too depressed to care Gonz,
I'm off to kill myself.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:17, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

emo

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:22, Reply)

totally this.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:23, Reply)

L8erz

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:24, Reply)

I love it when an out of towner supports a team miles away purely because they win things.
And then that team becomes shit. It amuses me greatly.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:25, Reply)

This ^
And it's Bristol City.... Bristol City FC...
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:27, Reply)

The worst argument people say is it doesn't matter where the team's from and where you live.
If football clubs had nothing to do with where they're from, THEY WOULDN'T BE NAMED AFTER THE LOCATION THEY'RE BASED. They'd just be called Super Skills Athletic or Cool Cats United etc.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:31, Reply)

and you care loads about community don't you baz? when they go to the game you can nick their stuff.

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:32, Reply)

Or Jossy's Giants!

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:34, Reply)

I don't have to give you reasons why I support Arsenal but just to make a point my first visit to Highbury was
at the age of four. You were probably busy nicking rusks and being a chav baby to take an interest in anything that didn't involve being a shifty bastard/
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:28, Reply)

Lordy. You've got it about you today Bob!

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:30, Reply)

It's only football but still...

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:31, Reply)

That means nothing.
You support who your dad supports and if not you support your local team. If your old man supports a team hundreds of miles away he's just as much of a shithouse as you are. There are no other acceptable reasons.
Edit: I'm not directing the 'your' at you I'm speaking generally.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:32, Reply)

Right then.
I live in Edinburgh, I was born in Leeds, grew up in Shropshire, my dad believes football is pointless sport played by pathetic benders, my mum's a manc, by the universal rules of Barry, who should I support?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:37, Reply)

Bristol City.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:38, Reply)

Good call.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:39, Reply)

You can take the born thing out of the equation.
My granddad was born in Spain and moved to Putney, Fulham when he was two and that's how he started supporting the local bunch of shithouses. He passed it onto my dad who lived in South West London until he met my mum. Then the unkind twat passed on Fulham to me.
If you grew up in Shropshire then someone around there I reckon. West Midlands ain't it?
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:41, Reply)

why? I have no connection to shropshire bar a childhood where I had no choice where I lived.
I moved to London as soon as I could and I would never go back to live there. It holds nothing important for me, why should I have a football team from there?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:45, Reply)

Question Badger.
Do you actually like football?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:46, Reply)

I prefer cricket and rugby
but, yeah, football is OK.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:47, Reply)

I merely don't see the point of Barry's argument.
It would have some relevance if football teams had any connection to their local communities bar accidental geography, but that hasn't been the case for any high-level club for years. It's this pseudo-tribal local loyalty stuff from fans that's just the worst kind of deluded arse-gravy. IMO.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:50, Reply)

Man U supporter, aren't you?

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:54, Reply)

In so far as I ever paid any attention as a child, yeah
my mum was the only member of my family to have any passion for it and she's manc.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:55, Reply)

I remember you mentioning it a while back, I think.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:56, Reply)

If I was more interested in the game I'd probably go and watch Hibs
as they are my local team now. But the stupid bigotry does my head in up here, and I've got two decent rugby sides less than 100 yards from my flat so I'll stick to that when I'm not playing of a saturday.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:59, Reply)

And if none of your family follow football... I was taken by my old mans secretary as he had to work.
Have been following them ever since and go whenever I can. Geography means sod all.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:40, Reply)

being born in a stable, after all, does not make one a horse.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:41, Reply)

Horse-Jesus might disagree

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:44, Reply)

Oh wait I meant 'hung-like-a-horse Jesus' would disagree
www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2011/aug/26/jesus-macho-makeover
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:45, Reply)

Geography does mean sod all, I suppose you're right.
That's why when Wimbledon moved to Milton Keynes there was universal appraisal from everyone.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:43, Reply)

or perhaps
it really just doesn't matter
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:49, Reply)

*raises handbag*
oooh get her!
( rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:33, Reply)

Wait, this is about a single score on the football? Seriously?

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:35, Reply)

srs bzns

( rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:36, Reply)

Technically Gonz, it's about 8 individual scores on the football.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:36, Reply)

I felt well sorry for Jenkinson yesterday.
Then I realised he's a year younger than me (I hate that because it makes me realise even more than I'm probably never going to be a professional footballer) and used to play for Charlton. So fuck him.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:38, Reply)

"probably" ?

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:39, Reply)

Yes probably stop crushing my dreams.

(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:44, Reply)

Also, age is no excuse for anything
the average age of the two sides was identical.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:40, Reply)

it's always fun to see
what your age means you can no longer be
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:44, Reply)

Given almost all professional footballers of my age have retired now
I reckon I'm pretty much certain to not make the grade.

The fact that I couldn't have ever given less of a flying shit about playing football for a living might, however, have been more of a factor.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:47, Reply)

Woh', ohhhhh, I get it, it's a joke.
lots of people have worked lots of jobs before they got where they want to be. Most machallin star chefs have washed pans in shit restaurants while they learn their trade. Alan Sugar started out on a Market stool, doesn't mean he can't run Amstrad
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:51, Reply)

Jesus, one bad day and your fans want your head.
the other day I accidentally deleted the weekend's anylitical data, it's one thing getting a "please don't do that again", it's quite another that 100000s of people now think I'm worth actually murdering.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:54, Reply)

well, he demonstrably couldn't run Amstrad.
He just happened to get extremely lucky that even the most rubbish version of something can sell if everyone wants a bit of that something. Coming third in a two-horse business race is not really something he should be proud of.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:54, Reply)

it's more seriz biznes than the internet, here.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:38, Reply)

I know a Tottenham fan
He's being somewhat elusive.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:28, Reply)