Do you want your rivals to go out of business?

[iROBOT]

I actually felt sorry for the Spuddy boys after the Arsenal match. The Arse fans all but ignore them most of the year, then afterwards they came into the Spurs thread like a bunch of smug bastards pissing all over the furniture and generally acting up. Very rude. We Hammers and the Spuds know how to treat a rivalry, bit of banter, in and out each others houses week in, week out, mocking their every action and winding them up. And they do to us. They're gents, deluded gents maybe, but I'd rather have them as rivals than the smug dullard fucks at the library. Obviously, I'd rather they were lower than us in the league and it was them suffering from financial and footballing meltdown. But as long as Harry's at the helm, anything can happen.

I can't see Orient as a rival team. In fact, I like the Orient with a patronising pat on the head. I wish them all the best, and would like for them to do very well indeed so as to form a nice rivalry with them.

I don't even want to big four to go out of business. Piss off and form a giant Euro League somewhere and leave the rest of us to play football, yes. Go out of business, not really.

To be fair to my fellow Gooners, it was mostly I on there since Saturday, and one Gooner even chastised me for it....

But if you cant take the piss when you beat your evil nemesis then when can you?

 

[el-ahrairah]

Your nemesis? Arsenal fans under 25 don't even know Tottenham are the old enemy.

 

[iROBOT]

Your nemesis? Arsenal fans under 25 don't even know Tottenham are the old enemy.

Erm, they're down the bottom of Seven Sisters Road about as a local rivalry as you can get. So please trust me, every Gooner knows who the rivals are.

And you cant compare your rivalry with the Spuds to ours with Tottenham. Ours is more like the sort of thing you have with Millwall (but without the violence, obviously)

 

[el-ahrairah]

The violence is what makes it fun.

 

[London_Calling]

By "violence" I take it you all mean a couple of dozen bald, sweaty fat men jogging across the pitch in baggy clothing and living their Greet Street dream. And I'm not talking about the playing staff.

 

[chieftain]

I actually felt sorry for the Spuddy boys after the Arsenal match. The Arse fans all but ignore them most of the year, then afterwards they came into the Spurs thread like a bunch of smug bastards pissing all over the furniture and generally acting up. Very rude. We Hammers and the Spuds know how to treat a rivalry, bit of banter, in and out each others houses week in, week out, mocking their every action and winding them up. And they do to us. They're gents, deluded gents maybe, but I'd rather have them as rivals than the smug dullard fucks at the library.

nicely put Mr Eggs.

Would I like to see the ARSE go: No not really

 

[strung out]

only club i truly want to see go out of business is franchise fc. though there are couple of clubs i'd raise a lol for.

 

[chieftain]

Erm, they're down the bottom of Seven Sisters Road about as a local rivalry as you can get. So please trust me, every Gooner knows who the rivals are.

And you cant compare your rivalry with the Spuds to ours with Tottenham. Ours is more like the sort of thing you have with Millwall (but without the violence, obviously)

Is that why a fair old few of you lot seem to prefer to think Liverpoo, ManUre and Chavski are more "in your league" as rivals when it suits you?

not a call out but: How old are you iROBOT? I've seen plenty of violence at Spurs Vs Arse derbys over the years. That fast disappearing "Edge" is what made derby days much more fun in the past.

 

[London_Calling]

Any match going goon knows the stories of the first derby match after Campbell left, plenty won't ever go to WHL again because of it and no one knocks them for it. It went way way too far than day.

 

[iROBOT]

Is that why a fair old few of you lot seem to prefer to think Liverpoo, ManUre and Chavski are more "in your league" as rivals when it suits you?

not a call out but: How old are you iROBOT? I've seen plenty of violence at Spurs Vs Arse derbys over the years. That fast disappearing "Edge" is what made derby days much more fun in the past.

Of course beating the top clubs is important in terms of progression, but doing you lot is just as important.

I'm a traditionalist.

Of course there is a bit of a ruck every game, but it's nothing like Millwall/W/Ham.

My age is my business....

 

[discokermit]

No, I wouldn't want the Blues, Baggies or Dingles to go out of business. I don't want any football club to go out of business .... with the possible exceptions of Chelsea and Manchester United, for the lolz.

In the case of Birmingham City, I want them to stay in the Premiership so we can do the double over them, time and time again.

i don't want our rivals to go out of business but i would like to see a plane carrying the villa team crash into the hawthorns when albion are playing blues.

 

[iROBOT]

Any match going goon knows the stories of the first derby match after Campbell left, plenty won't ever go to WHL again because of it and no one knocks them for it. It went way way too far than day.

Yup, I live 15 mins walk from WHL. I remember it well.

This just underlines my point. No way would you have reacted like that if he went to West Ham or Fulham.

The rivalry is real and alive (long may it continue)

 

[tommers]

Where does that info come from?

click on the number of posts on a thread.

 

[happie chappie]

No - I wouldn't want them to go out of business. If they did, it would be fantastic, but the fun would wear off over time.

I'd far rather they struggle in perpetuity - winning a game, then losing two or three straight after. Raising their supporters' hopes, and then dashing them -time after time after time in some kind of cruel footballing groundhog day.

Luckily, under Rafa Benitez, that's EXACTLY what's happening.

 

[Ich bin ein Mod]

Do I hell. Funny as fuck seeing them have no money though, big difference from their free-spending days when we were shite and i was getting roundly mocked at school.

 

[Fedayn]

No - I wouldn't want them to go out of business. If they did, it would be fantastic, but the fun would wear off over time.

I'd far rather they struggle in perpetuity - winning a game, then losing two or three straight after. Raising their supporters' hopes, and then dashing them -time after time after time in some kind of cruel footballing groundhog day.

Luckily, under Rafa Benitez, that's EXACTLY what's happening.

This, exactly this ^^^

 

[starfish]

Probably not, but like IBeM said its good to have a laugh about the financial state they are in at the moment.

 

[stavros]

I'm thinking that if an official club did go under, some community replacement would form, a la AFC Wimbledon or FC United. I know neither of their predecessors went out of business, but it does show the power of the fandom.

 

[mhwfc]

IIRC Graham Taylor donated a fair sum of money to their action group when L**** had one of their brushes with administration.

Wouldn't want them to go out of business, it may be funny at first but surely most fans would miss the rivalry if their rivals went under?