I hope Norwich do well, just not as good as us. I want us both to be the the premier league, holding our own. Us league winners, them top 10 would be great, although never going to happen. I cant understand why anybody actually hates their rivals, as in actually hates them. Your mainly rivals through locality and then a load of banter and the odd obnoxious bastard who ruin it for the vast majority of fans. Its strange how some want their biggest rivals to disappear for ever (ie go out of business) but surely it would leave a massive hole, and after the initial gloating period where would the added fun be. A derby day win has to be one of the highlights of the season and long may they continue. In addition, I want us both to perform at the highest level to try and dispel the 'backward yocal' image the region has. Does anybody else cringe when a local is interviewed on national TV?
Tractorbhoy I agree with most of what you have said apart from the last part. I am proud of the region I come from and I laugh at the way we are portrayed in the national media. The whole tractorboy thing came as a self mocking tribute to how we are generally perceived. As a region we certainly aren't backward when we have the one of the world's finest universities located in our region and a quality of life that most other parts of the UK can only dream about!
JWM, I love where I come from and it would take something very special for me to consider moving. I also like the fact that we took the Millwall mocking of tractor boys and turned it into a positive aspect. I have nothing against our rural qualities and heritage, its just everybody that appears on national tv from this area comes across as worzel gummage' backward twin!
Exactly right Tractorboy but lets celebrate our heritage and not feel embarrassed by it! People from the South West speak roughly the same way and they revel in there heritage. I would rather speak in a Suffolk tongue then trying to speak with that horrible Essex or mockney accent! An interesting fact is that the modern day Australian accent derives from the early British settlers who came from Suffolk!
And that is why the majority of americans I meet ask if I'm australian. I tell them that I am an original australian, and that their dialect is derived from my own for just the reason you said. But wasn't australia originally a destination that we sent criminals to, like a penal colony, or am I wrong on that?
Absolutely right or roight as the case may be! I love the Suffolk accent and although I have lost mine over time I still love listern to it when I am back in the mother county! My wife often complains when I am speaking to friends I have in Suffolk because I tend to lapse back into it!
