most embarrasing thread on the internet

[Zlatan]

Delusional. Notice how every post involves a story from someone's travels, which is probably all bullshit. This one made me chuckle:

I was out in Newcastle the other week and a huge geordie bloke got talking to me and my mates, he asked where we were all from. When I said I was from Sheffield originally he said "Ah United??". So I said "Nah, Wednesday", he grinned, shook my hand and said "proper Sheffield then".

Surely if Wednesday are 'proper Sheffield' then he'd have mentioned them first?

 

[SteelCity Blade]

Delusional. Notice how every post involves a story from someone's travels, which is probably all bullshit. This one made me chuckle:

I was out in Newcastle the other week and a huge geordie bloke got talking to me and my mates, he asked where we were all from. When I said I was from Sheffield originally he said "Ah United??". So I said "Nah, Wednesday", he grinned, shook my hand and said "proper Sheffield then".

Surely if Wednesday are 'proper Sheffield' then he'd have mentioned them first?

My thoughts exactly

Its like I said earlier, they prove their own arguments wrong without reply. If it had been a Blade talking to the chap he would have probably said the same for us. Most people will be polite and friendly like that when actually they couldnt give a toss either way. Its funny to read I'll give them that. Its certainly brightened up my Friday afternoon. Top stuff.

 

[TAMUS]

Iwonder what significance the "HUGE" was ?

 

[Bladesman]

Most football fans I speak to have very consistent opinions of both clubs. The feedback I often get:-

Blades: working class club, gutsy, physical sides, moaners, glass is always half empty, good sense of humour, good following, big stadium

Pigs: had a good side once, good following, not done anything for ages, glass is always half full, a bit delusional, talk about the past a lot, big stadium

Pretty spot on there.

I think most of the country are indifferent to the Sheffield clubs neither has had a long period of success for people to get annoyed and jealous about.

 

[Kenilworth]

Most football fans I speak to have very consistent opinions of both clubs. The feedback I often get:-

Pigs: had a good side once, good following, not done anything for ages, glass is always half full, a bit delusional, talk about the past a lot, big stadium

You missed off - Cunts

 

[Studge]

In 1975 we went on our first big lads holiday all aged 17 and in our b&b was 2 lads from Glasgow who befriended us and over the course of the next 10-12 years they and another couple of their mates used to come down to Sheffield and I used to go up to Glasgow to stay with them (Including the Battle of Hampden in 1980 when I took to other Blades mates Graham and James (RIP) as well as my brother for the weekend). One of my Glasweigan friends Alan relocated his job to Peterhead in the mid 80's. A few years later a grunter friend of mine asked me If I knew a guy called Alan Nielsen who he had had met while working on the North Sea oil rigs. I said sure he is an old friend, He told me that once he had been introduced to him and his football allegiances were established Alan just said to him so you are a pig then which took him somewhat by suprise.

 

[Elsecar_Blade]

Well, there's 10 minutes I'll never get back ... What a load of absolute guff! They continually out-do themselves with reaching new levels of stupidity down in S6.

Most United fans I know will agree that SWFC are the side that will get more fans when the two are at a similar level. Next season, if both challenge for promotion, Wednesday will have more fans. Their hardcore support is a couple of thousand more. Simples. We've got a fair few big club enemies (Liverpool, West Ham, West Brom, Ipswich to name four off the top of my head) whereas the Pigs don't seem to have any. Why? Because you never meet fans of the crap teams they've played against for most of the last decade! I'm pretty sure Rochdale and Palace fans would list Wednesday as one of the clubs that they disliked ... But how often do you meet them lot?

 

[diplomat]

All the local teams seem to dislike them more than us, deffo in Rotherham and I've met Dingles who think the same

 

[Rustyblade]

In Sheffield, one is faced with a choice pretty early on. There is however, only one rational decision. Those who make the other one are, therefore, without reason, completely beyond the pale and not to be trusted as far as I could caber toss the Eiffel Tower. Their delusions of mid-table mediocrity are given corporeal form in their abiding memories of Tommy Fucking Fat Little Scottish Ginger Bastard Craig and Terry I Fucking Love Pikeys Curran. Thoughts of either of these two can produce rather embarrassing trouser staining moments and yelps of, "Massive!" and "Boxing Day!" among the afflicted. Most have a sort of idiot savant compensation in that they can recite every occasion when their attendances were higher than ours but have a corresponding blind spot concerning averages of over 30 000. Their defence mechanism is worthy of mention and it is often brought into use when faced with any attempt at reason. Their eyes at first narrow and their brows come together rather like two caterpillars mating. Then, just as one is beginning to entertain the notion that they are approaching something akin to actual thought, their eyes suddenly widen, the caterpillars react as if they have been in a moment subject to a current of unimaginable ampage, their mouths awake from their normal somewhat slumped, slightly open and drooling position and give vent to the cry, "Hark now hear..."

Although, on reflection, one of the above posters was able to codify much of the above much more succinctly than I. Much as I adore the organ mentioned and much as I have never really understood the Eastern European equivalent of "Fuck off!" which commands one to go in one, they are indeed cunts.

 

[shorehamview]

owlstalk.co.uk

Might as well read tea leaves, or the entrails of a goat. Either one will make more sense than the deluded ramblings of the oinkers.

 

[WorkingtonBlade]

Obviously we're all biased on this one - as biased as the lot on the other site.

My own experience, though, is that the most significant difference between the two teams' fans is that Wednesday fans tend to enjoy their team being popular with other teams' fans, where as United fans tend not to care - to a degree even to revel in being hated. Not all fit that of course, but I think it's the majority.

I genuinely can't imagine a thread on this site involving lots of people trying to provide evidence of how popular United are with fans of other teams. Being popular just isn't something many Blades seem to be interested in. For as long as I've supported United, there's been a "no-one likes, we don't care" attitude amongst the fans.

I should point out here that I started supporting United not long before Bassett arrived, and certainly his reign, and style of football, caused a lot of fans of other clubs to develop a dislike for us. Whether there was the same dislike before that, people who have supported United for longer will be able to say. Warnock then gave another boost to the number who disliked the Blades.

My own experience of the views of fans of other clubs is that there is a particular type of football supporter who dislikes United - what you might call the the modern football purist - and because I dislike that type of football supporter, I'm only too happy for them to dislike my team! Those who like United tend to be the more "traditional" type fans...if that's not too much of a generalisation.

I do think it is true, though, that Wednesday tend to be the 'nice' club, where as United have always had a bit more 'edge'. That suits me fine, but I get the impression it suits most Wednesday fans too.

 

[Rustyblade]

Nice as in establishment, characterless, Nick Cleggy wannabe hoolies, Mateus Rosé, FA suckwads? Does it for me.

And I was there in the Harris years. Now that was football.

 

[Kev Gee]

The reason the scabs hate us is because of a certain play off match a few years ago.

 

[Studge]

From Judge

i seem to remember a few years ago united supporters being ranked as the second most fashionable
which is not bad considering most of the football press are hammers





Especially in the early to mid 80's Mick Smeds BBC days. The John Street West Stand was the home of some of the best dressed football supporters in the country whereas our South Barnsley neighbours were considered to be classless tramps.

 

[JJ Sefton]

I can honestly say on my travels up and down this country and abroad, I have been asked whether I'm a blade or an owl on various occasions. I couldnt tell you which side was mentioned first the most because its probably 50/50 in my case and to be honest I dont care enough to remember. I'm sure some of our sty dwelling counterparts have met people who regard them higher than us but there is a very simple explanation for that.....

United have had a recent appearance in the PL and have had well known players (e.g. Beattie, Kilgallon etc.) and we have run into a lot of big clubs in the meantime, developing rivalries. Wednesday on the other hand have done fuck all for just over a decade and no truly big clubs can remember the last time they played them! So whats to hate

Growing up down south people always used to say "Wednesday?" when I told them I was from Sheffield. I can honestly tell you now that since 2002/2003 that hasn't happened once. Ever since then its been "United?" except for one time in Chicago where a girl said "Alabama?"

 

[puppet]

owlstalk.co.uk

Might as well read tea leaves, or the entrails of a goat. Either one will make more sense than the deluded ramblings of the oinkers.

I enjoyed that just for the sheer patheticness. its worth a read just to see how low they go in order to get a buzz from some waiter recognising their shirt in phuket.

 

[axel smeets]

The fact that neither club has won fuck all for 75 years means that threads like this will appear sometimes. And, any pig fan reading this, one League Cup in 75 years does not qualify you to join the echelons of Liverpool, Manchester United and Arsenal.

The fact that SWFC have underachieved arguably even more than their supposedly inferior neighbours I reckon really fucks them all off. They don't like us, and I fucking despise them. The best thing about the pig fans is the way that one of them comes out with a particular statement, another repeats it and so on. For example, last year on RS, one of them stated that we took 22000 to Cardiff v Wolves, instead of the 30000 we actually took. The day after, another one repeated it, then another one and the statement, to them, becomes fact.

If SWFC were truly as big as they think they are, then surely they would have won at least 1 post war League title or FA Cup. Surely at least 1, like Villa, or 2 like Spurs, 3 like Everton, all clubs that they think they are the same size as.

 

[raul]

The saddest thing of all is that, after a decade of having the upper hand, we haven't put clear water between us. Our relationship with them could/should have been like Forest to County, instead of being equals.

 

[axel smeets]

Yeah but they never put clear water between us did they, even after the 80's and 90's when we really lagged behind them, sometimes 2 divisions (81/82 and 88/89). I always think back to when I left school, summer 1999. The pigs had just finished 12th in the prem and had an average of around 27000. We had just sold about 6000 season tickets, were haemorraghing money and were selling David Holdsworth, Alan Kelly, Marcelo and Lee Morris to name a few.

Then, 12 months later, the pigs are in the same division, £20m in hock to the co - op bank and in freefall. United have stabilised under Neil Warnock and are getting their act together. United put 4000 on our average attendance, whilst the pigs lose 4000 off theirs. It just goes to show how quickly things can turn round in football.

 

[WorkingtonBlade]

'Putting clear water' between yourself and another club kind of relies upon them going into terminal decline. It isn't really something one club can achieve on its own.

Both Wednesday and United have fairly big and solid fan bases, which is always likely to mean they come back in the end. There's never likely to be much clear water between the two.

The clear water between Notts County and Forest is more about what County did than anything Forest did.

 

[shorehamview]

.................The clear water between Notts County and Forest is more about what County did........

Like not winning the European Cup. In fact, not winning it twice.

 

[bladesfan]

Don't know why they mention "I had my pig shirt on" they don't need that you can smell the bastards a mile off and reading that crap in pork talk the whole forum does not have an IQ of 47 I still have the badges from the 70's with pigs can't fly etc. They copied us in most things and still have an inferiority complex. I live in Germany near to Kaiserlauten (UEFA CUP) ask the people from there what the think about Sheffield after seeing the unsocial scum. They got Sheffield a bad name here.

 

[Blade nath]

I love the way they talk about us to forget about their abysmal season. What happened to 'bouncing' back up?
They're more recognized? Absolute bull.. Everywhere i've been they've never heard of the pigs only us

 

[WorkingtonBlade]

Like not winning the European Cup. In fact, not winning it twice.

Well, yes.... but Forest did have the luxury of then being able to deteriorate into a middle-of-the-road Championship team, and still have clear water between themselves and their rivals!

 

[Elsecar_Blade]

http://www.owlstalk.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=150252

Beattie to Wednesday? Massive!