Ade's folks are ok really
Ramon Vega
As seems to be the running theme from many of the posts, it's mates over the team every time.
I have a very tight knit group of about a dozen lifelong mates, all of us passionate about our teams.
The ratio is 2 Tottenham, 1 Liverpool, 6 Chelsea, 2 Palace, 1 QPR. We're West London based.
The banter gets hefty and often offensive as we all passionately defend our clubs, but never to the point where we'd fall out over it or get into major bust ups (just not the 'bloke' way is it!?)
Some of the best matches each season are those served against your close friends' teams I find. They're the ones i look forward to the most, win or lose. I've endured years of it from the Chelsea mob during the 90s. They're now starting to get some of their own medicine and hate me for it.
The odd thing is how i can separate my mates from the typical hatred I have for their clubs fans! I loathe Liverpool fans more and more each season it seems, though my Liverpool mate doesn't fall into the typical bindipper stereotype.
My best man is Chelsea and absolutely hates Spurs fans with a passion, often leaving me wondering whether I fall into his norm of "what he hates about Spurs fans" come 3pm on a Saturday.
No Gooners around thankfully, so we can all share a laugh at their expense.
...And my brother and old man are both avid Spammers, which makes for interesting times.
I have a very tight knit group of about a dozen lifelong mates, all of us passionate about our teams.
The ratio is 2 Tottenham, 1 Liverpool, 6 Chelsea, 2 Palace, 1 QPR. We're West London based.
The banter gets hefty and often offensive as we all passionately defend our clubs, but never to the point where we'd fall out over it or get into major bust ups (just not the 'bloke' way is it!?)
Some of the best matches each season are those served against your close friends' teams I find. They're the ones i look forward to the most, win or lose. I've endured years of it from the Chelsea mob during the 90s. They're now starting to get some of their own medicine and hate me for it.
The odd thing is how i can separate my mates from the typical hatred I have for their clubs fans! I loathe Liverpool fans more and more each season it seems, though my Liverpool mate doesn't fall into the typical bindipper stereotype.
My best man is Chelsea and absolutely hates Spurs fans with a passion, often leaving me wondering whether I fall into his norm of "what he hates about Spurs fans" come 3pm on a Saturday.
No Gooners around thankfully, so we can all share a laugh at their expense.
...And my brother and old man are both avid Spammers, which makes for interesting times.