NO ONE LIKES 'EM

NO ONE LIKES 'EM

Which football team do you really hate?
That's easy, now for the next one.
Why do you hate them?

Chances are that the answer to the first question was one of the following:

Small Heath, Albion, Liverpool, Leeds, Arsenal, Wimbledon, Manchester United, Wolves, Coventry, Spurs.

I'll go further and split the above into four groups and tell you why you chose them.

Group One

Small Heath, Albion, Wolves, Coventry.
You work/live/go to school/were born in that area and have to listen to the banal rankings of their followers.

Group Two

Wimbledon.
Reasons too many to mention.

Group Three

Arsenal, Spurs, Leeds, Liverpool.
You don't like the arrogance of their supporters, you despise the love affair the media have with these clubs and you are secretly envious that the lady who polishes their silver has been busy in recent years whilst her opposite number at Villa Park has been laid off for a decade.

Group Four

Manchester United.

Bet I'm not far out, am I? I'll also bet that twelve months ago not many of you would have put down no. 4 and the main reason you did so was because they won the title. But there are many more reasons than that why you should despise the gloryhunters.

Let's take a look at the Man Ure myth machine.

  1. They are not the biggest club in the world. They pale into insignificance compared to Rangers, Celtic, Milan, Real Madrid, Juventus and Barcelona.
  2. They have still won less trophies than Arsenal, Liverpool and Villa.
  3. 19,000 for a European game does not give you the best supporters in the world.
  4. No club has ever sold it's real supporters so far down theriver in favour of blatant commercial opportunism.
  5. They only granted 600 tickets to away supporters, yet expect thousands for their travels.
  6. Their supporters are arrogant bigots who know nothing about football played outside Salford.
  7. They won the title and it sickens me that we will be remembered as the team who finally gave it to them after 26 years and set in motion a wave of pressidolatry that shows no sign of abating.

So now tell me that you hate the Blues.

Taken from Issue 25