On Christmas Eve last year, a fire ripped through the changing rooms of my beloved Clachnacuddin FC,
and we were forced to play all out remaining games at another venue,
the costs involved in this, coupled with the cost of repairing the damage to the changing room near finished the club!
But like a phoenix rising from the flames, and thanks to the generosity of the fans and local business’s, the club have rebuilt the changing rooms in time for the new season…
welcome to the Ferry San Siro (as the locals call it)…
Followed Arsenal a bit during the Henry days.
Then Barca when Henry, Messi and Ronaldinho were knocking 100 goals per season between them.
Dortmund during the Klopp days.
No one else now, as I don’t get time to watch footy outside of us.
I’m living near the capital of Slovenia and my father was and still is really big on Olimpija Ljubljana (Olimpija have hockey, football and basketball teams which father and his lads visited regulary), so I’ve had no other choice.
I’m also a bit fond of Dortmund, have a soft spot for Newcastle and generally for the teams that have Slovenian players in their squads. Except Patetico Madrid. I had soft spot for them years ago now just can’t stand them.
Livingston is my Scottish club if I have one, I watched a piece on football focus years ago and looked out for them ever since.
I have time for Plymouth (lived in Cornwall for a while) and Southport (my hometown) and I like seeing Preston do well.
Had a season ticket at Palace but never kept much close affinity, however I went to University in Bournemouth and spent a fair few Saturdays watching League 1 and League 2 Bournemouth go through the motions, I kept following them and have dropped a fair few quid in the debt fund they had at the time, they are the only team I’ve ever bought a top for other than Liverpool (bar the local amateur team I play for).
Plymouth is in Devon Then again there aren’t any clubs in Cornwall worth speaking of. Plymouth was my 1st experience of live matchs (my Dad took us along as my eldest bro liked them and they were decent at the time). I still got a soft spot for them but Exeter became my favorite Devon club.
Always liked Ajax, for different reasons. I don’t have a second team per se, but if I had to pick one it would be them.
Generally I’m a sucker for clubs who play good football and are good at developing players, so I like watching teams like Dortmund and Leipzig. They’re probably the teams I watched the most last season apart from Liverpool and City. Also really enjoyed watching Barca from around 04/05. Not so much now, but it’s never wrong to watch Messi play football.
I don’t think we will have another now considering the Champions League. Well hopefully, it’s a really shite time to watch a match I care about, if it is a mid table derby thats fine but a game I care about no.
There’s a wide and rather weird assortment of clubs that I have liked over the years.
Penarole, Uruguay. Just because the thrashed Juventus in a Toyota Cup, precursor of world club cup, sometimes in the 1980s.
Ajax. Well, nothing unusual here.
Marseilles, because they beat mighty Milan in the Champions League.
Leverkusen . Because they managed to mess up a league, cup and a Champions League challenge; all in the same season.
Bucharest and Red Star just because they were from east Europe and nobody would give them a shit. Bucharest did beat Barcelona to win the Champions League.
Going through this thread, I have started to miss the 80s when I was passionate about my local club too. Oh, we could create some atmosphere, inside and outside the stadium.
Definitely not a team I choose to follow but I work for Rakuten, Barcelona’s shirt sponsor. Constant internal discussion on their matches, etc. The amount of their garbage I have stuffed in a closet is crazy. May 2019 was glorious, I think I wore a Liverpool kit/shirt for a week straight after that
Had another club before Liverpool and that was Holland Sport. They were killed by the city of The Hague in 1972 (who in their so-called wisdom decided that there was only room for one club in the city although there were 25.000 fans in the stands every two weeks) and the second The Hague club Ado.
It still gives me great pleasure to see them going down to the second league this season and as the icing on the cake, they are in financial problems and could go bankrupt in the coming month.
Just found this thread so thought I’d tell you mine. Tranmere Rovers are my second favourite team. Back in the 70s and 80s I’d watch Rovers on a Friday night and then watch The Reds on Saturday. I then just watched The Reds until after Hillsborough. My lad is a bluenose (it was his Mum’s side of the family that got him to support them to wind me up. I didn’t want to force him to follow The Reds as my nephew tried to do, which resulted in his lad hating football). The night of the final game of the season in 89, I was working a 2-10 shift. When I got in my then wife told me that my lad was upset and was crying in bed. When I went to see what was wrong with him he told me he was crying because Liverpool had lost. He’d wanted us to win for “the people who died”.
The next day I spoke to him about football and how going to the game made me feel. We talked about it and decided that as he was a bluenose and wouldn’t swap to being a Red and I’d never take him to Goodison (something which I did as a crimbo present many years later) then we’d go and watch The Rovers together.
I have to say that it worked out a treat. We had a great few years. Rovers were ‘on the up’. They were at Wembley regularly. Two seasons running they were at Wembley twice in a season in the Leyland Daf Cup and the league play offs. I go to a few Rovers games through the season when I can between our games and taking Mrs CDO to mancland to watch Citoil.
Then again there aren’t any clubs in Cornwall worth speaking of. Plymouth was my 1st experience of live matchs (my Dad took us along as my eldest bro liked them and they were decent at the time). I still got a soft spot for them but Exeter became my favorite Devon club.
. Because they managed to mess up a league, cup and a Champions League challenge; all in the same season.
