Let's have a look at the scale of love and hate then. (I've taken a five point scale but we can imagine the shades of gray between any two points.) Here's your first mistake and one too often made ... you have used the word imagine ... therefore you dilute the YIN YAN completely and this is the problem ... There are no shades of grey ... its man bending the rules ... the only rules that keeps the balance. Live your lives as you see fit but if you believe in shades of grey then IMO you are lost. I have followed many paths in education, travel and business and love to battle with people who are confused in tints and shades when it comes to a final answer. There in no colour in the computer you read this on ... your monitor does that for you ... its all 0/1 forget that and its all gets dirty
Interesting post. To be fair I have always believed hate comes from personal experience and upbringing. I grew up in SW London in virtually a whole area of Chelsea but a lot of my best mates were Gooners and Hammers and family were all Gooners so I hated them, couldn't stand the fact that now matter how good we were Arsenal were just that much better and we could never beat them, so the stick I used to get from them was unbelievable. West Ham.... Well there just West Ham, it's traditional to hate them and them to hate us but it when they became our feeder club it took things to new levels. My hatred of Spurs comes from personal match day experience. West Ham, Tottenham and Arsenal are our rivals so I guess it's tradition to hate them and sing songs about them and vice versa.
strange with the poorer kids as it is so different nowadays...there are 2 types of working class kid now, the traditional working class, often skinhead more 'laddish' type and then the 'chavvy' kind...in shepherds bush these days the former will more likely be QPR fans and the latter Chelsea, glory hunters are almost always either the latter or middle class private school kids I guess its good I'm the former then! Another factor is our Irish connection where as chelsea are very loyalist, they had links with the UDA/UVF etc as well as the NF sorry about grammar/spelling I'm on the phone
Cheers Grinners. Just read the whole thing through and its a great thread, brilliantly shepherded by our absent friend.
Terry, Mourinho, Cole, Jody Morris, the Headhunters, Abramovic, Ken Bates, Drogba, Torres, Ron Chopper Harris...and of course their plastic fans. What's not to hate?
