......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.
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.
I most likely wouldn't bother supporting anyone. Just take good games as they come, save a lot of time and money.
Given the poor financial shape of so many clubs (Milt-K, Bradford, Leeds, Lincoln, et al.), I wouldn't call it unlikely.
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 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.
If Arsenal ceased to exist I would become a Sp*r fan of course, for geographically convenience really.LOL!!! JUST KIDDING!!! UP THE ARSE!!
Leyton Orient. I'd rather spend an intimate weekend with ArsenalFanUK than support Arsenal, or West Ham for that matter.
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.
Celtic and Spurs really are my second choices, because our national competition ceased to exist last year and I lost my actual team. I find it hard to get into supporting a team that I really have very little connection to, and truth be known I'll probably ditch them when my club comes back in the new competition next year. Our family has a pretty long history of supporting Lincs City, but they're too hard to follow in Australia.
Bath City. I watched them play at home to Ilkeston in April 2003 -- at half-time, a lone voice in the crowd shouted out "BLOODY RUBBISH !!!" You can't beat the Beautiful Game at grass-roots level !