Comments on: Why it’s important to support your local team

By: Darren

Darren — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:14:24 +0000

to be fair Chelsea have always had great support, they are well known for taking the most fans to away games, even before the Abramavich revolution this has always been the case

ps only one plastic Danny!

By: Martin Tibbetts

Martin Tibbetts — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:01:49 +0000

No problem at all with people who have supported a team all their lives, but I do hate it when kids support the big 4 from birth now. I spent today in Tonbridge, lovely day out. I saw about 8 kids in Chelsea shirts, 2 in Liverpool and 2 in Arsenal. Not another shirt to be seen, no Palace, Gills, Millwall, Hammers or Charlton to be seen.

Now I know that Chelsea fans are prone to wearing their colours more than any other, and also for supporting environmentally unfriendly CFC tattoos on any visible part of their body, so they do stand out from the crowd, but it does seem to me that of late everyone in Kent is a Chelsea fan. Which is ridiculous when there are several London clubs nearer to the county than the odious Stamford set. Can someone tell me if this has always been the case, or if the population of blue shirts and tattoos sprung up around the time the rubles arrived – I suspect the latter…..

By: Danny Brothers

Danny Brothers — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:24:02 +0000

I saw around 9,000 in the home end…absolute awful, the whole operation at MK is a sell out. I was willing to give it a chance but the place has absolutely no soul at all. I’m not bitter about our defeat, we deserved to lose, but MK Dons are a crime to football.

By: Darren

Darren — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:13:56 +0000

I’ll have a guess and say I’ll see 5 out of 30, so thats a 6th, what’s your ratio?

By: Danny Brothers

Danny Brothers — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:56:57 +0000

I’m wondering which one of us will see more plastic tits tomorrow….

By: Darren

Darren — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:35:14 +0000

nice one, they should be really be my local team (Wimbeldon). You could say they are most souless team in England!

Well good luck, I’m doing a 30 girl photoshoot for our new comps tomorrow, so I’m missing the Arsenal game, still, some things are worth missing for an opportunity like this one!

By: Danny Brothers

Danny Brothers — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:22:27 +0000

I do indeed…we have a fake “local derby” against the plastic population from Milton Keynes over at their place…they’ll never be our rivals as hard as they try but I’d still love it…love it…if we beat them!

By: Darren

Darren — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:15:16 +0000

what makes me laugh is when ever SKY Sports interview United fans they always have a cockney or Irish accent, funny that!

Who have the Gobblers got tomorrow? I take it u go to away games aswell?

By: Danny Brothers

Danny Brothers — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:11:08 +0000

I do feel sorry for United fans who are genuine and the support they get away from home is fantastic…you know the guys who get away tickets are people who have been there for years and it’s not fair for them to be branded “glory hunters”.

Incredibly, when Northampton played United in Round Four of the F.A. Cup a few years back, some locals thought up the “cunning” plan of buying half season tickets for the rest of the Cobblers’ League Two campaign…this guaranteed them a seat for the United game and they went on to throw the rest of the season ticket away! Thus depriving so many Town fans of seeing us play Manchester United for the first time since Best hit us for six.

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:54:25 +0000

Forest Fan from Nottingham. Always have been, always will be. I’d rather someone supported our biggest local rivals and be from that City than (like a friend of mine) support Liverpool and come from Gloucester!!??!? Fed up of having recent success thrown in my face by people that have never even visited the ground of the team (business) that they ‘support’. I have started a group on facebook called ‘support your local football team’. have a look if your interested.

By: Dan Church

Dan Church — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:35:37 +0000

Im a Man Utd fan myself, but before anyone cries “glory hunter” ive been a fan since i was 7, 25 years now, back in 1983 before i even knew the football league existed, i, by chance, came across a page on ceefax with the scores one Saturday afternoon and saw this team had won 6-0 or something, of course not knowing the games were every saturday, i kept checking the same page every single day to see if they could win by the same scoreline until the following Saturday, some new scores came up and i think they had lost, and thus, my love of the reds has grown. Although i was a fan back then, i dont remember the victory over Brighton in the ’84 cup final, my earliest memory was of Norman Whiteside smashing in that late goal to beat Everton, but then that was all we won until 1990 when we beat Palace in the final.

My local big team is Charlton and i keep an eye out for their scores, as i do for Dartford, Welling and Ebbsfleet, but the affection and love is nowhere near what it is for the United. I still shed a tear every time i see Ole’s goal against Bayern Munich……

By: Danny Brothers

Danny Brothers — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:39:17 +0000

My Dad being my Dad he wouldn’t have had anything else but for me to be a Northampton fan, wherever we lived/grew up. It turned out he stayed in Northampton and I’ve been a Cobbler from the youngest age possible. I fell in love with the lower leagues and have no idea if I could cope with being in the Premier League, as great as it would be!

I’ve been in Southampton for uni and afterwards for five years now and don’t stop travelling the length and bredth of the country to such glamorous places as Rochdale, Carlisle and Darlington…I wouldn’t swap it for the world!