Champions League Watch

yes want to win it... ffs i wanted to win a double too.

i personally say i have zero principles on sides who win it and honestly dubbed can stick it up his hole. i'd rather see a money grubber club win it that arsenal as a result... but of course a racist like cpol balances that so for me citeh are next best option

frankly if lfc bought it i'd be celebrating just as much

 

Once you've been on a footie forum and seen the antics of some of the fans - like those you mention - it can colour your view. I just think if not us then I'd rather it was won by a good footballing side who haven't won it by being petulant and excessive almost for the sake of it! It just doesn't seem right [fair] that a club can go and buy up all the talent at the expense [no pun intended] of the rest of the league.

 

If we suddenly got mega rich and won stuff I'd still celebrate, but at the back of my mind, the knowledge that it had been bought would always gnaw away at the pride, I'm afraid.
We're a big club already, with resources that most can only dream of. I'd rather we won it without becoming a billionaire's accessory.
I have a lot of sympathy for genuine supporters of Chelsea and City who have been lifelong fans since before their takeovers. Of course they want their teams to win, but they get a barrage of criticism for having bought success. Unfortunately that criticism is well-founded, but true fans support their team no matter what.

As for the gobby fans, well, every club has them. I wouldn't let my respect for a club be coloured by a few immature loud-mouths.

 

I tend not to pay too much attention to the view of forums. Everyone can act a prick on here, they get some weird kick out of it, doesn't mean that's what they're like in real life.

 

I think maybe I over stated with the colour your view comment. No it doesn't stop me respecting teams like Everton or Arsenal because Everton's in my blood and I just like Arsenal - don't know why. Never want utd to win anything [that's gone pretty well ] But on a game by game basis, if some loud mouth chav or spud has been giving it plenty I find myself smiling when they lose when before the loud mouth spoke out, Chelsea or Spurs winning or losing would mean nothing to me. [obviously not talking about them needing to drop points for us to better our position etc. etc.]

 

Generally, fans don;t sway me one way or the other. The only way fans effect my thinking is when its someone I know (meaning I want that team to lose so I can rib them) or its a stance taken by the crowd during a game (Newcastle's treatment of Allardyce for example. Yes he was **** and he didn't know what he was doing but the anger and venom aimed at him was unacceptable)

Other than that it is just a clubs actions, maybe their players or manager. I don't like Chelsea because we had a big rivalry, I can't stand Mourinho and they've had a fair few players such as Robben and Drogba that annoyed me too. Man City I can tolerate because they've not really done anything to annoy me bar spend a lot of money. I'd prefer Everton to win things if we aren't going to. #examples

 

Garry Neville reckons the games against us and City are more important than their game against the Greeks, apparently they'll win that game but maybe not the tie.


"For me, the danger games for Moyes and United are the two derby games against Liverpool and City. The Olympiakos game of course has a pressure to it, but I think they will win that match.
"Whether they can go through is the only question."

http://www1.skysports.com/football/...-games-more-pressurised-than-olympiakos-clash


Surely Moyes would see it the other way around, no chance of the title or top 4, the vast majority of the fans don't want 5th because they don't want the club in the Europe League.
The longer they are in the CL the more patience the club and the supporters will have with Moyes.

 

The only real rivalries we as a team and fans have are the ones with Everton and utd. I've never seen the rivalry with Chelsea, yes we had a lot of encounters over a five year period a while back, mostly to do with us being drawn against them in every CL round during that time, but there's no real lasting rivalry imo. The Newcastle incident you mentioned never bothered me in the way you say because it's outside my experience other than choosing to read about it.

The forum experience though for me is a bit different because it is personal experience. While it doesn't make me hate a team that previously I may have liked, you'd have to be really fickle for that to happen, there are instances such as the Hull name change which wouldn't have even been on my radar but once it was, from reading comments from fans on here, I read reports of it with interest.

 

I understand what you mean by the personal experience but that's usually one or two people rather than a large group. As a Liverpool fan, I wouldn't be happy to be associated to the idiots that chant about Munich as they are a very small minority. this is why I ignore how people are on forums and my views of clubs are gained from they way said club acts and the way their fans on match days behave. Again, if its a small minority such as at OT and chanting Hillsborough songs then I won't tarnish them all. Believe it or not, there are a lot of decent Man Utd fans out there too, in fact one of my closest friends is a manc fan and I'd trust him with anything.

 

Apart from his judgement.

 

I'd have said taste more than judgement

 

Think it depends, I know many on here would prefer if Spurs would fold, crumble, and go away such is their distaste for them! The Chelsea one was a good rivalry but unfortunately we couldn't really keep it up.

Some of the older ones probably remember when Forest was a big rival!

 

We don't all have to be older to remember that one. I was surrounded by Nottm Forest fans when I was a kid, still am!

 

Alright then, Wolves!!

I know I , for some reason, have that want for Spurs to do nothing, not really sure why.

 

I used to like spurs but the arrogance they showed talking about winning the league despite never having been in the CL annoyed me. They seem to think they are a much bigger club than they actually are. It was all based on one player too

 

There were a lot of Spurs fans who got chirpy when they first ended up higher than us after donkeys' years in the doldrums, and they were irritating.
But that doesn't affect my feelings towards the club, as such. It just means that it's fun to put them back in their place when normal service is resumed.

 

Kind of like Stoke and the footy they played under Pulis. How many times I saw " I hope Stoke get relegated" was crazy ( here, comments on websites, etc)

 

Notts Forest - them were the days. Notts County not so much

 

My eldest's in laws Was being asked to remove the Gerrard poster from the spare room, you can imagine the response

 

I was at the City Ground the night they beat us in the European Cup and for the Boxing Day fixture in the same season, on both occasions there were running battles on Trent Bridge, they were the days.