I am an armchair fan. The reasoning for this is that I can only see my local team live, and Gillingham F.C. are renowned for their ability to defy expectations. Usually this means losing 7-0, but today they actually won! I know!
Besides, when I go to watch them, they lose. I even went to Upton Park (a West Ham-supporting mate had a spare ticket) as an undercover Hammers fan, and Gills lost 2-1. I can tell you, celebrating the Gills goal from the Hammers stand was a big mistake...
Anyway, because of this unfortunate Gillingham-living-near-to experience, I watch a lot of random football on TV. Soccer Saturday has become my best friend. Here we go, a list of clubs I either support or check the results of/really like:
- Hull
- Liverpool
- Gilingham
- Accrington Stanley
- Hartlepool
- Swansea
- Scarborough
- Ebbsfleet
- Inverness
- Hamilton
- East Stirling
- Braintree
- AFC Wimbledon
- FC United
- AFC Liverpool (Yes, they exist!)
- Go Ahead Eagles (Holland)
- Allemania Aachen (Germany, went there on a school trip, was three Euros away from buying their club shirt)
- Malaga (School Trip)
- Kaizer Chiefs (Blame the band)
- erm...Gretna, until they decided to stop existing selfish bast...
So, what is my dilemma? Well, how exactly do you expect me to keep track of all these teams? I'm not magic...well...not much...so it becomes a drain on my life.
Secondly, most of these teams suck, I love a minnow (Hull were near the bottom of old division three when I became a fan eight years ago), as such, 12 teams will lose at any given weekend. Except this one, England are playing.
I live in southeast England. Who else is going to want to discuss the merits of a Dutch second-tier team? Only Paedophiles, that's who!
Anyway, the real dilemma is trying to classify the subsequent Bleacher Report article. Is it a list, or humour? I'm going to leave it up to those who edit my article, but I see 21 funny things and 20 lists.
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Yoosof Farah 9 months ago
lol funny stuff rowlands. great result for the mighty gills today, and even better, my match report was in the programme. i was the star reporter for the gills this week! anyway, the mighty ga eagles did well didn't they.
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Guido 9 months ago
I'd happily discuss Go Ahead Eagles with you ;-) So how about that Overmars eh? He's been awful so far...
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Chris Rowlands 9 months ago
hooray! :)
Every team needs a 35 year old dutch legend playing for the first time in 4 years, but that's just my opinion.
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Miles Kenton 9 months ago
That is one hell of a list!
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Chris Rowlands 9 months ago
And that was off the top of my head :)
I check the chatham town fixture board every monday, as a go past it!
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