Around me here we have little mining villages (like say 2000 people) and every one is either a Rangers or Celtic town and i mean noone in said town supports anyone else. I drive through one now i will see Union Jacks in windows, UVF graffiti and people wearing Rangers tops. Drive a mile up the road to the next wee place and its Tricolas, Up the RA graffiti and wee bams walking around in Septic tops

I'm Manc and proud :hmph:
But yeah...my Dad is a proud Lancashire bloke, sports mad and we were dragged up playing, watching and embracing all sports. If they showed knitting on the Sky Sports channels my Dad would watch it.

My mum classed herself as Manc but she still sounded like a southerner especially when she was mad

Great stuff. I like it.

In Hull we obviously don't have the religious rivalry you have but the rugby league rivalry between East Hull and West Hull is a huge rivalry.

I'm East Hull born and bread but I support the West Hull team because that's the tesm of my father.

So I've lived my all life amongst my rivals.

Hull Football club and looking good this season with West Ham legend's son Liam in charge

I saw all of his dad's career at West Ham - top drawer player

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You know as a huge Alfred Garnett fan that I have a lot of time for West Ham.

I remember Alvin Martin. Ray Stewart (the penalty king) Alan Dickens. Tony Cottee, Geoff Pike, George Parris and of course the great Alan Devonshire.

I once bought a West Ham shirt from Hull Market. It was the one with Avco as the sponsor. Late 80s

It wasn't that one. I think maybe around 87-88 or 88-89 season.

That looks more like it. But the home shirt. It was definitely adidas.

I was a big Tony Cottee fan at the time. And then he signed for Everton. He never relived his West Ham days at Everton. Although there were the odd moments.

Underrated I think ..

His only weaknesses were women and booze


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He was about 30 years ahead of his time .. he was outstanding even though the play back then was brutal if we’re being honest

CBs were allowed a few kicks at the opposition strikers even before a verbal warning


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I heard this discussion on talksport earlier and agreed with Goldstein

If you come from a big football family and going to your local team regularly is ingrained in you as a kid then it makes sense to support them. A lot of people aren't like that though and so will just pick a team for random reasons. I genuinely think I started supporting West Ham because I liked the name as a kid. We didn't have a 'local team' as such as it was a small village in Gloucestershire. There were the two Bristol teams but I never went to see them and they weren't that close. My nearest professional team was Forest Green and as an adult I've gone to watch them a lot but they were conference relegation battlers through my childhood. My Mum is from Newcastle and supports them but that was hundreds of miles from where I lived so never felt that bothered about it.

So West Ham it was and whilst I picked it I don't think that matters too much. I do appreciate though that there are many West Ham fans who grew up by the Boleyn, go back generations etc and it runs a little bit deeper for those people than it might do for me

West Ham must be the biggest name club that has never been English champions. I still find it bizarre that they've never been champions. Because they've always been a big well supported club.

The only time England won the World Cup. The goals were scored by Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters. Both of West Ham and the Captain was West Ham's Robert Moore.

Yeah I feel now really grateful to my 7 year old self because I picked a team with such history and a great fan culture. It's a proper club and I can get to games quite easily now but none of that was in my mind at the time haha

And yeah we never win the league and have had so many disappointments over the years but I'm not sure I'd have it any other way. That's something I knew even as a kid that I didn't want to just support the team who were winning the most

Fulham was an affordable ground to take our boys to watch Chamionship/Premier football when they were young….it was a family friendly club too.

Apart from Berwick rangers....who are English., sk they are a no go, hearts are my nearest team.


But I support them cause I went once and got the bug. Until the stupid all seater stadiums came in..ain't been since unless its backup final.

Did west ham a few times for a day out, nothing more than that really. Prefer millwall if I'm honest.

I dont actually mind hibs either, cause they are Edinburgh as well. Glasgow celtic and glasgow rangers are nothing but ****e off my shoe as far as I'm concerned.

So its probably locality that does it for me, cause I'm also very supportive of my actual home towns football and rugby and cricket teams. Dont go to the womens hockey, folk would call me an old perv.

Very nice area too.

Liverpool, because an uncle bought me PJs in the style of the kit when I was like seven, and I decided that must mean I support Liverpool, and never thought to deviate from that.

Oh yeah
..I was also a massive liverpool fan back in the day of jimmy case and super sub davie fairclough, he didnt only stand out for his hair that man.

But king kenny in Europe, some memories. I think I fell out of love with them when they brought out that yellow carlsberg away kit.

Still perched every time they play though,mainly because of robbo.

Two reasons.

1. I was born in Birmingham.

2. My first match that I ever watched was the one with the infamous Enckleman mistake.:joker:

Basically it went from there.

Out of interest does the St Helens area have a Football team? I'm curious because they are a very famous team in Rugby League, but have left very little impact on Football.

My ma's side of the family is from the peoples republic of Liverpool, so it was just how it was; I didn't make any decision.

Anyone that's an adult that believes in slogans like "up the RA" should be sent to one of the ISIS strongholds for a month, see if they'd say that **** then.

Used to love going to Fulham, what a great place to watch football