They’ll also sit back more and not try and attack us so hard. Which is where we’ve traditionally struggled.
I am staggered that anyone can produce a list of teams they dislike and not include Arsenal. There is something about their fans and the belief that they should always be beating teams like Southampton that irritates me. They were unsufferable when Wenger was in charge. It was not helped by that bloke on Arsenal TV who looked like Howard from the Halifax advert who always seemed to have hos post match rants posted in the matchday thread when we beat them. I also used to get annoyed whenever I went to France and found that fans there would prefer to support Arsenal who they could only see on TV as opposed to their local club. For me , Arsenal have the ultimate "plastic supporters." It is always great to beat the top teams but beating Arsenal has a bigger annoyance quotient in my imagination if you value the results in line with how it annoys the other team's supporters. I obviously like it when Liverpool or Man Utd get beaten as well as finding Spurs to be Prima Donnas whose fans always seem to need pulling down a peg. But with regard to the middling type teams in the Prem, I do not really have much resentment until they do something wrong like Newcastle's playin fast and loose with the rules to get games cancelled. I seem to remember Blackburn doing something similar around 1995 and everyone disliking them for a similar reason.
The “dislike list” is an interesting, dynamic & fluid selection. My stayers are Liverpool & WHU for very strong historical & family reasons; annoying twatty clubs being Everton, Spuds & this years newcomers being NU, Villa & Chelsea, who I’ve always liked but have “gained promotion” purely because of their fans self entitlement regarding Broja.
I’d be intrigued what you specifically mean by entitlement over Broja. Since he is a Chelsea player From my perspective it is when a bunch of Chelsea wide-boys on Twitter start saying “100m or no deal m8” or “he has a 5 year contract”. As if they have never sold anyone before Had a particularly frustrating exchange with a guy who thought he was all that - he was from f’n Cornwall. So a full on glory Hunter giving me pelters because I didn’t know Chelsea fans are too lazy to write “Hudson-Odoi” and call him CHO. When this guy spelled it “Cho” I legit thought they had been linked with that French youngster and started getting a bunch of drooling morons giving me stick for not knowing their stupid Chelsea pet names. Consider this was in reply to a Fab Romano tweet about Broja not a Chelsea specific one But I guess all clubs have their absolute morons of fans. The bigger ones just have more (by definition) but also seemingly a higher proportion as well.
Entitlement might be wrong terminology but demanding he be returned in the Jan window & statements such as, he’d never sign for you.
Yet Arsenal seem to.attract a far bigger number of fans of many different ethnicities, whereas as Chelsea's seems much more límited based on fans in the stadia.
LincolnSaint's wall of shame/League of hate 1. Whoever Brendan Rogers manages. I'll never forget his comments about us when Liverpool manager. I hope he fails everywhere he goes 2. Liverpool- I hate what their club has done to ours, I hate their constant ****ing whinging, and scousers in general are pretty unlikeable 3. Newcastle. Straight into the champions league spots for this season, with their blatant cheating and their fans for celebrating it 4. West ham, because we helped pay for their stadium. The rest I don't really care about
The thing is Ian, liking/disliking teams is for the most part irrational. We all know that even the teams we dislike have good and bad amongst their following and it can be something relatively trivial that sets it off. As an example, in 2004/5 we went to the opening game at Villa. We were awful and lost 2-0, during the game Niemi and Prutton had a bust up right in front of us with Niemi pushing Prutton in the face. For the first game of the season that was bad enough but then the Villa fans started to take the piss out of us (quite understandably). We were close enough to see their stupid bloated midlands faces having a whale of a time. Since then I have always been delighted to see them suffer. My wife has just pointed out it was "a long time to hold a grudge". I took that as a complement as it takes real commitment to keep it going for over 15yrs.
Something along the lines of... Southampton didn't have to sell their players to us.. Knowing full well the players themselves wanted to leave and it was blatantly obvious. The saving grace was the recruitment that proceeded that, that made me care.
As quoted by The Mirror: “I have absolutely no sympathy for Southampton.” “They have a choice as a club. They don’t have to sell. They had that choice. “Maybe Southampton’s objectives have changed. They were on course to be a Champions League club, I believe, but, obviously, that has changed.”
Pompey MK Dons Spurs Others come and go but they're the 3 I'll always have a dislike for. Probs the 'istoree clubs next.
Dirty Leeds and Arsenal when I was a nipper, then beating Liverpool and later Fergie's Manure was always sweet. I liked Spuds when I was at school mainly because of Martin Peters but since Glenda and Deano left for them and a few others since I can't stand them, Scousers for the same reason. Skates go without saying.
Really dislike Spurs, predominantly as most of their fans I met were twats. They also have the ‘entitled’ air about them. Man U for their tiresome international appeal. Liverpool for their tiresome media mafia, though Klopp has done a great job! Newcastle for obvious reasons now.
Talk about being staggeringly ignorant . We had absolutely no choice apart from maybe with Lambert but that would have been so harsh on him I hope his side gets plundered this summer but Leicester someone manage to keep it down to one (“unwanted”) sale a year. It is why I have no sympathy with their injury crisis in defence. He is lucky he is able to be at a club that just keeps signing new players when they get injuries. Regardless of how effective those players are. They have a 15m player has something like 8th choice CB now. Not many clubs can do that
At the time? It is the club’s stated policy now. I’m not sure it was back then. And certainly not selling so many in one go Weren’t the claims it was part of the policy and allowed us to go and bring in who we did as replacements all part of the retrospective reassessment? I really don’t recall us heading into that summer with the stated policy to sell off four first team players and one promising player who was an important squad player all in one summer. If there are quotes from June 2014 or before setting that out as our plan then I will stand corrected. But I don’t think they exist
Yeah the publicly stating of it came later but it seems clear to me that the club were more than happy to sell key players for the right price throughout that period. No one heads into a summer transfer window publicly stating that of course.
Yeah with hindsight it seems like that was always the plan during that time. No other team has ever sold that many important players in one window, usually just one.
