English club support census

Brussels Sprout

I think it's fair to say that that the majority of threads in this forum are related to English football. I expect that the majority of people are probably Man Utd and Liverpool supporters as they seem to be the big 2 in Ireland. It'd be interesting to see a breakdown though. So, who do you support?

Alfred Borden

Everton

Still expect leeds to be in the top 5 here.

Panthro

Manchester City

No Vancouver Whitecaps?
I'm out.
(Chelsea)

Anyone

Chelsea

Spurs fans wont see this.

Anyone

Chelsea

Anyone wrote: »

Spurs fans wont see this.

True

Might be worth linking it to their forum OP.

Would be interesting to see the breakdown of fans on here.

Brussels Sprout

Other Premier league team

Anyone wrote: »

Spurs fans wont see this.

?

Brussels Sprout

Chelsea

Brussels Sprout wrote: »

?

They have their own hosted forum on here

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=837

MagicIRL

Newcastle United

Brussels Sprout wrote: »

?

Spurs & Chelsea have their own subforums for reasons unknown and keep to themselves because of it.

And now for the ****storm to kick off all over again...

ahnowbrowncow

Manchester City

MagicIRL wrote: »

Spurs & Chelsea have their own subforums for reasons unknown and keep to themselves because of it.

And now for the ****storm to kick off all over again...

Chelsea fans have their own forum? That's news to me.

Panthro

Manchester City

MagicIRL wrote: »

Spurs & Chelsea have their own subforums for reasons unknown and keep to themselves because of it.

And now for the ****storm to kick off all over again...

The Chelsea Superthread is quite active on the Soccer Forum to be honest.

Brussels Sprout

Other Premier league team

rarnes1 wrote: »

True

Might be worth linking it to their forum OP.

Would be interesting to see the breakdown of fans on here.

MagicIRL wrote: »

Spurs & Chelsea have their own subforums for reasons unknown and keep to themselves because of it.

And now for the ****storm to kick off all over again...

Thanks, didn't realise that. I've created a thread in the Spurs forum linking to this thread. Where's the Chelsea forum?

MagicIRL

Newcastle United

I guess I'm wrong on the Chelsea part. Could've sworn there were two supporters forums. I hope they let be back into London after that little blunder.

Iang87

Chelsea

Boom top of another league

Brussels Sprout

Chelsea

Brussels Sprout wrote: »

Thanks, didn't realise that. I've created a thread in the Spurs forum linking to this thread. Where's the Chelsea forum?

No idea tbh

anncoates

No Melchester Rovers?

Panthro

Manchester City

rarnes1 wrote: »

No idea tbh

Some say that their fans never blink, and that they roam around the woods at night foraging for wolves. All we know is they're called the Chelsea Fans!

Some say they are wanted by the CIA and that they sleep upside down like a Bat. All we know is they're called the Chelsea Fans!

Some say that they appear on high value stamps in Sweden, and that they can catch fish with their tongues. All we know they're called the Chelsea Fans!

Madworld

Interesting thread. Would have like to seen include some other options though, just to get a broader picture of the forum, to include options for Spanish, German, Scottish, LOI, and Italian football, some of whom, especially for the likes of Celtic, probably make up a larger percentage of contributors than any Blackburn followers.

Brussels Sprout

Other Premier league team

Madworld wrote: »

Interesting thread. Would have like to seen include some other options though, just to get a broader picture of the forum, to include options for Spanish, German, Scottish, LOI, and Italian football, some of whom, especially for the likes of Celtic, probably make up a larger percentage of contributors than any Blackburn followers.

Fair point. I did consider putting in the likes of Celtic, Barcelona and LOI teams as well but that would have led to a question of where would I have stopped then and also I wanted to restrict people to one choice of team rather than make it multiple choice. For those reasons I limited it to England.

greendom

Everton

May well be early days although it does appear to be taking shape. No surprise at the first 2 but didn't expect Chelsea to be so close to Arsenal.

I am pie

Chelsea

Are Chelsea fans mostly made up of younger fans who grew up supporting the club post Russian money. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that btw, not a criticism, but I wouldn't see an obvious appeal to Irish fans before that. Arsenal & Spurs in London have Irish connections, the north western teams have cities with Irish connections and obviously historically been successful. Leeds (and even Sunderland of late) have had Irish connections/mgrs/players/chairman etc which may have appealed, but Chelsea? Chelsea pensioners and unfortunate (not the clubs faullt, I know this) connections with far right groups in the 80s wouldnt have been a draw.

Not knocking Chelsea, and I can understand how younger fans might enbd up following them. Curious is all...

Ps. I like Mourinho, doing my best not to sound like I am having a go!

Panthro

Manchester City

A very rough guess purely from my interactions on here I'd say most CFC fans are late 20's early 30's onwards.
Zola lured us in with his trickery and sublime skills.

McSasquatch

Chelsea

Surprised there are no Forest fans (yet!). When I was getting into football in the early 80s, a lot of classmates/friends/neighbours supported them.

KingdomYid

Manchester United

McSasquatch wrote: »

Surprised there are no Forest fans (yet!). When I was getting into football in the early 80s, a lot of classmates/friends/neighbours supported them.

Might have something to do with them being called 'Notts' in the voting options, I know for a fact this is a big no no with Forest fans.

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Manchester United

I am pie wrote: »

Are Chelsea fans mostly made up of younger fans who grew up supporting the club post Russian money. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that btw, not a criticism, but I wouldn't see an obvious appeal to Irish fans before that. Arsenal & Spurs in London have Irish connections, the north western teams have cities with Irish connections and obviously historically been successful. Leeds (and even Sunderland of late) have had Irish connections/mgrs/players/chairman etc which may have appealed, but Chelsea? Chelsea pensioners and unfortunate (not the clubs faullt, I know this) connections with far right groups in the 80s wouldnt have been a draw.

Not knocking Chelsea, and I can understand how younger fans might enbd up following them. Curious is all...

Ps. I like Mourinho, doing my best not to sound like I am having a go!

Curious enough how the majority of Irish people support only a small number of the many clubs with Irish connections;)

dan1895

THFC wrote: »

Curious enough how the majority of Irish people support only a small number of the many clubs with Irish connections;)

Only the ones with a chance of winning something.

GavRedKing

Manchester City

MagicIRL wrote: »

Spurs & Chelsea have their own subforums for reasons unknown and keep to themselves because of it.

And now for the ****storm to kick off all over again...

Any of the Chelsea fans that post in that forum post in here alot more in our superthread and match thread.

Theres never match threads in the chelsea forum and we're more active than the Spurs fans in here, FWIW.

grenache

Blackburn

Who the fcuk are Notts Forest? :mad: There be no club in Nottingham by that name.


Do you mean Notts County???



*I'll vote when the correct team name appears on the poll. Over to you Brussels

Brussels Sprout

Other Premier league team

Fair enough, my bad. (I very nearly didn't include ye by the way)

Mods, can you change the Forest option to Nottingham instead of Notts in the poll please?

Rikand

Leeds

Surprised how few Man City supporters there are. I thought there'd be more than 4 bandwagoners in there by now.

Lord TSC

Newcastle United

I'm always surprised on here when people talk about how many Pool fans there are.

Growing up in school, 95% of fans my age were Man United. In my class, I think there was one City fan (who we always laughed at cause of how bad they were; guess he's laughing now) and a single Liverpool fan, but everyone was a Man United fan.

losthorizon

Its too far away for me to travel to support an English team.

Panthro

Manchester City

losthorizon wrote: »

Its too far away for me to travel to support an English team.

Says "Lost Horizon"

Fr Tod Umptious

Teamshadowclan wrote: »

I'm always surprised on here when people talk about how many Pool fans there are.

Growing up in school, 95% of fans my age were Man United. In my class, I think there was one City fan (who we always laughed at cause of how bad they were; guess he's laughing now) and a single Liverpool fan, but everyone was a Man United fan.

Its a generational thing.
Back in the mid 80s 95% of the fans were Liverpool, with a handful of Utd

Paully D

Nottingham Forest

Other Premier League team for me - Sunderland

Charlie19

Chelsea

losthorizon wrote: »

Its too far away for me to travel to support an English team.

Barstool/armchair and you're sorted.

jamaamaj

Chelsea

Nobody supports Forest. ? Mmm

OneEightSeven

Everton

Surprised at the amount of Everton fans (16). Nearly as many as Chelsea (21).

Early days, though, poll might change.

OneEightSeven

Chelsea

OneEightSeven wrote: »

Surprised at the amount of Everton fans (16). Nearly as many as Chelsea (21).

Early days, though, poll might change.

I know a good few Everton fans tbh. Fair amount of them about

Fr Tod Umptious

rarnes1 wrote: »

I know a good few Everton fans tbh. Fair amount of them about

Again it may be a generational thing.
In the 80s Everton won A FA cup and two league titles.

Chelsea won nothing except a ZDS cup between 1970 and 1997 and were relegated

nlgbbbblth

Arsenal

Rikand wrote: »

Surprised how few Man City supporters there are. I thought there'd be more than 4 bandwagoners in there by now.

City always had a reasonable support in Ireland.

My cousin picked them after the 1969 FA Cup final win.
I picked them because of his influence and their second place finish in 1977 [pipped to the league by Liverpool - one point in it].

In the town I grew up during the 1970s and 1980s there were approximately 10 City fans.

In my class at school half of them were Liverpool. Arsenal and United next then Leeds, Nottingham Forest, West Ham, one Everton and two City. One guy started supporting Tottenham after the 1981 cup.

RichFTW

Newcastle United

I personally know 3 Sheffield Wednesday fans, who have no connection to each other. Wondering is this normal or do I just live in a football fan bermuda triangle!

Bit surprised Leeds & Newcastle numbers aren't higher.

Junior D

I don’t support an English team

Bolton

Apart from a year or 2, been constant disappointment

The_Kew_Tour

Newcastle United

I do know more Rangers fans in Ireland then Celtic. Which is little weird.

I know Wigan fan who supported them before they were anything decent too.

OwaynOTT

Blackburn

What's this shoite about no one supporting Notts Forest.

Brussels Sprout

Other Premier league team

So of the 362 people who've professed a support for an English team so far United and Liverpool combined make up over 56% and the top supported teams are:

1. Liverpool 29.6%
2. United 26.8%
3. Arsenal 12.7%
4. Chelsea 6.4%
5. Spurs 5.0%
6. Everton 4.7%

LiamoSail

Chelsea

OneEightSeven wrote: »

Surprised at the amount of Everton fans (16). Nearly as many as Chelsea (21).

Early days, though, poll might change.

Traditionally, Everton would have had plenty of Irish connections, the polar opposite of Chelsea so not surprising they're close despite the success Chelsea have enjoyed. That's not a dig at Chelsea fans btw, no different to United/Liverpool's fan base being inherently linked to the success over the years

Mars Bar

Newcastle United

I know two Everton fans. One used to be a Manchester United fan (and an even bigger Irwin fan) when she was younger but I dunno how she ended up with Everton!

irishfeen

Newcastle United

It really does put in perspective how much RTÉ and TV3 will be absolutely gutted if United and Arsenal miss out in the Champions League next season ... If fixtures fall wrongly for them Liverpool/Chelsea could play on the same night so they could be left with City or Everton which could lose them massive advertisement revenue.

Very interesting to hear the PL's chief ex. revealing over the last week or so that United's PL decline has been negative for the international brand of the league as it cost "interest and audience".

gimli2112

Chelsea

We're winning this one as well