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Can't say I have any second teams. Rather teams I don't hate, can stand and am rather indifferent to.

 

I wouldn't say Wigan are a second team- just a team I have a soft-spot for... don't really follow them all that much; when they play and I'm watching I do hope they win though.
Same with Chester FC. Being a Cheshire lad, and, I always loved the city of Chester, I occasionally look for news on how Chester is doing.

I quite like Blackburn too for that matter- for no reason I can really ascertain. Again, don't follow them all that closely... I remember liking the red and black quartered away shirts one season... that's about the best explanation I can come up with.


When a North Western team plays against another team, unless they have "Manchester" in their name, or are Everton, I tend to support the NW teams.

 

Yeah but that's the point, who do you hate more.

 

I keep an eye on Colchester, having spent my teenage years in Essex. Don't really have any preferences in Germany (except for Leverkusen while Hyypia was in charge), although if pushed, one of Rot-Weiß Essen, Vfl Bochum or Fortuna Düsseldorf.

 

I wouldn't call them a 2nd team but I keep and eye on and would like to see Notts Forrest get promoted.

 

If it was Everton or Utd I'd vote for the BS. Not just because of trophy rivalry with Utd, but because both clubs are from the same place and I have many friends and family who are Blues.
Also I really don't understand why there's so much genuine hatred in football masquerading as banter.

 

Only because they keep buying your best players

 

I always hope Everton do well as long as it's not as well as us and that we beat them in every game.

 

This.
I dont hate ANY club really.
There are certain sub sections of fans who I wouldnt piss on if they were on fire, but there is too much genuine hatred for my liking.
The closest I have come to hating a club is Liverpool about 10 years ago if I am completely honest, but a combination of growing up and time has shown me thats not the way, and there are plenty of nice Liverpool fans, just as I am sure there is a sizeable subsection of cock smokers who support Chelsea.

 

FFS This ^

 

I used to get into situations with Man Utd fans when I was younger but like you say that was just the supidity of youth and I now hate Chelsea fans more.

 

There are too many utd fans who fall into the christiansmith school of hate for my liking

 

Oh ffs

I don't support either club, therefore I'm a neutral when it comes to discussing either of them. Just because you don't like my answer to the question posed, doesn't alter that FACT.

 

He's ridiculous with it though. It doesn't matter what you say or how you say it, he responds with the same thing every time.

 

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You can safely say that knowing that it's not going to be a scenario that you'd likely have to face.

I've seen Liverpool being ungracious in victory on more than enough occasions to not want to see it again, and I make no apology for saying so either.

Hate is a very strong word, but when you see the contorted faces of away / home fans screaming abuse at each other in grounds every week, it goes beyond 'banter' and always has. But it's limited to 90 minutes of nonsense and then back to reality.

 

As I've said to you before though Tobes, a club is not one person, it is many individuals each with their own opinions and agenda. There may be a few ****s about that spit feathers at the site of the opposition, but for each one of them there are many more people that realise its just a game of football too.

 

I'm not sure it is just for the 90, though, and that's what bothers me.

As for the bit you highlighted; true, my magnanimity could be challenged a bit if you were a couple of trophies behind us and in danger of catching up, but let's be honest, none of us are going to live long enough to see that happen, are we?

#genuinebanter

 

I sit near the away fans at Goodison and when there's a contentious decision or when someone scores, there's not just a few but most of the section that's spitting feathers at their counterparts. Even the most mild mannered individuals can suddenly come out with a tirade of abuse, hand gestures etc etc. So it's far from a small minority, when you're talking about match goers.

 

haha, you see you've just admitted that you'd only choose us as we're miles behind in terms of a trophy total, your 'support' is therefore akin to a patronising 'pat on the head'

As for the 1st sentence, people are all different, but 'hating' a fan of another club just doesn't happen in real life, does it? You wouldn't work with a colleague or have a bevvy with a fella down the pub and hate his guts merely because of his club allegiance. The net makes the banter sterile and faceless, and it can lose it's humour as just words on a screen.