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Football (Soccer) : What team d'ya support

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Old 28-10.-2005, 04:17 AM   #31
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FA Premiership's up and running, I thought I'd ask the question : what team do you support ?

In England - Spurs.

In Italy - Juventus.

In Ireland - St Patricks Athletic FC.

In Scotland - Hibernian.

Been a Spurs fan since 1970 when they were managed by the legendary Bill Nick and have supported (suffered !) ever since.
In those days, Spurs played beautiful football.

I follow Scottish football but it's usually only contested between 2 teams and perhaps one other.

So who do you support ?

LIM ! I thought you were a San Jose Earthquakes fan ?

http://sanjose.earthquakes.mlsnet.com/MLS/sje/index.jsp

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The Tartan Army, the official Scotland supporters club were voted by FIFA as the best behaved football fans in the world.!

thats why i hate it when people say 'british' football fans are the most violent and dangerous. They mean English..

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The best fun I had was when the Irish and especially the Scots had to play in Brussels for the Euro qualification. Although they lost there was no trouble at all, just boozing. Thousands of kilts in Brussels, that's unforgetable!
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LIM ! I thought you were a San Jose Earthquakes fan ?

http://sanjose.earthquakes.mlsnet.com/MLS/sje/index.jsp

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San Jose Earthquakes ?!!!!!!?????????????
I've never heard of them until you supplied that link, lwedge.

I hope their name isn't tempting fate !
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The Tartan Army, the official Scotland supporters club were voted by FIFA as the best behaved football fans in the world.!

thats why i hate it when people say 'british' football fans are the most violent and dangerous. They mean English..
A co-worker friend of mine had (he works in Crawley Eng.now) a picture hanging in his cube of he and his girlfriend and another couple. The picture was taken outside a stadium in Scotland just prior to a Soccer,Football,Futbol match. He and his friend were dressed in Kilts (clan tartan I don't recall) with faces painted blue and white, with no shirts on and their girlfriends looked pretty hammered.

He told me that's the way they dress for the big matches and he has never had altercations with other fans.

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San Jose Earthquakes ?!!!!!!?????????????
I've never heard of them until you supplied that link, lwedge.

I hope their name isn't tempting fate !

It's MLS Lim, we have a'ways to go. It's good soccer and very South American style but relies on individual athleticism and not fundamentals and team concept (in my opinion).

Landon Donavan played for the Quake's , he would be the only player you might recognize on this team. I think he played to Bayer Leverkusen for as well.

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There has been an injustice at Old Trafford. Even Fergy reckons that Barnet were treated unfairly.
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Yeah, I knew his full name, but at least his nickname was a bit more original than the "R_____o" thing.

On your other posts, the best things about Belgique is the beer (YaY!) and the cyclocrossin' (w00t! w00t!)

Beer n' Mud, Served Cold - it works for me!


(...don't forget that guy named Merckx...and one Museeuw. See my avatar. )

Now, you mention it...Ronaldo, Ronaldhino, Rivaldo, Rivelino, Romario...What's up with that? I think they like the sound of it

Wow, you know Belgian beers, cyclocross and even the Flemish Lion flag! That's unusual for Americans, but then again you're a cycling fan
Lot's of US riders come here to become professionals, Lemond being the most famous one....

The cyclocross season till know has been very much a showdown between Sven Nys and Bart Wellens...the other ones are way out of their league. Hopefully some other riders will start winning too, to make things more exciting, perhaps when the weather starts becoming worse...

well i'm off to a typical American thing: a Halloween party! (tough i think it's a celtic/Irish tradition). It's gotten very popular here these last 10 years. Anyways I'll start off with some duvels and chimays, them some stella's and finish with jupilers, off course. cheers!
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The Tartan Army, the official Scotland supporters club were voted by FIFA as the best behaved football fans in the world.!

thats why i hate it when people say 'british' football fans are the most violent and dangerous. They mean English..

True!

English (or a part of them) supporters can be so nationalistic, like they think they still dominate the world or something. When they played the Germans, they shouted at them how England won the war and on the other hand alot of the English were making Hitler greets in the street....makes no sense at all

Anyway, they did most of they're fighting with the Arabs, which they thought were Turks, because 2 English were stabbed in Turkey a few weeks before the cup.
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What, no Chelsea fans here? They kicked the crap out of Bolton last time, and are on top of the heap right now.

Chelsea supporters tend to come from West and South of the River Londoners. They've won nowt for 50 years, until Abramovic pumped them up with untold wealth. They have no pedigree in terms of support or success.
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What, no Chelsea fans here? They kicked the crap out of Bolton last time, and are on top of the heap right now.

All the Chelsea fans are too busy writing books about "The life of a soccer hooligan."
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England: Everton or anybody who plays against ManU...

Don't really watch too much european football.

Next world cup? Hmmm tough one. Germany/Holland or anybody who plays against Italy!
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All the Chelsea fans are too busy writing books about "The life of a soccer hooligan."



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All the Chelsea fans are too busy writing books about "The life of a soccer hooligan."

LOL! But wouldn't that be "The life of a football 'ooligan."?
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Now, you mention it...Ronaldo, Ronaldhino, Rivaldo, Rivelino, Romario...What's up with that? I think they like the sound of it
That's what I mean about the Brazilian players, all those R_____o names are too much alike IMO.

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The cyclocross season till know has been very much a showdown between Sven Nys and Bart Wellens...the other ones are way out of their league. Hopefully some other riders will start winning too, to make things more exciting, perhaps when the weather starts becoming worse...

I'm surprised that guys like Vervecken and Groenendaal (Dutch champion) haven't done better in the first 2 World Cup outings, but you're right - the courses have been dry for CX. What we need is some real mud and slime to even out the prospects, but there's still a ways to go yet.

And what about those Czech's? Watch out for them!

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