TrippyLondoner
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I only take notice of our rivals if we are either playing them or something embarrassing happens to them.
How obsessed are you with your clubs rivals?
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Termite Man
zombie flesh eater
I do dislike Colchester but unfortunately their representative on these boards is a likeable chap 
Gromit
International Man of Misery
If Cardiff won the page there would be a tiny quarter page mention of it in the national press the day afterwards (compared with pages of mention if Man Utd).
If England won the world cup you wouldn't hear the end of it in the press or on TV for months.
Is he sure Cardiff winning would be worse?
Seeing as our main rivals (Oxford United) are languishing in the conference, seemingly never to return to the football league, I've pretty much forgotten all about them. I'm sure all the old hatred would return if we were ever to play them again, but for the time being they don't even register. The hatred is purely a collective thing, I've met one or two Oxford fans who have been ok.
As for our other supposed rivals:
Reading - I have never cared about them much although they seem to hate us. Them being in the premier league though, there's not much point in having a rivalry at all. Again, I have met some who I get on with.
Bristol City - Has been fierce in the past, but a bit before my time really. We're totally insignificant to them.
Bristol Rovers - As we've been in the same division more often than not over the last few seasons, a healthy little rivalry has built up with Bristol's second club.
Gillingham - This 80s rivalry was rekindled a couple of years back and it seems to have caught the imagination of those too young to remember it first time round. Like most of our so-called rivals, they seem to hate us more than we hate them.
As for our other supposed rivals:
Reading - I have never cared about them much although they seem to hate us. Them being in the premier league though, there's not much point in having a rivalry at all. Again, I have met some who I get on with.
Bristol City - Has been fierce in the past, but a bit before my time really. We're totally insignificant to them.
Bristol Rovers - As we've been in the same division more often than not over the last few seasons, a healthy little rivalry has built up with Bristol's second club.
Gillingham - This 80s rivalry was rekindled a couple of years back and it seems to have caught the imagination of those too young to remember it first time round. Like most of our so-called rivals, they seem to hate us more than we hate them.
Oh come on, I'm pretty sure that a (relatively) small club like Cardiff winning the Premiership would be a colossally huge story.
His hatred of them is the deepest I've heard from any mate towards a rival club, even my spuds mate about arsenal
brixtonvilla
should be Oslovilla, really
Birmingham City - healthy dislike. Don't spend much time thinking about them apart from the derbies, check out their results in an "Oh-good-the Blues-lost" way, but that's about it. Some of their fans are scummers (more so than many other teams), and their ground is a nasty shithouse. I did miss them when they got sent down though, more than I thought I would...
In a weird way, I'd quite like Millwank to get to the Premiership. We don't have that one really big derby that everyone else has. We look forward to playing spurs, but they claim not to care about playing us, so that kind of kills it a bit.
Come off it. If Cardiff won the the Prem the Welsh media would go into overload and would probably make their coverage of the Grand Slam look restrained. There'd be endless Premier League Champions specials hosted by Jason Fucking Mohammed and every page of the Western Mail would be stuck together with Paul Abbandonato's spunk for months on end. But saying that if you win on Sunday that'll be case, god help if you actually win the cup.
Never mind england going on about 1966 constantly, the Cardiff fans and media are still going on about 1927.
I doubt that. The Welsh media don't like soccer much, they see it as a threat to their beloved egg-chasing.
Sweaty Betty
Hemo rising!
It would probably help if our national football side was up to much....they suck- always have as far as i can remember
You obviously didn't see the Welsh news today. The entire programme was broadcast from Ninian Park with Jason fucking Mohammed and Derek the fucking weatherman and had clips of Neil fucking Kinnock and Rhodrhi fucking Morgan sending good luck messages.
God help if you actually get to the final.
I don't have much against them. I'm more fascinated about the history of the actual local derby rivalry between Portsmouth and Southampton, just as much as I am about the support from other sides (Thierry Henry wearing the Pompey shirt and applauding the Fratton End a few years back, for example) 
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