Possible to love TWO clubs?


Don't understand it personally... I have a mate who absolutely loves us and Celtic, almost equally. Reckons he'd rather us beat them if we played each other though.
 
I think a lot of fans have a soft spot for other clubs for varying reasons, but in my opinion you can only love one. I love Sunderland,but have a soft spot for Sheff Wed,,don’t know why to be honest but I do,,,Astún Villa and Ipswich as they were the top clubs in 1980 or thereabouts when I first fell in love with football. Ipswich in particular with that white ball with the red stripe around it.
 
If you were brought up in one town, your dad in another and was a lifelong supporter of his hometown club, and your mam a third town, I wonder, potentially a 3 way split!
 
One club I love Sunderland. Above all

A few I have emotional connections to (Darlington - where I saw my first football match, Southampton for family reasons, Malaga because of the way their fans were with me and the bairn when we went to a match on holiday once, Hebburn as well)
A few I respect, (Everton are in that bunch)

The "other" clubs, I always want to see do well, and want them to win. As long as they aren't playing Sunderland or their result doesn't impact us.
I love two sides.... safc and england test cricket. Very rarely have to chose one over the other, but August is a difficult time

Perfectly fine in different sports.
 
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One club I love Sunderland. Above all

A few I have emotional connections to (Darlington - where I saw my first football match, Southampton for family reasons, Malaga because of the way their fans were with me and the bairn when we went to a match on holiday once, Hebburn as well)
A few I respect, (Everton are in that bunch)

The "other" clubs, I always want to see do well, and want them to win. As long as they aren't playing Sunderland or their result doesn't impact us.


Perfectly fine in different sports.
It's really great to hear the views of SAFC supporters! I'm passionate about Everton, but love to hear the views of other punters! It's really quite amazing just how alike football supporters are when it comes right down to tin tacks!
 
It's really great to hear the views of SAFC supporters! I'm passionate about Everton, but love to hear the views of other punters! It's really quite amazing just how alike football supporters are when it comes right down to tin tacks!

I think theres a lot in common with our fans. Both respected old-school clubs, both with noisy neighbours. Both had our ups and downs over the years (You've had more ups and weve had more downs!) but both well supported regardless.

Add in the way your club/fans went about with the Bradley Lowery display and I think it cemented a respect that was already there.
 
In this country there can be only one. I keep an eye on some teams in other countries, atletico Madrid being one. Torino after what happened in the air crash being another.
As kids we had forrin clubs we “supported” selected from the big subbuteo chart (which sell for good money nowadays) I think we were desperate to add some spice to the standard Man Utd v Everton players from the late 60s which became Schalke V Standard Liege for variation though I never took to any German teams and still haven’t.
Torino was my Italian team choice which was reinforced when I discovered the b&ws Juve were their enemies. Standard Liege, St Etienne also. 50+yrs later I still keep an eye out for them. They’re all doing shite atm. Depor became my team in Spain due to seeing em during their golden era and they’re bollocksed for the next 20yrs.
My blood flows deepest Royal Blue....I make no secret of that. My devotion to the Everton Football Club is TOTAL, has been since my old da took me to Goodison back in 1951.
However, there's another club that tugs at old daveyblue's heartstrings, and has done for decades: Sunderland AFC! I still remember seeing pictures of those packed terraces at Roker Park in the Charlie Buchan's Football Monthlys that I used to read so avidly, and wonder just how loud "The Roker Roar" actually was?? (I found out for myself one bitterly cold Saturday in February 1964!!) I'd heard my da telling me about "Shack" and Trevor Ford, and wee Billy Bingham.... how much he loved those games when Sunderland were a1st Division powerhouse. I got to see Sunderland play at Anfield in a second division game around new years 1958... wee Ernie Taylor was inside forward (remember those anyone? ;) :lol: :lol:) and the little man got his knickers in a twist about something that had been done or said to him! He grabbed a pile of mud and slung it at the ref! :lol::lol::lol::lol: (or in the general direction of the ref?) I almost pissed meself at THAT! But loved that he wasnt going to be sh*t on by ANYONE!! Sadly Sunderland lost the match, then a few days later came to Goodison for a 3rd round FA Cup tie which Everton won 4-0 (SORRY guys!) I remember Peter Wakeham in the goals, Kitchenbrand, Maltby, Wee Ernie of course! I'm not sure if Charlie was in the side that day, Amby Fogarty was another Sunderland player I knew.
As I've said elsewhere on this forum, I was smitten by the Mackems when I came up the L-O-N-G road north for a cup tie in '64. It (up to that time) was the furthest I'd travelled to see the toffees play. But walking around with the crowds down the narrow streets with all those wee terraced houses that surrounded Roker Park, I felt at home (SO like my own neighbourhood!), even down to getting some ciggies from one of the wee corner shops! The result was CRAP for me, but that day and warmth of the banter and the passion of Mackems has stayed with me! I kicked every ball in that '73 Final! Celebrated like one of YOU!

LOOK! I'll never have the pedigree of you'se folks! (I've a football culture of me own) but yours is always the result I look for after EFC!

Give those blokes from Geordie Arabia a "touch up" in the Cup!! make an old expat Blue happy!!
George Best got sent off for chucking mud at a ref iirc didn’t he? No mud on the pitches to chuck nowadays.
 
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My blood flows deepest Royal Blue....I make no secret of that. My devotion to the Everton Football Club is TOTAL, has been since my old da took me to Goodison back in 1951.
However, there's another club that tugs at old daveyblue's heartstrings, and has done for decades: Sunderland AFC! I still remember seeing pictures of those packed terraces at Roker Park in the Charlie Buchan's Football Monthlys that I used to read so avidly, and wonder just how loud "The Roker Roar" actually was?? (I found out for myself one bitterly cold Saturday in February 1964!!) I'd heard my da telling me about "Shack" and Trevor Ford, and wee Billy Bingham.... how much he loved those games when Sunderland were a1st Division powerhouse. I got to see Sunderland play at Anfield in a second division game around new years 1958... wee Ernie Taylor was inside forward (remember those anyone? ;) :lol: :lol:) and the little man got his knickers in a twist about something that had been done or said to him! He grabbed a pile of mud and slung it at the ref! :lol::lol::lol::lol: (or in the general direction of the ref?) I almost pissed meself at THAT! But loved that he wasnt going to be sh*t on by ANYONE!! Sadly Sunderland lost the match, then a few days later came to Goodison for a 3rd round FA Cup tie which Everton won 4-0 (SORRY guys!) I remember Peter Wakeham in the goals, Kitchenbrand, Maltby, Wee Ernie of course! I'm not sure if Charlie was in the side that day, Amby Fogarty was another Sunderland player I knew.
As I've said elsewhere on this forum, I was smitten by the Mackems when I came up the L-O-N-G road north for a cup tie in '64. It (up to that time) was the furthest I'd travelled to see the toffees play. But walking around with the crowds down the narrow streets with all those wee terraced houses that surrounded Roker Park, I felt at home (SO like my own neighbourhood!), even down to getting some ciggies from one of the wee corner shops! The result was CRAP for me, but that day and warmth of the banter and the passion of Mackems has stayed with me! I kicked every ball in that '73 Final! Celebrated like one of YOU!

LOOK! I'll never have the pedigree of you'se folks! (I've a football culture of me own) but yours is always the result I look for after EFC!

Give those blokes from Geordie Arabia a "touch up" in the Cup!! make an old expat Blue happy!!

Great post mate 🙂
And thank you for 'Geordie Arabia'
 
My blood flows deepest Royal Blue....I make no secret of that. My devotion to the Everton Football Club is TOTAL, has been since my old da took me to Goodison back in 1951.
However, there's another club that tugs at old daveyblue's heartstrings, and has done for decades: Sunderland AFC! I still remember seeing pictures of those packed terraces at Roker Park in the Charlie Buchan's Football Monthlys that I used to read so avidly, and wonder just how loud "The Roker Roar" actually was?? (I found out for myself one bitterly cold Saturday in February 1964!!) I'd heard my da telling me about "Shack" and Trevor Ford, and wee Billy Bingham.... how much he loved those games when Sunderland were a1st Division powerhouse. I got to see Sunderland play at Anfield in a second division game around new years 1958... wee Ernie Taylor was inside forward (remember those anyone? ;) :lol: :lol:) and the little man got his knickers in a twist about something that had been done or said to him! He grabbed a pile of mud and slung it at the ref! :lol::lol::lol::lol: (or in the general direction of the ref?) I almost pissed meself at THAT! But loved that he wasnt going to be sh*t on by ANYONE!! Sadly Sunderland lost the match, then a few days later came to Goodison for a 3rd round FA Cup tie which Everton won 4-0 (SORRY guys!) I remember Peter Wakeham in the goals, Kitchenbrand, Maltby, Wee Ernie of course! I'm not sure if Charlie was in the side that day, Amby Fogarty was another Sunderland player I knew.
As I've said elsewhere on this forum, I was smitten by the Mackems when I came up the L-O-N-G road north for a cup tie in '64. It (up to that time) was the furthest I'd travelled to see the toffees play. But walking around with the crowds down the narrow streets with all those wee terraced houses that surrounded Roker Park, I felt at home (SO like my own neighbourhood!), even down to getting some ciggies from one of the wee corner shops! The result was CRAP for me, but that day and warmth of the banter and the passion of Mackems has stayed with me! I kicked every ball in that '73 Final! Celebrated like one of YOU!

LOOK! I'll never have the pedigree of you'se folks! (I've a football culture of me own) but yours is always the result I look for after EFC!

Give those blokes from Geordie Arabia a "touch up" in the Cup!! make an old expat Blue happy!!
Love Pools (not Pool) but in a very different way to Sunderland.
 
No. It’s fair enough to have a soft spot for other clubs, but following, supporting and loving another club? Nah. Weird behaviour.

Agree - only one true love.

I sometimes go and watch Aberdeen for logistical reasons (not as much as when they were decent) - but it's just not the same.

I like Everton - but I think that's because I dislike Liverpool and they (Everton) have an Archibald Leitch stand.
 
Don’t mind Everton. Know plenty of people who have a second team. Some bigger. Some smaller. For me it’s Sunderland only in England. Then clubs I hate less most of the time. With a few clubs I don’t mind Everton, used to be city, Arsenal, Blackburn being a few
 

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