Football....What team do you support ??
Posted by: mista h on 23 January 2012
Would love to hear from as many people as pos on this one,including supporters of Non League sides. Lets have any interesting stories from over the years,the ups and downs,the good bad and the ugly.
I will start the ball rolling and get ready for any abuse that may come my way !!!!
I watched my 1st game at Fulham back in 1954 when the old man took me. He is 86 now but still has his season ticket,and we have both clocked up the Air Miles watching the girls play in europe and little old Fulham getting to the Europa league final in Hamburg.
Something that i still remember from the 70s is a guy that always stood in front of us at home games,smoked Senior Service plain. Always arrived smoking and smoked non stop for 2hrs,never used a lighter,he would just light one cigarette off the other....Yuk
Favorite away grounds.....Spurs and Chelsea,and best of all Villa Park.
Least favorite away grounds.....Newcastle and Old Trafford.
Only problem in our household is my son in law,also a season ticket holder......but at the mob down the road CHELSEA.
Ah! Shame. 
Yes, poor you.
Never mind, here's one to get you in the mood
Dear Guy,
When I was a kid, we were forced to play football. Just like we were forced to recite Rupert Brooke [etc]!
My hatred of both is never going to leave me!
On the other hand we were forced to listen to gramophone records of classical music, and that eventually led to me playing the double bass to a respectable pro-standard! There is no way of knowing what the effects of childhood experiences will be.
I was banned from boxing at school - another thing that almost everyone was forced to do. I was excused because a boy called Tudge hit me on the nose and made it bleed. The match continued till I thumped him so hard in the guts that I knocked all the wind out of him!
A result. Tudge was a bully and all the bullies left me along for the rest of my school days, and I was excused boxing! Yes, that was a result! You see my brother and I - as brothers sometimes do - worked out a strategy for serious play fighting. We would aim to seriously hurt the other, but once submit was said, that was it ... till the next time, so I knew all the moves! Not Queensbury for sure, but damned effective!
Coming back to footie! Anything I ever write about it, is firmly tongue in cheek!
On the other hand I adore cricket and actually playing tennis, though I am no good at either! Eyes too poor to see the ball if it is moving too fast, you see! I couldn't, but I had to be banned from cricket at school as I was fearless, and was a considerable danger to myself, especially trying to intercept catches! I became school scorer, though I had to rely on someone else to let me know what was going on! Umpire signals! Where's the bloody umpire, I can't see him at all from the rest!!!
ATB from George
The Cleveland Browns