What Club do you follow and why...

It was between Liverpool and Spurs when I was very young. My grand dad was a huge Spurs fan while my da was a huge pool fan. They both tried to win me over but my dad took the plunge and got me a jersey before the grand dad could.

Orchard Rebel

major bill wrote: »

Nottingham forest- a mate of mine played for them and ive been over a few times to see them, was there in 2008 when they won promotion from league 1 they beat yeovil 5-2 as far as i remember, pitch invasions and singing all the way back down to the city.the city that night was buzzing and the shout of comon uuuuuuuu redsssssss was common in the nightclub all night. great night a proper footballing town been having an interest ever since.

You're making me feel homesick....

x43r0

Liverpool

Because of Robbie Fowler, Steve McManaman, John Barnes and Stan Collymore


Earliest memory is the 1995/96 FA cup final when Cantona scored the only goal with a half-volley from a corner. Shocking defending. I locked myself in the bathroom crying for a while after the final whistle

eightyfish

Bohemians. My Dad mitched from school in 1964, and was playing football in the Phoenix Park. Somebody informed his father, and he arrived in the park and caught my Dad. My grandfather was, I think, not that annoyed becasue he said "You think that's football? I'll take you to see some real football!"

So my grandfather took my Dad to a Bohs match. He's been going to Dalymount since and been a full member for 30+ years. He took myself and my brother when we were little, and we were more interested in running around than watching the game. As we grew older we stopped going.

Than 8 years ago I moved out of my family home. I decided to go to a match with my Dad to spend some time with him. It was brilliant. I've been going to Dalymount with him ever since.

marwelie

Man Utd and Shamrock Rovers. Rovers were my local team until Milltown closed. Followed them to the RDS and Tolka and have had a season ticket in Tallaght since it opened.

Man Utd are a family tradition, Grandfather & 2 uncles and cousins on mothers side and my old man. I had no choice! Wouldn't have it any other way though.

That_Guy

I'm listening wrote: »

Was explained a few pages back

Didn't see it. My bad.

Gavin "shels"

Surprisingly a lot of people started supporting a team because they liked a player, wtf!?

I'm listening

Gavin shels wrote: »

Surprisingly a lot of people started supporting a team because they liked a player, wtf!?

Ah we were young..... If there was a team with a player that looked like 'Fireman Sam' I probably have supported them

Tallaght Saint

St Patrick's Athletic because my grandad used to be the club secretary and also Brian Kerr is a family friend

Broxi_Bear_Eire

Rangers
When I was younger living in Glasgow my Dad used to take me to three different ground depending who was playing they were Ibrox, Parkhead and Shawfield. I decided fairly early on Rangers were the team for me

rainbow kirby

Man Utd - because my dad is a lifelong Liverpool supporter and I started supporting them when I was 8 just to piss him off.

jebidiah

liverpool, dad and sister were huge fans. i kind of followed along. in primary school everyone supported man utd, so i soon grew to loath football, as it was just another thing to be slagged about.
completely avoided it as a sport untill one night in may of 2005. i sat down with my da and sister to wacth the champions league final, they were so excited, and i was buzzing along with them, after the game, after THE comeback, they were in tears crying, and i couldnt help myself. what a game, what a feat, what a team. YNWA

This thread started well, first few pages were a good read then the usual bitter suspects come out to play.

There seriously should be an IQ test given for entrants to the soccer forum.

Anyway,follow Liverpool as my Dad was a huge fan. He used to put Liverpool posters and in my room when I was barely out of nappies. Didn't really have a choice!!

bijapos

Liverpool. Since around 2.00 pm on May 21st 1977. I was 6, was put into an armlock by some Man Utd fans in their late teens or early 20's, and forced to say "Man Utd are the best team in the world" about 20 times.

I went home and found out they were playing Liverpool that day and have supported the Pool since, through thick and thin. Steve Heighway was playing for them that day too, they were the better team but they lost.

All was made better 4 days later though :)

NTMK

Man United - Ive Family living in newton Heath

LETS BE AVN IT

West ham when I was 13 , I suported liverpool until then due to my father but decided I wanted to follow the Hammers as I liked the way they played attacking football great players at the time too ,Di Canio ,Cole etc era got relegated as soon as I started following them haha ,I learned about really following ur team in the Fizzy league and I dont think big 4 supporters can really take pleasure in beating teams as lower league fans do its expected from them .COYI

MJRS

Man Utd, like half of the plastics and bar-stoolers on here. My dad supported them, passed it on to me before I even knew I had a local team. Cantona, Irwin, Scholes etc. were my childhood heroes, couldn't help but fall for the club. I did feel a pang of guilt when people started telling me to support my local team, but proximity felt as arbitrary a reason as 'cos my dad did' to support a team. Plus, I already had a team, and I wouldn't change them for any reason

Peyton Manning

x43r0 wrote: »

Liverpool

Because of Robbie Fowler, Steve McManaman, John Barnes and Stan Collymore


Earliest memory is the 1995/96 FA cup final when Cantona scored the only goal with a half-volley from a corner. Shocking defending. I locked myself in the bathroom crying for a while after the final whistle

Is that you, brother?

everdead.ie

Spurs because I only followed internationals until he became my Hero and then I decided I had to be a spurs fan.

I'm listening

Archimedes wrote: »

Is that you, brother?

Brilliant

Lamper.sffc

Sporting Fingal and Leeds.

Leeds was down to the fact that everybody else in my class loved liverpool at the time and also I just loved Leeds midfield back then. The best in the league at the time. Batty, Speed, Mc Allister and Strachan. I supported them the first year they got back into the old 1st Div.

Sporting Fingal was down to the fact that iv been losing my faith in English football and needed to find something more local. Heard that a new team was starting up in fingal and I decided that this would be a great chance to follow a team in the LOI. Iv loved every minute of my LOI experience and I would recommend it to others. Its great looking forward to live football every week and Fingal is now my first love.

Like said before, this is not a pop at others, its just how i feel now.

Smokin_Aces

Arsenal - My dad supports them, my choice was never influenced by him. It was a casual interest. He was delighted all the same. Then a year later, Dennis Bergkamp came and I forever fell in love with Arsenal. Even took Dennis as my confirmation name in 99.

I have a soft spot for Boca Juniors and Athlectic Bilboa. Their tradition just grabbed me in.

staker

Spurs,my uncle's english and he got me into them. Earliest memory being Gary Mabutt scoring in the 87? FA cup final.

1FC Koeln cos I lived there for a few years and saw a good few matches there, most outstanding memory being the local derby v Leverkusen where we ended up on the away train, and their fans literally tore it asunder, all the while the train being escorted out of town under heavy Polizei escort.

Oat23

Sligo Rovers because I'm from Sligo.

Hamburg fan because I lived there. First memory was the first game I went to with a work friend who was actually a St. Pauli fan. We managed to get 2 tickets from another guy at work and it was a fantastic day. We lost 2-1 to Shalke but I was hooked. I hadn't experienced anything like it before.

CiaranC

I liked football as a kid so I asked my da to take me, so he did. Now I take him.

ShooterSF

Man UTD. I fall into the rebel category like a few others. Dad's a City fan so I supported United to annoy him. Schmeichel became a hero of mine and even though I'm often the shortest guy on the pitch I still play in goals.

ColeTrain

Celtic

My Dads best friend ( who has sadly passed on ) took me over to Celtic Park to see the bhoys when I was younger. That was me sold as Celtic fan for life. Apart from that I can identify with the strong Irish history and culture at the club.

Pinturicchio

Galway United because I like football and I'm from Galway.

Mars Bar

Manchester United.

I don't remember the exact moment I decided to follow Manchester United but I have a sneaky suspicion that it was my love for David Beckham at the age of 6. (Still love him to bits!). Got my first jersey with Beckham 7 on the back when I was 7.

I could easily have been a Watford supporter if the parents or any friends of my parents got me a jersey when we lived there up to when I was 3. I was kicking a football from the moment I could walk apparently...

My Dad's a Liverpool supporter though...

Ordinary man

Manchester United

I was born in manchester but family moved back here when i was 3. I was always told i was a manchester red. Thirty odd years later i'm still a united supporter:D

Badabing

Celtic F.C for me only Irish team to win European Cup.

Broxi_Bear_Eire

Badabing wrote: »

Celtic F.C for me only Irish team to win European Cup.

:eek::eek::D

Rob113

Man Utd. 1991 cup winners cup final v Barcelona. Supported them from that night on.

Duff

Dundalk 'cus it's where I was born and bred. EPL is Newcastle 'cus my aul lad is from there and beat me black and white as a young'un.

3hn2givr7mx1sc

Badabing wrote: »

Celtic F.C for me only Irish team to win European Cup.

Oh no you di'int.

Badabing

Broxi_Bear_Eire wrote: »

:eek::eek::D

say nothing

UnknownSpecies

Up until I was about 9, I supported QPR because my dad is a fan, but that year, my dad came to me and said that I must pick a new team to support because if I keep supporting QPR I'll get nothing but disappointment and abuse in the future, so I chose Arsenal

lordgoat

United, they're my local team.

I am now awaiting thanks from the LOI brigade.

hitman79

Everton

And i havent a clue why but it could be because my mates older brother supported them and i must have thought he was cool :rolleyes: Weirdly enough i was named after an Everton player even tho my da doesnt support Everton...i guess i was born to support Everton:D

Professey Chin

Man Utd

I was always put in goal when I was young cause I was a crap outfield player so I decided to be the best keeper I could and my influence was the great dane himself.So started follwing united from that

Mr. Guappa

Tottenham

When I was about 8 my cousin bought me an Arsenal jersey, a JVC one with white sleeves. I hated the colour of it but didn't know any other clubs that I could follow. Then the '91 FA Cup semi-final came along; Gazza's goal plus those angelic white jerseys - I had my team!

starbelgrade

When I started watching MOTD at the age of about 6, Liverpool were the on form team - they were winning everything & had the glamour team of the time. I wanted to support them, but so did my brother and him being the older of us, told me that they were "his team" and I'd have to pick another one.

So I went for the next best team who wore red jerseys, Man U. For years afterwards, half of our bedroom was plastered in Liverpool posters, the other half in United ones. Literally every inch of space of wall was covered. There was even turf wars if it looked like a poster was slightly over the "centreline" of the wall.

And for years, Liverpool filled up their trophy cabinet while United didn't. It was a hard time for me, but the last 20 years haven't been too bad. I've almost gotten over the childhood trauma.

Prufrock

Man United. I started watching football in the 90s and it was the time Giggs, Scholes and Beckham were just coming into the team. Also the first team had guys like Cantona, Hughes, Andrei Kanchelskis, Keane, Irwin the list goes on. They just played some magical stuff at times. There was always a feeling of "anything is possible" when they played. Just didn't get that feeling from any other team.

Also my dad used to watch United and tell me how Giggs reminded him of George Best when he saw him play. Thats my first football memory.

Badabing

baz2009 wrote: »

Oh no you di'int.

Oh yes YOU did!

Handsome Bob

Liverpool cos I'm the youngest of 6 who were all Liverpool fans, I never had a chance really. :pac:

tony1kenobi

Arsenal.I lived on Holloway Road across from the Crown.My mum brought me to the town hall when they won the FA Cup in 79 (I don't remember this,I was 3)

When I started school everyone supported Spurs because they were a bit flash.This made me more determined.My dad started bringing me to Highbury in the 87-88 season.First game,I think,was a 3-0 win at home to Wimbledon.My dad missed all 3 goals.Last time he'd been to a game was about 10 years before and he missed all the goals that game too (no big screens in those days)....it took a bit of persuasion but he kept bringing me.

We went to 88 Littlewoods(or rumbelows??) Cup Final,lost to Luton,saw a lot of violence outside so my dad decided we weren't going to any more games.

So I started going with my mates...By the 89 season we were going to the home games one week and the reserve games the next (reserve games were free)..we'd bunk off school and go to Highbury...you could just walk into the ground then....Debbie in the shop knew us all by name....George Graham used to tell us off for smoking fags....John Lukic was an arrogant cock.

When we won the league in 89 that did it. I knew I'd picked the right team and I've yet to be proven wrong.

Even if we aren't winning it's never boring.

Car crashes,prison stints,luggage thefts,bungs,cokeheads,who the f*ck is Ray Parlour?,Dutch mafia,Perry Groves

....and that's just the bad stuff....I love the Arsenal.

HyperSkypeWiper

Jimmy Floyd banging them in for Leeds was what got me hooked

thegen

QPR, cousin was playing for them and getting to wear Stan Bowles jersey even though it was like a dress on me me in 1976 was great.

MUSEIST

Chelsea. The first team I saw on tv when I was 10 in 1997. I think it was the fa cup semi final against wimbledon, i think mark hughes scored. I loved zola tbh, what a classy player. So I stayed with chelsea even though most people supported liverpool or man u ( jumping on the bandwagons which I thought was a bit pathetic). When I first started supporting the blues I never thought I would see them win the league. The last few years have been epic.

listermint

Villa

Due to Paul Mc Grath connection and mis guided youth