Match Day Thread Hull City v Leeds Utd Match Thread

Exactly, I’ve just been reading a few articles from ex players saying they knew that look on the face of Joseph and Rodon and a few have questioned the late substitutions.

I get it when people defend Farke, it’s hard to say or claim he’s not very good when you are top of the table, but virtually any coach with this set of players should be top.

 

Remember Farke has had.a hand in signing quite a few of our current players

 

I think the look on the players faces was because of Meslier. Firpo went mental at Sunderland.

 

Is it really just a Hull City thing, that anyone not from where you were born or from shouldn’t support a team of choice.

I can honestly say, I’ve never met any other fan of another team being so obsessed with the location of a supporter being so important.

Do you object to those who play for Hull coming from other parts of the world or that you have Turkish owners.

 

That’s the point they were trying to make

 

To be clear, Farke is to blame for not sorting it in the summer.

 

You should support your local team and not pick another one if your own doesn’t do well enough.What do you think of the Man Utd plastics from Surrey? Or of someone from Leeds supporting Man Utd, Liverpool or Chelsea. Funny how the teams of choice are never the likes of Crewe or Rochdale, isn’t it. It is a case of inadequates getting a feeling of success vicariously.

 

I’d have no problems recognising him as a good scout if that’s what he was employed to do

 

Everyone knows at least one "Hull White" or "Hull Red" and taken a lot stick off them over the years. It does grate on you eventually, that they've chosen to take the easy route, not suffer with us, then proceed to take the piss at every opportunity

 

**** me mate, you think Leeds fans haven't suffered over most of the last 23 years and the 80's, no one supports Leeds for the glory of it.

 

They do in Hull. Bear in mind a lot of the "Hull whites" go back to the 70s, then another wave in the 90s when we really were on our knees

 

I suppose compared to Hull

 

Only in the eyes of every Hull City supporter, the hatred many Hull fans carry towards Leeds supporters is strange.

They honestly don’t bother me, Man U fans from Manchester or Surrey are all similar anyway.

You didn’t answer my question, why is it okay for teams to have players with no connection to the team they are playing for

 

But not every Leeds fan is like that, I understand the dislike against Leeds fans born and living in Hull.

From my experience, you start supporting a club around the age of 5-6 and you usually pick the team your dad, or older cousin, or best mate at school supports, you copy someone you look up to.

That person or a parent then buys you a scarf or shirt and you start the early stages of becoming hooked.

For me, supporting Leeds started like this, if they win I’m ecstatic, if they lose I wake up the next day feeling fed up, it’s not a choice, it was ingrained at 5-6 years old

 

A lot of them seem to have no issue supporting one of their local rugby teams either

 

My first thoughts were similar, how I wish it were that easy to support another team.

Basically if Leeds United went bust I’d never bother supporting another team again.

 

Tbf that parent or whatever if they're from Hull must have made a conscious decision initially, probably in the 70s, to follow Leeds because they were doing well at the time.

To be fair I'm from Leeds with Hull parents, Grandparents, uncles (one of which is a Hull White) etc, but my dad took me to Boothferry Park back when we were really struggling and Leeds were in Europe and all that around the turn of the century, and that was it. So I do get it, but I think you need to at least have some connection to somewhere to support the football club, otherwise I don't see the point. But that's just my opinion.

 

As I don’t live in Leeds I think it only right I shall cease my support from today and buy a season ticket for Athlone town in league of Ireland div 2. Will save me a fortune in trips over to Leeds and buying your overpriced food and drink. Cmon the town

 

Well we're lucky in the UK in that we come from a country where practically every town has a decent football club (even Hull) but if you're from somewhere like Ireland I can understand why you'd follow a foreign club

 

I was 5-6 in the early 70s and had two cousins, both approaching their teens, one supported Man U the other Leeds. I totally agree with you, they chose to support the team doing well at the time, I on the other hand had no idea at that age.

My Leeds supporting cousin gave me a scarf, a hat and some wall pennants that I hung up on my bedroom wall. I’d tell people I supported Leeds as a 5,6,7 year old because of this.

Gradually I took more interest and when an Ipswich supporting mates dad took me to my first game away to Ipswich I was hooked. Leeds lost the game and were relegated that year.