support your local football team

[Floydoid]

I agree mate.

I still follow Doncaster Rovers, from my 'home town' and the team I used to go along and watch as a schoolboy. Then in my student days in Manchester I took a keen interest in City, and all the years living in East Anglia I've been a keen Canaries follower. Can't understand the mentality of supporting a team from a place you've got no direct connection with. Others may disagree of course.

[Bob Singleton]

I suppose my "local" team should have been Wimbledon (non-league when I first started properly following football), but the reason I started supporting Chelsea in the late 60s is because my parents moved to West Molesey in Surrey and a few doors down from us was Eddie McCreadie, Chelsea's then left back. Chelsea trained just a few hundred yards up the road at a bank sports ground (now covered in mock-Tudor houses!) and because I became friends with Eddie's son I often used to get taken to Stamford Bridge with the rest of the family.

I do pop down to watch Molesey FC and Walton& Hersham from time to time.

Man Utd supporters are just like rats... you're never more than a few feet from one of them wherever you go in the world!

[Dave Wells]

I watched and supported Swindon Town during their hay-day back in 1969 culminating in beating the mighty Arsenal at Wembley to win the league cup (anyone remember Don Rogers ?) and gaining promotion. I was there at Wembley aged 10.

And then again for both the play-off finals (in Barclays private box) which were both won aswell to get into the Premier League. They remain the only club in the history of the premier league to gain promotion and get relegated without kicking a ball the first time they beat Sunderland ! The second play-off against Leicester City was a magnificent 4-3 game.

But my main 'big' club since 1964 has always been Manchester City.

[Brainsinmedick]

I was travelling back up to my home in Liverpool from London last November. It was four o'clockish so I decided to stop at Stafford services for a bite. It was a Monday and Liverpool had a home game against West Ham that night.
There were about five coaches in the car park. I went into the service station expecting to see some West Ham fans. Not one, it was full of knobheads dressed head to toe in red shite gear, mostly cockneys but some accents sounded like West Country.
These people are tits of the highest order. What really pisses me off about them is that I bet they have only ever stayed in Liverpool long enough to get off the coach, walk to the game and scurry back to the coach again.
Wankers the lot of them!

[modfather]

I support my local club and have watched them slide down the football league pyramid right down from the old first division and winning a major trophy at wembley(now the premiership) all the way down to the blue square premier and we still get gates on average of 5000 , i wouldnt change it for anything just a shame all the local kids are brought up on the premiership instead of watching football on there doorstep.

Btw the club is the mighty yellows Oxford utd