I have a lifelong (well since I was nearly 13) hatred of L**town football club, its ground, its supporters, the town and the general area of South Beds. The loathing comes from the very first match I attended in 1964 at the Kennel when John O'Rourke sat on Pat Jennings to allow them to score the winner and extinguish any hope we had of going up under the Bill McGarry regime, much to their fans' gloating. Despite my Dad's hatred of them (dating back to the 30's) up till then I had no feelings either way.
After many subsequent visits to the Kennel, almost all of which were attended by violence and threats of one sort or another, I am not about to turn hypocrite and start praising them. They are (and always have been) a vile club, with vile fans in a desperate dump of a town and I, for one, am waiting for the time when they overstretch themselves once again, go bust and vanish permanently from the scene.
I suspect I am not alone, in the way I feel, amongst Hornets fans, other League clubs' fans and indeed the many Blue Square clubs' fans on which they have already inflicted their nastiness.