Who are the Baltimore Orioles of English football

Chelsea

 

"Who are the Baltimore Orioles of English football?"

By this you mean, "Who has the second-best record in all of England over the past 4 decades", right?

 

This may come as a great surprise to you Dave but I doubt that any supporter from England of the EPL has heard of the Baltimore Orioles or that other team you mentioned. (I assume that they’re baseball teams) If they have you can bet that they don’t care a hairy rats arse.
Why don’t you take it to the MLS board, I’m sure you’ll get a response there…!!!

 

Newcastle

 

Chelsea.

Washington Redskins and New York Rangers for American football and hockey repectively.

As for the Oriole snob - yeah, they were good 20+ years ago, but they've underachieved like no other team under Angelos, particularly over the last six or so years despite everything he's spending. The Yankees are the most storied baseball team of all time, yet THEY were this team 10-15 years ago until Steinbrenner learned how to spend his money right, so get over it!

 

A number of options:

Man Ure: For Jim Palmer, read David Beckham. Both great players, both spend half their lives trying to look pretty.

Man City: For Cal, read Stuart Pearce.

Derby County: For the (financial) reasons you gave. For Camden Yards, read Pride Park.

Brighton: For soft shelled crabs, read crabs (everybody's got 'em in Brighton).

Surrey County Cricket Club: Read Baltimore Colts. Their local football team (Wimbledon) is about to disappear into the night, too.

 

LOL!

This is up for debate?

It's Chelsea. Of course it's Chelsea. Who else could it be?

 

Uhhh...I am over it. I was joking. Try it--you might like it.

 

Has there ever been a English footy team that got screwed by some little snot nosed punk running out in front of the goalie as he was about to make a save, picking up the ball and throwing it into the net, and the refs miss it?? Then, that little punk becomes a media darling, only because it happened in New York, where anything goes...while if it happened in Baltimore to the Yankees, he would have been villified by the media for ruining the game!!

Then, the team that gets that break, wins the Premiereship thanks to that fan interference.

Has that happened? Because that team is the O's of English footy.

 

Chelsea. No question.

 

I don't think so, but I have been to a match where Reading were 2-1 down in the last minute and a shot that was going wide was turned in by a Reading fan who jumped over the wall - and because many of the 4,500 Reading fans at Bournemouth that day had such a poor view they couldn't tell and there was a celebratory pitch invasion (it was last day of the season and we were champions). After much confusion the referee gave a goal kick, but the results service CEEFAX had already given the goal. Oddly that disallowed goal wasn't deemed worthy of being on the match highlights on TV that evening.

 

Watch it bub...

 

I would have to say Man City are the O's of the EPL.

Both teams had enjoyed success in the late 1960's & early 1970's but their history since apart from the odd FA Cup or World Series trophy has been a disappointing one. Infinitely jealous of their rivals (ManYoo and the Yanks, respectively), they both have decent fan bases but little in the trophy cabinet of note in recent years.

 

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Good answer
We've got a couple of asses (arseholes) on the Beautiful Game board going on about US football.
And you bringing the latest on baseball, makes me wonder why you just don't find a nice corner you can all bugger off to and argue among youselves and not inflict the two most boring games on others. Or do you feel that misery loves company..

 

I would say Everton or Man City. They both have the potential to be very big clubs but never seem to make it and are dominated by their neighbours Liverpool and Man Utd.

 

Damn people get over yourselves. I thought it was a properly placed question especially for those who have spent a lifetime in the US and are new to the Premiership. That said, Chelsea!

 

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I really hope you're an Englishman living in WA. If not, there's no excuse for your faux-English slang you're perpetrating.

 

>We've got a couple of asses (arseholes) on the Beautiful Game board going on about US football



He's only proving his own point

 

Agreed. It's perfectly acceptable thread subject. If you are so uptight that you can't stand even the smallest discussion on sports that YOU personally don't like, then get a life and move on to things that intersest you.

 

Yeah, but he has got a point. I mean, American football!! Jesus H Wept, it's the daftest pursuit ever devised by man. And I say that as someone from the country that gave cricket to the world. I happened to be in New York for the 1999 Superbowl and went to one of those "Superbowl parties" you lot all seem to have for the occasion. It consisted of 12 people all sitting in the kitchen stuffing their faces and boozing whilst about 2 people sat in the Lounge actually watching the game. The rest of us would rush in an out to catch the latest commercials that are premiered during the game.

I don't even remember who was playing, or who won, or where it took place.

Now, can you imagine that scenario on FA Cup Final day?

(Yes, yes, I'm sure it's great really ... )

 

Superbowl parties, generally, are torturous. A large group of people who rarely watch the regular season, then get together to discuss clothes and gossipp while a few stare drunkenly at the TV.

I was referring to this thread, and it's purpose of showing new premier league fans the identity and personality of certain clubs by comparing them, quite well, to American professional sporting teams that they already know about. It's a perfectly acceptable thread for these boards and anyone who doesn't think so is just being a football/soccer snob.

 

P.S. Go Cowboys

P.S.S. Go Giants (S.F., that is)