Why do Americans act like they understand English football club rivalries? More specifically the Liverpool and United American fans on here.
Please stop.
>>67801412
Is this a Japanese porno?
>>67801412
>Pixelating the faces in one of the most used Chelsea images on the internet
is that di canio?
>>67801444
Better?
>>67801412
Why the fuck are you posting on an American board? You fucking British assholes need to stay on your shitty sites and post your shitty sports talk there and not pollute our awesome website.
End of discussion
>>67801412
i have never pretended to understand this or any other european rivalry but i would assume that both teams hate each other and thus the matches are emotionally charged and very tense
nope
>>67801478
Better. I've seen parents at the bridge who dress their toddlers up in stone island gear with goggle jackets (chelsea fan bdw). There is a pretty scummy following of Chelsea fans from the late 70s/80s which'll hopefully die out in a couple of decades
>>67801412
I understand the Spanish ones, Barcelona is super mad about how queer they are and Real Madrid did nothing wrong.
What's to understand, it's just like our rivalries with more wanton, unwarranted mayhem and murder.
>>67801603
>rivalries between franchises created from day to day with teams that were in another city two months before
>rivalries
Football was not created as a business oportunity and that's why you don't understand it.
You Americans need to understand that this is problematic. You're appropriating our rivalry culture.
>>67801636
Nor was baseball or basketball. Baseball in the US was literally involving the use of APPLES as a ball to start. They became larger because of the business opportunity. Just like the BPL and La Liga and Bundesliga and etc etc etc.
>>67801793
So? Boreballs rivalries came naturally and whatever basketball has.
>>67801793
According to wikipedia, NY has a population of 8.5 million people. At the NBA, for example, a few years ago they were all "represented" by just one team, now it's two since a russian brought money and bought the team they used to hate.
Explain that in Glasgow, Madrid, Istanbul, London, Buenos Aires, Seville, Milan or Genoa if you want to see people laughing at you.
>>67801862
>Tfw my friend was beaten up in a Liverpool pub wearing a united shirt because he didn't believe the rivalry was genuin
>>67801518
Yeah I hope there is a race war and the paki scum are wiped out. Would make the place a lot less scummy.
>>67801862
You're talking about basketball, he's talking about baseball. This is like me looking at your tinpot basketball league and saying that it somehow means that Spanish soccer is shit.
But it's funny when an American starts trying to get involved and starts parroting the stereotypes and british "banter" he's heard on /sp/.
Americans trying to copy European sporting culture is one of life's great treasures
Why do you get upset about it?
More the merrier so long as they aren't FIGHT AND WIN homos.
>>67802299
me on the left
>>67802001
are you blind?
TOO RIGHT old chap. Us Brits need to stick together.
>>67801636
It's true that America does have some ephemeral franchise-team culture (especially in the NFL - a horrible league), but we also have lots of teams in a number of sports that have been around for a really long time. College sports in particular have long rivalries and passionate fanbases.
>>67801412
why do americans think they can even give their opinion on football?
>>67801412
because without americans, you'd be getting your ass handed to you in the bundesliga.
<whine> why do other people want to watch >my sport</whine>
>>67806490
Why don't any Spaniards under the age of 35 acknowledge their moral obligation to contribute to society?
>Filthydelphia: The Country
are there genuine hooligans in england at this point?
I know milwall, west ham, dynamo chelsea had decent supporter groups, but now it looks like comfy sunday afternoon program
college sports is where all the true rivalries are in america, pro sports here are extremely plastic and every "rivalry" you hear about there is manufactured e!spn drama
>>67806555
>implying those above the age of 35 acknowledge their moral obligation to contribute to society
>>67801412
>Why do HIPSTERS act like they understand English football club rivalries? More specifically the Liverpool and United American fans on here.
Fixed. No true American gives a shit about soccer, much less English soccer.
I do agree with you, though. They need to stop.
>“Any time I’m at a book party or reading, and soccer comes up in conversation, I find myself surrounded by young men in shabby-genteel, loosely fitting tweed jackets gushing over the Gunners,” Ms. Schaap said. “In such settings, being an Arsenal supporter is even more predictable than having an M.F.A. or a pair of horn-rimmed glasses.”
>>67806617
Eh it still exists but it's done so far away from the public eye as the police are completely on top of it now, they have cameras that can identify you from a fucking mile away and you'll get banned from going to games, put on a no fly list if they think you're going to watch football etc and potentially even a prison sentence.
You'll still see the firms come out in public at EDL rallies and stuff though, the Chelsea Head Hunters were out at the big punch up at the Dover anti-immigration protest.
>>67806652
>yankees/red sox rivalry isn't real
>meet an america who claims to love football, ask him what team he supports
>I follow real Madrid
Never change America
>>67806754
there are a couple exceptions
What's not to understand, a rivalry is a rivalry in any fucking country.
What's with Brits acting like everything they do is unique? Britain hasn't done anything relevant in decades.
College football has the most pure rivarlies in the entire sporting universe.
>players actually from the area
>fans that are connected with teams and players on a community level instead of being customers
>players pick team based on merit or preference instead of mercenary money
>actual generational hate that is bred into you and you are raised in
>>67801636
>NFL franchises are the oldest and most stories American sports teams
>Hurrrrrrrrr
>>67801418
There's a little girl, so probably.
>>67806818
>players actually from the area
recruits come from everywhere anon and so do the students
>fans that are connected with teams and players on a community level instead of being customers
they are customers as long as their paying for schooling
>players pick team based on merit or preference instead of mercenary money
players pick schools with prestigious programs in order to play in big national games and improve their stock to get drafted into the NFL easier
>actual generational hate that is bred into you and you are raised in
this is the only thing true in this post
>>67806800
Giants-Dodgers
Cards-Cubs
Lakers-Celtics
Packers-Bears
Vikings-Packers
Cowboys vs. the NFC East
Raiders-Broncos
All blood feuds that have actually claimed lives.
>>67801518
>there is our only true fans that i hope die so we can have old women and tourists
I know more about """""""""football"""""""""" than any ugly limey could ever know.
>>67801636
>NFL
>rivarly
Watching Liverpool field 6 Brazilians to play ManU's 6 Africans is nothing short of riveting European tradition.
Well that is until Real and Bayern buy them.
Try college athletics where the players have connection to the area and actually care outside of money.
> More specifically the Liverpool and United American fans on here.
No x--DD
>>67805899
Are you illiterate?
Because following any football club is a huge fad right now especially with minorities and the upper middleclass
So much cringe...
>>67806884
That's why every 4 and 5 star plays for Bama or OSU right?
That's also why no one ever stays in state to play.
You've got to be joking if you don't see the difference between befriending and living with players in a small town and just paying for tickets.
Literally know most of the football players by name and they know me. We are an SEC founding school too.
>>67806818
Nah
West Ham vs Millwall is the most head rivalry in sports imo
>They were amateur workers teams for rival ship building companies about a mile apart
>Literally everything they did was done to take away the livelihood of each other
>There was a ship building strike
>All the unions and workers agreed to it
>Millwall dockers stabbed them all in the back and broke the strike instantly
>Stole a load of contracts and wages etc.
>It's been a blood fued ever since
I wouldn't even call it a rivalry, it's just pure vile hatred for each other, the result of the football match doesn't even matter when these two teams play, they just want to batter the shit out of each other.
>>67807035
heated rivalry*
>>67807035
>Millwall dockers stabbed them all in the back and broke the strike instantly
so that's why everyone thinks they're scum
>>67807035
To be fair, milwall are cunts to most teams
>>67806925
>Cowboys vs. the NFC East
Especially the rivalry with the Redskins.
>>67801636
>using the NFL as the standard for American sports, American sports history or American sports heritage
PLEASE shut the fuck up. Baseball and college football are the standard for things like that.
>>67801412
>Liverpool Manchester rivalry
>Invented by sky
Pick Two
>>67801478
Wonder the cuck that made this
>>67807172
Aren't rivalries supposed to be between two teams that are actually good and not one good team and one that's just kind of there but never really does anything?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGWO1V8lDzI
>>67807283
When liverpool were on top man u were shit and vice versa.
>tfw will never go to a Partizan vs Red Star game
>>67807330
There is nothing stopping you.
>>67807430
True. I might actually try to go to one some time in the future. Mainly depends on if I can save up the money and have it be in the middle of a trip or something to Serbia.
>>67807567
>>67807330
Olympiacos and Panathinaikos is another to check out
>>67806784
Ask me.
I'll tell you who I support madafaka
>>67806818
>>actual generational hate that is bred into you and you are raised in
That's always seemed so silly to me, what if you end up going to the other school or to a different school altogether?
Turkish teams are apparently awful rivals with each other, got a turkish friend and they are nuts over there apparently.
Also rivalrys are gay as fuck when you're not playing the sport, when you are heated and shit from playing its understandable why you could hate another team but just because they're the other local team doesn't mean you should kick the shit out of fans because they don't support your club. I think people just use rivalries in sport as an excuse to act like hooligans and get away with it
>>67808543
don't ever come back to this house again, son
>>67801412
Why do brits act like their rivalries are somehow different from other sports rivalries?
>>67801412
Kind fuck off. Americans (myself not included) only watch your hoof league because of that high-quality English-language production (by NBC, at the moment).
The real quality football (La Liga) is packaged horribly in US, in English at least.
You should be grateful that the world pays so much money for your inferior product.
>>67801636
would you shut the fuck up. The Bears and Packers have been at each other's throat in the same fucking part of the country since 1918. When you consider college athletics, places like Auburn and Alabama have openly despised each other since far before then.
And the Giants and Dodgers, who did change cities, did so at the same time and brought the rivalry with them. What was once a rivalry between boroughs of NYC becmae a rivalry between SF and LA, and violence has followed just as frequently as there was in NYC.
To act like American sports fans don't understand rivalries becuase we didn't have our fans murder a bunch of people in Heysel is fucking idiotic.
