When you started supporting you team, Why you did..

I started consciously supporting Arsenal when I was 5. My dad was a season ticket holder so he used to take me to a lot of games. I also lived about 2 minutes away from Highbury.

My worst moments supporting Arsenal have to be leaving Highbury, losing David Dein within a year of that, having the awful Freddie red line in my hair and the FA Cup final '01 (my first cup final) Fuck you Owen.

Best moments: At home to Everton on the final day of the 97/98 season. My idol scoring the fourth goal and I was right behind the goal. Winning titles at Old Trafford and White Hart Lane (unbeaten that season too.)
'02 Cup Final. My second cup final in two years and we won.

My first away game without adults was special too

Liverpool, all my life.

My dad used to go to all the matches home and away during the 70's and 80's.

Earliest memory: Errr. I used to get all the tops when I was a young child, but I first got into football when I was about 7.

Highlight: Going to Liverpool vs Chelsea semi final 2005. Amazing match, and the crowd was amazing. Also Istanbul and Liverpool finishing 2nd in 09.

Worst point. The two yanks and Purslow destroying the club, Rafa being sacked. Hodgson being Liverpool manager.

Come from an essex family of Arsenal fans despite always living in London/Spain, I like Madrid because of my girlfriend but I can't be bothered to follow them and Arsenal's always No1.

Best memory - Watching Fabregas as a teenagers in carling cup games/premier league games. I would always say he was my favourite over Henry until he stepped up to the first team a year later.

Worst - This season, knowing we wouldn't do anything about the team and the actual shock that it happened. Not really a bad memory but oh well

Over n out

I was brought up to support my local club. Wasn't really a big fan of football but then I watched Arsenal and fell in love. I will always support my local club but being in league 2 is quite booring

Local team; Dad supports them and he got me going. When i was wise enough to choose i stuck with Hereford becuase it was logical to support my local team.

Earliest memory: Parry rounding Tim Flowers and hitting the post vs Leicester City FA Cup Round 3.

Best memory: Standing on Brentfords away terrace in my taz the devil suit with my mates in fancy dress watching us win promotion with a game spare.

Worst memory: Probably losing 6-1 away at Bristol Rovers in League 1, i questioned myself as to why i bother to support Hereford.

grenade187 wrote:I was brought up to support my local club. Wasn't really a big fan of football but then I watched Arsenal and fell in love. I will always support my local club but being in league 2 is quite booring

It's not just about the quality of football on show, it's about the whole day out. Amazing

I started supporting Barca in the summer of 2008, when I was visiting Barcelona, I had never really been interested in club football until then but when I was in Barcelona, so many people were wearing the shirts of the team and people were talking alot about the club and I was just really impressed how the club was so popular there, on every street there were at least 3 stores that sold stuff related to FC Barcelona, that kind of a thing didn't (and still doesn't) exist in Estonia... So yeah I was really impressed by it and I started learning about the club and started watching their matches and I liked the way that they played and I decided to start supporting them

Started supporting the gulls when I was three, best memory was avoiding relegation at Barnet, and partying in Barnet with about 600 other Torquay fans, stayed for 3 hours after the game finished, had to be removed by the police.

Worst was getting relegation from the football league 5 years ago, or when we got Chris Roberts in as chairman 3 years ago. Cunt.

Potato-7 wrote:

ClarkY wrote:

I've been caught.

All my life, I just went to Greece for a while between the age of 4-6, then came straight back here.

You ever been to England?

no,but i would like to.probably going to study there in a few years.

Ah, it is a good place to study, if you find the right place.

Can't really say when I started, just always sort of been a part of my consciousness. Used to go to away games with my dad. Been told that I was fascinated with all the banter and stuff that goes on as away fans.


In all honesty the best time was last year, the FA Cup semi (because I couldn't go to the final). Had a lot of good memories from before we were good, but doesn't compare.

When i was small my uncle who's been a gooner his whole life bought me this shirt..

http://hem.passagen.se/arsenalshirts/90-talet/hemma96.gif

Loved Arsenal ever since.

In all honesty, I was like 7 and didnt like football and a girl I liked supporting Chelsea, so I started from there. In fairness though, I did get in right before Abramovich so its saved a bit.

Best moment- Has to be winning the league at Bolton in 2005, or beating Liverpool in the CL semi

Worst- Barcalona semi final, was at the game and everything, absolute heartbreak.

grenade187 wrote:I was brought up to support my local club. Wasn't really a big fan of football but then I watched Arsenal and fell in love. I will always support my local club but being in league 2 is quite booring

Trust me, nothing boring about it.

VivaRonaldo wrote:and your best/worst memories from that time.

Post here

I'm not sure when i "started" but i became a Liverpool supporter because my dad just surrounded me with Liverpool.
(he went to Liverpool uni, It was a big deal because at the time apparently no one went from Iraq to England to study)


best memory..... Champions league final or when the yanks finally left the club(so amazing)
worst memory... Roy.

I don't know when I started to support Leeds, my Dad was never interested in football much but as a lad I had the usual kits, beach towels, calenders, annuals etc. Only started to go regularly a couple of seasons ago when I stopped working every Saturday, also been going to quite a few away trips in the past few years as I believe they're a better atmosphere and day out. Gutted I was too young/not in a footballing family to experience our Euro adventures though.



Best memories - Beating the scum in their own back yard, going up from league 1 on the last day when we could almost have blown it, coming from 3 down to beat Saints, Howson scoring with the last kick to send us to Wembley at Carlisle, the European adventure.

Worst - Where to begin. Losing 2 play off finals and a semi final to Millwall of all people, losing to Histon in the FA Cup, 2 relegations, losing 15 points, and all the other well documented bad times.

I was 7, and my Dad and some his mates took me to St. Mary's for the day, I saw Saints win, and was addicted from there.

Best memory: Probably the FA Cup semifinal at Villa Park, I was there, or maybe last season's promotion.

Worst: Rupert Lowe, single handedly ruined us, on the pitch we were useless, throwing away 3 goal leads, and then administration.

because im from Blackpool and have a connection to the club

best moment was winning the play offs and doing the double over Liverpool

worst was getting relegated just couldn't get over it

easley91 wrote:

grenade187 wrote:I was brought up to support my local club. Wasn't really a big fan of football but then I watched Arsenal and fell in love. I will always support my local club but being in league 2 is quite booring

Trust me, nothing boring about it.

My friend I can assure you that watching Bradford City is very boring
Shit hoofball
shit management
shit racist hooligan supporters
nice stadium
Delusional ambitions.
The Liverpool of L2

grenade187 wrote:

easley91 wrote:Trust me, nothing boring about it.

My friend I can assure you that watching Bradford City is very boring
Shit hoofball
shit management
shit racist hooligan supporters
nice stadium
Delusional ambitions.
The Liverpool of L2

I actually agree with that.

3 years ago, because I liked how the crest looked and the kits were cool.

grenade187 wrote:

easley91 wrote:Trust me, nothing boring about it.

My friend I can assure you that watching Bradford City is very boring
Shit hoofball
shit management
shit racist hooligan supporters
nice stadium
Delusional ambitions.
The Liverpool of L2

If I knew you were talking about Bradford I would've agreed straight away.

Bradford are simply MASSIVE

Radford, Sheffield Wednesday are worse in this league they generally think they are the greatest club the world has ever seen.

Well I started supporting Liverpool because well my dad supported them

but I only really got into it during the Champions League Final when my dad made me watch it. He was watching and it got to 3-0 at half-time so he got all pissed off and was getting ready for work. Then we scored 3 goals

and won it on penalties. That was probably the best memory

the worst memory is every time they lose because well I get lots of shit at school. I'm the only Liverpool fan at school

1500 kids nobody else likes Liverpool. WTF!

There was never any moment when I chose to support Forest, it just happened. First game I ever went to was in March 2001, a 1-1 draw against QPR. Another game I remember was in the 2001/2002 season at home to Man City, Stuart Pearce played against us.

Best moments have to be reaching the Play Offs in 2002/03, 2006/07, 2009/10 and 2010/11. Or better still, gaining promotion from League 1 thanks to Cheltenham beating Doncaster and us beating Yeovil on the last day. Forest 5-2 Derby and Man City 0-3 Forest have been nice results in recent years too.

Worst moments are being relegated to League 1, losing 5-2 at home to Yeovil fucking Town in the League 1 Play offs, losing ever Play Off campaign we've been in, and Steve McClaren's era. Never been so uninterested in football whilst he was here.

I started following Arsenal in about 1999/2000, the time when Swiss TV showed Premier League football for free
I was only eight at the time but the coach of my youth club was a big Arsenal fan and always talked about them, was also a close friend of my dad and together they gave me an Arsenal kit for my 9th birthday so I've pretty much supported them since then. I admit though I haven't been to a lot of Arsenal games, only been at the Emirates twice and saw some pre-season friendlies in Austria Planning on going to the Emirates this season though.

Best moments, there were a lot but it's got to be the Invincibles. 2005 FA Cup was amazing as well, simply because I never expected us to win it. It was also great to see the likes of Cesc and Henry developing into superstars, although that wasn't really a 'moment'.

Worst moments, also a bunch unfortunately, 2006 CL final has to be the worst though, the shambles of last season and the departure of Cesc were heart-breaking too.

Went to my first game at 5 but only really started supporting Rangers a year or two later. My dad supported them and I saw an Ally McCoist video of his and that was that.

Best moments are probably the 3-2 Scottish Cup win over Celtic in 2002 and any of the Helicopter Sundays where we came out with the trophy, especially 2004-05. Also, the UEFA Cup run was amazing, and the current three in a row is up there too.

Worst moments would be losing the league after that UEFA Cup run, coming third in 2005-06 and the subsequent Paul Le Guen era.

Spurs - Also appealed to be as a kid, and we didn't have a major professional football league down here either when I was a kid, so everything just went from there.

Best - Qualifying for CL or the Carling Cup Win
Worst - Being bottom of the table

Brisbane - Also were the closest team to me when they were created in what 2004/2005? . That's really it just the connection

Best - Winning the league, winning the final from 2-0 down with 4 minutes to go, and still being unbeaten
Worst - It's hard to say this, would have to be when we were fighting at the bottom of the table, and Farina got fired, but then Ange came in and turned everything around

I liked Henry and Bergkamp, when anyone asked me who I supported I said Arsenal and I've been like this since 2002, but I only stated religiously watching their games and started my true support in the 06/07 season.

Best memory, beating Barcelona at the Emirates or when we came back to beat Bolton 3-2 after being 2-0 down with 10 men.

Worst memory, losing the Carling Cup final.

Started supporting Liverpool when i was about 7 or 8 and the reason was because Kenny Dalglish was Scottish and was my footballing hero, then i realised how good Liverpool were at that time and i learned all about Liverpool from away back and that Liverpool football club has had a lot of Scottish people working and playing for it through out the years.

My worst moments as a Liverpool fan would have to be Hysel and Hillsborough and what happened at these games, the other worst moment was losing the League title in the last minute of the 1988,89 season the same season as Hillsborough so to be honest winning in football did not matter as much after what had happened that season.

My best moments ive got loads

1982,83 Season Listening to Liverpool beat Manchester United in the League cup final
1983,84 Season watching Liverpool win the European cup in Rome and winning the first ever English treble
1985,86 Season watching Liverpool win the League and FA Cup double and going to Anfield for the first time
1987,88 Season watching probably Liverpool's most attractive football playing team (John Barnes was just top class and so was that side)
1988,89 Season watching Liverpool win the FA Cup after everything that happened that season
1989,90 Season standing in the Old Spion Kop and i met all the players in that pre season and the following week after being in the Kop watching Liverpool win their 18th League title

Lots more like the cup treble in 2001 and winning the Champion's League in 2005