Why are we so hated in League 1


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Bolton can be chucked in there as well

You're right, it's not what I said, but I was selecting clubs that had bounced back as per the point the poster was making about asking Pompey if they get the attitude we do, sadly Bolton...

Yes, definitely should be on the list.
TBH, I have forgotten about Notts County original founders of the football league, now in non-league.

History has been far crueler to many than ourselves, I only discovered the once mighty Third Lanark were still playing! Notts Co must be the biggest fallers of the former elite along with Bolton (who have more honours), York, Wrexham, and a host of others are down there even deeper, but I don't think there is anyone with a big history.
 
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After the shit we have had to put up with over the years, why do these clubs,managers and their fans seem to detest us so much. The way Robinson and Barton have gone on making out that we are a bunch of arseholes that have referees in our pockets and are cheating our way out of the league. Surely its the opposite. I hope to fuck we get out of this league this time and leave these dickheads in our rear view mirror.
No one likes us no one likes us we are Sunderland we don’t care......
I love it when Swindon are hated.
 
I did soz. It's so easy to slip downwards but a lot harder to climb for sure.
All footy fans are the same everywhere, it's just a laugh to me, my club spent 5 years in non- league ( Luton ) drawing with bath university a particular highlight.

Our fans thought we were Brazil and everyone's cup final, we got up eventually but other fans had 5 years of laughter to remember forever.

Never thought Luton were on University challenge Mate :)
Can’t imagine you in a woolly jumper, Harry Potter scarf pressing a buzzer.
Got to laugh, the only way.
 
Read Southend ... playing vs us recent years, but now in danger of relegation to non league.

Oxford, Bristol Rovers, Fleetwood, Accrington, Wimbledon, Lincoln (possibly more)... all recently non-league clubs and with a small-time / "ooh, look at us we're over-achieving, aren't we great" siege mentality as evidence.
 
After the shit we have had to put up with over the years, why do these clubs,managers and their fans seem to detest us so much. The way Robinson and Barton have gone on making out that we are a bunch of arseholes that have referees in our pockets and are cheating our way out of the league. Surely its the opposite. I hope to fuck we get out of this league this time and leave these dickheads in our rear view mirror.

Because we're the biggest and best club in it. It's jealousy. Nothing more imo.
 
No one likes us no one likes us we are Sunderland we don’t care......
I love it when Swindon are hated.
I've never really given a rats knacker what anyone thought of us to be honest. I think a lot of fans down here get pissed off with us as they realize we have a more realistic way out, whereas they will most likely be planted here forever. You can excuse them for being bitter, id be bitter anarl if i had to watch this shit every week til i die. A lot of them are making the mistake of thinking our entire fanbase is represented by a few gobshites on twatter. If they met the regular match-going support I'm sure they would revise their opinion.
I am an alcoholic and was absolutey hammered and hateful that day.
It happens mate. Dont dwell on it. Take it easy.
 
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SAFC in league 1 will always have that target on our back. We're told we have a chip on our shoulder and think we're better better everyone. It's the total opposite for me and clubs, managers and fans have a real issue with us and we are the team they all want to beat.
 
😂 Alright then, I’ve said many times before and in this thread that we’re in this division on merit because of our terrible championship season where we deservedly got relegated. But how anyone can objectively think a club with our resources should be playing at this level is just daft and we shouldn’t be criticised for saying it.

We generate revenue from our support that outstrips every other club in this league by a significant margin and most clubs in the division above. We have a category 1 academy at our disposal that has regularly produced players who forge careers in this league, the championship, premier league and for England and we have the ability to spend more money on wages and fees than any other team in this league. If you add all of that together and still think we belong in this division then I have a bridge to sell you. The fact we haven’t been able to get promoted yet despite all of the above is again down to gross mismanagement from the directors, that’s no fault of the fans.

If other supporters dislike me for saying that it’s just envy in my view.

We’re not the first club this has happened to and won’t be the last, clubs like Leeds, sheff United, Ipswich, Leicester, Wolves shouldn’t be in this division either but at various times have found it happen to them.

We got ourselves into this mess through awful neglect and mismanagement, we now need to earn the right to get out of it by winning the games required. Me saying we shouldn’t be in the division isn’t the same as asserting we have a divine right to promotion, we need to earn it on the pitch and I’m fully aware of that.
Good post mate,can't argue with any of that. I think it's more the choice of words by some which grates.
 
After the shit we have had to put up with over the years, why do these clubs,managers and their fans seem to detest us so much. The way Robinson and Barton have gone on making out that we are a bunch of arseholes that have referees in our pockets and are cheating our way out of the league. Surely its the opposite. I hope to fuck we get out of this league this time and leave these dickheads in our rear view mirror.
Personally I couldn't give a shit how teams view us now. Not soo long ago we were a joke ... a byword for utter failure. At that point I learned I'd rather be hated than ridiculed..

Do you want your club to be liked or do you want people to respect even fear it?
 
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