Soccer Census: Who do you support?

[cthomer5000]

The 2006/2007 season is just about finished (waiting on just La Liga, basically). I thought before we kick off talk about 2007/2008 it might be interestingto just get a feel for who's following whom around here. I'll keep an updated list in the second post.

me:

EPL: Tottenham Hotspur
MLS: New York Red Bulls

[cthomer5000]

England http://www.somethingwithanh.com/fofc/england_flag.png

English Premier League

Arsenal
chesapeake
daedalus
law90026
OldGiants
rowech
terpkristin

Aston Villa
Dark Cloud

Bolton Wanderers
path12

Birmingham City
waynegomez

Chelsea
Katon

Everton
Honolulu_Blue
Ragone

Fulham
Butter_of_69
SirFozzie

Liverpool
3ric
Crapshoot
klayman
MattJones4Heisman
moriarty
Oilers9911
oykib
TredWel
VPI97

Manchester City
Huckleberry

Manchester United
Ajaxab
Big Fo
cartman
Scholes
wbatl1

Middlesbrough
Chief Rum

Newcastle
atatange1
Coffee Warlord
HiFiRevival
ISiddiqui
Neuqua
Passacaglia

Tottenham Hotspur
BigDPW
BYU 14
cthomer5000


Championship

Blackpool
Schmidty

Cardiff City
bhlloy

Crystal Palace
MrBug708
RPI-Fan

Ipswitch Town
marcmoustache

Leicester City
Jari Rantanen's Shorts

Preston North End
BYU 14

Sheffield United
Solecismic

Southampton
Butter_of_69

West Bromwich Albion
I. J. Reilly


League One

Brighton & Hove Albion
Marc Vaughan

Carlisle United
bulletsponge

Huddersfield
MattJones4Heisman

Nottingham Forest
Arles
McSweeny


League Two

Notts County
path12

Wrexham
VPI97


Conference National

Cambridge United
SirFozzie


Conference South

Eastbourne Boro
HiFiRevival



France http://www.somethingwithanh.com/fofc/france_flag.png

Rennes
BreizhManu



Germany http://www.somethingwithanh.com/fofc/germany_flag.png

Bundesliga

Borussia Dortmund
Ragone

Energie Cottbus
OldGiants

Werder Bremen
bryce

Italy http://www.somethingwithanh.com/fofc/italy_flag.png

Serie A

Inter Milan
cartman
illinifan999

Udinese
MattJones4Heisman


Serie B

Napoli
Blade6119



Netherlands http://www.somethingwithanh.com/fofc/holland_flag.png

Eredivisie

Ajax
Ajaxab

FC Utrecht
MIJB#19



Scotland http://www.somethingwithanh.com/fofc/scotland_flag

Scottish Premier League

Celtic
McSweeny

Motherwell
Schmidty

Rangers
Critch
Toddzilla

Scottish First Division

Peterhead
Toddzilla



Spain http://www.somethingwithanh.com/fofc/spain_flag.png

La Liga

Atletico Madrid
Passacaglia

Barcelona
Joe
Mr. Wednesday

Espanyol
MattJones4Heisman

Sevilla
Leonidas



Sweden http://www.somethingwithanh.com/fofc/sweden_flag.png

Allsvenskan

IFK Göteborg
3ric



USA + Canada http://www.somethingwithanh.com/fofc/usa_flag.png http://www.somethingwithanh.com/fofc/canada_flag.png

Major League Soccer

Chicago Fire
Coffee Warlord
illinifan999
Neuqua

Colorado Rapids
bertogarce

Columbus Crew
Butter_of_69
rowech

DC United
chesapeake
HiFiRevival
OldGiants
terpkristin
VPI97
wbatl1

FC Dallas
bryce

LA Galaxy
bhlloy
Chief Rum
MrBug708

New England Revolution
Mr. Wednesday
SirFozzie

New York Red Bulls
cthomer5000
oykib
RPI-Fan

Toronto FC
Dark Cloud
Oilers9911
Simms



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[bhlloy]

England: Cardiff City
MLS: Galaxy

[Ragone]

Bundesliga:Borussia Dortmund
England:Everton

[marcmoustache]

Championship - Ipswich Town

[digamma]

the hooligans

[rowech]

EPL: Arsenal
MLS: Don't watch but I would have to say Columbus

[Simms]

It's my home town, and I was able to catch a couple of games on TV when I was there on business three weeks ago (including their first goal/win against the Fire). Really hope the fans there can maintain the enthusiasm they've shown thus far.

Toronto FC (MLS)

I enjoy watching as much European soccer as I'm able to, but I don't have a specific team that I support over there.

[Passacaglia]

EPL: Newcastle
La Liga: Atletico Madrid (fingers crossed)

[3ric]

Sweden: IFK Goteborg (hometown team, I'm a member and season ticket holder)
England: Liverpool

[RPI-Fan]

England: Crystal Palace
MLS: Red Bull New York

[terpkristin]

EPL: Arsenal
MLS: DC United

/tk

[wbatl1]

EPL: Man U (i know, i know, but I grew up watching them on TV in the 90's)
MLS: United (of the DC variety)
All other leagues: Any team with American Players

[Big Fo]

Manchester United

[Ajaxab]

I too am a product of the mid 90s hence my choices.

EPL: Man Utd, (I do have a soft spot for Newcastle though)
Eredivisie: Ajax

I just can't get into the MLS for whatever reason.

[AlexB]

Leicester City - hometown club.

No others - it's not right supporting more than one team ;)

[st.cronin]

Don't really have one. Cruz Azul, maybe, although I don't really follow them, and couldn't name a single player.

[Joe]

FC Barcelona

[VPI97]

England:
Premiership - Liverpool
League Two - Wrexham

USA:
MLS - DC United

[OldGiants]

MLS: DC United
EPL: Aresenal (becasue of Dave Seaman, now retired)
Bundesliga: Energie Cottbus (becasue my daughter spent a semester abroad at Brandenburg Tech in Cottbus and met an American CD on Energie whose name I've forgotten)

[cartman]

Premiership: Man U
Serie A: Inter Milan

[MrBug708]

Galaxy
Crystal Palace

[Mr. Wednesday]

MLS: Revolution
La Liga: Barcelona

No specific favorites elsewhere, although I've sort of started following Fulham with all the Yanks there.

[BYU 14]

EPL: Tottenham

Championship: Preston North End

[Coffee Warlord]

Newcastle.

I'll give props to the Fire in the MLS, but truth be told, I follow the EPL way way WAY more.

[Oilers9911]

Liverpool in the EPL. Toronto FC in the MLS.

[ISiddiqui]

EPL: Newcastle United

I enjoy watching the MLS, but don't have a team, really. I used to back the old NY/NJ Metrostars, but then didn't follow MLS for a while and then I was in Atlanta, with the nearest team about an 8 hour drive from me (DC United). Since I liked the Metros and love Bruce Arena, I should be a big RedBulls fan, but those bastards took NJ out of their name, and that's a pet peeve of mine (NY teams playing in NJ, and pretending they are playing in NY :mad: )

[st.cronin]

EPL: Newcastle United

I enjoy watching the MLS, but don't have a team, really. I used to back the old NY/NJ Metrostars, but then didn't follow MLS for a while and then I was in Atlanta, with the nearest team about an 8 hour drive from me (DC United). Since I liked the Metros and love Bruce Arena, I should be a big RedBulls fan, but those bastards took NJ out of their name, and that's a pet peeve of mine (NY teams playing in NJ, and pretending they are playing in NY :mad: )

You mean like Rutgers? :p

[BigDPW]

EPL: Tottenham
MLS: Not really latched onto a team yet but RedBull NY or DC United will be vying for my allegiance over the next year or so if I get interested in MLS.

[ISiddiqui]

You mean like Rutgers? :p

Rutgers has never, ever, ever pretended it was in NY. Though they do like to think they have a fan base there (who else are they backing, Hofstra?).

[cthomer5000]

You mean like Rutgers? :p

I don't see how that dis makes sense on any level. You're just entirely wrong.

[cthomer5000]

Newcastle.

I'll give props to the Fire in the MLS, but truth be told, I follow the EPL way way WAY more.

With the EPL I would say I'm following the league, while I'm more following my team in the MLS. But I do go to most Red Bull games and I think overall the (long-term) future is bright for soccer in the US. I want to see it succeed, so I think i need to be one of the people supporting it now to help make that happen.

Plus it's nice to have something to follow this summer.

[st.cronin]

Rutgers has never, ever, ever pretended it was in NY. Though they do like to think they have a fan base there (who else are they backing, Hofstra?).

Maybe Rutgers doesn't, but espn definitely wants me to think Rutgers is in NYC.

[atatange1]

Put me down as another Newcastle supporter.

[Crapshoot]

Liverpool - numero uno.

I have a bunch of other teams I'll support from time to time, but not really a fan per se - Tottenham comes to mind, and I used to be a bigger Ajax fan back in the day.

[SirFozzie]

EPL
Fulham

English Conference National
Cambridge United

MLS
New England Revolution

[Huckleberry]

Manchester City

Don't have an MLS team. I was on board to support Houston's club before they backed down like a bunch of pansies and change the name from 1836.

[bulletsponge]

the closest for me is Carlisle United in the English 1st division

[TredWel]

Liverpool for me.

[Schmidty]

Scottish Premier League:

Motherwell (My mom's fiance' is from there, and is a huge supporter)


Championship:

Blackpool (No reason other than the fact that I always play them in FM)

[BreizhManu]

French Ligue 1 : Rennes

[Blade6119]

Italy(Serie B) - Napoli

[MJ4H]

League One: Huddersfield

I pick teams to root for in the leagues that actually get on TV, too:

Premiership: Liverpool (I also like Fulham because of the Americans and Reading because they were a great story this past year)

La Liga: Espanyol
Serie A: Udinese

[cthomer5000]

Maybe Rutgers doesn't, but espn definitely wants me to think Rutgers is in NYC.

It is without a doubt a New York City area school, so the press coverage makes sense. They were all over the NYC papers when they were winning big, whereas there wouldnt be 2 lines of text 2 years earlier.

They school cant control the media, but you certainly have no claim at all that the school has pretended to be in NY.

[st.cronin]

It is without a doubt a New York City area school, so the press coverage makes sense. They were all over the NYC papers when they were winning big, whereas there wouldnt be 2 lines of text 2 years earlier.

They school cant control the media, but you certainly have no claim at all that the school has pretended to be in NY.

Gosh you're awful sensitive about this.

[Blade6119]

I find it even more hilarious considering his listed "location"

[ISiddiqui]

Maybe Rutgers doesn't, but espn definitely wants me to think Rutgers is in NYC.

You should have stopped when you said ESPN :p.

[st.cronin]

You should have stopped when you said ESPN :p.

Yeah, it wasn't meant to be taken seriously at all. It was actually more a reference to a mini-brouhaha that took place in some thread back in football season, where I said something like "I lived in NYC for three years, and never once remember seeing anything Rutgers in the newspapers or on tv," and all the Rutgers people jumped up and insisted it was a NYC-metro school. But really, I don't care - I swear..

[ISiddiqui]

I've always hated those bastards across the Hudson, so I only jump up when people associate Rutgers with them ;).

[Neuqua]

EPL: Newcastle
MLS: Chicago Fire

[Marc Vaughan]

Club
Brighton and Hove Albion
(soft spot for Man City - my wife's team)

International
England

[Young Drachma]

EPL: Aston Villa
MLS: Toronto FC

[BYU 14]

Kind of surprised at the number of supporters for both Newcastle and Tottenham on here......Spurs I can understand as they are an exciting Team.......but Newcastle? Some people from the Drunk Guy thread must have the Team and the Ale mixed up ;)

[Crapshoot]

Btw, slight note - I've never met an English person who referred to the Premier League as the EPL. Just interesting. :D

[Leonidas]

I'm a sometimes Arsenal fan, although I'm warming to Aston Villa as I live much closer to them and they seem to be a team on the rise.

In Spain I like Sevilla. I've spent some time there and like their underdog status against Barca and Real.

I don't have much use for any of the other leagues.

[Katon]

Club: Chelsea

[MIJB#19]

Add the FC pre-fix and you called it right, CT. ;) Of all the Dutch pro teams named after locations, all but two have the FC pre-fix and are always spoken with it as well. Exceptions being SC Heerenveen, Feyenoord, BV Veendam and Haarlem.

[oykib]

Almost totally from playing FM:

Liverpool
Red Bull NY

[Butter]

EPL: Fulham
Championship: Southampton
MLS: Columbus Crew

[bertogarce]

MLS: Colorado Rapids

[Chief Rum]

Kind of surprised at the number of supporters for both Newcastle and Tottenham on here......Spurs I can understand as they are an exciting Team.......but Newcastle? Some people from the Drunk Guy thread must have the Team and the Ale mixed up ;)

Agreed. All these bandwagon Magpie fans. Now that they're playing crappy again, they should be jumping off ship soon. :)

Barclays Premiership: Boro
MLS: Galaxy

Special place in my heart from FM days: Sheffield Wednesday, Tamworth, Kettering Town

[McSweeny]

Nottingham Forest
Glasgow Celtic
and the Irish National Team

[MrBug708]

Hmmm. RPI-Fan likes Crystal Palace. I like Crystal Palace. RPI-Fan's name is Kyle. My name is Kyle.

Interesting

[klayman]

Liverpool

[BYU 14]

Don't make me stumble out there and punch you in the brain! The Ale is the reason I chose the team.

Are you also a fan of the Silver Bullets all Girl Baseball team then? :)

[daedalus]

Arse.

[MIJB#19]

Agreed. All these bandwagon Magpie fans. Now that they're playing crappy again, they should be jumping off ship soon. :)Newcastle and bandwagon? I thought teams actually had to achieve something for people to jump onto a bandwagon. :D

[bryce]

MLS: FC Dallas
Bundesliga: Werder Bremen

[Coffee Warlord]

Agreed. All these bandwagon Magpie fans. Now that they're playing crappy again, they should be jumping off ship soon.

You gotta be pretty desperate if you are jumping on a Newcastle bandwagon. :)

[Coffee Warlord]

Heh, MIJB beat me to it.

[dacman]

You gotta be pretty desperate if you are jumping on a Newcastle bandwagon. :)

I blame the movie Goal!


Here are some of my favorites--although I'm by no means a diehard fan of any.

MLS: Chicago Fire (though I haven't paid much attention since Bradley and Nowak left)
La Liga : Real Madrid (when my 8th grade Spanish teacher explained it's pronounced ree-AL and it means "royal" I thought that was the coolest thing ever)
Serie A : AC Milan (Maldinis' fault -- plus I liked the uni's when I was a kid)
Bundesliga : Bayern Munich (Lothar Matthaus' fault)
Eredivisie : Ajax (de Boers' fault)


EPL : Can't figure it out. I rooted against England internationally as a kid (a damned rebel colonist I was) so I never give much thought to the EPL.

I found myself rooting for West Ham and the end of this season, but for the life of me, I don't really like any of the teams well enough to root for them. There are many I have eliminated from consideration, though.

The Big 4 (Man U, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal) -- can't do it -- too big of a bandwagon
Still feels like too much a bandwagon jump -- Spurs, Everton, Fulham (due to the Americans)
The Little 6 (recent pro/demotees--Charlton, Sheffield U, Watford, Birmingham City, Sunderland, Derby County) -- meh, no thanks -- although I might re-consider Sunderland (keen on Keane?)
Can't stand 'em -- Man City, Portsmouth, Man City, Newcastle, Man City, oh and Man City.
Can't watch 'em -- Bolton, Blackburn, Villa

What am I left with? Reading, Middlesbourgh, West Ham, and Wigan. Uninspiring choices to say the least. I wish I would've picked one as a kid like I did for the other leagues.

[Honolulu_Blue]

EPL: Everton.

[law90026]

Arsenal

[Arles]

My fav is Nottingham Forrest of League One (Thanks to the old days of CM/FM). I also root for Tottenham Hotspur when watching the EPL.

[waynegomez]

EPL: Birmingham City

[chesapeake]

MLS: DC United
EPL: Arsenal

[Scholes]

EPL: Manchester United

Accept no substitutes.

I guess another team I've just started rooting for is Sunderland, because Roy Keane is the balls.

[Toddzilla]

SPL: Rangers
SD2: Peterhead

[illinifan999]

MLS: Chicago Fire
Serie A: Inter Milan

[Critch]

SPL - Rangers

[I. J. Reilly]

England - West Brom, it's going to be a looooong off season. (Would the last talented player to leave the club this summer please turn off the lights.)

In the EPL I find myself following the Spurs. No reason really other then the 4 or 5 games I’ve seen them play on TV have been really entertaining. And I want to see what Bale can do against world class talent.

[path12]

EPL - Bolton
L2 - Notts County

Trying to figure out which MLS team to follow. Not sure yet.

[cthomer5000]

Trying to figure out which MLS team to follow. Not sure yet.

There seem to be very good odds one will be in the Seattle area within 2-3 years, FYI.

[Schmidty]

There seem to be very good odds one will be in the Seattle area within 2-3 years, FYI.

Cool. That would be the first, and only, Seattle team that I support.

[path12]

There seem to be very good odds one will be in the Seattle area within 2-3 years, FYI.

That would make the choice much easier. I do enjoy going to the A-League games. I remember in the late seventies in high school the Kingdome would get around 40,000 for Sounders games in the old NASL. Good times.

[Coffee Warlord]

EPL - Bolton
L2 - Notts County

Trying to figure out which MLS team to follow. Not sure yet.

Whoo Notts County! My FM team!

[path12]

Whoo Notts County! My FM team!

Mine too!

[Solecismic]

Because I was born there: Sheffield United.

It has been a very, very rough last few weeks.

[moriarty]

Liverpool.

[cthomer5000]

updated

[astrosfan64]

MLS = New York Red Bull

Premiership = West Ham

Championship = Wolverhampton

Conference North = Scarborough though they were relegated out of conference north this year. The team is up for sale and there is all kinds of issues and drama going on. Hard to follow being here in the US. They have always been my team since a very old version of FM. Funny when I started playing them they were in Division 3. I've done well with them in FM, but they haven't done so good in real life.

[Young Drachma]

I'm trying to pick a team to follow in the fictional league in the league modeled after the SimCity 4 dynasty I'm writing. It's almost as difficult as picking a real life team. Geez.

[KeyserSoze]

Real Madrid.

[Mac Howard]

England:

Premiership: Man Utd

Div One: Rochdale (the only league team who have never either been relegated or promoted - always in the middle of the lowest English league and an antidote to my Man Utd hubris :) )

Australian A-League: Perth Glory (ditto :rolleyes: )

International: England and Australia (in that order)

[FrogMan]

I have a few allegiances...

EPL: Arsenal

League One: Luton Town (always my club of choice whenever I play FM)

MLS: no clue, but you can enter me as supporting the Montreal Impact in the USL :)

FM

[condors]

MLS-Crew

EPL-Manchester United

[PraetorianX]

Put another one down for Tottenham Hotspur. :cool:


I don't really follow MLS.

And I'm starting to fancy Werder Bremen in the Bundesliga as my #2 team though...proper football team they are.

[cthomer5000]

end of 2009 bump. Any new soccer fans around here?

[sovereignstar]

Man City!

[DaddyTorgo]

wow - i never posted in this thread?

Juventus (Serie A) all the way

[-apoc-]

Gunners not that I am a new fan I just apparently missed this thread the first time around.

[Tekneek]

Manchester City!

[claphamsa]

BARCELONA WOOOO

[SackAttack]

West Bromwich Albion, but I've been a supporter of theirs since shortly after I first got hooked on CM3, so I don't know that I'm all that "new."

[sposfan]

Hartlepool... curse you one-nil! :)

(The old PC game, not the score!)

[Sweed]

Finally got FSC last year, between that and the few games that were on espn2 I really enjoyed watching Fernando Torres and Gerrard more than anyone else.
So it's Liverpool for me.

[Icy]

Can't believe i missed this thread.

La Liga and main team: Real Madrid
EPL: I have sympathies for Liverpool because the Spanish staff and players.

[miami_fan]

German-1. FC Kaiserslautern
La Liga- Barcelona

I would like to get into a EPL team. I have been following the career of Kenwyne Jones so by extension I have been keeping up with Sunderland. I like the way Arsenal play but I really am not a Big Four type of guy. I guess I just have to pick a team and stick with them.

[law90026]

Arsenal since 1991

[Senator]

Plymouth

[MrBug708]

Crystal Palace

[Eaglesfan27]

Manchester United mainly from my managing them in FM (well it was CM back in the day.)

[JetsIn06]

Manchester City

[Abe Sargent]

Bolton

[Axxon]

Manchester United since I'm a Buccaneer fan but Hull is a close second and I'm still partial to Clachnacuddin F.C. This was my first team I've ever played. I played them in 1-nil back in the day. Ajax is close, since the first city I ever visited that had an European football club was Amsterdam. In the grand scheme though, I'm a Tampa Bay Rowdies fan even though they no longer exist. :(

They really were my first sports love, before there were Buccaneers and Lightning ect. The Rowdies were and always will be a kick in the grass and the reason I'm a sports fan. Oh, and yes, I did get to meet the Rowdies on several occasions. I've never met a more accessible sports franchise.

Tampa Bay Rowdies (http://www.tampabayrowdies.com/)

to hear the classic kick in the grass song and to get an idea what I'm talking about.

[Mac Howard]

England:

Premiership: Man Utd

Div One: Rochdale (the only league team who have never either been relegated or promoted - always in the middle of the lowest English league and an antidote to my Man Utd hubris :) )

Australian A-League: Perth Glory (ditto :rolleyes: )

International: England and Australia (in that order)

Update : having moved a few months ago from Western Australia to Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast I've taken up with the new A-League expansion team Gold Coast Utd. There's still a little tug of the heart strings when Gold Coast play Perth Glory but I'm slowly overcoming it.

The Socceroos could face England in the last 16 of the World Cup if they can take second place in their group (and England finish 1st in theirs) and that could prove to be a win-win problem which I would enjoy facing.

Oh, and Rochdale are currently top of their league (which is League Two not One as included above). Could they be about to break their record as the only team never to be promoted or relegated from their division? :eek:

[Ramzavail]

After my honeymoon to Italy in October, and we saw a Fiorentina game (their only home loss of the season so far to Napoli), I've been heavily following them.

EPL: Everton - really all because of Tim Howard. Their game this weekend was phenomenal if anybody caught it (vs. Tottenham)