Any big time soccer fans here? Drop your team(s) below. I'm a Barnsley, Bologna, and Celta Vigo fan.
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Any big time soccer fans here? Drop your team(s) below. I'm a Barnsley, Bologna, and Celta Vigo fan.
Barnsley...League One love, respect.
I have been a Tottenham Hotspur fan for 20 years. I often get asked about who my favorite Bundesliga team is or La Liga, etc...I find that I dislike every other team in every other league, to at least some degree. That doesn't really make sense but it's COYS for me and nothing else ha.
I dig it TJ - love that.
(also, sorry to the folks here, I realize this is the wrong spot for an off-topic thread like this. Apologies! Just meant to get some soccer discussion going and pair it with IUMS). 
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Any big time soccer fans here? Drop your team(s) below. I'm a Barnsley, Bologna, and Celta Vigo fan.
Everton/Fulham. Long story, but mostly Fulham. I support Dortmund in the Bundesliga and have several jerseys from other clubs that I don't necessarily follow closely.
@gros-louis sitting in that wall of fans is on the bucket list
I got to see POL v FRA there last summer, but no Yellow Wall.
Bhoys for life here. I wish the SPL would die and the top Scottish teams would merge with the English pyramid.
@goat only rangers and celtic woudl have a remote chance. they just don't have the money. altho i guess an argument could be made that it woudl induce new investors
@mcm666 A remote chance of being promoted to the Premier League? I agree. There might be a couple more like Hearts or Aberdeen who could also claim a very remote chance if they ran their programs mistake-free, but it would be a big ask. But there are a few other teams that could compete in the mid-levels. A lot of the lower level Scottish teams are terrible. It is what it is. But Celtic and Rangers are being held back on the world stage because they've hit the pinnacle of what they can accomplish where they are. In England, they could attract the money and attention necessary to improve even more. I'd much rather turn on my streaming and see Celtic take on Liverpool than, say, St. Mirren. Just a waste. It's like being a Gonzaga fan, except at least Rangers are better than St. Mary's or Pepperdine could hope for.
@goat look at you droppin all that knowledge.
When I decided to learn about European soccer, two things were true: Celtic took part in an early streaming experiment that made it easy to watch their matches in America, and I just happened to be doing my family genealogy and discovered my ancestors were from the area (I also mistakenly believed they were Jacobites, which made Celtic the natural choice; now that I've learned they actually supported William, I probably should have gone with Rangers).
So I've been following to the extent the various TV deals allow me to for two-plus decades. On the rare occasion they make a run in a European tournament, it's a wild ride, but they are so clearly overmatched against the top teams, it's silly. But back in the early years of this century, they were also one of the most valuable clubs in the world, before England, Spain, and Germany discovered how to print the kind of money Scotland just doesn't have access to. They are getting left behind, and eventually it will be too late; they will be so many tiers below, jumping leagues will do nothing for them.
@goat ha i'll tell you just how right you are. i know a guy who played for them AND i talk about my lawyer buddy with the massage therapist brother. his kid had a trial at celtic. THAT is how far they hvae fallen. and it is a shame because that is a legacy club. as are rangers. maybe you're right and they should figure out a way to absorb them. they did for swansea
@goat ha i'll tell you just how right you are. i know a guy who played for them AND i talk about my lawyer buddy with the massage therapist brother. his kid had a trial at celtic. THAT is how far they hvae fallen. and it is a shame because that is a legacy club. as are rangers. maybe you're right and they should figure out a way to absorb them. they did for swansea
The problem is the viability of Scottish soccer without the Old Firm is virtually nil. They'd have to simply combine both pyramids entirely, and just have a single English-Scottish system. Would most Scottish teams get stuck in the lower levels? Yes. But at least they'd survive. Trying to keep a Scottish-only system without Celtic and Rangers would never work.
@goat and maybe that just needs to be the end. be good enough. maybe not every team/league needs to aspire to compete in champions. maybe that's okay.
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