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Post by davethegrave on Nov 18, 2021 17:02:47 GMT
I know for some Sutton United are their only team. But in the old days when Sutton were a non-league team I know a lot of people had their favourite league team as well.
So now how can you support two league teams? I'm in that quandary too.
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Post by jr on Nov 18, 2021 17:17:39 GMT
I was Hooked on the U's when Mum took me as a child in the 1970's so they're my only team. I do like watching other teams but I don't support them so if they lose I'm not bothered.
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Post by terrier on Nov 18, 2021 17:34:48 GMT
Huddersfield Town first and always, Sutton United second.
No apologies. You can never switch teams, but you can learn to like/enjoy other teams (location also plays a part - Walton on the Hill for me).
Looking forward to the Q&A, something Town used to do regularly.
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Post by localboy86 on Nov 18, 2021 17:37:17 GMT
I grew up supporting and following Man United in the early 90s when I was 6/7 (before I was aware of a certain Sutton United) and still have an interest in them today getting up to Old Trafford a couple of times a season but Sutton are very much my principal team.
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Post by sallycat on Nov 19, 2021 11:41:43 GMT
My other team is Sutton United  They're my local non-league side and also my Big EFL Team. I still can't quite wrap my head around not being non-league any more so I have decided to have my cake and eat it. It's amber and chocolate cake, by the way. |
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Post by medyel on Nov 19, 2021 12:36:23 GMT
Hertha Berlin. Think that's a fairly safe one (unless somehow Hertha manage to qualify for European competition by about 2030 when Sutton will be up for that...)
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Post by shaneaib on Nov 19, 2021 13:06:29 GMT
I used to have another team, now I am down to just one team, Sutton United. As I had relatives in Manchester I was taken over on the B&I ferry to see Man Utd at a very young age. I lived for a bit in Manchester, I was living their when Man Utd won the title for the first time under Ferguson. Years later I went to Moscow for that very long night against Chelsea in the Champions league final. Have to say a a fair share of my Man Utd supporting was under the yoke of Liverpool's dominance. I was never a season ticket holder at United but did go up a few times a year to games with the London Man utd supporters group. In the last few years my support for man utd was waning then it broke. Less to do with Man Utd and more to do with the whole circus that is the Premier league. All the talk seem to revolve around owners, money and misery at the perceived lack of success. I just didn't have the bandwidth any more so tuned in fully to Sutton United.
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Post by shaneaib on Nov 19, 2021 13:06:45 GMT
I used to have another team, now I am down to just one team, Sutton United. As I had relatives in Manchester I was taken over on the B&I ferry to see Man Utd at a very young age. I lived for a bit in Manchester, I was living their when Man Utd won the title for the first time under Ferguson. Years later I went to Moscow for that very long night against Chelsea in the Champions league final. Have to say a a fair share of my Man Utd supporting was under the yoke of Liverpool's dominance. I was never a season ticket holder at United but did go up a few times a year to games with the London Man utd supporters group. In the last few years my support for man utd was waning then it broke. Less to do with Man Utd and more to do with the whole circus that is the Premier league. All the talk seem to revolve around owners, money and misery at the perceived lack of success. I just didn't have the bandwidth any more so tuned in fully to Sutton United.
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Post by Jared on Nov 19, 2021 14:11:58 GMT
My other team is whoever carshalton are playing
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Post by kpinwp on Nov 20, 2021 1:20:02 GMT
I know this runs historically deep for many Sutton fans but isn't disliking Carshalton, now, a bit like disliking field mice?
Not too sure how I hit on field mice but, you know what I mean?
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Post by Jared on Nov 20, 2021 7:17:15 GMT
I know this runs historically deep for many Sutton fans but isn't disliking Carshalton, now, a bit like disliking field mice? Not too sure how I hit on field mice but, you know what I mean? Wrong is wrong regardless of how many divisions are currently between the clubs. Besides, who’s to say the current situation between the clubs will last forever. It’s not beyond the realms of possibility that we may end up in the same division as them again someday. And regardless of all that, it’s really funny when they lose. |
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Post by backhome2016 on Nov 20, 2021 8:09:13 GMT
Tottenham Hotspur. My father took me to see them in 1968 and I was smitten. We moved to Sutton in 1971 and I first visited GGL in 1974. Because they were local (and non-league) it was easy to form an attachment to SUFC without feeling disloyal to Spurs. It was always a case of having my ‘Big team’ and ‘Little team’. Now I have two ‘Big teams’. My fidelity will be tested if they ever meet…
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Post by brisfitboy on Nov 20, 2021 8:57:52 GMT
I know this runs historically deep for many Sutton fans but isn't disliking Carshalton, now, a bit like disliking field mice? Not too sure how I hit on field mice but, you know what I mean? I hope you don’t mean Timmy Willie in that 🙆🏼♂️🤦♂️ |
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Post by toothman on Nov 20, 2021 12:26:44 GMT
My other team be is Brentford- I used to go with my best friend from school who’s grandparents lived just up the road from Griffin Park - I would go if Sutton were away or the U’s opposition was naff. Now a former work colleague/ good friend supports them and I’ve consoled her over the years with the many downs - at one time they literally were passing round a bucket to raise extra cash to keep going. The utter joy and exhilaration when they were finally promoted matched the joy she shared with me when we went up. Sutton are now her second team. As for the team I “hate” I have a yearly bet with another work colleague who supports Watford - the loser ( who ever finishes lower in their respective league) buys the winner a case of beer. Quote of last season was hers - “the only way she was going to buy the beer was if Sutton won the league- as if that was ever going to happen” - pigs flew and he’ll froze over . In recent years I always seem to get the beer .
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Post by pinewalker on Nov 20, 2021 17:15:37 GMT
Aston Villa. The first (ever) league club.
My father was a ball boy at Tannerdice, my mother a regular at Stamford Bridge but to watch the Speedway, so no family guidance! However as a perk of his job my father got 2 tickets for the 1957 Cup Final. Villa 2 Man Utd 1 and I was hooked.
It has been a life-changing (lucky break) and wife-finding journey from div 3 to the European Cup. But who knows had Sutton been a League team when I grew up in Sutton I might not have had another team.
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