Do other fans have a soft spot for us?

[Ecco1889]

Pretty sure we came 2nd in a poll on the most hated club a few years back. I think we are generally disliked which in a competive sport is a good thing. Being liked is for those who have never upset anyone due to being insignificant

out of interest roy..who was 1st?

 

[Tyler Durden]

out of interest roy..who was 1st?

Our reserves.

 

[Roygbiv]

Spoken to quite a few Spanish football fans on my travels in Southern Spain, and (somewhat bizarrely,I must admit) most of them knew of Sheffield United, but not the other lot from S6.

Same when I was in Germany though this was before they got to the play off final which raised their profile . It's obvious that United will be more known simply as we have been involved in more bigger games that have been screened round Europe in the past 20 years or so. The older fans may know Wednesday more from their days in the early 90s but since English football really became such a huge deal in Europe in terms of TV coverage , Wednesday have only been involved in one really big game .

 

[Roygbiv]

out of interest roy..who was 1st?

Chelsea . Sure it was in the Sun or one of those high quality papers . It was just after the Tevez shit

 

[Weasel]

You are right in that we share a city with them, Danny Boy. You are right that we both have a varied set of supporters and even they have the odd one with some level of intelligence.

BUT........

When it comes to talking SWFC, to a man they are among the most deluded people you could stumble across. I know and have known loads of them down the years and yes, some of them come across as intelligent, level headed and reasonable people but mention of SWFC removes any semblance of the aforesaid. They actually believe they are a "MASSIVE" club, remember the "big six"? Yet when you confront them with the facts, their eyes glaze over and their brains turn to mush. When you point out they haven't averaged 30k since 1967, they don't believe you. When you state that United have done this twice since then despite having a much lower capacity stadium, they are struck dumb. When you point out their sub 11k average in the mid '70's they enter a state of denial akin to Hitler in his bunker. When you point out that average crowds between the 2 clubs is there or thereabouts within 2k over the course of history to them, they shout you down. Their attitude towards other clubs is one of arrogance, disdain and disrespect, "tinpot" being a favourite description.

Remember Lee Strafford? He claimed a potential 500k fans in the UK and 4 to 5 million across the world! They believed him, they genuinely did!!

And to address your final point regarding "floating" support, you've got to remember that Hillsborough provides facility for one of the largest away followings in the country. The 34k crowds you quote more often than not contain huge away support. Again, when you provide this information to an owl, they look to the skies in disbelief and emit a low humming sound.

The list goes on and on regarding their delusions. Yes, they may look the same as us, work with us, live next door and even be related to us. But to state that there is "absolutely no difference between United and Wednesday fans" is just not true.

Thankfully!

Stole my thunder that post. Well put Sir. I read the post by Danny and thought your either misguided pal or taking the piss. There are fundamental differences between Blades and Owls and if if you dont see them clearly then you dont mix much in our fair city. I can usually walk in a pub and give me a couple of minutes to listen to conversation and 90pc of the time i can work out where their city footballing loyalties are (before they get round to talking football). Imo we are the same in many ways...but a different breed. For starters the are overly optimistic and Blades probably over pessimistic...

 

[frank drebin]

I couldn't care a fuck what other fans think of us and it's always made me laugh how the pigs are desperate to be liked
Sucking up to other clubs and starting threads about how they went into a bar in gautamala and the waiter asked if they were grunters

 

[Tyler Durden]

Stole my thunder that post. Well put Sir. I read the post by Danny and thought your either misguided pal or taking the piss. There are fundamental differences between Blades and Owls and if if you dont see them clearly then you dont mix much in our fair city. I can usually walk in a pub and give me a couple of minutes to listen to conversation and 90pc of the time i can work out where their city footballing loyalties are (before they get round to talking football). Imo we are the same in many ways...but a different breed. For starters the are overly optimistic and Blades probably over pessimistic...

I agree completely. Living my entire life in Sheffield, I can instinctively differentiate between a Blade and a Pig with very little to go on.

Basically if you lack any basic concept of self-deprecation, irony or gallows-humour then it's almost certain that you're a snort beast.

 

[Rodley]

There is absolutely no difference between United and Wednesday fans, I know this may be an unpopular opinion but anyone who thinks differently on either side is wearing rose tinted glasses. We are all from Sheffield we are all exactly the same other than we decided to follow differing teams in the City. United and Wednesday both have all of the following: Decent level headed fans, nob heads, Hooligans, loud mouths, morons, fans that are completely bias, fans that are stupidly positive, fans that are unbelievably negative, fans that wear half and half scarves, part timers that only attend big games, characters at the match that shout complete bullshit for no apparent reason, arrogant fans that think having a large fan base makes them better than every other team.

The only real difference I have noticed is I think Wednesday have a larger "floating" fan base. They will go from 17k for a nothing game on a Tuesday night to 34k+ for a big game.

The biggest crock of shit ever posted on here. Wendy fans are tedious wankers invariably with bad dress sense and a chip on their shoulder. About as edgy as a Babybel or a Michael McIntyre DVD. They harp on about their successes and have abysmal banter.

United fans are a much broader church and generally have more of a swagger and far, far better craic. No delusions of grandeur here just gallows humour and a compunction for losing our rags easily. Completely different breed to the pigs.

 

[CarlMcBlade]

Martin Samuel loves us. . . .dunt he?

 

[cahill]

A glance at Barnsleys supporters Message Board will tell you that they hate the Blades much more than any other local rivals. Any of them who try to deny it are just telling porky pies.

 

[CarlMcBlade]

Before they were billionaires, Man City fans used to empathise with us as the true city centre club representing Manchester and Sheffield respectively, unlike the middle-class suburban tossers of Man U and Wendy. Not sure if this is still true.

Only reasons Man City were empathetic toward us. Was that we were always "game," When wanted a scrap.

 

[Canterbury Blade]

My Southern mates love us once they've been away with us. There is something special about a Blades away day that they seem to like. GCB is popular, so is the banter and friendliness, the fact the decent boozers have decent Blades in em (who are proper fans) is a winner and that we maintain our resilience as fans in the face of some pretty serious footballing adversity really appeals!

I remember a MILF friend loving the half time atmos at MK Dons in the bar area. I recall some beer and pie for a fiver deal and a low ceiling reverberating with GCB and swingin a pig Etc. And she was right up for it.

Won't be the same when we are back at the emirates and Stamford Bridge.. Won't be the same...

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

I agree completely. Living my entire life in Sheffield, I can instinctively differentiate between a Blade and a Pig with very little to go on.

Basically if you lack any basic concept of self-deprecation, irony or gallows-humour then it's almost certain that you're a snort beast.

I bet if you were actually tested on that scientifically you'd perform miserably.

It's like beer bores who go out of their way to make sure everybody in the boozer knows they hate Foster's and Carling as they stand there sipping on Stella or Peroni.

 

[Sean Thornton]

I couldn't care a fuck what other fans think of us and it's always made me laugh how the pigs are desperate to be liked
Sucking up to other clubs and starting threads about how they went into a bar in gautamala and the waiter asked if they were grunters

After a series if such posts on BM from a Pig in Oz, the best put down ever came from Lansdowneoldschool ( I think) who suggested the next claim would be a tribe of aborigines who'd never ever left the bush in their lives, when discovered, all had Chris Waddle haircuts.

 

[Tyler Durden]

I bet if you were actually tested on that scientifically you'd perform miserably.

It's like beer bores who go out of their way to make sure everybody in the boozer knows they hate Foster's and Carling as they stand there sipping on Stella or Peroni.

No, I'm correct unusually often actually. You could always devise me a test if you care that much of course.

 

[spongebobblade]

Yes but we don't have a park next to our ground.

Ah yes, forget the cosmopolitan city centre bars, cafes and restaurants as well as the traditional real ale pubs in/around/on the way to the lane, The unclean have a park complete with ice cream van and dogshit....... A rigged World Cup vote winner everytime

 

[Harry's Game]

No I think we are disliked, pretty much mainly for the following and in this order..

The Ched saga.. whatever the outcome a lot of people didn't come out of that with much credit particularly on Social Media.

The Tevez affair... we lost the PR battle over that. God knows how, but we ended up being portrayed as whingers,

Warnock. If he's not managing your club you tend to hate him with a passion and he was here ages.

The Bassett Style. People still think we are long ball Wimbledon thugs. Unfair cos we never were that even when Bassett was here.

Some of our nobhead away 'fans'... who act the twat, especially at some of the smaller away towns.

Who cares really though?

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

No, I'm correct unusually often actually. You could always devise me a test if you care that much of course.

I've often thought that a disproportionately large number of Wednesday fans are either fat, ginger or stupid but then I just convince myself that I don't take as much notice of the ones who aren't.

 

[Bladesway]

Who cares about what Walthy cares about?

Walthy?

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

If you polled all the football fans in England about which club they hated and loved the most we obviously wouldn't trouble the top ten in either.

 

[JonnyRed(WCFC)]

I blame that Cup draw!

 

[Harry's Game]

If you polled all the football fans in England about which club they hated and loved the most we obviously wouldn't trouble the top ten in either.

That's true we are disliked but not hated except by a few local rivals.

 

[northsomersetblade]

The 'loved' clubs are West Ham, Tottnam and Man Yoo and whoever the BBC are fawning around this season, who wants to be one of those? Let's be like Millwall. I like us.

 

[Sheffsteel]

Agree with Harry's game above.

Travelled to a few places and in general PL supporters either like us or aren't bothered.
Many would rather have proper clubs in the top flight instead of small clubs like Bournmouth, Watford, Swansea etc. Also many away fans like our traditional city centre based stadium instead of the new out of town bowl stadiums.

However fans from Championship clubs tend not to like us and enjoy our demise.

I worked away in Barrow for a few months and strangely enough met an Ipswich fan in his 40's.
First thing he said was
"Oh you support Sheffield United? We don't like them you once knocked us out of the playoffs".

 

[Snowman]

I bet if you were actually tested on that scientifically you'd perform miserably.

It's like beer bores who go out of their way to make sure everybody in the boozer knows they hate Foster's and Carling as they stand there sipping on Stella or Peroni.

It would have to be Peroni Gran Riserva and I wouldn't be sipping it.

 

[Tyler Durden]

It would have to be Peroni Gran Riserva and I wouldn't be sipping it.

Birra Moretti is quite nice.

 

[seanbeenstattoo]

I really enjoyed that news story about that gobby pig cunt off Jeremy Kyle.
Turned out his skull had quite a soft spot.

 

[Kenilworth]

Lived away from Sheff for some considerable time but whenever I meet someone else, originally from Sheffield, on my travels I usually test them with the same question.
"Blade or Pig?" says I.

You'd be surprised how many of them actually fall for it.






.... the thick cunts

 

[PokerBlade]

Tend to find people dislike us in a positive way. They've usually got a story about a time we did something to upset them, or they've followed our recent history of spectacular blow ups and major incidents. Much in the same way I've said I hate Forest but that's the type of game I look forward to more than any.

We've been in an odd position of never achieving much but being at the centre of attention while we do it. Famous for losing play-off finals, made more noise than anyone while going down from the Prem, seem to have had more than our fair share of cup runs for our league positions, and the Ched saga for most recent times.

The most common reaction is some variant on a question that always boils down to "It's amazing that you're so shit".

I like being hated (for stuff other than the Tevez and Ched stuff). People only dislike you in sport when you've left a lasting impression.

 

[tomtheblade]

I was brought up in Sheffield but haven't lived there for about 10 years now.

Having lived in Singapore for the past couple of years and travelled a fair bit around that part of the world, (now live in Vancouver) I found myself constantly surprised with how well known we are, sometimes even in fairly remote parts of Vietnam, Indonesia etc.

When striking up a conversation with locals, upon establishing that i'm English often the first question asked after is where i'm from in the UK. After saying 'Sheffield' and expecting a blank expression in response, the amount of times I would hear 'Oh! Sheffield United!' was staggering. I honestly can't remember ever hearing anything about Wednesday.

I think this may just be that we were in the Prem more recently than our neighbours (albeit 10 years ago), but still..