| Danny Dyer Speaks Some Sense About Supporting A Club 21:40 - Mar 20 with 2359 views | SaintNick |
I have to say that I agree with what he is saying here.
"I was brought up in a place called Custom House. Tough area, right on the docks next to Canning Town. So there's always violence in here anyway, do you know what I mean? So with West Ham, it filters into that a little bit and again going back to tribalism this is our area we've all been sort of [supporting] at West Ham so I miss Upton Park. It really was this thing for me..."
- "The club chooses you. All these people who support clubs they shouldn't be. Support the team you're meant to support. Unfortunately, you're not a scouser. Especially people who support Liverpool that are not from Liverpool. I don't understand it.
You can choose who you want to support but I just don't think you'll ever have that real feeling of standing in a stadium where everyone speaks the same. It's like being a West Ham fan..."
- "Everyone sort of half-knows each other and these big clubs come to your ground to try and nick three points off you. And most of the time they would but now and again you'd have a [massive] win and it feels beautiful. And if you're a Cockney Red you'll never feel that. How can [you] be singing songs in Old Trafford about [the] Cochrane North and all of those things? It doesn't work for me. I've always struggled with it."
- "Nothing worse than two Cockneys, one Man United one Liverpool arguing over their rivalry. I go this is... Their rivalries are the docks back then. They run deep. It's about working, about social climbing, the fact they hate each other for no reason. You say go support Colchester. That's who you're meant to support."
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| Danny Dyer Speaks Some Sense About Supporting A Club on 07:55 - Mar 21 with 2106 views | cocklebreath |
Nothing groundbreaking there, I’ve given up moaning about it because it’s everywhere, I’ve seen people I know at Southampton train station putting on a Manc accent to fit in with the Man U fans. Weird behaviour.
I see people walking round proud as punch in a Liverpool shirt as if it makes them cool, it doesn’t it makes you a loser who’s using Liverpool to try and get a win in life.
Seeing young kids in the park by St Mary’s wearing Man U , Arsenal shirts and thinking there’s a proper football ground over there why don’t you support them? They can all meet up and go along together and be part of it rather than watch it on the telly and argue about how many trophy’s they’ve
The Arsenal game is going to be a full on plastic night, there will be Arsenal fans everywhere probably not even pretending to be saints fans. Seems the etiquette of keeping quiet has been lost. Can’t wait. |  |
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| Danny Dyer Speaks Some Sense About Supporting A Club on 08:06 - Mar 21 with 2072 views | SaintNick |
| Danny Dyer Speaks Some Sense About Supporting A Club on 07:55 - Mar 21 by cocklebreath |
Nothing groundbreaking there, I’ve given up moaning about it because it’s everywhere, I’ve seen people I know at Southampton train station putting on a Manc accent to fit in with the Man U fans. Weird behaviour.
I see people walking round proud as punch in a Liverpool shirt as if it makes them cool, it doesn’t it makes you a loser who’s using Liverpool to try and get a win in life.
Seeing young kids in the park by St Mary’s wearing Man U , Arsenal shirts and thinking there’s a proper football ground over there why don’t you support them? They can all meet up and go along together and be part of it rather than watch it on the telly and argue about how many trophy’s they’ve
The Arsenal game is going to be a full on plastic night, there will be Arsenal fans everywhere probably not even pretending to be saints fans. Seems the etiquette of keeping quiet has been lost. Can’t wait. |
The problem for kids is you cant just meet up and go along to the ground as generations did before.
For clubs the size of Saints you have to be accompanied by an adult if you are under 16, the only way to get around that would be to buy an adult ticket and not many kids can afford £30-40.
However the lower leagues and non league especially are reaping the benefit, Eastleigh, Totton, & Sholing all have their own little Ultra firms, as do Basingstoke, Poole etc
They are all Stone Island'ed up with Burberry scarves wrapped around their faces and stand outside the grounds after the game to goad the opposition.
The Basingstoke one is particularly odious and infamous | |
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| Danny Dyer Speaks Some Sense About Supporting A Club on 08:18 - Mar 21 with 2049 views | shotters |
| Danny Dyer Speaks Some Sense About Supporting A Club on 08:06 - Mar 21 by SaintNick |
The problem for kids is you cant just meet up and go along to the ground as generations did before.
For clubs the size of Saints you have to be accompanied by an adult if you are under 16, the only way to get around that would be to buy an adult ticket and not many kids can afford £30-40.
However the lower leagues and non league especially are reaping the benefit, Eastleigh, Totton, & Sholing all have their own little Ultra firms, as do Basingstoke, Poole etc
They are all Stone Island'ed up with Burberry scarves wrapped around their faces and stand outside the grounds after the game to goad the opposition.
The Basingstoke one is particularly odious and infamous |
Godalming Towns firm were pwopah nawty
Clad in Crew Clothing fleeces, yellow cords and boaties it was always a gamble whether you'd get back to Farncombe station in one piece
When Saints were away I used to go and watch them, could decide 10 minutes before kick off and it was 8 quid to get in. Saw them beat the current version of Rushden and Diamonds a few years ago, who to be fair brought a hundred odd down with them which doubled the crowd |  |
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| Danny Dyer Speaks Some Sense About Supporting A Club on 09:00 - Mar 21 with 2013 views | cocklebreath |
| Danny Dyer Speaks Some Sense About Supporting A Club on 08:06 - Mar 21 by SaintNick |
The problem for kids is you cant just meet up and go along to the ground as generations did before.
For clubs the size of Saints you have to be accompanied by an adult if you are under 16, the only way to get around that would be to buy an adult ticket and not many kids can afford £30-40.
However the lower leagues and non league especially are reaping the benefit, Eastleigh, Totton, & Sholing all have their own little Ultra firms, as do Basingstoke, Poole etc
They are all Stone Island'ed up with Burberry scarves wrapped around their faces and stand outside the grounds after the game to goad the opposition.
The Basingstoke one is particularly odious and infamous |
Ha I know all about the Basingstoke one, most of them play in the league my son plays in. | |
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| Danny Dyer Speaks Some Sense About Supporting A Club on 11:04 - Mar 21 with 1912 views | Southamptonfan |
| Danny Dyer Speaks Some Sense About Supporting A Club on 07:55 - Mar 21 by cocklebreath |
Nothing groundbreaking there, I’ve given up moaning about it because it’s everywhere, I’ve seen people I know at Southampton train station putting on a Manc accent to fit in with the Man U fans. Weird behaviour.
I see people walking round proud as punch in a Liverpool shirt as if it makes them cool, it doesn’t it makes you a loser who’s using Liverpool to try and get a win in life.
Seeing young kids in the park by St Mary’s wearing Man U , Arsenal shirts and thinking there’s a proper football ground over there why don’t you support them? They can all meet up and go along together and be part of it rather than watch it on the telly and argue about how many trophy’s they’ve
The Arsenal game is going to be a full on plastic night, there will be Arsenal fans everywhere probably not even pretending to be saints fans. Seems the etiquette of keeping quiet has been lost. Can’t wait. |
Quite a few of these kids in the parks around St Mary's, London, Birmingham and people walking around in the shirts of the top 6 are foreign.They move over here and have absolutely no affinity with the area. We have lost the born and bread element too. Add that to the British people in many areas likd Cornwall, and other areas who are just glory hunters. But none of them are proper fans as we know it. They never go to the stadium, it"s just a look at me fashion statement, and because they arn't proper fans, they don't understand rivalries etc. |  |
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| Danny Dyer Speaks Some Sense About Supporting A Club on 11:16 - Mar 21 with 1901 views | PatfromPoole |
His holiday park programme on SKY is well worth a watch.
Very funny in parts. |  |
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| Danny Dyer Speaks Some Sense About Supporting A Club on 17:52 - Mar 21 with 1733 views | czsaint |
I've supported saints for 35 years and anyone who says I am a glory hunter is having a laugh. I was brought up in London and my family wasn't a football family, so I never really had a team. I followed the teams where I lived . And then I moved to the New Forest and switched to Saints. Nothing different to what went before. After a few years I went to a charity cricket match and met MLT Le god and something happened. I can't explain the what or why but ever since that time I can't imagine supporting any other team. My weekends are defined by Saints; I can't escape the depression when we lose or the light feeling in my feet when we win.
I think it's unfair to judge people just because they weren't born in the right place. We all have our own reasons for supporting our team- some shallow, some deep in the gut. I know how I feel and I can't explain it. | | | |
| Danny Dyer Speaks Some Sense About Supporting A Club on 22:39 - Mar 21 with 1600 views | kernow |
That was a pretty good explanation I thought. | | | |
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| Danny Dyer Speaks Some Sense About Supporting A Club on 09:47 - Mar 22 with 1419 views | City_boy |
| Danny Dyer Speaks Some Sense About Supporting A Club on 17:52 - Mar 21 by czsaint |
I've supported saints for 35 years and anyone who says I am a glory hunter is having a laugh. I was brought up in London and my family wasn't a football family, so I never really had a team. I followed the teams where I lived . And then I moved to the New Forest and switched to Saints. Nothing different to what went before. After a few years I went to a charity cricket match and met MLT Le god and something happened. I can't explain the what or why but ever since that time I can't imagine supporting any other team. My weekends are defined by Saints; I can't escape the depression when we lose or the light feeling in my feet when we win.
I think it's unfair to judge people just because they weren't born in the right place. We all have our own reasons for supporting our team- some shallow, some deep in the gut. I know how I feel and I can't explain it. |
CZ you are fine. It's ok for people outside the area to support the Saints, but not acceptable for people who were born or live in the area to support other so called 'big' teams !  | | | |
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