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I'm sure we all smiled to see City & Reading relegated, and probably would if Rovers had gone the same way.

We would all piss ourselves if Oxford suffered the same fate.

Brentford is surely just because they happened to be who we played, we would probably have taken the piss out of them had we have won.

The Pikeys has for the most part been a one way thing for years now. In the late 70's & early 80's just after the punch up at the CG we were a bit bothered, but most of us have moved on, unfortunately they don't seem able to. 

I guess it's because they don't have anyone else to have a rivalry with, which probably explains Aldershot as well.

you make some good points and having been at the Aldershot game in the 80's as well as various Gillingham & local derbys against both bristols and oxford etc I can understand the hatred at those times as we would have been just as hostile but that was then when football was a scary place to go too and surely 25 - 30 years later time has moved on or has it been passed down from the dads to the sons

Back in the day you could make enemies by fighting and chucking bottles/bricks about etc. Now it's all about trolling on Twitter and on the Adver/Oxford Mail etc.  ::)

surely 25 - 30 years later time has moved on or has it been passed down from the dads to the sons

Sometimes in the TE it seems like we are back in the 90s  :headhurts:
Singing about Joey Beauchamp ffs - most of em werent born when he struggled here

More recently teams dislike us because of PDC and everything that came with him which made us an easy target. Then you have the press branding us cheats and shit radio progs like Jeremy Vine saying we were atrocious for letting Mcormick train with us. That and we had a good budget for a couple of years which attracts some grief.

Teams that hate us like Aldershot, Gillingham, Bournemouth and Tranmere make me laugh. Really? They must be desperate for a rivalry as I can't say any of them register on my radar as rivals. I actually find it quite funny.

For me our rivals are, in order of importance, Oxford, Bristol shitty, brovers and at a push Reading.

Other teams that attribute rivalries or dislike on us just make me chuckle.

I see on a Bristol city site they cant wait to play us and reckn they will bring 3500 here easily. How the mighty big city club have fallen

dont forget he also got homesick when he signed for west ham and didnt stay there very long as the 50 miles was too far away from mummy

Never understand why we continually sing about the pox no matter who we are playing  :badmood:

Because they are the bile of football and we of a certain age hate them.

Because they are the bile of football and we of a certain age hate them.

I read a quote fro a bristol city fan who went to thehome play off match against Brentford and hereckons that the first five songs that were sung were all anti Bristol songs so he was happy that we will be playing themnext season

True, I do hate City too. So its not all bad next year, we will beat them and be crowned best in the west.

according to them swindle as they call us are a mickey mouse club and the town is a shithole

Yes, but the Slave Traders have dillusions of grandeur where they think they are big enough to sustain a Premier League challenge. Thankfully the natural order has been restored.

Because the TEF is a much better website than anyone else has.

Seriously, using this is an ergonomic dream compared to some of the sites other forums use.

I'm sure we all smiled to see City & Reading relegated, and probably would if Rovers had gone the same way.

We would all piss ourselves if Oxford suffered the same fate.

Brentford is surely just because they happened to be who we played, we would probably have taken the piss out of them had we have won.

The Pikeys has for the most part been a one way thing for years now. In the late 70's & early 80's just after the punch up at the CG we were a bit bothered, but most of us have moved on, unfortunately they don't seem able to. 

I guess it's because they don't have anyone else to have a rivalry with, which probably explains Aldershot as well.

We don't.

All fans think loads of others hate their team.

It's like a weird superiority complex.

Who are Aldershot?

Yeovil don't really like us either.

True, I do hate City too. So its not all bad next year, we will beat them and be crowned best in the west.

Umm, Best in the West..... Lets just hope Brentford beat Yeovil at Wemberley then !!!!

Because we spent money and had a reasonable level of success. The hatred spews from jealousy. Anyone remember the shit Notts County got a few years ago when they spent a bit??

Exactly, we were successful and high profile for a season or so, it will all calm down again.

Interestingly (no really) in the WSC Season review at the start of this season I expected all the D4 teams from last year to state they hated us for all the press Paolo's antics got etc last year and we were genrally respected.

Brighton, Tranmere, Bournemouth, Cheltenham....

We are disliked by quite a few clubs, definitely noticed that at uni when wearing my town shirt.

I got the same grief at secondary school, being the only Swindon fan there.

Fuck all of them.

As for Oxford (Headington United) and Yeovil, they were not even on the radar being non-league.

We joined the football league in 1963. Essentially nothing happened in the world before the 1960's, and Yeovil joined the league in 2003, so that's not a fair grouping.

We joined the football league in 2010. Essentially nothing happened in the world before the 1960's, and Yeovil joined the league in 2003, so that's not a fair grouping.