Just NO!!!I get some pleasure seeing them in the third tier but part of me would quite like a season that saw Us, Portsmouth, Southampton and Bournemouth in the top division.
Just NO!!!I get some pleasure seeing them in the third tier but part of me would quite like a season that saw Us, Portsmouth, Southampton and Bournemouth in the top division.
I can’t be bothered with this sort of antipathy anymore. Let’s concentrate on our own real rivalries. I wish no harm on any football club (except Chelsea, who I blame for almost capsizing football). Pompey, Southampton etc have their own struggles that we can relate to. Let’s never forget where we came from.How we can look down on all our little south coast cousins - plucky, about to be unlucky and join the stagnant Saints milling about in the mediocre middle of the second division, soon to be joined, maybe, by the Fratton faction itching to join the fray. What a triumvirate - the Skates, the Scummers and the Cherries battling to be the best team on the south coast. Oh, wait, have I overlooked another team . . . .
Just got to keep ourselves out the Championship.Even though they are #twats, they're a decent-sized club and would be an interesting addition to the Championship.
That's it mind, I don't fancy another trip to that dilapidated shithole anytime soon.
What you probably don’t realise is that I’ve lived in Southampton for forty years. I’ve had it shoved down my throat how Saints are the kings of the south, with the odd interference from Portsmouth. The boot is now on the other foot and I’m loving it. It’s all good humoured banter, as it should be, but incredibly satisfying.I can’t be bothered with this sort of antipathy anymore. Let’s concentrate on our own real rivalries. I wish no harm on any football club (except Chelsea, who I blame for almost capsizing football). Pompey, Southampton etc have their own struggles that we can relate to. Let’s never forget where we came from.
You have a lot of hate in you. Just let it go. Life is much less stressful without these preoccupations with clubs in other leagues.A VILE little club who cheated their way to success and are still reaping the consequences of their rampant catastrophic profligacy. They didn't deserve the FA Cup. They didn't deserve top flight football. They didn't deserve Europe. What they DO deserve is to languish in the noddy leagues forever, and long may that continue. One of lifes great pleasures is to see that scum club floundering around like a doomed slab of cod on a gutstained deck, and I look forward to having a box seat to their latest third division f*ck-up this season.
Forgive me if I've missed the 'good humour' part of these outpourings.What you probably don’t realise is that I’ve lived in Southampton for forty years. I’ve had it shoved down my throat how Saints are the kings of the south, with the odd interference from Portsmouth. The boot is now on the other foot and I’m loving it. It’s all good humoured banter, as it should be, but incredibly satisfying.
You might like tying daisies in peoples hair, but football would be very dull indeed without a healthy does of hatred mixed in.You have a lot of hate in you. Just let it go. Life is much less stressful without these preoccupations with clubs in other leagues.
You have a season ticket to pompey?A VILE little club who cheated their way to success and are still reaping the consequences of their rampant catastrophic profligacy. They didn't deserve the FA Cup. They didn't deserve top flight football. They didn't deserve Europe. What they DO deserve is to languish in the noddy leagues forever, and long may that continue. One of lifes great pleasures is to see that scum club floundering around like a doomed slab of cod on a gutstained deck, and I look forward to having a box seat to their latest third division f*ck-up this season.
I’m all in favour of a vigorous rivalry and good-natured teasing from the stands. For clubs lower down the pyramid, a sense of silent, smirking disdain should be offered. Once you start ranting uncontrollably, you’ve lost the battle.You might like tying daisies in peoples hair, but football would be very dull indeed without a healthy does of hatred mixed in.
I lived about the same distance from their ground late 80s/early 90s. Scummy city, scummy club, scummy fans. Nothing has persuaded me to change my view since.I live a mile from the ground and I've still forgotten they existed.
Sorry i still remember the away game in 1984.Thay deserve to suffer.You have a lot of hate in you. Just let it go. Life is much less stressful without these preoccupations with clubs in other leagues.
I'm not in a battle, neither am I ranting uncontrollably. I'm just wallowing in their pathetic demise, and sincerely hoping that it continues. Their injury time playoff defeat to Plymouth was utterly DELICIOUS, as was their catastrophic last-day failure at Accrington that resulted in Oxford nicking their playoff spot.I’m all in favour of a vigorous rivalry and good-natured teasing from the stands. For clubs lower down the pyramid, a sense of silent, smirking disdain should be offered. Once you start ranting uncontrollably, you’ve lost the battle.
Nope not having That It's what footballs all aboutYou have a lot of hate in you. Just let it go. Life is much less stressful without these preoccupations with clubs in other leagues.
Away games with them would be feiry encounters.I'd rather see Pompei in Championship than Pompey.
Exactly. It's that simple.I'm not in a battle, neither am I ranting uncontrollably. I'm just wallowing in their pathetic demise, and sincerely hoping that it continues. Their injury time playoff defeat to Plymouth was utterly DELICIOUS, as was their catastrophic last-day failure at Accrington that resulted in Oxford nicking their playoff spot.
I mean, how on earth could you NOT take pleasure in that ?
This is partly why I want them to go up. I have massively enjoyed their many failures to escape League 1, particularly the occasions you mentioned where my Portsmouth friend was giving it large before it all went wrong for them. But just consider similar scenarios unfolding in the championship.... Oh to see them fall at the last in the richest game in the world, to watch the debts grow again as they chase the dream convinced that they have a divine right to be at the top table, competing against a dozen other clubs with the same delusion.I'm not in a battle, neither am I ranting uncontrollably. I'm just wallowing in their pathetic demise, and sincerely hoping that it continues. Their injury time playoff defeat to Plymouth was utterly DELICIOUS, as was their catastrophic last-day failure at Accrington that resulted in Oxford nicking their playoff spot.
I mean, how on earth could you NOT take pleasure in that ?