As someone who used to live in Droylsden and is a former season ticket holder at Old Trafford, of course I will take it a little to heart when some plastic numpty who knows nothing about Chelsea beyond his TV set plays the game of 'football fan'. People like you are ridiculed all over Europe 'plastic fan', 'part-timer', 'armchair fan'...so I might as well do it here...
Were you supporting Chelsea when they were averaging around 15,000 fans per home game? Gareth Hall, Gavin Peacock, Dave Beasant, Mal Donaghy? Any of these Chelsea 'legends' ring a bell?
Of course not. They were far less appealing back then...
At least I started supporting United when they were shit...
lol..
this is truly a shame.. a crying shame..
since I around watching football, man united were never shit which tells me that you're probably an older fellah. For an older fellah to take some cursory old talk to heart like this tells me you a lil too engorged in this, you probably need to find a hobby.
i not shame to freely admit i have nowhere near the same level of emotional investment you appear to have in a football club that at the end of the day not paying my bills or getting me ahead in life.
i doh like having to state any credentials with regard to what team i choose to support but i'll say this much.. Growing up I was never, never a fan of english football and generally found it to be a shit league of hoof and run football.. i was constantly bored by a league that exhibited a lack of creativeness and invention and a dearth of quality players.. Italian football was my cup of tea, back in the days when it used to run on sunday lunch time before mastana bahar. i was the youth that used to rush the seat at the dining table that could see the tv in a reflection of a glass pane when baggio, vialli, lombardo, signori, baresi and such was in dey pomp. that was good football.
i only start paying attention to english football when there was an influx of foreign players and i took notice of chelsea as they brought in the italians.. Vialli, Zola, Di Matteo, Casiraghi and such made them the natural team of choice when I was forming opinions and developing loyalties, and the fact that they play in my favorite color blue help as well..
you see this whole senseless argument of club history and when yuh start to back the club and if yuh used to follow them back in 1903 when Theophilus Cunninghamton used to bang in de goals is way over rated as a barometer of who is a better than fan than who. I wasn't around when Gavin Peacock was playing so how de fork yuh want me to back him?!
you live in Droylsden (wherever that is), so what who cares. I lived in Fulham.
You had a season ticket (which u no longer own), so what who cares.. I've been to Chelsea league, Carling cup and champions league games. I also am a Barcelona fan and can claim to have been in the Nou Camp to witness Leo Messi's first ever La Liga goal and have the ticket stub to prove it. I most importantly, I am first and foremost a T&T fan and live to see them live at a World Cup.
For some one who grow up in Trinidad as a young boy harboring only a dream of one day watching my favorite teams live in the flesh, at the very least I can say I was lucky enough to experience more than most of my contemporaries.
If some idle comments on a message board hurt yuh heart so much, then maybe yuh over invested ass should find a man united forum to reside on other than coming to question man credentials on a soca warriors forum..
You seem to take life much too seriously, so lemme give u a last word of advice to echo that of another forumite..
By all means... Find ah bitch man! Ugly bitch, fat bitch, lonely bitch, any bitch.. just find one, any one!
