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In Scotland it’s fairly standard for people to “support” an English team as well as a Scottish one. You usually find it’s armchair supporters (mainly Old Firm fans) that are most passionate about their English team but it is pretty widespread.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.
Aye same here, then it’s always but what Scottish team do you support, Rangers or Celtic? Neither, Queen of the South.In Scotland it’s fairly standard for people to “support” an English team as well as a Scottish one. You usually find it’s armchair supporters (mainly Old Firm fans) that are most passionate about their English team but it is pretty widespread.
Most of them “support” English clubs from “the big 6” (or teams who were big when they grew up - I’ve encountered a few Leeds fans in their 40s and too many Mags in their late 30s), although 2 of my best mates “support” Everton and Southampton.
People I don’t know seem pretty baffled when I say I’m a Sunderland supporter with my Scottish accent , and seem to assume I have a Scottish team as well.
I make their heads spin by saying I don’t have one. I like to see both Dundee clubs (have family and friends who support either side), Hearts (worked in Edinburgh for 4 years, mainly amongst Hearts supporters) and Arbroath (15mins drive from my house, still amateur in their 3rd season in a professional division) do well but would never go out of my way to follow any of them.Aye same here, then it’s always but what Scottish team do you support, Rangers or Celtic? Neither, Queen of the South.
Great Post mate. In answer to your question I don't think you can loveMy 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!!
Don't get me wrong, I've got a season card for SAFC because I'm 200+ miles from Molineux - Wolves being my Dad's team - (and the alternative of going to SJP to watch live football is a non-starter).fair comment mate![]()
Only kidding mate. Love your posts. Always worth a read.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!!
I also have an affair with bristol rovers safc always number 1My 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!!