Age and Your Favourite 'English' team?

Bounty Hunter · 28-10-2009 7:00pm

i fit the OPs description... Villa fan, 24

mormank · 28-10-2009 7:08pm

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

i fit the OPs description... Villa fan, 24

wow, a villa fan from limerick!! i thought i knew them all, but i guess there was a 3rd one i never knew about!

artanevilla · 28-10-2009 7:10pm

19, Villa fan, support them after they beat Manchester United in the Coca Cola Cup and everyone was supporting United, I was 4.

Bounty Hunter · 28-10-2009 7:15pm

mormank wrote: »

wow, a villa fan from limerick!! i thought i knew them all, but i guess there was a 3rd one i never knew about!

well tbh I havent lived there in years but yeah we are a fairly scarce sight down home, even scarcer in Taiwan though where i currently ply my trade

currythis · 28-10-2009 7:31pm

22 Liverpool

First memory was age about 6 or 7 watching Fowler scoring the fastest hat-trick against Arsenal with my late uncle who was a massive pool fan

Reganio 2 · 28-10-2009 7:55pm

20 Liverpool

The year I was born was the last time we won the league

Pro. F · 28-10-2009 7:58pm

28 Manchester United

Started when I was about nine when I sort of had to pick a team because everybody kept asking me who i supported. Liverpool were the dominant team back then but my best friend convinced me to support United with the argument - "United are just better. Are ya goin to support them or wot"

L'prof · 28-10-2009 8:08pm

25 Arsenal

Started when i was about 6 or 7, couple of friends supported them. Think i almost picked Liverpool because someone bought me a Liverpool bag. i'm happy with my choice though, i'ts also nice not to be a part of the díck measuring contest between United and Pool fans.

5starpool · 28-10-2009 8:31pm

33 Liverpool. First football memory is being upset when Brighton bet Liverpool in the FA Cup in 1983. Grobelaars wobbly legs in Rome are one of my better early football memories. Being allowed to stay up for that was a real treat at the time.

Mars Bar · 28-10-2009 8:53pm

20, Manchester United.

I don't know why because my Dad is a Liverpool fan and we're the only footy fans in our house. He can't understand it either...
Got my first Jersey when I was 7 or 8, was just before Becks got the no. 7 shirt.
And Beckham was my first love, and I still love him! (I'm female before ye start thinking I'm gay!).

kincsem · 28-10-2009 9:02pm

RasTa wrote: »

25 and United.

So you follow about fifty teams. :rolleyes:

59, Tottenham Hotspur.

DSB · 28-10-2009 9:31pm

22, Villa.

DundalkDuffman · 28-10-2009 9:39pm

35 Tranmere, all those Friday night games that Saint and Greavsie had on at lunchtime back in the day corrupted me. Thanks a lot S&G :eek:

ollaetta · 28-10-2009 9:50pm

thegen wrote: »

44 and an r's fan too. My 1st memory was the run in to the 1976 league and the pool pipping us. What a side Phil Parkes, Stan Bowles, Gerry Francis, Don Givens, Dave Thomas, Ian Gillard, Don Masson. Tony Currie, Rodney Marsh etc were to follow.

49 and another QPR fan. It's down to Don Givens around the time he got the hat-trick against Russia coupled with the fact that I liked the blue & white hoops on a team photo in Shoot magazine. Stuck with them ever since.

Oops, not Russia then, should have said U.S.S.R.

thegen · 28-10-2009 11:52pm

ollaetta wrote: »

49 and another QPR fan. It's down to Don Givens around the time he got the hat-trick against Russia coupled with the fact that I liked the blue & white hoops on a team photo in Shoot magazine. Stuck with them ever since.

Oops, not Russia then, should have said U.S.S.R.

Yep was at that game in Dalyer, my 1st international. Liam Brady's debut also.

wexican · 29-10-2009 1:40am

24, Super Leeds United

craiginireland · 29-10-2009 2:01am

28 Everton. First memory being the epic 4-4 draw with Liverpool in 91, then in 94 Joe Royle's 1st game in charge and Big Dunc terrorised Liverpool.

anonymous_joe · 29-10-2009 2:03am

22, Manchester United fan.

Earliest United memories are mainly from the 94/95 season. Especially the 9-0 win and no-one thinking Andy Cole was worth £7 million.

Can also remember the penalty shootout from USA 94 fairly well.

FearDark · 29-10-2009 2:53am

27 Arsenal

It was all about Ian Wright posters in my bedroom I tell ya.

Bob the Seducer · 29-10-2009 3:19am

Man Utd
and I'm 23 going on 24

I've supported them since I was around 5, when I distainfully turned down a Liverpool t-shirt (a story my mum tells to this day!)

The older lads in school wouldn't believe I really supported United untill I proved it by naming the training ground (The Cliff) and the reserve keeper (Gary Walsh)!

Beekay · 29-10-2009 3:44am

That_Guy wrote: »

Greatest memories:

Beating Manchester United 5-0 at home
Faustino Asprilla
King Kev's rant
Those successive 4-3 matches with Liverpool (tense)
Champions League football.

Worst memories:

2005 - Present

22, Newcastle United

Those are all my earliest memories of NUFC. Along with Ginola! If only we could have something even near that again!

sslazio11 · 29-10-2009 12:40pm

Liverpool, 29.

First proper memory is the FA Cup final v Wimbledon 1988.

A wrongly disallowed Peter Beardsley goal didn't upset me unduly. The Lawrie Sanchez header had me a little worried.

David Beasant saving John Aldridge's penalty had me screaming at the TV. And the final whistle had me running down the back garden in tears.

Not to mention the 20p i had bet my father on Liverpool winning.

Arsenal the following year was horrible, but I only cried, no money changed hands.

Beating Everton in the '89 Cup Final is my best memory, just an incredible game.

Macca07 · 29-10-2009 12:54pm

24, man united. don't know why I started supporting them, could be down to my dad and uncles. althought my brother support Liverpool and Everton

Nalz · 29-10-2009 12:58pm

anonymous_joe wrote: »

Andy Cole was worth £7 million.

I lost 2 pound with my brother over that. I didn't believe him United paid so much. He heard it on the radio in the car, ah the wireless...those were the days

TheSpecialOne · 29-10-2009 1:01pm

18 Arsenal....lucky to have withnessed the great years 1998,2002,2004 and the style of soccer which is delightful

markesmith · 29-10-2009 1:14pm

Spurs since 1984, now 33 years of age. We won the UEFA Cup.

Rekop dog · 29-10-2009 1:38pm

22 Manchester United

First memories probably around the 93 season when the likes of Hughes, King Eric and Dion Dublin:D where destroying everything around them in the league!

Mossy Monk · 29-10-2009 1:52pm

29, Arsenal.

showry · 29-10-2009 1:55pm

38, Chelsea

Fratton Fred · 29-10-2009 2:32pm

40 (going on 18

) and Pompey, like all my family and every kid in my school. If you live in portsmouth, you are a pompey supporter.

I have many good and bad memories, this is the third time I can remember that we have faced a visit from the receiver so it is nothing new. The highlights are the FA Cup, the old First Fivision title and the old old third Division title.

I have seen us relegated from the old third division and spend two seasons in the fourth. I have seen pompey play in every division (That's four btw) of the Football League, including the top flight pre Premiership days.

V1llianous · 29-10-2009 2:38pm

34, Villa fan - born in Birmingham but no family ties.

Diabhal Beag · 29-10-2009 3:12pm

17 Sunderland (since 2001)

HalloweenJack · 29-10-2009 3:30pm

21, Chelsea.

My dad used to live out in Brompton when I was younger so always looked out for them since I got into football about '96.

Keano · 29-10-2009 4:20pm

Notthingham Forest, 28 tomorrow!!

I am the youngest of 4 boys, 2 United and 2 Forest in our house! After the 1991 FA cup - the one Gazza got badly hurt in but Spurs beat us - from then on there my allegiance was always going to be Forest.

jamsieboy86 · 29-10-2009 5:37pm

23, Liverpool.

Dubliner28 · 29-10-2009 5:52pm

29 , Everton (Dad Spurs, Brother 35 Liverpoool , Brother 33 Gaa man)

Best Mem - Prob 95 cup win
Worst Mem - Walter Smiths time as manger the 97 season - 86/89 Cup Finals(89 more so) was at that age were you really got to understand everything about the game)- could go on all night -

Interesting to see United fans say " don't know why I started supporting them " lol . Quite fuuny.. Just be honest

Miap · 30-10-2009 12:50am

28 Man utd!

Galvasean · 30-10-2009 12:59am

23 Arsenal

kyp_durron · 30-10-2009 1:20am

13 Hull

orourkeda · 30-10-2009 1:28am

32 Aston Villa

dreamers75 · 30-10-2009 1:31am

33 man utd

The day McGrath signed for them.

WhiteWashMan · 30-10-2009 5:54am

35. Spurs.
Supported them since '78.
My old man supported them, even though he used to play for charlton.

Mars Bar · 30-10-2009 12:23pm

Macca07 wrote: »

24, man united. don't know why I started supporting them, could be down to my dad and uncles. althought my brother support Liverpool and Everton

Derbies galore in yer house!

premierstone · 30-10-2009 1:44pm

keano_afc wrote: »

30, Arsenal.

1987 league cup final, all my mates supported Liverpool so I cheered on Arsenal to be different. Thus started the love affair.

Are you me?

Exact same age team and reason!

oldyouth · 30-10-2009 2:26pm

47 and Leeds

Chardee MacDennis · 30-10-2009 2:36pm

SlickRic wrote: »

my worst one would be the same as my first one if i wasn't 7 years old. the worst i remember is the FA Cup Final '96. i'm still begging someone to handle Cantona's volley on the line.

Rob Jones was in an ideal position iirc!

oh and 25 Liverpool

Y2J_MUFC · 30-10-2009 2:48pm

24, Manchester United, my fathers team.

Earliest memory is a bad one actually, Steve Staunton scoring an unreal free kick for Villa against United at Old Trafford in 1990 (I think, maybe it was '91).... sticks in my mind because my dad was at it and Staunton was Irish, plus it was an unreal strike.