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fair comment mateYou can follow more than one, but don't think you can "support" two. Another team's results won't change your mood the way your own team does.
I love two sides.... safc and england test cricket. Very rarely have to chose one over the other, but August is a difficult time
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!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!
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.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.
George Best got sent off for chucking mud at a ref iirc didn’t he? No mud on the pitches to chuck nowadays.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?![]()
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) 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!
(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!!
fair comment mateNo. It’s fair enough to have a soft spot for other clubs, but following, supporting and loving another club? Nah. Weird behaviour.
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?![]()
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) 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!
(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.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?![]()
![]()
) 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!
(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!!
No. It’s fair enough to have a soft spot for other clubs, but following, supporting and loving another club? Nah. Weird behaviour.
.. and Durham CCC.I love two sides.... safc and england test cricket. Very rarely have to chose one over the other, but August is a difficult time
you, mate, are most welcome!!! They've been giving us shit for a season or two now, what a difference a few bob makes, eh?? (hasn't put any silver in their trophy room though all the same like)Great post mate
And thank you for 'Geordie Arabia'