adexkola
Doesn't understand sportswashing.
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No offense taken.I think this is potentially a difference between people that have grown up in the UK around all the rival fans for their whole lives and foreign fans who maybe haven’t.
I don’t mean any disrespect by that either, if I picked a German team to support I’d have no idea what it’s like for people who have grown up around it when they lose to the rivals. At the end of the day our international appeal is what’s got us where we are today anyway, so I’m certainly not complaining.
I'm struggling to think of any team I loathe to that extent. Probably Michigan (College Football) as an Ohio State fan... However no victory over them was as sweet as in 2006, when we were the number 1 ranked team in the nation, and they were number 2. The years when they sucked... The life went out of the rivalry. Same with City... The Manchester derbies a decade ago were mostly pointless affairs (shout-out to Stuart Pierce) compared to Liverpool games.
I think it's a different mentality here, where the dream is to meet your rivals on the biggest stage (the Superb Owl, World Series, NBA finals/conference finals, etc) and hammer them. For that to happen they have to be better than everyone else on the field, except for your team. Certainly different from not wanting Liverpool and City to be strong yet subservient to United. It's more of a "hope they get relegated" mentality which I can't relate to. I'll probably be banned if I say what's on my mind concerning Leeds