What's your fave football (soccer) team?

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 3:10 pm

While USA-residents and maybe some other people won't care shit,
I was wondering which football (soccer) team you guys support?

Mine is PSV Eindhoven.

We won't win any prizes this year, but the club has the right "atmosphere"...

Just hoping we get to European football again after our struggling start.

So what team are you supporting?

freddiebamboo · Post by **freddiebamboo** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 3:12 pm

Rangers

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 3:16 pm

freddiebamboo wrote:Rangers

Hell, you bought 1 of my fave PSV strikers... J. Vennegoor of Hesselink.
Still a great player.

freddiebamboo · Post by **freddiebamboo** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 3:24 pm

Super Laydock wrote:
freddiebamboo wrote:Rangers
Hell, you bought 1 of my fave PSV strikers... J. Vennegoor of Hesselink.
Still a great player.

It was Celtic, the other Glasgow side

But I have to admit he is excellent, he's had a poor season this year with injuries and such, but is now playing well for them again unfortunately.

We did buy Arthur Numan from you guys ages ago and he was a truly outstanding player for us - unfortunately we don't have the money these days to buy players of that standard anymore

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 3:42 pm

freddiebamboo wrote:
Super Laydock wrote:
freddiebamboo wrote:Rangers
Hell, you bought 1 of my fave PSV strikers... J. Vennegoor of Hesselink.
Still a great player.
It was Celtic, the other Glasgow side

Whoops, my mistake...

Always confusing them (which was the mainly protestant 1 btw????).

Anyway... maybe they do have the money (PSV doesn't have much either), but they make up for it with their super fanatic fanbase.

Always a joy to play a Scottish team, because they have great supporters!

caldwert · Post by **caldwert** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 4:54 pm

Big Arsenal fan here. Should be interesting if they finally buy this offseason or keep coming up just short on all fronts.

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 5:06 pm

caldwert wrote:Big Arsenal fan here.

interesting choice imho.

Great team and I loved Bergkamp playing for them.
Van Persie ain't doing that bad atm either btw...

Mr. Wenger remains somewhat of a mystery to me though... (but so does Ferguson at MU). What makes this man a better coach compared to others?

(and I seriously don't know too much about him, and always wonder about that and mr. Ferguson's role in them successes.

caldwert · Post by **caldwert** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 5:17 pm

Yeah, Bergkamp is why I got big into Arsenal and then their style of play lured me in as well. Wenger's way seems to be to buy people nobody else has heard of at about age 16-18, make them into huge stars, then sell them later on down the road for a huge profit. Usually he isn't wrong when he sells them except this past year is one I can think of. If they'd have kept Mathieu Flamini they'd have done a hell of a lot better. I bet Flamini is kicking himself as well since he barely plays for AC Milan.

Dragoforce · Post by **Dragoforce** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 5:25 pm

Super Laydock wrote:. J. Vennegoor of Hesselink.

I just love dutch names!

Actually i'm kind of in love with dutch football as a whole, your national team always play offensive football that's fun to watch. The Euro 2004 quarterfinal still hurts though

I don't really got a favorite team though, I always had a soft spot for Celtic since Henrik Larsson played there and Heerveen since they always had a lot of swedish players. As far as swedish team goes I would say Helsingborg, since I grew up in the area but I'm not really into swedish club football.

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 5:44 pm

Dragoforce wrote:
Super Laydock wrote:. J. Vennegoor of Hesselink.
I just love dutch names!

Actually i'm kind of in love with dutch football as a whole, your national team always play offensive football that's fun to watch. The Euro 2004 quarterfinal still hurts though

Ah well, you should take comfort in our defeat against Portugal in the semi's. As we did the same with them losing the final.

I don't really got a favorite team though, I always had a soft spot for Celtic since Henrik Larsson played there and Heerveen since they always had a lot of swedish players.

Larsson always had great talent, he played for Dutch club Feyenoord as well and always was a feared striker.

But as you mentioned Heerenveen (great season for them so far despite todays defeat), they indeed profit a lot from some great Scandinavian talent.
And I should add that most of this talent is undeservedly looked past by major teams in favor of South American guys.

Exe · Post by **Exe** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 6:54 pm

Werder Bremen!

No. 1 in Norh Germany

freddiebamboo · Post by **freddiebamboo** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 7:07 pm

Super Laydock wrote:Always confusing them (which was the mainly protestant 1 btw????)

That's Rangers, and Celtic are traditionally a catholic team. This still creates problems in Glasgow, but things are not as bad as they used to be.

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 8:16 pm

i will cheer on any team that isn't manchester united

(and today, that was everton

)

caldwert · Post by **caldwert** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 8:26 pm

Yeah it was nice to see them get through. Berbatov's penalty kick was retarded. In the US usually the only team anyone knows is Real Madrid or Manchester United, so it gets a bit old to hear people say that either one of them is their favorite team.

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 9:53 pm

i know at least a dozen Man U fans (or Man Red as i call them, from playing pro evo too much

), that's what puts me off. liverpool fans are also a bit ......

and i would LOVE it if middlesborough and newcastle go down this season

what the fuck is shearer doing anyways? and speaking of newcastle....
http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.ph ... ght=keegan

caldwert · Post by **caldwert** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 10:36 pm

Granted I live in the US but I follow English soccer closer than anything over here. To me it seems that Newcastle is a bunch of odds and ends thrown together to try and make a cohesive team. That or guys who are a little bit past their prime, or in some cases way past their prime. I like Obafemi Martins though.

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 11:44 pm

We destroyed our Bydos today well enough

lewisit · Post by **lewisit** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 6:37 am

Exe wrote:Werder Bremen!

No. 1 in North Germany

go on - try to prove this in the next 4 games against the HSV

Exe · Post by **Exe** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:09 am

lewisit wrote:
Exe wrote:Werder Bremen!

No. 1 in North Germany
go on - try to prove this in the next 4 games against the HSV

yeah!

I'm really looking forward to see Werder winning the UEFA Cup so those two matches will be the most important to me.

dcharlie · Post by **dcharlie** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:52 pm

The (not so) mighty Ipswich Town.

Used to go to the games when i lived in the UK, biggest thing i miss about the UK outside of family and friends.

neorichieb1971 · Post by **neorichieb1971** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 4:52 pm

Luton town. Out of the league now

I support Man Utd in the champions league, or whatever the English team is. Its great having 3 in the semi's.

seattlexc · Post by **seattlexc** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 2:52 am

Do MLS teams count? If so, I'm a big fan of the Seattle Sounders.

dcharlie · Post by **dcharlie** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 3:48 am

i have a sounders football shirt, but i can hardly say i'm a fan. More just for the XBL thing (yeah, it's sad, but hey...)

Mero · Post by **Mero** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 7:58 am

Derby County, the worst team in England 2007/08, and still not totally safe from the drop this season with 2 games to go.

They lost last night

Dragoforce · Post by **Dragoforce** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 12:04 pm

seattlexc wrote:Do MLS teams count? If so, I'm a big fan of the Seattle Sounders.

What do you think of Fredrik Ljungberg?

seattlexc · Post by **seattlexc** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 1:59 pm

Dragoforce wrote:
What do you think of Fredrik Ljungberg?

Everyone loves him over here. He has really taken over as a team leader. There was a lot of hype about him before the season. I remember seeing a bunch of posters around Seattle that said something like 'Sorry London, we got Freddie." Being part Swedish myself I'm proud to have him over here.

The n00b · Post by **The n00b** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 3:34 pm

IF YOU DON'T LIKE MANC UR A WANK!

That's all I know about soccer.

escadrille · Post by **escadrille** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 4:30 pm

New York Giants!

Oh... uh... Celtic?