*Official* English Football Season 2022/23

[Uppercut]

I wouldn’t watch them, but the fact that some people hate them makes me slightly more interested in their results. Most teams at that level just inspire indifference.

FGR are the same, clearly some kind of identity there however vague, and most teams don’t have that.

Nothing personal but the bitterness of small club fans towards other small clubs that get a few promotions never fails to amuse me.

 

[GIMH]

Tbh. I don’t really have bitterness towards FGR, it was more a rivalry that came out of us being promotion rivals for 4 out of 6 seasons, beating each other in play-offs etc. I also don’t hate Salford in the way I do say Wrexham or Bolton. I don’t look out for their results. I just find it tiresome them being pushed as some massive fairytale when they are paying League One wages on Conference North crowds (at a push). Particularly irritating as a well ran, book balancing club with the same catchment. But hey that’s football.

 

[grecian]

I wouldn’t watch them, but the fact that some people hate them makes me slightly more interested in their results. Most teams at that level just inspire indifference.

FGR are the same, clearly some kind of identity there however vague, and most teams don’t have that.

Nothing personal but the bitterness of small club fans towards other small clubs that get a few promotions never fails to amuse me.

I'm not sure I'm ever bitter about other small-town clubs doing well, it's the **** narratives that surround them, and take what little oxygen of publicity for the rest of us.

Wycombe of course are by far the worse, anyone that actually watched their brand of football live, have a fairly different view of them, than the fairytale break-bumps of Sky.

No problem with Accrington, for instance, genuinely the best manager outside of the top divisions, and play decent football.

Oh and Salford aren't getting promotions ATM, I don't hate them though, the hype has died down. If they were a team in my region I may feel otherwise.

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[grecian]

Tbh. I don’t really have bitterness towards FGR, it was more a rivalry that came out of us being promotion rivals for 4 out of 6 seasons, beating each other in play-offs etc. I also don’t hate Salford in the way I do say Wrexham or Bolton. I don’t look out for their results. I just find it tiresome them being pushed as some massive fairytale when they are paying League One wages on Conference North crowds (at a push). Particularly irritating as a well ran, book balancing club with the same catchment. But hey that’s football.

Yep it's a similar thing to disliking a team in your own City that suddenly have Arab money to play with, feels a tad unfair, but thems the breaks, as a ****ing idiot once said.

 

[GIMH]

Wycombe play terrible football and also earned Championship football on being 8th in March. **** them.

I'm not sure anyone hates, say, Fleetwood either.

 

[Uppercut]

Yeah I understand it completely, it’s just funny. The media think Wycombe Wanderers are cool but they play a long ball game and foul a lot so we hate them.

Small time rivalries are just one of nature’s most hilarious things. That was the key lesson from The King of Kong.

 

[GIMH]

Tbf that's how Liverpool and City fans view the United/Leeds rivalry these days

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Tbf that's how Liverpool and City fans view the United/Leeds rivalry these days

meanwhile my small town rivalry grind is that i'm furious how one city has monopolized both of these

 

[BoyBrumby]

Tbf that's how Liverpool and City fans view the United/Leeds rivalry these days

meanwhile my small town rivalry grind is that i'm furious how one city has monopolized both of these

Not sure Grecian would necessarily agree...

Although his username does rather betray what everyone knows his chosen team as, tbf.

Anyway, apropos of the Mancunian monopoly of "United" & "City", I wonder which club people think of when they hear "Town", "Wanderers" or "Rovers"?

No prizes for guessing which team Coz associates with the latter though...

 

[Uppercut]

I’d probably assume that Wanderers refers to the original FA Cup winners. If it was Bolton or Wycombe you would definitely just say Bolton or Wycombe.

 

[GIMH]

Yeah Rovers obviously equals whites for me, although I never really refer to us as Rovers. I wrote it in my programme column for this Saturday (I am on the official supporters club committee so have to do a little column for home games) and it really felt unnatural.

Wanderers, Bolton, because of many hours spent singing wanky wanderers gleefully. Their fans also sing ‘Wanderers, Wanderers, Wanderers’ and I don’t recall Wolves or Wycombe doing that (could be wrong).

 

[BoyBrumby]

Wanderers is Notlob for me too; Wolves are, well, the Wolves.

I always associate "Rovers" with Bristol, for some reason. I guess because they seem to be most often referred to as such to differentiate them from the other Bristol team.

"Town" for me is Ipswich, probably mainly for geographical reasons.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Not sure Grecian would necessarily agree...

Although his username does rather betray what everyone knows his chosen team as, tbf.

Anyway, apropos of the Mancunian monopoly of "United" & "City", I wonder which club people think of when they hear "Town", "Wanderers" or "Rovers"?

No prizes for guessing which team Coz associates with the latter though...

Ipswich Town, Bolton (should maybe be Wolves but as you say they're Wolves not Wanderers), Blackburn Rovers

 

[GIMH]

We're all agreed it's QPR for Rangers yeah?

 

[Pothas]

Rovers is definitely Blackburn for me. Would probably think someone was referring to them if they said it.

Don't think there is any team that is the case for with town. Huddersfield probably the first one I would think of.

 

[Uppercut]

There's no such thing as "Rovers", it's just something that Americans think English football teams are called.

 

[GIMH]

Dunking on small teams and no such thing as Rovers, wtf did I do to upset you?

 

[andruid]

Rovers is Blackburn, town is Ipswich and Wanderers is mostly Bolton. See the 1990s EPL fan shining through


Ipswich getting relegated as a result of all the extra European football will always be a 'that was a really interesting thing that happened' moment for me

 

[Magrat Garlick]

There's no such thing as "Rovers", it's just something that Americans think English football teams are called.

FAI League of Ireland a USAnian invention confirmed

 

[grecian]

I will say I'm genuinely not remotely bothered about other teams being called City, I know we're massively down the rung.

Yeah, one City are currently whom I think of when I hear City or United in general discussion. Others are probably more parochial Town=Swindon, Rovers=Bristol. Wanderers, I just don't really associate with anyone, Wolves are Wolves, Bolton are Bolton, and so on. It just feels like an anachronism, TBH.