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......who would you support?
I realize this is an unlikely scenario but it's late and I'm bored. My choice would be Bolton. I like how Sam Allardyce takes players nobody wants and makes a good team out of them.
RichardL
11 Sep 2004, 10:28 AM
tough one. I don't know if a lack of any obvious other club nearby makes a choice harder or easier, after all, if such a club did exist they'd be Reading's 'hated' rivals and it'd be hard to start supporting them. Even the local non-league clubs are in very poor shape. There have been days when I've gone along to watch the nearest non-league team to me (Bracknell Town), but they only get about 100 people at their games, and the "stadium" is little more than a footpath covered by the occasional "bus shelter" style roof behind one goal, with a series of small shabby structures down one side. Even with 1000 people there (for a 4th qualifying round FA Cup tie v Barnet last year) there was no atmosphere at all. I just can't get into the grass-roots non-league side of the game. I just think you need that sense of enclosure that exposed non-league grounds lack.
They are supposed to be moving to a new bigger conference standard stadium in the near future once they sell their current town centre ground, but it's all very speculative at this stage.
In any case, a large part of the fun of going is meeting up with mates I've known for years. I just don't know if I could stick it.
Clan
11 Sep 2004, 03:10 PM
In any case, a large part of the fun of going is meeting up with mates I've known for years. I just don't know if I could stick it.
Try moving away (for good) - it's even worse ;)
sendorange
11 Sep 2004, 08:38 PM
I most likely wouldn't bother supporting anyone. Just take good games as they come, save a lot of time and money.
prk166
11 Sep 2004, 08:41 PM
......who would you support?
I realize this is an unlikely scenario but it's late and I'm bored. My choice would be Bolton. I like how Sam Allardyce takes players nobody wants and makes a good team out of them.
Given the poor financial shape of so many clubs (Milt-K, Bradford, Leeds, Lincoln, et al.), I wouldn't call it unlikely.
yossarian
11 Sep 2004, 10:08 PM
Easy choice.....Portsmouth. They play a fun attacking style pretty much against everybody. Yakubu is a fun player to watch. And their supporters are tremendous. Plus...I love the theme to "The Great Escape."
Easy choice.....Portsmouth. They play a fun attacking style pretty much against everybody. Yakubu is a fun player to watch. And their supporters are tremendous. Plus...I love the theme to "The Great Escape."
I like Harry Redknapp as well.
Chris M
12 Sep 2004, 08:54 AM
I'd support Marine, one of our local non-league clubs.
Powdered Water
12 Sep 2004, 11:51 AM
Or if you're a trillionare, you could always start your own :rolleyes:
mad theory
12 Sep 2004, 01:51 PM
barnet or leyton orient
Gioca
12 Sep 2004, 11:56 PM
What qualifies as a non-league club? Amateur?
Los Libero
13 Sep 2004, 05:02 AM
A club not in the Football League (Premier League, Div1, Div2, Div3).
I'd follow Orient.
Warren_S
15 Sep 2004, 05:20 PM
Probably Crystal Palace, and if they go bust which is very possible probably AFC Wimbledon
Powdered Water
16 Sep 2004, 03:31 PM
Probably Crystal Palace, and if they go bust which is very possible probably AFC Wimbledon
I thought wimbledon is in bad ways as well? Last time I heard late last year they were in a crisis. They might go bust as well eventually.
PokerNSoccer
04 Oct 2004, 12:27 AM
If Arsenal ceased to exist I would become a Sp*r fan of course, for geographically convenience really.LOL!!! JUST KIDDING!!! UP THE ARSE!!
Winston Smith
04 Oct 2004, 07:54 AM
Leyton Orient.
I'd rather spend an intimate weekend with ArsenalFanUK than support Arsenal, or West Ham for that matter.
Derlei
08 Oct 2004, 02:44 PM
Swindon, just because my cousin lives there.
mls_in_canada
09 Oct 2004, 05:44 PM
With no Chelsea I would root for Man City. I love to HATE Man U!
Colin Bell the King
18 Oct 2004, 03:42 PM
I'd support Stockport County. Second closest club to me, well, now the first since we moved from Moss Side, and I used to drink in Stockport all the time.
Or either Oldham Athletic, lots of my friends support them, and I was always in Oldham this summer.
prk166
18 Oct 2004, 04:11 PM
Leyton Orient.
I'd rather spend an intimate weekend with ArsenalFanUK than support Arsenal, or West Ham for that matter.
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