Radio 5 Just Now

[londonblue]

They're discussing hatred of rival football teams. One of the people in the studio said she hates Southend. When asked why she said because she is a Northampton fan and she hates us for beating them 1-0 in the play off semis a few years ago, and that it was the only time she has ever cried at a football match. She said that even now she feels sick when someone mentions us.

That brought the biggest smile ever seen to my face!

 

[MK Shrimper]

Talk about sour grapes!

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

They're discussing hatred of rival football teams. One of the people in the studio said she hates Southend. When asked why she said because she is a Northampton fan and she hates us for beating them 1-0 in the play off semis a few years ago, and that it was the only time she has ever cried at a football match. She said that even now she feels sick when someone mentions us.

That brought the biggest smile ever seen to my face!

Anybody got Nicky Nicolau's number?
Lets come up with some fiendish plan where this girl falls for his dusky eastern Mediterranean looks, and then at the height of passion he lets slip he conned the ref into THAT penalty ;)

Silly mare - surely as a Cobbler she should channel all her hatred against Peterborough or even the MK Donuts?

Talk about sour grapes!

OK, this usually happens where the viniculturist doesn't take into account the correct "terroir" for their particular vineyard. Too much/little sunshine, rain, wind & also even soil type can render a whole year's crop worth nothing more than being made into Schloer.

 

[hindle_666]

Wonder how she feels about Adam Barrett?

 

[toellandback]

I think i might hate the shrimpers a little aswell. Let me explain.

Everytime we come to play at the hall i get excited, surely a lovely evening at the seaside and three points..... Every year i'm dissapointed, i have been stuck in traffic for a good couple of hours each time and have missed kick off by 15 minutes the last two years. We then proceed to get beat and trueblue who's always in my eyeline makes rude hand gestures at me.
I have also been lucky enough to make a couple of games as a guest of shrimpers. Two stand out, Cheltenham in the JPT(?) and Huddersfield. Both have to rank fairly high as the worst games of football ever played in the history of the world. I was fairly confident during the Cheltenham game it would never end and i very nearly was proved right. To make matters worse we were on the tele thrashing Chester at the time. And Huddersfield was so bitterly cold i was almost tempted to hug MK Shrimper for warmth (that says something over how cold it was)

So lets not be too harsh on her, after all she hasn't met you lot to convince her that Southend aren't that bad ;)

 

[Rob1920]

I have an unexplainable loathing of Tranmere Rovers. God knows why, I just do.

Does anyone else have this irrational dislike of another club, not including the obvious local rivalries?

 

[Slipperduke]

I've got an irrational hatred of Halifax. All stems from a game in the late 90s. I was away at Falmouth Art College and hardly ever got to see a match, much like now really. I was back in Essex one week and I'd inked in the Halifax game months before. I was so excited about seeing Southend again, so alive with hope and joy.

Then Halifax turned up, clogged up the midfield and I don't think there was a single chance in the whole game. ******s.

I laughed my head off when they went down.

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

Does anyone else have this irrational dislike of another club, not including the obvious local rivalries?

Luton Town - probably because of Watford influences whilst at uni (plus getting kneed in the knackers by some vertically challenged Hatter when exiting the hole that is Kenilworth Rd after a Beds/Herts derby didn't exactly help).

I also love to see Forest fail spectacularly & hope their "now we're out of L1 we'll be back in Europe where we belong in no time) return to the CCC season ends in an embarassing relegation!

 

[MK Shrimper]

Both have to rank fairly high as the worst games of football ever played in the history of the world. And Huddersfield was so bitterly cold i was almost tempted to hug MK Shrimper for warmth (that says something over how cold it was0

1) Not wrong.
2) You love it.

And I have an irrational hatred of Newcastle for some reason.

 

[philtalkin]

They're discussing hatred of rival football teams. One of the people in the studio said she hates Southend. When asked why she said because she is a Northampton fan and she hates us for beating them 1-0 in the play off semis a few years ago, and that it was the only time she has ever cried at a football match. She said that even now she feels sick when someone mentions us.

That brought the biggest smile ever seen to my face!

I know, but she is a bit thick as the whole idea, was to invite people to call with stories of their irrational hatred of a football club.

For example, one guy called saying how much he hates Arsenal, because about 10 years ago he was sacked by a manager who looked just David Seaman.

 

[BrettieAngell]

Luton Town - probably because of Watford influences whilst at uni (plus getting kneed in the knackers by some vertically challenged Hatter when exiting the hole that is Kenilworth Rd after a Beds/Herts derby didn't exactly help).

I also love to see Forest fail spectacularly & hope their "no we're out of L1 we'll be back in Europe where we belong in no time) return to the CCC season ends in an embarassing relegation!

I think everyone hates Luton because it such a ****hole!!

 

[MrB]

Carlisle for me.

- Distance, might as well be in Scotland.

- There was a spell where no matter what happened, they always seemed to tonk us.

- After my parents split up, my mum started seeing a guy who came from Carlisle. I had to go when they went up to visit. In the car. What a desolate, boring place it is at the end of a dull and painful journey wondering if your mum's Parkinson's Disease suffering other half is going to start shaking and steer the car into the central reservation of the M6.

I will cheer extra loud if we beat them next week.

 

[NZamba Legend]

Oxford, Peterborough and indeed Northampton spring to mind.

No mark teams from no mark towns.

If these sh*itehawks represent southern football, then I'd like to think Southend has more in common with the north. Seriously.

 

[maninasuitcase]

Grimsby for me for still being winter in May when we didn't get automatic promotion.

Brentford, under Martin Allen. Surely the most boring team ever to 'play' football.

Bolton under Gartside and Man City under Cook for suggesting the PL clubs should be ring fenced against relegation. If this rule is brought in, I hope it is the season after they have been relegated.

 

[Thorpe Groyney]

I would suppose my deliriously happy reaction, as a kid, to the on-pitch happenings during the 1975 European Cup Final gives a good indication of where my antipathies still lie today. Along with the vast majority of the country during the 70's, I might add.

 

[toellandback]

I would suppose my deliriously happy reaction, as a kid, to the on-pitch happenings during the 1975 European Cup Final gives a good indication of where my antipathies still lie today. Along with the vast majority of the country during the 70's, I might add.

We were robbed though :'(
Its not irrational though is it, people always hate the best teams and at the time we were one of the best

 

[Thorpe Groyney]

It's somewhat irrational to keep that grudge, though, 30+ years down the line and the club in question having fallen further from grace than you ever dreamed was possible!

Edit - news of a Burnley defeat always makes me snigger. Now that's irrational.

 

[steveo]

I have an unexplainable loathing of Tranmere Rovers. God knows why, I just do.

Does anyone else have this irrational dislike of another club, not including the obvious local rivalries?

Tottenham. Every year their fans say this is our season. I think this season was the one thye were due to break into the big four, lol.

Then theres always "the year ends in a 1" rubbish.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Tottenham. Every year their fans say this is our season. I think this season was the one thye were due to break into the big four, lol.

Then theres always "the year ends in a 1" rubbish.

Yeah minor bit of hatred for them too, probably due to my sisters first husband who is a prize ****.

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

I really dislike any team that claims to 'play good football' and be 'true to their footballing principles'. Their fans smugly lecture us on their retention of the ball and possession percentages as they get turned over by a long punt into the box and a deflected toe poke from a centre half playing as an emergency striker. Surely the point of playing a football match is to win it, not make pretty patterns in the middle third. Current examples: Arsenal, Swansea, Doncaster.