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The Huddlefro said:
Yeah I certainly get a lot of that. Don’t get me wrong Arsenal is still the big one. But perhaps also due to personal stuff I just really dislike Chelsea and their fans. More so perhaps than the average Spurs fan. Arsenal is our biggest game but I never really knew any Arsenal fans growing up, nearly all the kids were Chelsea with a smattering of Liverpool and United glory hunters and one or two Fulham or West Ham fans who thought they were being different. So Chelsea was always the most significant game for playground bragging rights, even though Arsenal meant more to me myself.

Don’t care much for either Stoke or City but certainly wouldn’t call them a rivalry. Stoke fans are so vile it’s almost funny, to be fair. Don’t think I’ve ever met a City fan <laugh>
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Yeah see I've grown up surrounded by Spurs and Arsenal (plus plastic Mancs) along with the odd West Ham and Chelsea fan, so it's always been at the forefront of any football banter/ rivalry.

Playground bragging rights were probably a bit different in my school <laugh>. When the film Football Factory came out, it became viral and so all us boys suddenly thought we were hooligans and created our own version, it was Spurs vs the rest (around 50% of my school was Spurs) although we always primarily went for the Arsenal fans, lads got absolutely battered on both sides, myself included, I was on my way to class one time before being dragged out of the corridor into the playground by about 7 or 8 boys and copped the beating of a lifetime. Despite it sounding violent though, no one ever went over the top, even if there was the odd bruise or cut. However looking back, it's no wonder my school was ranked 2nd or 3rd bottom in the borough at the time and was shut down about 2 years after I left then rebuilt into one of those academies <laugh>.
 
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Dier Hard said:
Yeah see I've grown up surrounded by Spurs and Arsenal (plus plastic Mancs) along with the odd West Ham and Chelsea fan, so it's always been at the forefront of any football banter/ rivalry.

Playground bragging rights were probably a bit different in my school <laugh>. When the film Football Factory came out, it became viral and so all us boys suddenly thought we were hooligans and created our own version, it was Spurs vs the rest (around 50% of my school was Spurs) although we always primarily went for the Arsenal fans, lads got absolutely battered on both sides, myself included, I was on my way to class one time before being dragged out of the corridor into the playground by about 7 or 8 boys and copped the beating of a lifetime. Despite it sounding violent though, no one ever went over the top, even if there was the odd bruise or cut. However looking back, it's no wonder my school was ranked 2nd or 3rd bottom in the borough at the time and was shut down about 2 years after I left then rebuilt into one of those academies <laugh>.
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We had similar from older kids (nothing to do with football really, there were just a lot of fights) but you just dealt with it and moved on. Football Factory wasn’t that big a deal but all the kids who developed a mockney accent and though they were a bit big time after watching Kidulthood were more of an issue tbh.

The bragging rights were more mental for me, hate the little needling comments that used to come out from kids who barely even cared about football 99% of the time.
 
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The Huddlefro said:
Yeah I certainly get a lot of that. Don’t get me wrong Arsenal is still the big one. But perhaps also due to personal stuff I just really dislike Chelsea and their fans. More so perhaps than the average Spurs fan. Arsenal is our biggest game but I never really knew any Arsenal fans growing up, nearly all the kids were Chelsea with a smattering of Liverpool and United glory hunters and one or two Fulham or West Ham fans who thought they were being different. So Chelsea was always the most significant game for playground bragging rights, even though Arsenal meant more to me myself.

Don’t care much for either Stoke or City but certainly wouldn’t call them a rivalry. Stoke fans are so vile it’s almost funny, to be fair. Don’t think I’ve ever met a City fan <laugh>
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Totally agree about Stoke, really nasty bunch of supporters and players, so glad that we used to kick their arses and delighted to see them go down
 
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Never glad to see the back of a team we kicked the arses of.
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They gave us plenty of trouble until Mark Hughes took over. Even he managed a Clattenburg aided big win.
Loads of cards whenever we played them, too. Losing four games on the bounce by four goals must've sickened them, though. Shame.
 
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PleaseNotPoll said:
They gave us plenty of trouble until Mark Hughes took over. Even he managed a Clattenburg aided big win.
Loads of cards whenever we played them, too. Losing four games on the bounce by four goals must've sickened them, though. Shame.
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Adams on Bale was assault, that thug should have had a 6 match ban at least or was that when he was at Blckpool ? Any how throw the book at the thug
 
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Alfie Conn said:
Adams on Bale was assault, that thug should have had a 6 match ban at least or was that when he was at Blckpool ? Any how throw the book at the thug
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Charlie Adam did it at least twice. The first was at Blackpool and the second was in a pre-season friendly for the Scouse:
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In the latest episode of Kieran Trippier Talks Bollocks, now he's saying that we would've won the Champions League final if we hadn't sold Mousa Dembele

Somehow it hasn't occurred to him that would have been highly improbable, because with Dembele himself saying he couldn't handle the rigours of regular PL football the only way this would have worked is if Dembele was only played in the CL - and that's surely not what would have happened, as our injury issues meant he'd have had to be pressed into service in the league

There's also the irony that one minute Trippier says him playing through injuries last season caused his form to nosedive, yet on the other says Dembele could do it even though his decline from mid-2018 onwards was visible for all to see
 
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humanbeingincroydon said:
In the latest episode of Kieran Trippier Talks Bollocks, now he's saying that we would've won the Champions League final if we hadn't sold Mousa Dembele

Somehow it hasn't occurred to him that would have been highly improbable, because with Dembele himself saying he couldn't handle the rigours of regular PL football the only way this would have worked is if Dembele was only played in the CL - and that's surely not what would have happened, as our injury issues meant he'd have had to be pressed into service in the league

There's also the irony that one minute Trippier says him playing through injuries last season caused his form to nosedive, yet on the other says Dembele could do it even though his decline from mid-2018 onwards was visible for all to see
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Player asks for a move. Accept? Bad. Reject? Bad. :huh:

Trippier needs to shut the **** up about Spurs and concentrate on his current club. They're worse this season than last, for some reason.
 
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humanbeingincroydon said:
In the latest episode of Kieran Trippier Talks Bollocks, now he's saying that we would've won the Champions League final if we hadn't sold Mousa Dembele

Somehow it hasn't occurred to him that would have been highly improbable, because with Dembele himself saying he couldn't handle the rigours of regular PL football the only way this would have worked is if Dembele was only played in the CL - and that's surely not what would have happened, as our injury issues meant he'd have had to be pressed into service in the league

There's also the irony that one minute Trippier says him playing through injuries last season caused his form to nosedive, yet on the other says Dembele could do it even though his decline from mid-2018 onwards was visible for all to see
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Because selling Dembele who, as fine a player as he was, freely admits himself that he couldn’t handle the PL football anymore, would certainly have helped in the CL final against...the most intense team in the PL <doh>

Trippier is doing himself no favours with all this running of his mouth. I get that a lot of footballers have been doing interviews for podcasts and over video during lockdown but he’s making himself out to be a right dickhead atm. He made his point months ago, he needs to do his talking on the pitch if he thinks he’s grown that much as a player.
 
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