Fellow Yanks: How did you pick your favorite British football team?

some spurious reasoning going on here

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are the UK spurs as boring to watch as the NBA spurs?

― pplains, Thursday, May 31, 2012 1:12 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

emphatically not. it ties me up inside loving one spurs team so much while hating the other.

we are all united in our need to elucidate

would hate to leed you astray

don't worry, i have a whole aresenal of these

are the UK spurs as boring to watch as the NBA spurs?

They were for the second half of the season but not the first

unfortunately english spurs not nearly as succussful as their texas namesakes recently

as she'll see (chelsea is another premier league football team)

What three teams in England have a swear word in their name?

ARSEnal

sCUNThorpe

i'll stop, whenEVER TONs of you object

Manchester Fucking United

i might go full ham though

i'll just keep stoke-ing the fires

i have an as(s)-ton of these, mind

i see you pressed on

Oh, jon, it's like coals to Newcastle

Though it is kind of Wigan me out

emphatically not. it ties me up inside loving one spurs team so much while hating the other.

― mizzell,

ya but which

ah'll be on your side, Michael White

i'm not sure which are funny nor which are just terrible

*frantically writes all this down*

all of them are terrible

Truly dire

if you've got the fire in your liver, pool 'em all together

disgusted myself with that last one, tbh

no more bugle podcast for me til this is sorted out of my system

I'm fairly bristoling w/indignation here

i can hardly pool this nonsense

hmm, struck a meaty vien there. maybe ill just watch antiques road show on saturdays

Still fulhaminating

guys i dont se Leeds or Southampton on the the Premire League website, they have another name or are they a dif league?

southampton have just been promoted to premier lge. Leeds.....haven't.

Reading was promoted as well and they were once know as the BISCUITMEN

Reading are nicknamed The Royals, due to Reading's location in the Royal County of Berkshire, though they were previously known as The Biscuitmen

wow just read a brief history of Reading, talk about Bad New Bears. I think im leaning towards Southampton! Fresh start and all. Though i gotta say their website freaking sucks ass.

theirs (and reading's) is the generic one that almost all football league teams seem to have. maybe they'll update for the prem.

dsvoris, look up Le Tissier on youtube

guess not, didn't realize how premier league teams have the same one.
xp

Fresh start + two weeks in Dalston = West Ham United, I'm afraid

(you would've been closer to Arsenal, but where's the fun in that?)

West Ham have just been promoted. You'll get a much better sense of a real football fan's ups and downs that way. See if you can go watch them play Millwall on one of those soccer package tours.

The 'Green St' package iirc

dear Americans, Green Street is about as closely related to reality as those fucking hobbit movies

in fact on reflection the hobbits probably edge it

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01469/west-ham460_1469250c.jpg

they're lovely lads really

Hobbits def more badass

Never seen any ultras able to destroy the one Ring

https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTz2djhl_XEptpPf-4sbzwtktGm_EZdvF3sgJI1bV1BFcfv47V3DA

Tracer, you call that an excuse?

gosh! such a terribly difficult decision. I of course want Noodle to like me but i also relish batshit thrills. but then, seasons are long and ill need someone to root for in next years finals. And who doesn't like racism and porno? This is much harder than i thought it would be....I have more questions now than when i started!

oh and seriously, Southampton requiring that you PAY to look at the site is just fucking cunty

After WC 2006 it seemed like a lot more games were being shown in the 2006-2007 season, but mostly ones involving manu, chelsea, liverpool and arsenal. I watched 3-4 games a week that season and out of ALL the teams I saw, I just liked Liverpool that year a little more than the others.
I've asked pub regulars how they picked their team and it generally seems to be that they have a friend or relative who got them involved and they're following that person's team. One difference I've noticed between the USers and Brits at ye olde Seattle soccer pub is that the tradional dislike for rival teams doesn't seem to have as much weight with the US fans (sometimes to the consternation of their fellow supporters).

i am against arsenal for reasons mentioned elsewhere, but other than that i just don't see enough to really get a good sense.

(i thought the guy writing 'the reducer' column for espn/grantland was very good as a general weekly recap.)

i tend to end up rooting for the underdog in any particular game i suppose -- except i was totally for city in the finale just to screw man u, and how beautiful was that. i'm sure i'll be against them next year.

i'm sure i've mentioned this before, but like 15 years ago my cable package offered a free weekend of fox sports world and it featured a celtic-rangers game that was maybe the most fucking intense sporting event i've ever seen. pitch was for shit, fans were right on top of the sidelines and it was end-to-end insane. i'd like to see that again.

Millwall, Millwall, you're all really dreadful, and your girlfriends are unfulfilled and alienated...

2006-2007 season, but mostly ones involving manu, chelsea, liverpool and arsenal. I watched 3-4 games a week that season and out of ALL the teams I saw, I just liked Liverpool that year a little more than the others.

least likeable team of maybe all time imo

n/a otm

XP yep fair enough - I might be a bad person who's a poor judge of character

man that Villa entry from two years back is almost heartbreaking

Hold on, are those from the summer before Hodgson at Liverpool?!

(xps 'least likeable team of maybe all time' is an opinion possibly held by only one individual, and maybe Gary Neville)

voris you needn't worry about me liking you, Wolves won't be available on overseas tv for at least the next season *cough*

eh it's not only yours truly finally lost patience with rafa, lfc, RAWK et al that last year or so tbf

it's usually whoever has the best looking jerseys at the moment iirc.

Wolves won't be available on overseas tv for at least the next season

My local Irish sports pub has gol TV and they show at least one Championship game per weekend.

I was watching the World Cup 2006 and started hankering after a player named Steven Gerrard who played for Liverpool. I researched Liverpool and everything I read about them seemed to be a good fit for me (Catholic, Northern, players who grew up in Liverpool). It ultimately took more dedication than I could spare for me to follow the team with anything but a passing fancy.

players who grew up in Liverpool supporting Everton

Not that it really matters (unlike in Glasgow), but I think Everton were seen as the catholic team, not Liverpool.

If you Google "everton catholic" you'll get a long explanations which basically amounts to "everton and liverpool are neither protestant or catholic".

Allegiances famously cut across most families aiui - shoehorning the clubs into religious boxes looks like an attempt to impose a Glasgow-type narrative where it isn't warranted. Anyway, I've as often heard it said that it's the other way round.

yeah my ex is Everton and her brother is Liverpool, Catholic family, don't think there is a plausible sectarian narrative to attach to those clubs in a city that feels majority Catholic

and their dad is kinda "come on clubs from Liverpool" tho he leans red i guess

That's true too, in ye olden days it was common to just go along to whichever club was at home that Saturday.