The Biggest Club in the World AND NO SKIN

[bodie228]

I agree with you r1cky but i think that a lot of supporters do support where they came from i am from stoke and have been following them most my life but have mainly been a spurs fan as my family have been in the past and i think they are a great club. I think that most fans of teams in the top four such as Utd and Chelsea weren't fans when they weren't as good to say it politly and i think if you are from manchester and support united fair play to you but if you don't live close i just think your a glory hunter (not on about you jamie)

 

[Jake]

i just think celtic are HIGHLY over-rated, and would have a LOT less silverware had they been inducted into the EPL at some point, whereas chelsea have been constant contendars - and succeeding for many honours (admittedly not always the top ones) for at least a decade now in what i believe to be the top league in world football.

the man utd thing isnt anything personal, i just really really dislike them - mainly due to the fact their fanbase is absolutely worldwide - and 20 years ago it most certainly wasnt, which tells a story of its own. admittedly chelsea are now heading down the same path - ive seen 10x more chelsea shirts roaming around since the abramovic era... i just wonder where football club loyalty is heading these days, im a villa fan - i live about a mile from villa park, but youth's these days see big teams winning and pick them.. you should suppourt where you came from!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(nothing personal jamie, i know a lot of irish are utd, lpool fans also!)


jdm, i dont mean the huge successes such as the EPL and UCL... Chelsea have realistically always been a very good side. remember hasselbaink and gudjohnssen? zola? mark hughes?? - they were hardly average before abramovic came in.

they werent a 'predominant force' before roman though were they? and imo hasslebaink gudjonsen was the best strike force in the league at the time, then it was broken up in the clubs quest for superstars.

im posh through and thorugh, them being my nearest league club and having a failed spell at the academy (followed by a slightly better one at boston utd until gazza ****** it all up)

however i also wanted to support a premier league team. my dad took me to see my first football match when i was little, united lost to villa 3-1 (coca cola cup i think) so i decided to support them. i had no idea they would go on to become the corporate monster they are today, domianting the game both on and off the pitch....

 

[CJACKO11]

I agree with you r1cky but i think that a lot of supporters do support where they came from i am from stoke and have been following them most my life but have mainly been a spurs fan as my family have been in the past and i think they are a great club. I think that most fans of teams in the top four such as Utd and Chelsea weren't fans when they weren't as good to say it politly and i think if you are from manchester and support united fair play to you but if you don't live close i just think your a glory hunter (not on about you jamie)

thats not necciserly true i support chelsea and i live in portsmouth i have always supported chelsea and went to my first game when i was 7 and im now 21. financialy wise i find it hard to see chelsea much now days but i watch everygame on live stream on the net even the pre season games in the summer esepcially this year when we was in the states and kick offs were at 2 and 4 in the morinig. i eat breathe and sleep chelsea and it drives me family, friends and girlfreind mentel.

 

[Jake]

I agree with you r1cky but i think that a lot of supporters do support where they came from i am from stoke and have been following them most my life but have mainly been a spurs fan as my family have been in the past and i think they are a great club. I think that most fans of teams in the top four such as Utd and Chelsea weren't fans when they weren't as good to say it politly and i think if you are from manchester and support united fair play to you but if you don't live close i just think your a glory hunter (not on about you jamie)

i get the glory hunter jibe a lot.

i went to uni in manchester and spunked most of my loan on a season ticket for 4 years, so i can class myslef as a homegrown fan, sort of........

as stated befoer i chose to support them as they were on the brink of their first successes under fergie when i was a young boy, i didnt know they would go on to win anything and everything lol. if only posh could do the same.

incidentally will you be a glory hunter if spurs break the top four? lol

 

[r1cky]

thats not necciserly true i support chelsea and i live in portsmouth i have always supported chelsea and went to my first game when i was 7 and im now 21. financialy wise i find it hard to see chelsea much now days but i watch everygame on live stream on the net even the pre season games in the summer esepcially this year when we was in the states and kick offs were at 2 and 4 in the morinig. i eat breathe and sleep chelsea and it drives me family, friends and girlfreind mentel.

i dont think its aimed at everyone, as there are a lot of die hard travelling suppourters, but they do in heinsight get overshadowed by the amount of 'armchair' fans lying about nowadays!

 

[bodie228]

If you actually go to the games or watch them live then no i don't think your a glory hunter its just people who say there a man utd fan because they win everythin that annoys me tbh and no i don't think that i would be if spurs got in the top four as they would then be a team like liverpool who have had good history and there fans are mostly not glory hunters. anyway lads i'm off

 

[CJACKO11]

i dont think its aimed at everyone, as there are a lot of die hard travelling suppourters, but they do in heinsight get overshadowed by the amount of 'armchair' fans lying about nowadays!

yer im not denieying that but every team has them. whem pompey won the fa cup the town was swanned full of pompey fans but now they are in meltdown they just seem to dissapear. im a massive chelsea fan and i know of people that do support their team but can get to go and see them its not their fault dosent make them any less a supporter then the average person that can afford to go week in week out.

 

[Jake]

my favourites are the 'holiday fans' they are at old trafford all the time. people from other countries, usually scandinavian or asian, swanning around wearing and using every piece of merchandise the club makes, probably right down to red devils boxer shorts.... its no doubt the one and only match of the season, maybe even their life, that they will attend.

it will happen at chelsea soon too, if its not already.....

 

[CJACKO11]

my favourites are the 'holiday fans' they are at old trafford all the time. people from other countries, usually scandinavian or asian, swanning around wearing and using every piece of merchandise the club makes, probably right down to red devils boxer shorts.... its no doubt the one and only match of the season, maybe even their life, that they will attend.

it will happen at chelsea soon too, if its not already.....

yer you seem to get alot of portugese and africans at the bridge. iv seem a few asians also but i feel they like utd because of park.

 

[Deleted member 79730]

I agree with you r1cky but i think that a lot of supporters do support where they came from i am from stoke and have been following them most my life but have mainly been a spurs fan as my family have been in the past and i think they are a great club. I think that most fans of teams in the top four such as Utd and Chelsea weren't fans when they weren't as good to say it politly and i think if you are from manchester and support united fair play to you but if you don't live close i just think your a glory hunter (not on about you jamie)

hit the nail on the head, exactly what i think mate

 

[Jake]

yer you seem to get alot of portugese and africans at the bridge. iv seem a few asians also but i feel they like utd because of park.

yeah he was signed purely for financial reasons lol, i quite rate him as a workhorse type player for doing the dirty work, but hes not a really a particularly impressive player on the ball.

we also had a young chinese striker callled dong fangzhou who fergie labelled 'the chinese rooney' in a press conference. he was rubbish, playing a handful of friendlies and not doing very much, he then went on loan in belguim and then got released a couple of seasons later. i heard we sold something like 700,000 shirts with 'dong' on the back in china though.