I find it annoying and tend not to take seriously anything said by someone who uses the term. Unless they do not realise it is annoying, in that case I do not take their points seriously because they are displaying lack of sense in using it in the first place. They use, they lose as far as I am concerned.
I'm not a fan of any of the derogatory nicknames, to be honest. The best of all in terms of being funny and original, I've always thought, is Ar5enal, but when you see it enough times even it gets old. As for Spuds, well, it was never interesting or funny to begin with. Whenever I see someone use it I feel a little embarrassed for them, the way you feel when an old person tells the funny story he's told you fifty times before, which wasn't funny the first time.
To be honest as a Liverpool fan I have alway's thought it was a very childish name, it could'nt have taken much brainpower to make it up and I alway's thought it had some deeper more offensive meaning to it.
Plus, "goon" rhymes with "buffoon" which comes in very handy when thinking up poems or songs about them
It's extremely childish but when have football insults ever been anything else? Just listen to some of the things you hear middle aged men and women shouting from the stands every week... The arse, chelski, man ****ty, man ure, chavs, loserpool, all sound like they were made at primary school
The one that gets me is Gooners typing "Sp*rs" - it just looks ****ing stupid (see also: bloggers who refer to Britain's inexplicably successful tabloid as "The S*n")
In real life I've never heard someone refer to a spurs fan as a spud, however I've heard Liverpool fans referred to as bin dippers.
It wasn't. You bumped it. It wasn't the oldest one either, so I've no idea how it ended up at the top for you.
It's beneath a 7 year old's imagination. Anyone who says it is below 70 on the IQ scale and is deserving of psychiatric care. Consequently I love it when people use it to introduce their stupidity.
I always assume that "spud" on Internet football boards is due to fat-fingered people typing too fast on a qwerty keyboard when they want to discuss our superior club.
Maybe opposition fans use it as it is not offensive or racist, unlike the "yid" tag which I imagine is highly offensive when sung by opposition fans. PS: A friend of mine in Mallorca suggested that "Chav" might be "racist". I, of course, disagreed with her. Why it is given to Chelsea supporters I don't know as we can all see "chavs" in all their glory getting plastered any Saturday night the length and breadth of the country.
