Does anyone follow a second team?

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chrismpw said:
I've often considered trying to support the rs just to get them relegated.... but I just couldn't bring myself to do it even for a second. This jinx i have works with any sport - rugby, cricket even Olympic curling. I only ever seem to back the loosers... and its not an underdog thing.

Honest - I use the footmob app to follow these teams. Every time a goal is scored my phone either cheers or groans. Even my missus has noticed that there are far, far, far more groans than cheers.
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Don't start following Shamrock Rovers so, please :)
 

When Dad's job moved us to Leeds, from Liverpool in 1951, I was fifteen and had just left school. When I was 16 I was signed by Leeds United to play in their Colts team. Raich Carter was manager then. So I gradually started supporting Leeds as well as Everton. When I returned after National Service they said they were not taking anyone over age 18, so I was 'over the hill' at 20!

Story about Raich Carter.

When I was about 17 I played in an important cup game for Leeds United Colts. The pitch we played on was behind the main stand at Elland Road. The Colts manager told us that Raich Carter was going to give us a pre-match team talk. We all waited with bated breath. In he came, a very dapper man with silver hair and very smart clothes. He looked around and then he said 'I don't want to see any sliding tackles today, you play football on your feet not on your arse'. Then he was gone. Confused I was!
 

Shibbywiggles said:
Unexpected - I’ve lived in Aldershot all my life!
Haven’t been to a game for years but I keep an eye out for the scores, lovely pitch, lucky enough to play on it a few times
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Sorry missed this.
Yeah I am a proper Wool too I am afraid. :)
Used to live in Bagshot in my formative years and jump on the train to the Shots every week.
Then they went bust and my parents relocated to Dorset, and my own growing family etc meant I didnt get to see them for 20 odd years.
Recently met up with an old mate I used to go with, and been plenty of times recently, luckily I've yet to see them lose since going back.
The lemo'd up kids on away days are something else. They do sing plenty though to be fair to them.
 
Alan Whittle said:
Saw my first ever league game there. 1.10.66 v Rochdale. A 4-0 win.
My second team is ....err..Everton plus I follow the fortunes of Bath City, Kingstonian, Hibernian and Queen of the South.
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The same with me, I think thats where I realised I wanted to play football after watching them.
I think I had a team in every division when I didnt know any better. :)
I think my favourite time was the Claridge years.
 
chrismpw said:
I've often considered trying to support the rs just to get them relegated.... but I just couldn't bring myself to do it even for a second. This jinx i have works with any sport - rugby, cricket even Olympic curling. I only ever seem to back the loosers... and its not an underdog thing.

Honest - I use the footmob app to follow these teams. Every time a goal is scored my phone either cheers or groans. Even my missus has noticed that there are far, far, far more groans than cheers.
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Yeah you see, that becomes the problem. I'd never truly support them, just pretend. And somehow that would make all the difference, and have the opposite effect they'd never stop winning. Forcing me to pretend to be happy, as I slowly die inside ?
 
gibbergibb said:
The same with me, I think thats where I realised I wanted to play football after watching them.
I think I had a team in every division when I didnt know any better. :)
I think my favourite time was the Claridge years.
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I saw him play for The Shots once in about 88. He stood out as a decent forward so much that I actually thought about writing to Palace about him. I didn’t even know he was on loan from Palace!
(Separate point; how difficult was it to find out stuff pre internet-if you were a kid, unless you had a teams fixture list you had to rely on each weeks Pools coupon!)
 

Gablett said:
Chester. First games I went to as a lad. 30 odd years that can be summed up as rubbish, rubbish, slightly better, terrible, out of business, re-birth, an unstoppable march up the lower leagues, rubbish. Steve Watson is the gaffer these days and he has properly bought into the rubbish ethos.
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Always remember Chester having a boss striker in the early to mid 90’s . Can’t remember his name
 
None but I check the results of koln ,Feyenoord and Milan . I went to watch Bochum a few years ago and fell in love with the ground and the fans are boss. Went on the ale with a few after the game . I would definitely go back .

other teams I like to see do well are Napoli ,Boca, Betis , vallecano and Marseille.

but everton is enough misery for a life time . I couldn’t get too invested in another team.
 
East Fife - actually, they were my first team, as when I was a boy I used to go to all the games with my dad, who worked there, but then they were eclipsed by Everton as I got a bit older and the glamour of the old first division got to me. I still follow them, and I also look out for the results of their Fife rivals Raith: as a football-daft (or just plain daft) teen, I saw loads of games at Raith's ground as they alternated their home games with East Fife's, meaning I could see a match every Saturday.
 

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