Who's your 2nd favorite team

[BanbridgeBlade]

Linfield

 

[bricktop]

My second team are Hibernian. It all stems from reading Irvine Welsh books in the 1990s, and from that a grew a huge soft spot for the Cabbage and Ribs.

As a kid i got taken to see Crystal Palace on their trips up north as they was my Dads side but I never really developed any feelings for them and I'm a bit neutral on them although I like to see them do well.

In Northern Ireland i like Glentoran i when i was a teenager i bought a Glentoran shirt for a tenner, and it was a right shirt as well. Green and Red, classic Umbro with the lace up front.

In foreign lands i also like Borussia Dortmund as I had a great trip there earlier on in the year, and since Italian Football was on Channel 4 i adopted Inter Milan as my Italian team.

Brownie Jnr has also started with the idea of having a second team, and random teams you like and for some unknown reason his second team is Tranmere Rovers

 

[KeyffSmyff]

Got my mum to buy me an orange t shirt and told her I wanted to be Dutch because of that team. Don’t think I went as far as to talk like Schteve though!!

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I used to be told to/love watching Serge Blanco the French Rugby full back in the 80's. Got myself a French Rugby shirt much to everyone else's disgust.

 

[bricktop]

Lovely down here, family all millers soft spot for argyle now utb

My sister has lived in Plymouth for the last 15 years, she moved out to Ivybridge a couple of years ago, and I'm a regular visitor to Plymouth.

Her little lad, my nephew is being trained up to support Aston Villa because that is his Dads team, but one international break I'm going to go down there and take him to Home Park.

 

[Karaoke Blade]

Always had a soft spot forr Sheffield Wednesday, i think they're much maligned

You mean like this one?

 

[dynamoblade]

Tend to pick them by country and life’s quirky experiences.
Scotland - Berwick - sad demise had a great day there once watching them play. Met the players really welcoming club.
Spain - Athletic Bilbao - red and white stripe love. Their kits were/are always on the mark.
Germany - St Pauli - what they stand for.
Italy - Piacenza - I was one of the idiots who went there to watch SU play in the Anglo Italian cup, had a good time.
France - St Etienne- great band.

What do St Pauli stand for other than being a commercial cult with a faux punk aesthetic?

 

[Grey Blade]

I watch Harrogate Town when I'm not watching United. I only manage to see them 3 or 4 times a season. I also have a soft spot for Aberdeen as I lived in Scotland during their glory years when along with Dundee United they broke the "old firm" domination of Scottish football, and also beat Real Madrid to win the Cup Winners Cup.

 

[AlienWoodward]

Sheffield Wednesday
Oh come on we all want both Sheffield teams to do well

 

[Jason jacobs]

I'd say Tottenham during the hoddle years

 

[alcoblade]

Rubbish. It can be for a variety of reasons and we’ve heard a few of them in this thread. If, as in my case, you end up living 300+ miles from the Lane for a while but still want to regularly watch football you can’t help developing an affinity with whoever you watch.

Each to their own.

 

[Auld Reekie Blade]

I suppose I have developed a soft spot for Hibs.

I moved to Edinburgh 30 years ago and married a Hibee. Who, due to my extended visits to various deserts, brought our son up a mad Hibee

 

[Swansea Blade]

What do St Pauli stand for other than being a commercial cult with a faux punk aesthetic?

Anti Facist mainly.

 

[Hagan's boot]

I've always had a soft spot for Ipswich and Preston.

Ipswich because I liked the football they played under George Burley and that they produced a lot of good young players when he was in charge. Also, the fans I've met have all been down to earth, friendly and gracious regardless of results, and they don't harp on about former glories or talk like they have a right to be anywhere because of it, unlike Forest and Pigs fans.

Preston, because they remind me of us. A good old fashioned proper football club with a good history. I hope they reach the Premier League one day.

Same here sono , I like Ipswich fans after the support they gave to their team at the Lane when they were already relegated and we gained promotion. It must have been hard for them to swallow, true fans coming all that way to watch us celebrate.
I have also been on Prestons forum saying the same thing as you, for the same reason, but they don't hold out much hope at the moment of reaching the PL. They sound a bit downhearted to be honest.

 

[Corkblade]

Cork city is mine, born and bred in Sheffield and support the local team that i love, live in Cork for over 40 years local team Cork city natural thing to do. Every football club in the world was formed by some people getting together and forming a club in their own place . Although the pigs are sth Barnsley

 

[JackSUFC]

Cork city is mine, born and bred in Sheffield and support the local team that i love, live in Cork for over 40 years local team Cork city natural thing to do. Every football club in the world was formed by some people getting together and forming a club in their own place . Although the pigs are sth Barnsley

Irish football would definitely be in a better place if more people supported their local clubs, rather than Liverpool, Man Utd, Celtic etc.

 

[JJFearnley]

Pogon Szczecin (Poland). This is entirely Football Manager based but I have a real affinity towards them now.

I also want Sunderland to be good again. 1998-2001 with Phillips and Quinn in front of 48000 was some of my favourite football to watch and no other atmosphere at that time could match theirs.

 

[cahill]

Other way round pal. Everton was seen as the catholic club and liverpool as the prods during the darker days of sectarianism. Neither actually had any particular religious links on founding as both were involved with methodism but quickly broke out from that. The reason Liverpool gets seen as being a 'catholic' team nowadays is all the glory supporters from Ireland choosing them as their English side in the 70s/80s and beyond.

Neither side can truly be said to be catholic or prod these days though as so many scouse families are split allegiance wise.

This is some great reading on the subject

http://www.toffeeweb.com/season/09-10/comment/fan/RedBlueGreenOrange.pdf

I thought Everton were founded by St Domingo’s a bunch of Left Leggers ?

 

[cahill]

Rubbish. It can be for a variety of reasons and we’ve heard a few of them in this thread. If, as in my case, you end up living 300+ miles from the Lane for a while but still want to regularly watch football you can’t help developing an affinity with whoever you watch.

Well on that basis I’ve watched/supported Ipswich and Oldham but I wouldn’t describe either of them as my second team

 

[Corkblade]

The league of Ireland would be a lot stronger if people supported there local club, however they are prepared to spend the cost of a season tk for there local club, to travel to england for just 1 game. By all means go over if you want but get down to your local club as well

 

[wimbledon blade]

I always look out for AFC Wimbledon's results having watched a few of their games (my family moved to Wimbledon in 1979, and my mother still lives there), during their rise through the leagues since they held trials for players on Wimbledon Common back in 2002.

Also liked the old Plough Lane ground, home of the original Wimbledon (coincidentally formed in 1889), and the pub/social on the ground was called The Sportsman. Plus, of course, the Dave Bassett connection. How many ex-Wimbledon players came to play for us under Bassett ? Off the top of my head, I think it was something like 14 or 15 ?

Having said that, on the odd occasion I do watch AFCW live, it's probably only 0.0001% of the passion I have for TRAWW, if that.

Foreign teams, I like Estudiantes Del Plata (of Argentina), who play in the Red and White Stripes, black shorts, etc, who I saw play against River Plate in Buenos Aires back in 2009 (when I was backpacking across South America). Veron was playing for Estudiantes (his uncle was Pedro Verde who played for United in 1979/80 who, legend has it, nicked the Sheffield & Hallamshire trophy we'd won and took it back to Argentina with him) and patrolling the touchline was their coach/manager, a certain Alex Sabella !

I managed to pick up a match worn / player issue Estudiantes shirt during my time there which I still have, and is quality (the red and white stripes they wore to win the Copa Libertadores and make it to the Super Cup final v Barcelona)

 

[Paisley Blade]

Celtic.

I did give St Mirren a go but the half dozen games or so I went to were absolutely pony.

 

[JayGreen17]

As I live a stones throw from the Etihad it has to be Citeh

 

[Solihull Blade]

Mines a Toss up between Liverpool and Hibs. Don't shoot ro kill!

Crystal Palace as a kid. Loved their kit. White with a maroon and light blue Ajax type band down the middle. Nowadays it’s Solihull Moors coz that’s where I live. Get to their home games and some away whenever United aren’t playing. First love are still the Blades by a mile.

 

[essex blade]

Weymouth FC

 

[SheepdipBlade]

1874 Northwich. I was at college near there in the 80s and it cost too much to get back to BDTBL. Later a load of us from the Forum used to go to the Northwich Victoria beer festival until the Vics pretty much hit the buffers and the fans set up 1874 as a phoenix club. Great fans!

And Elgin City cos they're called the Badgers.

 

[S40BLADE]

Don't have any "second favourites" but I keep tabs on how Werder Bremen and Real Betis are doing.

 

[Sleafordblade]

Borussia monchengladbach as I used to live there and always liked Gunter netzer in the 70’s

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Used to be Hibs when I was at uni. Then used to be the Whitecaps when I lived in Vancouver. It’s slightly randomly become a local Isthmian Prem team called Haringey Borough who alongside the Spurs & Liverpool friends I will watch with has become a local team that we can all unite behind. I also saw someone there last season whose son was brilliantly wearing a 1992-94 United home shirt with 12 Flo on, so I’m not the only Unitedite to watch them. They’re a lovely club, and have free season tickets.

One of Boro’s former stars (1 of identical triplet footballers) has been in the news this week – just been sent down alongside his brothers for seemingly trying to sell an uzi. Just one of these days I’d like to watch a football team where one of its star strikers isn’t embroiled in off-the-field issues.

 

[Seanshoreham]

Back in the early nineties I was on holiday in Dumfries - we were in a pub and a bloke came over to chat about football as my teenage son had his Blades shirt on
He was a Queen of the South fan and invited me to a game. My son and I went with him, v Motherwell league cup, great friendly fans and ground similar to Millmoor, (Palmerston) Scotland's most southerly club (excluding Berwick)
Also like Rangers as my 91 year old dad went to Ibrox as far back as !937 - but became a Blade upon moving to Sheffield after the war -

 

[TimofeeVee]

Sampdoria.