognise what other teams are achieving with differing approaches AND, without the buckets of money the likes of you slosh about in.

I'll respect teams like West Brom and Charlton all over again when, they can say they got promoted to the premier league without the help of all the cash thrown at you unfairly - in fact, teams like Blackpool southend and Colchester have far more 'street cred' than you do presently, in my book anyways

geddit ?

[trebor63]

Personally I've got nowt against West Brom but from the games against us this season I genuinely don't think West Brazil are THAT good. We out muscled you at WBA (part n parcel of football) and out footballed you at Stoke.

Lots of our 'negative' vibes to WBA came from the west midlands press wjo labelled Stoke as the 'embarrasing nephew that nobody likes and feel ashamed of.'

I guess you feel a bit peed off at losing to Pompey? If they labelled you as a bunch of ugly sluggers maybe you'd take great pleasure in seeing them get their commupance? I hope you eventually reach Wembley in the play off final where you'll be attempting to join the mighty Potters ;D

[bayernoatcake]

Greening ;D

[nathan]

Tony and Trebor have ruined this thread. Lets continue, ignoring their comments. There's no time for reasoning or justification!!

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[Stick It On Cort's Head]

Wait a minute.

You're not intelligent if you laugh at another teams failures?

Let's all wank to Kevin Phillips to prove that we are "intelligent"

[trebor63]

LOL sorry just read the original and none of the responses!






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[sheikh al dubai bin stokie]

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[Jamo on the wing]

albion,
It's fairly easy to understand Stoke's views on your club this season. It really all stems from the game at the Hawthorns when the post match comments of your fans and local media were some of the most hysterical, camp bollocks I've ever heard in my life. It wasn't just that they were bitter remarks from fans who were gutted that they'd failed to beat us again, it was the sheer arrogance of them.
Apparently that night we were a disgrace to football, a team of thugs and the worst team to ever visit Smethwick. To be fair I feel a lot of the contributions came from some of your Johnny Come Lately fans who clearly had no recollection of the times we spent in the lower divisions and how our fortunes had generally been similar apart from your brief flirtation with the "Elite" league.
Despite failing to beat us on both occasions this year and us doing the double over you last year, we consistently hear noises emanating from the Hawthorns about how shit we are and that tends to annoy a fair few Stokies. We can't be that bad can we if you've only managed a point against us out of the last twelve available?
It's certainly going to be interesting between now and May and as I noted to a mate when we looked at your run in, if you go up you will bloody deserve it as it looks a real tricky one to me.
To sum up, some of your fans have very short memories about how you were as a club a few seasons back before you time in the Prem, a lot of them really have their heads up their arses to be honest, (I saw one who expected you to finish 12th if you go up!) and arrogance isn't an attractive trait and I feel that is why so many would like you to experience a big reality check by being the "best team" in the division not to be promoted. Whoever does go up will deserve it after a 46 game season and nobody should begrudge the successful teams their moment, whovever they are, however they do it or however the media portray them.
Good luck to you but I'd be lying if I said I want you to do well, we need to finish above you for no other reason than we want to have a go up there in a division we have spent a lot of our history in, even if it wasn't called the Premiership then.
Who knows we might still meet again next year to renew acquaintances, I wouldn't mind to be honest as long as it's in the Prem because that would mean we'd achieved what we all want so badly (and we'd be guaranteed some points )

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[lurcherman]

That's a bit rich coming from some fucker with 70 posts on another teams mb.

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[Jamo on the wing]

Excellent point Lurcherman.

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[RAF]

I haven't seen Stoke City at Wembley lately either.

Very true, however we have never fucking lost there either.

H

[robin1302]

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[pattayapotter]

I keep coming across threads devoted to us on this board and although they are always negative, i suppose it's quite a compliment. You do like to join in on the anti-Baggies love in don't you and get whipped up into a frenzy about us. Why is it? What is your obsession with us founded upon?

So, after all that, i still don't understand the obsession that you have with us. Please, can anybody explain?

I would have thought you'd have had the FA Cup 'semi final' on your mind at 'Wembley' over the last few days rather than reading this board. If Stoke were in the semi-finals at 'Wembley' the last place i'd be visiting would be your board, well actually i never have. Please, can you explain ?

West Brazil ;D

[baggie100]

We'll beat you with our sexy football next season, oh wait, no we won't you'll still be in the championship while were playing premier league clubs off the park like we did against pompey yestersday just got unlucky. And the only time you'll ever see wembley is if they decided to play the first rounds there as there in so much debt ;D

[Jamo on the wing]

I see the brains of the bunch have arrived after that insightful post.
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[Rebelliousjukebox]

"you are above us in the table but your only getting criticism for the way you play whereas Albion get the plaudits - and we are below you."

A big part of the problem, Albion, is that we rarely seem to get praised when we do play well, and Albion rarely seem to get criticised when you don't. That is, to a great extent, the fault of the lazy media, but a lot of your fans more than go along with it.

Would you agree that, even if you may be the "best footballing" team in the league, your defence seems pretty shaky? That rarely is mentioned.

"playing premier league clubs off the park like we did against pompey yestersday". That would what the report in The Observer described as "One dimensional" would it, baggie100?

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