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So guys which British Football team should I follow?

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Christophe:
I know virtually next to nothing about the state of British Footballing Teams. I have friends who are (American might I add), and it perplexes me all the fucking time when they get into arguments over Manchester United and Arsenal, what have you. At least here I can care about local sports teams (like the San Jose Sharks or the Oakland As) because I feel some kind of geographical kinship and what not. I can't do that with sports teams from across the pond!

So I implore you, football fanatics from the British Isles who also post on this forum, as well as people stateside who can do that too: what teams should I develop an unhealthy fanatical devotion to? So far, Shane in meebo has suggested Aston Villa and NOT Leeds United (if only because Tommy was out of the room). Who knows--maybe I'll give only the most ambivalent support possible to your team, maybe I'll put on some facepaint and yell at the top of my lungs when I'm around my soccer-obsessed friends.

Ladybug:
I have been struggling with the same thing (because I get bored when the Norwegian football season is over, and at that time the British one has barely started), but I just decided that I would never get as excited about any British team as I get over my hometown's team (Bodø/Glimt førr evig!), so there was no point, because that's more than half the fun.

Anyways, several people I know have sat down with a list of all the teams in the Premier League (and sometimes the Championship), and just picked one randomly, while others have started following the same team as most of their friends did. If I were to follow a certain team, it would probably be either Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal or Tottenham, simply because those are the teams people around me seem most preoccupied with, and thus the ones that might "give" me the most.

valley_parade:
As I'd mentioned in the meebs, I'm a Man United supporter, but a lot of people who start following them (or Chelsea) now tend to get the "bandwagon" label.

Also, as a Man United supporter, I think I'd have to kick you out of the Anti-Deerhoof Society if you started following Liverpool or Man City. =(

Bowers:
Liverpool FC

We've won every other major cup going except the Premiership and we're in a great position to get it this year.
Very exciting time to be a Liverpool fan.

Christophe:
And risk getting my membership in the QCADS revoked? No way no how, sir.

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