I've got no time for Premiership Armchair "fans". Why dont' you all support your local teams? A REAL team? Bet you've probably never been to more than one or two games a season. On a happier note, my Season ticket arrived yesterday - C'mon you Rs!!!! No. no. no. no and no! American Football is nothing LIKE Rugby! Imagine a game of rugby where you can hoof the ball all the way down the pitch to someone who's already over the try line who just has to drop the ball to score. Ludicrous - how do you defend against that? Well, in American Football you defend against it by tackling everyone left right and centre regardless of whether they, or even anyone on their team is in posession. To compare American Football with Rugby is just scandalous, and I'm not having any of it!
I hate sport in general ... especialy football . A huge story as been in the news for a while here (in England) sven goran erikson and and another person had an affair (but neither are married ???) with a FA http://www.thefa.com/ secetary. This has ROCKED the game to its foundations ... it the worst thing that has ever happened erm ever http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1264&storyid=1690914 what a joke... anyway...just learn more than is needed for the game you are watching .. be more of a fan than them .. it realy winds football fans up. Then just not be bothered when it finishes. It sound bizare and probably is , but it works for me.
Actually.. I'm not just an armchair fan.. I support bournemouth and goto many many matches!! I just happen to support liverpool too!!
Listen mate, Sven and what goes on with the England team along with all the Chelski transfer talk, rumours of Vieira to Madrid and speculation as to whether Leeds can bounce back are just the tip of the iceberg - that's just the stuff that you don't need to be a football fan to know about since the media with their ridiculous bias in favour of the premiership, and more often than not, just the top 3clubs (the ones with all the money), which incidentally doesn't even include the formerly mighty Liverpool these days, hands it all out to people - forces it down everyone's throat so people hear about it whether they're into football or not. If you want to know something about what football's really about, then take the trouble to see all the fans of the lesser known teams like Reading, Plymouth, Hartlepool, QPR, Bristol City, Doncaster - all teams who have done well recently in their respective divisions, good honest sides who do it all without whinging about their problems like Arsenal and Man United do. The heart of football in England is with the football league where there's no glitzy glossy glamourous marketing, but just good honest football fans who turn week in week out to support their team. Forget England - all the Pantomime season fans who only came out of the woodwork because they thought England might win something will now go back to parading around town in their man united/arsenal/chelsea/liverpool/newcastle/real madrid/barcelona/juventus etc. shirts somehow believeing that the success of thethat team with which they have no connection will reflect on them and probably not even turn up in the pubs to watch their teams, never mind go to the games - as Euro 2004 is over and, for most it probably ended after that penalty shootout with everyone's sudden 'interest' in football dying with England's chaces of winning the thing. Forget the Premiership title, forget Sven, if you want to appear to know lots about football, do some research into the footabll league - all three divisions of it - there is so much more going on than people think. If you do that, then you'll know what a real football fan knows, and you'll know much much more than all the football fans whom you've come to hate. Those fans who've been irritating you are probably the sort who only came out of the woodwork in the summer, who probably have slipped back into it now- unless they're raving on about how "their" team is going to perform in the Champions League this season. They're the ones who go abroad with England and cause all the trouble. They're not the real fans - the real fans go to watch their team week in week out, and care much more about their club- which actually has English players playing for them - than some noncy pansy international prima donna event. Incidentally, when it comes to International football I follow my Irish side as it's my dad's side and he got me into football, so England I suppose are my second team.
You can't accuse me of being an armchair football fan Can't stand it And even if I did like it there still isn't a local football team to support Nearest is Leicester City....or Shepshed Dynamo
probably me.. I was being a bit sarcastic I did not want to appear like a pompouse ass (even if i did a good job of it). I understand you completly...if the game was (for that matter any sport) was as you say and not the way it is , i would probably like it a lot more. It's not that way unfortunatly . The whole superficiality that i get fed winds me up... The type of world your talking about is completly overshadowed by the greedy world of the sport that gets all the press. Accrington Stanley ...WHO... exactly It might be a bit lazy of me not to make some kind of effort ... i live in Leicester ... the team was 'thrown into chaos' by their little trip abroad a while back.. everyone was talking about it ....it was sorted out the players were cleared. DId any of that matter NO , our team has been plagued by it since.. Their is too much crap and not enough simple football ...cuz thats dull i suppose.
Why don't i support a local team? well i never lived anyway with a local team until i moved into aberdeen two years ago, and now i have moved again. And seeing as i have supported liverpool since i was four it was out of the question to stop supporting them just because i lived near Aberdeen. I have only ever been to 5 liverpool games in my life, mainly due to the fact its fucking expensive for a ticket, let alone the cost of actually travelling to a game in a different country. Just because i'm not lucky enough to see them every weekend doesn't make me a wannabe fan, i bet hands down i know as much about liverpool as any season ticket holder at anfield. I've got no time for idiots who think you have to fork out money to be a fan.
Hang on a minute. You moved away from liverpool, but when you were living In liverpool you didn't bother to go much then either? And believe me back in the good old days even a top club like liverpool did not cost a fortune. It's only been in the last 6-7 years that all the money's been coming in, following all the media hype and stupid amounts of TV money. And I'll have you know I do not fork out shedloads to see my team, even though I have to make a journey of 1-2 hours each way to see home games. I got a good value student rate on my season ticket and with a rail card even the train fare isn't too much really. Oh and for the person who lives near Leicester - what's wrong with Derby County, Chesterfield, Mansfield, Nottingham Forest, Notts County, and all the rest of it? Are they not good enough for you? Really some of you don't know you're born!
i never lived in liverpool, my grandad did for a period. He bought me my first football top when i was four, it happened to be a liverpool shirt, and i have supported them ever since. Even if i did live in liverpool at that age, how much money does a 4 year old make a year. I dunno about you, but i had about 50p a week pocket money. Now, it would cost me over £60 return on the train, having to travel to and from liverpool on the same day. Then on top of that i have the ticket price, plus food etc... Its simply not possible. I really wish i could see them more regulary, but i can't. I'm sorry if you still don't consider me a "real" fan, but thats just the way it is.
Well the least your grandad could do, if not your dad, would be to take you to see matches when you were young - is that not the duty of every father to take his son to see the footy on a saturday afternoon? It doesn't matter though. If you're happy just to wear the shirt, then fine. but if you don't go and Support your team in a very literal sense - think about what the word support actually means - encourage, urge on, help, etc. - which I'm afraid is impossible from in front of a telly or pub screen - then you can't call yourself a supporter. It just doesn't make sense to then go onto say "we've won this, we've done that", "we'll kick your arses" etc, when you weren't there, and you weren't part of it, and you won't be there and you won't be part of it.
Pardon my rudeness.. but I think your over doing it a bit!! Just chill.. let people support football in the way they want!!
well either they support it or they don't. And as for supporting football the way people want - you should see the three blokes who sit in front of me in the Lower Loft every game - bloody moaners - they don't actually shout abuse at the team, far worse than that - you have to be passionate to do that - they just sit their quietly making sarcastic comments - and then they boo at half time - I get really annoyed with them. I asked them once why they bother coming - they say "because we've paid our money and we wanna boo!". They don't even cheer when the team scores - they just stand up so as not to look out of place. I suppose it's supporting in a way, but if you let people like that support in THAT way just because they want to then really you're not helping anyone.
Being that you are female, hating football is OK. If you were a guy, I would call you chronically GAY!
Interestingly - one of my best friends is both a girl and gay and she's not into football - but she IS into rugby!
