lets hope marcus evans continues to be '****ing mental' when he ditches jewell for warnock, bruce, or my personal favourite, dowie!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/16611879.stm Looks like they might have a final chance to get some money in before they go under.
Big London overspill so there has always been a lot of Spurs and Arsenal fans about, complete with plastic put on mockney accents which sounds very midlands when out of ear shot from other people. I think a lot of it is down to having lazy armchair fans as fathers. I absolutely terrorise people who I know have no links to the team they support, I make their life a misery embarrass them at any odds at the mention of football. Some great excuses I supported Arsenal when I first came to the UK as a kid or well I support my Dads team up Scotland so I can choose whichever English team I like, even though the house is a Liverpool shrine and there is not a trace of the Scottish team bar a dvd and an ancient shirt.
We. We. We. Us. Us. Us. I get that all the time down in Cornwall. We beat ManC in the cup. Suarez scored for Us. We're favourites for the 2nd leg. I'm a supporter I get told. No you're not I reply. Support is financial. Go to a match. Buy the shirt. Become a member! If not you only follow Chelski or Manchester United Nations. And Norwich supporters don't follow, they lead!
Cringe, my mate who is the Liverpool fan many years ago had a book on Alex Ferguson and lots of various paraphernalia you'd expect the a Man Utd fan to have, including some plastic model of Teddy Sherringham you got free with cereals . We know someone who went to the Champions League Final in Istanbul, one drunken night out whilst waiting at the taxi rank my Manc loving mate starts singing along with them to a Liverpool song based on that night in Istanbul! Shocked to say the least over the space of the months he started developing the 'we' and 'us' at the mere mention of the Scousers, endless ripping his suddenly forgot anything of his United past the books Teddy everything has vanished. The mere mention of his Manc days usually winds him up, swears blind he has always been a Merseyside Red through and through if he see's anyone laughing who he knows has no link to their team he'll turn any heat his getting onto them and accuses them of being a Gloryhunter!
As Frank Skinner put in his biography. I didn't have any choice in supporting WBA. It was my home town club and in those days that was what you did. Alternatives didn't exist. And why would they. Its like I said to my missus. We had a little grandson born just before Xmas and as soon as I clapped eyes on him, I loved him. Why? I don't know why, its something in my head and my heart. And its just the same as City. I was born there and it never occured to me that you would do anything other than support City. Its in my head and my heart. I haven't lived in Norwich since 1974 (thats before proper football and music was invented you youngsters) but those feelings haven't deserted me yet. I don't follow, support or cheer for any other club. I come on this site every tea break, every lunch break and evenings because I want to talk, metaphorically, and think about City. Good luck to genuine people who support Manu, Chelsea etc because I expect a good many of them feel the same way about their club as I do.
redruth, i feel sorry for real fans of big clubs. i know a proper, diehard chelsea fan. been a fan since the mid 70s, brought up with a view of the shed end etc etc. he refuses to go nowadays simply because of all the glory hunters. he hates his club now and what it has become and the fact he can't enjoy their successes as he wishes to. he now follows norwich by the way
Good on him (for choosing us) and I do feel sorry for the genuine fan who is squeezed out by posers, corporates and by association with the former, the cost of going to Chelsea.
