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So, who barracks for who? And how's your team doing so far?

My Victory's doing alright. We're 2-5-0 at the moment, the only unbeaten team. Not particularly great football, but they're getting points, which is what matters.

Liverpool, ugh. They were tops, then clubs had a break for international play, and since then we've sucked.

I'm going to bump this because football rules.

Ahh, football.

So, who barracks for who? And how's your team doing so far?
I support, in order of precedence, Scotland, Ayr United, Liverpool, Carlisle United and Glasgow Rangers.

At present Scotland are riding high (as high as we ever have) and I intend to enjoy the feeling at least until after tomorrow's game. Ayr have settled into the comfortable mid-table mediocrity that seems to be our level these days. Liverpool, as you mentioned, are failing to perform as well as they should, but Carlisle and Rangers are both doing well. It still looks like being a pretty good season for me.

football rules
Yes. Yes it does.

From the glory days of 92-93, when Dion Dublin was god among men and we reached the playoffs for the inaugural Premier League season, Cambridge United have slid down and out of the leagues and then deep into the obscurity of the South East Anglian Welterweight Conference Division 3 (or some such), which makes them hard to follow without going to their website.

However, this great idea, whereby the fans can contribute to owning their own football club in some sort of socialist paradise of business now has them running second after Leeds United as the best club to buy.

http://www.myfootballclub.co.uk/

So I'm hoping that this will be a revolution in football and that Cambridge will rise steadily once more to the giddy heights of The Championship, as the old 2nd Division is now aspiringly called, taking on such powerhouses as Ipswich and Tranmere Rovers.

There's not a single Premiership team I like and I'm of the strong opinion that you follow your local team through think and thin rather than jump on the bandwagon of whatever team is fancied right now.

Yet, in response to your post, I reserve 90% of my loathing for Liverpool, those prancing prima donnas who talk so much and fail to deliver time and time again aside from the European Cup, which is much suited to hoofing the ball upfield, defending tighter than a gnat's ass and generally playing football that would be better suited to cave men.

Just my 2c :)

Lol, I'm involved in myfootballclub.co.uk too.

I'm of the strong opinion that you follow your local team through think and thin rather than jump on the bandwagon of whatever team is fancied right now
Yeah, I have little time for those who switch their allegiances between teams as their fortunes rise and fall.

With that said, it might look a little strange that I support so many teams. There is a valid reason for this, however. I'm Scottish, and live in Ayr, so my support for Scotland and Ayr are easily enough explained. The very first football match I ever attended was the Merseyside derby in the 76/77 season. Knowing nothing about professional football at the time I picked Liverpool, who went on to win the game. They then proceeded to win the league (and won the league and the European Cup for the next 2 years) and signed the best Scottish player of those years (Dalglish, naturally) and so it is small wonder that I continued to support them. That may mark me as a glory hunter, given that my support began when they were winning, but in my defence I submit that I was but a young lad (besides, the dark days since the Premiership began more than make up for it, in my opinion).

The Carlisle connection is that my Mother's family are all from Cumbria, and a number of them had connections with the club, so I've been to a lot of games at Brunton Park over the years. As for Rangers, well, in the West of Scotland everyone seems to have some preference for either Rangers or Celtic. That my preference is for Rangers is simply because my Dad was a fan. Truth be told, I don't much care for anything to do with the Old Firm, other than that I will support either of them (or indeed, any other Scottish team) when they play in European games.

:)

Yeah, I support Melbourne Victory because it's the only top-level team in Victoria, I support Liverpool because my family does, and I support VfB Stuttgart because it's the capital of the German land my family is from.

Also, Karpaty Lviv because it's where my family is from, and I have a soft spot for Houston Dynamo because it's cute that the US has a Dinamo.

My team is second to bottom of League Two not saying anymore about it

Yeah, I support Melbourne Victory because it's the only top-level team in Victoria, I support Liverpool because my family does, and I support VfB Stuttgart because it's the capital of the German land my family is from.

Also, Karpaty Lviv because it's where my family is from, and I have a soft spot for Houston Dynamo because it's cute that the US has a Dinamo.

I support Melbourne Victory because, as you said, it's the only Vic team in the A-League.

I support Ipswich Town because I lived there for a year just after they won the UEFA cup.

You're not Potato Factory are you?

'mon the mighty, mighty Heart of Midlothian!

My flatmate is off to Hampden tomorrow to watch Scotland play Ukraine and I'm left to wallow in jealousy.

Leeds Utd for me, even though I live in London.

8 games 7 wins, 1 draw -15 points at the start of the season, we are doing terrific!

Leeds Utd for me, even though I live in London.

8 games 7 wins, 1 draw -15 points at the start of the season, we are doing terrific!

Figures - their hooligan style of play and criminal nature match your style of posting :)

Figures - their hooligan style of play and criminal nature match your style of posting :)

Bwhahahahah! Say you're a funny guy!:D

You mean of course their hard, never give up style of play?

Bwhahahahah! Say you're a funny guy!:D

You mean of course their hard, never give up style of play?

This being the style of play that's taken them where in the past few years?:D

This being the style of play that's taken them where in the past few years?:D

Oi Oi I'll blame that firmly on the management and the directors over the last few years!

I follow Newcastle on and off. But it all seems so pointless really. They'll never win anything, ever, for reasons no-one can actually fathom. (Well probably it's the in-fighting and volatile management). It's the curse of Jackie Milburn or something.

(A currently rather happy) Arsenal fan here. 8 league games played, seven wins and a draw (and top of the league with a game in hand), a 3-0 mauling of Sevilla in the CL, and our reserves knocked Newcastle's first team out of the league cup...not too bad considering the selling of one M. Va-Va-Voom in the close season.

Of course, everything's going to go horribly wrong when we play Liverpool and Manchester United at the end of October/start of November.

And from across the pond...

I'm a DC United fan. We've made the playoffs this year, had the highest average attendance and are probably the favorites to win the MLS championship.

Now, if we could only get the new stadium taken care of....