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Post by eddy_under_fire'sviews on Mar 17, 2009 12:40:10 GMT
When i first moved to uni, a bunch of guys i made friends with were all football fans... one blackburn fan, couple of manure fans, a leeds fan, a chelski fan, and this other guy, who was a colchester fan.
now me and him had a lot of banter in that first year, because that was the 06/07 season where colchester and stoke were both unlucky to miss out on the playoffs on the last day of the season. however last year, on his facebook, there was a picture of him outside the emirates in an arsenal shirt... to which i replied "wtf your a colchester fan!", and he then said yeah but arsenal are my prem team!
last week i noticed on facebook, he had joined a group called "I support my local team". which i promptly commented with "mate, aren't you an arsenal fan???"
"I support Colchester as well mate! I have a season ticket there!"
"Yeah but you can't support 2 teams at once! that would be like me following Stoke and Man United! it would be ridiculous"
"You're not allowed to do that, they're in the same league."
"What? a couple of years ago Colchester very nearly got in the prem!!!"
"yeah but they didn't. and they got relegated the year after, so its never gonna happen again is it???"
"Thats the point of supporting a team, you support them through thick and thin! You believe in the impossible! Why don't you stop 'supporting' arsenal??"
"Can't do that. been following them since i was a little boy!"
At this point i got so frustrated with him, i just left the conversation. i will point out he is a top bloke, but his logic confuses me. he lives in colchester, had a season ticket, had a shirt and everything. yet since they got relegated, this old love for arsenal has just re-appeared...
anyone else heard a similar story???
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2009 12:45:09 GMT
anyone else heard a similar story??? World War II - Italy backed a couple of different sides |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2009 12:45:35 GMT
On OVF, with Vale doing shit, loads of them seem to have adopted a "second team" and even refer to teams like Arsenal, Liverpool, Villa, Man Yoo, Chelsea as "we". It's embarrassing.
I've never understood how someone can support two teams. It's like bigamy isn't it?
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Mar 17, 2009 12:47:43 GMT
Exactly the same story, but with a wanker I live with who professes to be a Carlisle fan, except he's decked his room with Manure photos. He never talks about them, only Manure. The lad has no sense of local pride and he's a pathetic excuse for a human being.
His excuse? "My grandad once lived in Manchester".
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Mar 17, 2009 12:48:59 GMT
On OVF, with Vale doing shit, loads of them seem to have adopted a "second team" and even refer to teams like Arsenal, Liverpool, Villa, Man Yoo, Chelsea as "we". It's embarrassing. I've never understood how someone can support two teams. It's like bigamy isn't it? It's overcompensating for shit lives. |
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Post by stokemark on Mar 17, 2009 12:49:51 GMT
Just pity them - There own emotional weakness and insecurities cannot be legislated for !
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Post by eddy_under_fire'sviews on Mar 17, 2009 12:56:54 GMT
i mean, i genuinely lost loads of respect for him after i realised he "supported" arsenal.
initially i thought fair play for supporting his local team instead of being a cheat and going for a london club
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Post by th05 on Mar 17, 2009 13:10:57 GMT
Joke.
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Post by Beardy200 on Mar 17, 2009 13:16:21 GMT
I have always had preference for who wins the prem and for the last 10 years or so that has been Arsenal so i can understand it to a point. Having said that it's just a mild preference and as soon as he got an Arsenal shirt he's taken it way way too far and disappeared into muppett territory ;D
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Post by eddy_under_fire'sviews on Mar 17, 2009 13:18:10 GMT
thats the thing trumpton. err beardy. he claims to "support" both equally... yet when colchester were doing well, arsenal were just his "prem team".
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Post by thebet365 on Mar 17, 2009 13:18:32 GMT
Your being a bit harsh IMO, I'm a similar person. I wasn't a footy fanatic when I was a nipper and most of me mates followed liverpool so I chose everton for the banter, I then started taking more notice of football and I started to follow Everton Religously.
Now when I was about 16 I started knocking about with some stoke supporters and started to watch stoke on a regular basis. So from then on I followed my home town club but I wasn't gonna suddenly drop the last nearly 10 years feelings of following the toffees. So they where like MY 2nd team. Not a problem really until you end up in the same division together like this year.
For the record I was asked on saturday where my loyalty stood - my answer was stoke as we needed the points more than everton.
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Post by sheikhmomo on Mar 17, 2009 13:22:05 GMT
It's like bigamy isn't it? Bigamy is no fun if your other wife is a sweaty, corpulent, money obsessed whore like Manchester United. |
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Post by Not_Nick_H on Mar 17, 2009 13:22:44 GMT
Unfortunately it's symptomatic of the way football has gone since 1992. The Premier League has been elevated to a status way beyond what the old first division was and consequently, fans of many lower league clubs assume that their club will never reach this promised land. So because of this hierarchical "distance" they "adopt" a Premier League team because it's a safe bet in their eyes that their real team and their Prem team will never meet in the League. A bit like adopting a "Champs League Team" , A "Scottish Team" or a "Spanish Team".
The cult of the Prem and it's omnipresence on tv and the press means that some people feel they are missing out if they don't have some reason to tap into it. This is one of the factors that will tell on many people if we get relegated - we've been turned into media-attention junkies and will feel starved if we return to the Championship.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2009 13:27:07 GMT
It's like bigamy isn't it? Bigamy is no fun if your other wife is a sweaty, corpulent, money obsessed whore like Manchester United. I can't imagine it's much fun anyway. |
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Post by jcscfc on Mar 17, 2009 13:29:05 GMT
You sure you were n't getting the Arsenal red confused with Man Ure's?
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Post by sheikhmomo on Mar 17, 2009 13:30:26 GMT
Bigamy is no fun if your other wife is a sweaty, corpulent, money obsessed whore like Manchester United. I can't imagine it's much fun anyway. i can imagine some women, I mean situations, where it would be tremendous fun! |
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Post by ersaurebot 1, 000, 000 views on Mar 17, 2009 13:34:52 GMT
Unfortunately it's symptomatic of the way football has gone since 1992. The Premier League has been elevated to a status way beyond what the old first division was and consequently, fans of many lower league clubs assume that their club will never reach this promised land. So because of this hierarchical "distance" they "adopt" a Premier League team because it's a safe bet in their eyes that their real team and their Prem team will never meet in the League. A bit like adopting a "Champs League Team" , A "Scottish Team" or a "Spanish Team". The cult of the Prem and it's omnipresence on tv and the press means that some people feel they are missing out if they don't have some reason to tap into it. This is one of the factors that will tell on many people if we get relegated - we've been turned into media-attention junkies and will feel starved if we return to the Championship. spot on - if you support a big four club your opinion is more required by phone ins and your interests pandered to in the press, therefore your precieved importance in the world is elevated (allbeit subconciously) So the Mansfield town fan who drives his taxi around listening to talk shite and watching Sky probably supports Chelsea or Man ure as well so he can be a part of the common media. What they dont realise is that this only makes their club less likely to suceed as they spend money on shirts and buy into sky tv. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2009 13:35:03 GMT
I can't imagine it's much fun anyway. i can imagine some women, I mean situations, where it would be tremendous fun! After marrying them both? Good luck with that mate, it's difficult enough to get anything off just the one. Good luck sneaking off for a pint with two of them in situ as well  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2009 13:47:53 GMT
Whats his name, my sons live in Colchester, we will get him. 2 teams, what a pratt
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Post by white wall boy on Mar 17, 2009 16:20:44 GMT
hardly nailing your colours to the mast is it? does it depend what day it is as to which team he supports? wanker
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Post by grayscfc on Mar 17, 2009 16:26:31 GMT
my mate allways supported stoke until 1997 & then he `became` a celtic fan(is he fook scottish).... he still went to a lot of stoke games after though but whenever we lost he`d take enormous pleasure in telling me & my `REAL` stokie mates how pathetic we were & what a load of wankers we are!!!!! very strange indeed.
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Post by trebor63 on Mar 17, 2009 18:01:04 GMT
I think he'd be a fantastic signing for Hull |
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Post by march4 on Mar 17, 2009 18:08:35 GMT
Glory hunters are sad inadequates.
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Post by foreverstoke on Mar 17, 2009 18:12:34 GMT
i have supported stoke for 12 years but i have a tendency to have an interest in spurs
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Post by grayscfc on Mar 17, 2009 18:15:24 GMT
i have supported stoke for 12 years but i have a tendency to have an interest in spurs i allways look for cowdenbeaths score. ???  |
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Post by foreverstoke on Mar 17, 2009 18:17:50 GMT
why is that? i dont know why i like spurs i just do
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Post by Irish Stokie on Mar 17, 2009 18:34:55 GMT
Im sorry but you just cannot support 2 teams. Over here (Ireland) it seems that the majority of people seem to think its ok to support Celtic. That and the majority of Manure fans started following Sunderland fans because wankbag Keane was manager.
The simple fact is that it if you are a true fan of a club you support ony that club and your country, end of IMO
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Post by chinesedave on Mar 17, 2009 18:49:54 GMT
When i first moved to uni, a bunch of guys i made friends with were all football fans... one blackburn fan, couple of manure fans, a leeds fan, a chelski fan, and this other guy, who was a colchester fan. now me and him had a lot of banter in that first year, because that was the 06/07 season where colchester and stoke were both unlucky to miss out on the playoffs on the last day of the season. however last year, on his facebook, there was a picture of him outside the emirates in an arsenal shirt... to which i replied "wtf your a colchester fan!", and he then said yeah but arsenal are my prem team! last week i noticed on facebook, he had joined a group called "I support my local team". which i promptly commented with "mate, aren't you an arsenal fan???" "I support Colchester as well mate! I have a season ticket there!" "Yeah but you can't support 2 teams at once! that would be like me following Stoke and Man United! it would be ridiculous" "You're not allowed to do that, they're in the same league." "What? a couple of years ago Colchester very nearly got in the prem!!!" "yeah but they didn't. and they got relegated the year after, so its never gonna happen again is it???" "Thats the point of supporting a team, you support them through thick and thin! You believe in the impossible! Why don't you stop 'supporting' arsenal??" "Can't do that. been following them since i was a little boy!" At this point i got so frustrated with him, i just left the conversation. i will point out he is a top bloke, but his logic confuses me. he lives in colchester, had a season ticket, had a shirt and everything. yet since they got relegated, this old love for arsenal has just re-appeared... anyone else heard a similar story??? No. |
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