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[TheMaraudingDog]

Manchester is blue.

[LUX]

yep, and Guildford is red.

Here is a quote from the Republik of Mancunia site

However, it is often the retort people who support their local team, whether that be Grimsby, or Peterborough, or anywhere else, use to attack United fans. Of course they do. They’re bitter that they’ve stuck with their local side whilst their mate from down the road gets to enjoy the success Manchester United brings them.

[Schards#2]

I agree

[TheMaraudingDog]

yep, and Guildford is red.

Here is a quote from the Republik of Mancunia site

The City is yours
The City is yours
Twenty Thousand empty seats
Are you f*cking sure

[Jackson Corner]

How much were the tickets?

[RobRoyal]

I don't see what the Carling Cup has to do with anything, tbh.

If that's where you're going to feel superior, not so great.

[floyd__streete]

yep, and Guildford is red.

Here is a quote from the Republik of Mancunia site

However, it is often the retort people who support their local team, whether that be Grimsby, or Peterborough, or anywhere else, use to attack United fans. Of course they do. They’re bitter that they’ve stuck with their local side whilst their mate from down the road gets to enjoy the success Manchester United brings them.

What a load of nonsense. Seriously, what satisfaction is there to be gained in supporting a team from your armchair - or otherwise - who play hundreds of miles away from your home town (exiles excluded) if you have no link to that town? That just becomes bland franchising. It's not about the quality of football either - so I watch Reading's appaling brand of football week-in week-out, I can always sample the top drawer stuff on the telly so I am not missing out at all on watching good football.

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

yep, and Guildford is red.

Here is a quote from the Republik of Mancunia site

However, it is often the retort people who support their local team, whether that be Grimsby, or Peterborough, or anywhere else, use to attack United fans. Of course they do. They’re bitter that they’ve stuck with their local side whilst their mate from down the road gets to enjoy the success Manchester United brings them.

What a load of nonsense. Seriously, what satisfaction is there to be gained in supporting a team from your armchair - or otherwise - who play hundreds of miles away from your home town (exiles excluded) if you have no link to that town? That just becomes bland franchising. It's not about the quality of football either - so I watch Reading's appaling brand of football week-in week-out, I can always sample the top drawer stuff on the telly so I am not missing out at all on watching good football.

I don't know. To be honest I know many fans who support a club they grew up watching on tv, and they don't seem to care any less about their club than a lot of the Reading fans I know.

There are the irritating bandwagon jumpers who only seem to support their club if they notice trophies being handed out, but they are not the overwhelming majority they are usually portrayed to be.


Saying that, there is definitely something more satisfying about following your local club. I grew up not supporting Reading, only getting into the club when I was 16. For a year or two after leaving school I used to watch both clubs on alternate Saturdays. I found the "glamour" wore off fairly quickly, and the Reading games just seemed to mean more, even if the prizes being battled for were considerably less important.

[Svlad Cjelli]

There's a distinction to be made between those that support a big club from where they (or their family) grew up - and those who only do it because the club is big/glamorous.

[No Fixed Abode]

I agree

Facts are facts. A smidge over 25k at City last night. MASSIVE Club.

[floyd__streete]

It’s bad enough that I pay to watch Reading players paid – what – 3 grand a week to spaff the ball into touch off their shins, but I genuinely think I’d lose the head paying to watch the likes of Frank Lampard get paid a six figure salary every week to take p*ss-weak penalties as sloppily as he did last night and if I was watching on telly with any emotional stake in the game I’d put my foot through the screen in frustration at millionaires making such fundamentally bad plays (hate that Americanism, can't think of another phrase right now).

I like watching good quality football as a neutral (neutROFLaLOL – lets be honest, no-one watches any game as a neutral, I wanted United to dick Chelsea on Sunday but I got to LOL at Rooney as well as ToROFLROFLes, double the fun), but I’d hate to have to pay to watch it. Premier League football is absolutely soulless from a spectating point of view; expensive, all-seater stadia devoid of atmosphere. Sure I could watch it on telly or in the pub and follow a team who win trophies, but revelling in the glory of expensively assembled multi-millionaires…..that is an absolutely hollow life choice, surely?

[Yes, before anyone mentions it - I know that the Madj is absolutely soulless too, but somehow because our players don't get paid quite so f*cking much I can simply roll my eyes at them. Actually, that is a f*cking lie.....I ber8 them too. Anyway, it's all Jimmy Hill's fault. Chinny twat.]

[TheMaraudingDog]

But you're happy to pay to sit in the rocking Mad Stad?

hash tag mongdiv

[cmonurz]

I agree

Facts are facts. A smidge over 25k at City last night. MASSIVE Club.

From you? Really? How many was it? 8,800 or so?

[No Fixed Abode]

[floyd__streete]

But you're happy to pay to sit in the rocking Mad Stad?

hash tag mongdiv

Tbh, no. Hence why I spend every other Saturday afternoon arms folded, with a look on my face like George Michael licking vinegar off of Jo Brand. I am trying to wean myself off it; fewer away games might lead to floundering interest and consequential dip in attendance at home games. Like prescribing methodone to a heroin addict.

I think deep down you and your m8s at Old Trafford are a bit bored too aintcha? Hence why FCUM exist. Don't give me the whole Glazer thing - you love a good old campaign, staves away the boredom.

[No Fixed Abode]

Can't think of anything worse than supporting a lower division club these days (Championship downwards). You know if your team has a decent season with or without promotion - as soon as some bigger clubs come in for your better players, they're off. There is no loyalty in football these days, only at bigger clubs who pay higher wages, so they can keep their best players.

[AthleticoSpizz]

I've never understood why anybody over the age of 14 would want to support any team other than the Town's team they were born in, or the town's team where they had spent the majority of their lives in.

Let alone, spending so much time on a poor relations website

[No Fixed Abode]

I've never understood why anybody over the age of 14 would want to support any team other than the Town's team they were born in, or the town's team where they had spent the majority of their lives in.

Let alone, spending so much time on a poor relations website

Another rattLOLer.

[AthleticoSpizz]

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another SKY'r

[who are ya?]

I've never understood why anybody over the age of 14 would want to support any team other than the Town's team they were born in, or the town's team where they had spent the majority of their lives in.

Tbf I'm not going to spend my Saturdays under a tin roof, watching blokes I see out on the piss at the weekends try string together passes on a bobbly pitch for 6 quid or whatever it is. So I settled for the ROFLoyaLOLs