Question Do you support another side?

[Smiffy]

Have supported Southend all my life and always will. I bleed blue blood. No team will ever get in the way of watching the lads, including Engerrrland. I do however follow Liverpool. Always have since a kid, as they were the team that was always on telly and in the news. Never been to a game at Anfield, but I usually tune in if they are on the box. It never get's me as excited or frustrated as a Southend game, so it's just another team to look out for really. If we managed to play Liverpool again in the cup, there would be no drama as to who I would support. Southend every time and I would love it if we smashed the scouse *******s to be honest!

 

[Rob Noxious]

FAO Nick James --- 'I Confess'

Good thread topic, Dave.

I was born in 1960 and was a West Ham fan when I was young. I think it came about as a result of the '66 World Cup. I can remember seeing The Blues first though (Workington 7-0, '68) before I got to see West Ham, my brothers taking me to a game at Upton Park in the late '60s (v Burnley, 5-1). Although I did get to a lot of our games on Friday nights in the early '70s under my own steam (but with money from my mum to get in), I considered Blues to be my second team until we played WHU in the League Cup in '79. During the first of those three games, standing in the old Paddock in front of the East Stand, I realised I wanted Dave Cusack et al to win. I'd just moved up to London then so it was my first feeling that 'home is where the heart is,' as TSNB recently suggested. In recent years, I've become very fond of Fulham - it's that riverside walk to Craven Cottage and a (possibly misguided) feeling that it's still a 'community' club amidst the Premiership razzamatazz. I don't have much affinity with WHU at all now, except for some good memories of seeing Trevor Brooking in his pomp and Billy Bonds' great heart for the game. So, here's hoping Brettie Angell and other esteemed Zoners who hate 'Wet Sham' will forgive me for my childhood sin. :embarrassed:

 

[canveyshrimper]

Rob, confession is good for the soul. I'm now off to ban you for dabbling on the dark side.

 

[Shrimpersfan]

I've been to the emirates a couple of times to i would go for Arsenal as my preferred prem team (and the fact that if they win anything, they would not have 'bought' glory), also go to Posh games occasionally.

 

[Mad Cyril]

I don't support any other team but I do wear other clubs tracksuits and leisurewear that I have picked up cheaply from eBay or from the local paper.

 

[galvatron1983]

My family is from Leicester and I was born there so the first football team I supported was Leicester City, following City goes back 100 years in my family. My dad shipped the family down to Essex when work took him there, so we followed City from afar without ever being able to go.

Eventually around the age of 13 I got bored of only ever watching footy on the telly so I asked Dad to take me to a real game, my dad was curious to see what Roots Hall was like so he took me in 1998, loved it and we kept going back! I follow Southend but will always have a soft spot for City due to the strong family ties...

 

[wally4pm]

Well my other team when I was a boy was Spurs. However, I grew up supporting Romford in their Southern League days (back in the 60's) and I remember that we often played Southend in the Eastern Professional Foollight Competition and of course, the Essex Professional Cup. I remember when Southend played Brentwood in the FA Cup and we went to cheer Brentwood on because they were such massive underdogs and Southend were such a big team! (The score was 10-1 to Southend if I remember correctly). Anyway when Romford folded in the early 70's I had no team to watch because I didn't want the travelling up to White Hart Lane, so I started watching Southend because all my family lived in the area. The love affair has continued to this day. For 14 years Romford were non exsistant until they reformed and they are now in the Ryman League. I watch them sometimes when Southend are away. Funnily enough, most of their supporters who watched Romford with me when we were teenagers are still attending their matches now and we are now all ageing together.
So its Southend first, then Spurs & Romford! (Or as I like to describe it, my big team, my middle team and my little team). I remember on the 4 times that Spurs have played Southend recently, I've watched them all and supported Southend on each occasion. I also support any team that Arsenal are playing on that particular day!

 

[bigmolt]

I bleed blue. Southend are the only team for me. But i do support any team wet sham are playing. God i hate them, nearly as much as i love the Blues !

 

[mattytheshrimper]

sufc is the only team for me

 

[Greenelk]

SUFC through and through, and delighted to see my 12 year old following suit. I'm a coach at Harold Hill Youth FC, and for that reason alone, I watch out for our boy Jonjo Shelvey each week at Liverpool, but would like to see him do well, not that bothered about the club. And if you can get decent odds on him scoring for England's first team, grab them, because it will happen!

 

[Suffolk Shrimper In Dorset]

SUFC first and foremost whatever.

But common with many at Uni far from home I ended up following my Uni town for a bit, namely Plymouth Argyle. Was delighted when Dave Smith went there, top man for us and Argyle.

Fortunate enough to follow Argyle to the semi's of the FA Cup in 1984.....after they beat SUFC in Round 1! That cup run was full of amazing memories:

- shoe horned in with 7000 other Argyle fans to a corner of the Hawthorns in Round 5 as WBA under-estimated big time the size of the Argyle travelling contingent. Johnny Giles and Nobby Stiles were welcomed on to the pitch as the new dynamic Albion management duo at the start of the game and booed off at the end as Tommy Tynan (top footie name after Billy Best) netted the winner for Argyle. It was so rammed in that ground that many fainted, a mate got arrested for accidentally knocking off a coppers helmet but they gave up trying to squeeze him out of the crowd and he escaped in the end. Mixture of frightening and wonderful at the same time.
- Derby at Home Park in Round 6, 35,000 there and again packed. At that time Argyle had one huge all-standing side under cover and with that many in it if you were in the middle there was no way of getting out until the crowd left. This guy in front of us shouts its no good and he has got to have a dump, with no way of getting to the bogs a small space is cleared for him and he duly off-loads and was thankful of the programme someone didn't want. A few seconds later Argyle steam forward, Gordon Staniforth smacks one which hits both posts and all think it went in (it didn't), the crowd go mad thinking its a goal and the space around our resident ******* gets closed and forgotten. Checked my shoes before going indoors that night.
- Derby away in the replay, a winner direct from a corner at the Baseball mud heap. Wonderful.
- Watford at Villa Park in the semi, the Holt End is split in two with yellow on one side and green on the other, an amazing site. Argyle should have won but a jinking run by Barnes and a shot by Reilly puts paid to the impossible dream of a third division club making it to the FA Cup final. Agony.

Great times, and some others too, but none of course match the countless others with SUFC

 

[West Stand Benfleet Blue]

SUFC since 1957!! however Chelsea were my school boy team and I have followed then ever since but not a supporter like I am of Sarfend!

 

[Ron Manager]

I support Southend, I follow Brisbane Roar over here

It could never compete with my love for the Shrimbers but I really enjoy going. .Great craic with the lads in a fantastic stadium in brilliant sunshine (most of the time). They're also an amazing team this season who could win the league today and I'll be there to see it. Thing is though I'd still rather be at Barnet given the choice....

 

[The Big Shrimp]

I moved to Southend when I was 10 & it was almost love at first sight for me at RH. I loved being allowed to go to games on my own or with school friends, it was brilliant.

I used to feel guilty at times supporting SUFC & not my "first love" who are my family team that I grew up supporting from a very early age! I still have a soft spot for them & hated seeing them play SUFC, even though I've forked out for a season ticket for the last 5-6 seasons & have seen us play all over the country, most you will know.

I cannot change my roots or my upbringing, but after 36 years living in Southend, I think I can call myself a Southend boy!

 

[galvatron1983]

Its seems that many of us here are following the blues as a result of a big family move, and Southend ended up being the local team, taking over from the team of our roots. With the world of work the way it is these days its hard to stay in one town your whole life and support one team forever like our grandads did I guess.

 

[Flinty]

Always followed spurs as a kid and still do and love it when arsenal lose ! Would always take Southend over spurs in any game though now. I have also seen Exeter a number of times at grays daggers and at wembley a few times as my mate is a big fan. Might even be back there again this season  thats more of a fun thing though and the fans alone are amuzing enough 

 

[E for B and Billy Best]

Only Southend but love any team that turns over the prems self proclaimed top 4.

 

[Halstead Blue]

Southend only for me as well. I have no interest at all in the premier. I look out for a couple of other results, Dumbarton for some reason and Halstead (where I live). I have to say that I would rather see Southend get back to the Championship than England win the world cup.

When I was a kid I also supported Ipswich (the late seventies) and remember once bawling my eyes out on the south bank when the results were read over the tannoy and Ipswich had lost in the cup!

I love a passage in Frank Skinner's autobiography. It is along the lines of "once you are old enough, you must look on a map and find the nearest professional club to where you were born. You must then support them until you die, that's the rules". Well I was born in Rochford hospital. Simple as really......

 

[* ORM *]

Used to go to White Hart Lane in the 80s if Southend were oop north. Never a live or die 'fan' but they are still close enough to my heart to enjoy the recent success. I never used to like Redknapp but he has been a revelation and proved he can run a team with money as well as without. Follow results of Livingston and Forfar. When I was a nipper Meadowbank and Forfar regularly fought the bottom two places in the Scots league. I know Livingston is slightly MK Donesque but still follow progress

 

[Onion_Bag_Dave]

Nobody else, apart from I follow a Danish team 'Bronshoj'. http://www.bronshojboldklub.klubcms.dbu.dk/default.aspx.
Division 1 Danish football attracts about 800 - 1,500 a week. They where supposed to be relegated this year because the teams are very strong.
I follow them because my Dad lived in Denmark for 6 years and his best mate supports them.

http://www.soccerway.com/national/denmark/1st-division/2010-2011/regular-season/

They are sitting sweetly in 4th which to even the most rose tinted is amazing, and are on a big winning streak at the moment.

COME ON YOU WASSSSPPPSSS!

Their equivalant to our Blue Voice is The Drunken Army. They are basically a bunch of rock and roll bikers covered in tatoos that have adopted Bronshoj as their club and they create some quality but crazy atmosphere. They sing songs such as English classics like 'We are Bronshoj super Bronshoj' and others they sing 'Take your shoes off for the lads' within a couple of renditions all these massive geezers are holding their boots and shoes in the air.

The last time I saw them play was our first game of the season, when I was on holiday in Denmark and Blair equalized in the 95 minute and I was looking at the old phone for the results and gave up as I thought it was game over with 3 minutes gone, and a Bronshoj fan kindly let me know we had equalised! DRUNKEN ARMY!

DRUNKEN ARMY, DRUNKEN ARMY!

[video=youtube;xWYVejpKU88]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWYVejpKU88[/video]
CASUALLY SITTING ON THE TOP OF A VAN THEY SET FIRE TOO.

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IN THE STAND WITH A COUPLE OF FLARES.

Quality days out, you can drink in the stand, people just keep bringing beer over and the football is of a good standard. They have some descent players and their manager is Bo Henriksen, he played for Kidderminster and he has actually scored against us I believe.

THERE'S ONLY ONE BO HENRIKSEN! Hope this doesn't get flooded in loads of posts, as it's nice to make people aware of small clubs like this in other countries.

Apart from that I can literally not follow any other team!

BRONSHOJ DRUNKEN ARMY!