I’ve seen on OTIB some people have a ‘Second Team’ I don’t get this. It’s Bristol City for me. How can you support 2 teams? What if they play each other? Semi plastic Bristol City and England. Nothing else.
I go to the Netherlands once a season to see Willem II with other City fans, on one occasion there were 70 on the trip. Playing each other? Not likely anytime soon.
My second team are the under 23’s or whatever they are called these days. As a young lad I had a second team, then City got into the first division and like you said we played each other, they were my second team no more.
In the 70’s my mates and I always had a first division team we followed. Mine was Everton. Why? Because I liked their away kit of amber shirts and royal blue shorts!! I also liked Alan Ball, Howard Kendall and Brian Labone as footballers!!!
Now you are going to have a laugh, when we were young, I'm talking early 50's, junior school, My team was, as now Bristol City but we always chose a team that never won anything and got nowhere, when I say we I'm talking about my brothers, my team of choice was Crewe Alexandra, still get drawn to their score even now when Geoff is belting out scores on a Saturday afternoon, daft really but dragonflies fly backwards faster than a jet, at least that's what we were told back then.
Glory hunters.....Mine was Leeds in the Revie days (I was young!), most of my school mates were Liverpool, for the same glory hunter reasons!!
I have a second team [ sometimes a third ] different each season some times. This season it is Carlisle and Plymouth ... last season it was FGR and Plymouth....... main one is always BCFC for 72 years or there abouts!
If I have a second team its Willem II. Done a few Tilburg trips for birthdays, stags and watched Willem II. I dont know players but I check their results it’s a great place with great people and fans. Have Dutch mates who take me and other city mates around the place. Post game v Den Haag I was out with group of them including one bloke I didn’t know good looking chap who looked a bit like the ex lead singer of inxs but more popular. We were on the strip where the clubs bars and pubs are and we getting in places like we are royalty with bouncers waving us in behind the bloke with the lead singer great looks. I was at the bar with the good looking one, some on here will know the score you either have it or you don’t the women were swarming us .. anyways I have to asked one of my Dutch mates who their ultra popular friend was as I am sure I have seen him before maybe at Ashton Gate?? And I get yeah you’ve seen him, he was on the pitch five hours ago it’s the club captain!!!
When I was about 9 years old I was taken to see Chelsea play Man U and Chelsea became my second team for a couple of years I then took a liking to West Ham in the early 70’s up to and beyond them beating Fulham in the 1975 FA Cup Final Since then I like following the outpost clubs like Torquay (bad times presently!) Carlisle, Barrow I also follow the National League plus the north and south lower divisions, Stenhousemuir in Scots L2 (just liked the name when I was a kid) and I also follow the Highland and Lowland leagues in Scotland
City are my team and always have been. I lived in Leeds for 4 years and had season tickets through work at the time they were in the Champions League under David O'Leary and couldn't get behind them. I do now have second team and that is Elche CF, currently propping up La Liga after a shocking season and 4 managers. On a clear night I can see the lights at their stadium Estadio Manual Martinez Valero from my terrace, always city though.
That’s when I started looking at Chelsea’s results It was around the time of the 1970 FA Cup final on a horrible Wembley pitch which was a 2-2 draw and I was allowed to stay up and watch the replay (in black and white of course!} from Old Trafford, where David Webb headed the winner in a 2-1 victory The remnants of that Revie Leeds side is what we beat after a replay in the FA Cup 5th round in 1974
It was ironic that Webb scored the winner. Eddie Gray slaughtered Webb at Wembley, turned him inside out.
My second team was Man Utd from Munich and my Dad who supported Utd after the war. It was after we watched Utd win at Wembley in 68 that I started supporting City. My second team from back then till now is Sunderland due to families moving south for work in the North Somerset coalfield. Still have a few mates to this day who are Sunderland mad.
I dont remember that bit to be honest, as I was only 9. What I do know is that both teams had proper hard men........ from Harris, McReadie, Dempsey and Webb for Chelsea, to Charlton, Bremner, Giles and Hunter for Leeds I do remember some of the tackles in the replay being x rated though.
The funny thing is that when I was at Junior school we all had a Scottish team we'd picked to follow I omitted to tell people that the team I chose at the time was Hibs !
Not a second team; however, I am going to Wemberley this weekend with my old man - PAFC fan, for the Papa John trophy. Green Army!!
could never support another team,but in the mid/late seventies lived in and around notting hill/white city working as a chef in a gentlemans club near bond street,had every other weekend off and if we were not able to get to get to watch city, and qpr were at home, with stan bowles etc then that was our destination, just loved watching live football wherever i have lived.
