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Liverpool - Chelsea-----tonight (pg. 11)
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
It might be harder, if you've never programmed a recorder before, but it's certainly cheaper than paying for a season ticket. Although how hard it is isn't really important. It's harder to follow any foreign sport than domestic sport. |
just pointing out that just because you're born in a certain country doesn't make you any more (or less) a fan of the team you've chosen.
Just because we don't go around bashing people of opposing teams doesn't mean we're any less fans. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
just pointing out that just because you're born in a certain country doesn't make you any more (or less) a fan of the team you've chosen.
Just because we don't go around bashing people of opposing teams doesn't mean we're any less fans. |
I'd have more sympathy if you guys didn't invariably choose Man United, Chelsea, Arsenal or Liverpool to follow. You can wake up at 4.30am every day of every week and it wouldn't be as painful as supporting Middlesbrough. |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
I'd have more sympathy if you guys didn't invariably choose Man United, Chelsea, Arsenal or Liverpool to follow. You can wake up at 4.30am every day of every week and it wouldn't be as painful as supporting Middlesbrough. |
well, if it makes you feel any better ive been supporting liverpool roughly as long as you've been alive; you can't blame a 10 year old for choosing between the only two teams he had heard of at the time ;) |
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| wotyzoid |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Do you have the slightest ing clue about the English football league outside the Top 20 teams? Without running to Wikipedia, can you tell me which is higher- the Conference, the Championship or League One? Do you know how many teams constitute the league and how it breaks down? "English soccer" is not the twenty teams that get sold all over the world. This country has three times as many football clubs as any other nation on Earth.
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:stongue: Whatever, I'll bite. English soccer is very complicated 'cuz the national football league alone has some 3 divisions or so (which includes league one)and I hardly ever know who hosts the different cups. The first division championship is pretty big I guess, I don't know how much importance you brits give it. The Conference is the oldest ,but I don't really know much about it since I always get confused if the FA Cup is hosted by it or league one. I remember league cup used to be sponsored by coca cola but now it's sponsored by some beer company and there's like some 100 teams that join it including the teams from the premier luege.I know there's a load of teams in england, and there's always some new ones that pop up out of no where. I know that the FA Cup alone has some 500+ teams or some and league one on the other hand is similar to the premier with about 20 teams, again I don't know how important you brits give it. I guess that kind of sums about how much I know about it technically. |
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| verndogs |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
I'd have more sympathy if you guys didn't invariably choose Man United, Chelsea, Arsenal or Liverpool to follow. You can wake up at 4.30am every day of every week and it wouldn't be as painful as supporting Middlesbrough. |
being a Boro supporter isn't as bad as Luton supporter these days |
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| trunks1022 |
| quote: | Originally posted by verndogs
I'd support the local team here (Red Bull New York) if it wasn't such a pain in the ass to get to the games |
i think you've been to old trafford more than the meadowlands in the last 3 years :o |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by wotyzoid
I guess that kind of sums about how much I know about it technically. |
Yeah, and you've got most of it wrong. In the eleven years you've been watching Chelsea, I don't think they've finished outside the Top 10 of the top league of English football once. And that's just the very top of a huge pyramid that runs to hundreds of teams and dozens of leagues.
Now forgive me for being cynical about foreign fans of "English soccer" when none of them ever seem to support a team that isn't in the Champion's League positions or know anything about English football outside of the little sphere their teams dwell in. Even eleven years ago Chelsea were FA Cup holders and playing in Europe. Twenty years ago Liverpool were league champions. |
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| daydreamer |
| quote: | Originally posted by verndogs
When you get old enough (youngin :p), you should come across the river to NYC to Nevada Smiths to watch a game. It's the closest thing you'll come to watching a game at a European bar in the US |
where you there today M8?
what a crackin' game.
i'm a barça fan, but since it was only on, on three screens (and since there was no way we were going to lose) i watched the liverpool game instead. tough luck. i'm spanish, so we tend to support Liverpool since they have more of our players in their team, and i generally prefer them over any other british team.
it will be easier to watch a Chelsea vs Barça game, i won't be as divided. Barcelona is going to own Chelsea.
can't wait for the next game at Nevadasmith's
hopefully i'm off again. |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Now forgive me for being cynical about foreign fans of "English soccer" when none of them ever seem to support a team that isn't in the Champion's League positions or know anything about English football outside of the little sphere their teams dwell in. Even eleven years ago Chelsea were FA Cup holders and playing in Europe. Twenty years ago Liverpool were league champions. |
pffft. who wants to go for teams we never see on tv? |
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| raveed |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Mikey Mike
I also love how you only ever see foreigners supporting Liverpool, Chelsea or Manchester Utd. When was the last time you saw a yank supporting West Brom? If it wasn't so pathetic it'd almost be laughable. |
Find me a brit who supports the minnesota timberwolves or a baseball team that doesnt call itself the yankees or red sox and wel talk
If you not local , ur not going to support a smaller team. Only the big clubs get media coverage outside of Europe so how are people even to know for example who west brom is when they havent seen them play unless they are playing a big club who usually gives them a pasting. |
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| wotyzoid |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
pffft. who wants to go for teams we never see on tv? |
I said good day. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by raveed
Find me a brit who supports the minnesota timberwolves or a baseball team that doesnt call itself the yankees or red sox and wel talk |
Find me a Brit who gives a about American sports and your analogy might be more apt. Few people are in the habit of pretending they're part of a sporting culture they know almost nothing about. |
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