Thanks.
Dewsbury and Batley too. I lived in Dewsbury for a few years as a kid, and then moved to Pontefract (via a short stop in Morley). Non-Leeds fans were in vastly in the minority at all the schools I went to.
Listen bud, you support a club from an area you’re not familiar with, it’s your job and anyone else’s job to embrace that, or not. As a Mancunian season ticket holder who’s been away to the likes of Leeds, City, Liverpool, West Ham etc I get the culture of the club I support.....I live in the same city.
Firstly, that second paragraph has got to be a copypasta. No self aware person can genuinely write that.
He's right though.
You’re clueless.
No self awareness whatsoever. Ciao.
I've been to Elland Road twice and I can safely say it was the worst away experience of my life. Way worse than Anfield, Goodison or anywhere else in the NW of England. Worst fanbase on earth by miles.
Being a football fan is "juvenile" by definition! You can't pick and choose when to be juvenile and when to be above it! I mean, you can for yourself, but not for others.
There are different ways of being a football fan. For me, all the juvenile stuff has waned with age. Now I just like to watch the games. Well, I did before VAR at least.
100%. Please, let this thread die and be buried in an unmarked grave.
You may have a different opinion if you went to Elland Road as an away fan and had the entire South Stand chant shit at you for 90 minutes. Tends to put a dampener on the experience to say the least.
Yeah, like I said: If you're a local or has experienced the old rivalry, it's completely understandable. For a non-Mancunian millennial like me, I think it'd be bizarre to hate Leeds "just because".
I'm not from Manchester, but I take your point.
I'd love to be enlightened though.
The thing is, I know Stoke fans who swear we are serious rivals with them too. Just because they care about us doesn't mean we necessarily have to care about them.
Well that bit was in reference to the poster claiming that the club had embraced its worldwide support and left behind its geographical culture. Of course the club has embraced its worldwide support, fans are viewed as customers to the corporate arm of the club. They’ll take money from whoever wants to pay the highest price.
Got where you were coming from until this bit , although it was funny it is slightly knobheadish but at least you’ve secured the top red award for 2021 so you should be proud.
But yes in general I think you should embrace a clubs culture. But then like @Raveneye said, not everybody is tribal, regardless of their location and that’s fine.
Whats never gonna end well, and I’m sure Pogue knew this, The fecking shit stirrer! is creating a thread on a Man United forum entitled ‘rooting for Leeds’.
I don’t think you need to be from Manchester to understand the Leeds thing either. It’s not as if Manchester is full of Leeds fans. Similar things get said about non Manc’s who hate Liverpool. Which is weird because I can’t imagine there are more than three people in Manchester who support Liverpool, whereas for us Londoners we have to deal with Liverpool fans on a daily basis.
What I would say though and a few others have mentioned it. If you’ve attended a Leeds vs Man United game there is absolutely no way in hell you ‘root for Leeds’. I’ve attended two and can comfortably say they have the most vile, detestable and hateful fans I’ve ever come across.
If that’s not enough just watch the coverage they get, the self entitled ness all those years in the Chanpionship, pretending the Prem needed them back. The constant referral to them as a big and successful club even though they’ve won less trophies than Sunderland and wolves.
The thing about Leeds is, pretty much everyone hates them. Even clubs from the most random places and it’s probably because Leeds fans turned up at their ground and behaved like animals and then subsequently went on sky sports news and told everyone they were the 4th biggest club in England. This kind of stuff rubs people the wrong way.
Fans are now getting annoyed because their teams are beating Leeds 4-0 and 6-2 and all they hear about in the post match analysis is how Leeds were amazing and kept going.
Incredible isn't it? I had to double check for white text.
Got where you were coming from until this bit , although it was funny it is slightly knobheadish but at least you’ve secured the top red award for 2021 so you should be proud.
But yes in general I think you should embrace a clubs culture. But then like Raveneye said, not everybody is tribal, regardless of their location and that’s fine.
Id suggest you re-read the conversation in context.
Nor did I say I hadn't lived in Manchester, or that I was from Norfolk. I have already corrected you on it once. That is, as you say, 'information to go off.' But you carried on with your strawman anyway. Not that it mattered, you had already assumed I couldn't understand your culture.
feck Leeds. They’re hated by everyone, not just United fans. The fact that their team is entertaining and their manager is a comedy villain doesn’t diminish this.
