Rant from QPR fan

[bigbobjoylove]

I hate it when you tell someone you support Swindon they ask "So who is your Premiership team"

[Arriba]

an enjoyable read but alot of it wouldn't be said if qpr were in the prem.

[china red]

I hate it when you tell someone you support Swindon they ask "So who is your Premiership team"

I disagree, when someone says this to me I immediately know that this person knows very little about football, has probably never been inside a football ground and definitely doesn't live in the city/town of the team of he/she supports. 

So then you can tell them to fuck off.

[Rich Pullen]

I hate it when you tell someone you support Swindon they ask "So who is your Premiership team"

I haven't been asked this in ages. All you need to do is listen to 6-0-6 to understand that both top flight fans and media know or care about the slums beneath them... Unless they signed a player on Football Manager.

[Langers]

I fucking hate glory hunters. These people who live hundreds of miles from where there team is, never go to matches, have no connection to team or area and supports them because there top of the premier League.

Fucking Twats. Shoot 'em all.

[Barry Scott]

Sofa supporters are stupid, they're not real supporters (much like Franchise or Reading), they have no idea who's good, who's a hard worker, who were the louder fans, they get their opinions from the papers or listen to the pundits. They also don't know what it feels like to see your own net bulge, or feel the tension when hanging onto a 1 goal lead. Telly supporters have no idea of the emotional pain we go through.

A friend of mine frequents various prem games, and explains that some players are just amazing in the flesh, far more than you can ever appreciate watching telly and these sofa fans just have no idea.

[richt1976]

(much like Franchise or Reading)

Not sure I get the point about 'Franchise' there, surely with them its a case of before they didnt have a local team to support in the flesh, but now they do. Isnt that a good thing a it means they are no longer supporting a prem team from a distance? You cant really blame them for how their local team came about!

I fully expect to get shouted down on that point, but I dont see the problem with them. I used to, but I then thought about it and got over it.

Reading is a completely different matter though....

[DV]

Sofa supporters are stupid, they're not real supporters (much like Franchise or Reading), they have no idea who's good, who's a hard worker, who were the louder fans, they get their opinions from the papers or listen to the pundits. They also don't know what it feels like to see your own net bulge, or feel the tension when hanging onto a 1 goal lead. Telly supporters have no idea of the emotional pain we go through.

A friend of mine frequents various prem games, and explains that some players are just amazing in the flesh, far more than you can ever appreciate watching telly and these sofa fans just have no idea.

You are right.

However the worst are the type that come back with

Manchester United/Chelsea/Arsenal/Liverpool/Spurs are in my blood, my uncle/dad/gramp/long lost second cousin supported them and used to go to Old Trafford/Stamford Bridge/Highbury/Anfield/White Hart Lane 4 times a season. I went once when I was 3 and I've been a supporter ever since. I buy the home and away shirt.

Dont get on your high horse. Just because you happen to live local and can get to your teams games doesnt make you a better fan than me. Swindon are well shit so getting tickets isnt difficult. Have you ever tried to get tickets for Manchester United/Chelsea/Arsenal/Liverpool/Spurs. I'm part of the bronze super dulex armchair fan members club. I apply every game but the tickets never get as far as me.

FUCK OFF!

[Barry Scott]

You are right.

However the worst are the type that come back with

Manchester United/Chelsea/Arsenal/Liverpool/Spurs are in my blood, my uncle/dad/gramp/long lost second cousin supported them and used to go to Old Trafford/Stamford Bridge/Highbury/Anfield/White Hart Lane 4 times a season. I went once when I was 3 and I've been a supporter ever since. I buy the home and away shirt.

It's like the old "I supported us when we were in Wimbledon" line that Franchise fans come out with. But of course you did Mr. Plastic. 

It is amusing how many Manure fans roll off a load of spiel about family ties and shit. They normally mention a few players from generations ago just to make it seem like they're not lying, or have proof of their rite.

[Batch]

To be honest I have a fair few friends that I go to football with that have a 'Prem team'. I'm ashamed to say my own son has a Man U duvet - thanks grandma.

I forgive them for it. They fully admit their Prem team is in reality just a TV team. And we've all stood together cheering our heads off at places like Aldershot after winning a JPT game on pens.

[iffy]

Sofa supporters are stupid, they're not real supporters (much like Franchise or Reading), they have no idea who's good, who's a hard worker, who were the louder fans, they get their opinions from the papers or listen to the pundits. They also don't know what it feels like to see your own net bulge, or feel the tension when hanging onto a 1 goal lead. Telly supporters have no idea of the emotional pain we go through.

A friend of mine frequents various prem games, and explains that some players are just amazing in the flesh, far more than you can ever appreciate watching telly and these sofa fans just have no idea.

Most of this thread can be summed up in two words....

Tim Lovejoy.

[Rich Pullen]

My old flatmate is a Liverpool fan. I sorted out tickets last season so he could watch them for the first time (he was 25). It wasn't a great game 1-0 win for them at Sunderland, Torres scored a decent goal.

I'd have been content with that but he moaned all the way home. I decided I wouldn't go out of my way to get tickets the next time they were in the region....

Newcastle United 1-5 Liverpool - He didn't even consider getting tickets and gleefully followed it with Jeff Stelling and Co.

[Saxondale]

Ive got back in contact recently with 2 old friends via facebook and found they are now man u supporters.  15 years ago they had absolutely no bloody interest in football whatsoever and found my interest in it very strange.  One of them I was in a band with and we played a pub in chippenham the night of the semi final of the wc 90.  He had so little interest in the football that he thought it was all very funny and we went on stage after the footy had finished with him saying 'guten haben englander scum!'  Thats how much idea he had about football and how people can get passionate about it.

We would have been lyched had there been more than 7 people there.

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

I haven't posted in I don't know how long (I just haven't had anything to say - 'when did you ever?' I hear you say)

But I have to say, that is a work of genius.






FACT!

[DV]

I'm very surprised you didnt pop up in the Simpsons thread

FACT!