Now despite what people think (and know) about me, this discussion will be for any and all types of football, whether it be association (or as I like to call it, proper) football, American football, Australian rules football or any other form of footie that people on here play/know about.
So talk about what football teams you like, in any of the different types of football in the world, tell us how they're doing in the competitive scene and how long you've supported them/why you support them
To start off with, I've been an association football fan since I was a little kid, and while I've followed a number of clubs, namely Chelsea and Barcelona, the one club I'll always stick with is my home-team, Watford. I've been bragging for a few days now, but the Watford football team actually got promoted from the Championship (second highest division in English football) to the Premier League last Saturday after they won and every other result went their way. The last match of the season's happening two days from now, and depending on whether Watford wins or not they'll be getting out of their division as champions or second place. So as you can most likely tell, it's pretty bloody exciting
That's all I have to say about what type of football I like etc. I haven't really learnt much about American football, but in terms of American sports in general I'll most likely start supporting whichever team I see play a game, but it'd be interesting to learn about what other people think about some of the biggest sports in the world o3o
I mainly support PEC Zwolle. A relatively small club. For many years now it had played in the second tier of Dutch football, it is the second incarnation of the club, its predecessor of the same name went bankrupt in 1990. The current club was founded immediately afterwards as FC Zwolle before renaming back to PEC Zwolle in 2012 when they once again entered the Erediviesie by becoming Chamption in the second league.
Since 2012 we've achieved the 11th spot twice, easily avoiding relegation. But much more impressively we won the Dutch Cup by rekking Ajax 5-1. Right after that we won the Dutch Supercup by beating Ajax again, though this time 'just' 1-0.
Now as the current season comes to a close, we're in the final once again! The final is this sunday. In the Eredivisie we're currently on slot 7 with 47 points. Not bad for a small provincial club, eh?
Not a huge amount of history besides that, though we're a club that's on the rise. Our most famous player is Jaap Stam, who any football fan knows.
I'm also rather partial to PSV.
5-1, that's a win and a half I've never focused on the Dutch leagues before, I've obviously heard of Ajax but that's about it. It's nice to hear someone else focuses on a relatively small time club though, I hear too many people saying they support Real Madrid or Chelsea or something when usually they're not even from the area and only support them because they win -3-
I'm not really a fan of any big club. I'm much more impressed by clubs who don't have budgets of several hundred million but still able to perform very well thanks to proper management and good play.
I'd suggest watching the Dutch league every once and awhile, the big teams, Ajax and PSV, are not what they once were, and the quality of play isn't always high. But every Dutch team plays offensively, the Eredivisie is also one of the youngest leagues, with players with the potential to be one of the best making their breakthrough here.
And the difference between clubs is small, even the bigger ones can always lose to a smaller club, making the league quite unpredictable and exciting.
Derby's had a good run this season, but seem to of dropped in performance lately, they'll probably still make the play-offs though, but that means they'll probably be up against either Middlesbrough and Norwich, and they won't go down easy o3o
As for Man U... Watford's gonna be going against them next season at some point, we'll have to see where that goes Never watched anything to do with the Australian leagues, are any of the teams at all big?
Another Man United fan here. Been a fan of theirs for about 11 years now. We'll see how Watford fares against them Football in Armenia doesn't even come close to importance it has in England or, say, Holland. Though the situation seems to be turning for the better with players like Henrikh Mkhitaryan serving as example of Armenian players being successful in football.
Well naturally football would be more popular in a country like England or Holland, and especially places like Spain and Latin America. But there has been a rise recently of football-appreciating countries, America being one of them since they've got a lot of European greats going and playing for their teams near the end of their careers.