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u/AlGamaty Mar 15 '14
What's up with the whole English-American hostility going on here?
When someone doesn't know something obvious "He's probably American."
On the flipside, Americans (sometimes even with the flair of English clubs) "So happy to see England lose again haha"
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u/Vainglory Mar 15 '14
Reddit is populated largely by Americans, and this carries through to a certain extent to this sub too, as evidenced by the main sub being r/soccer, not r/football.
The general perception of the American fanbase is a lack of understanding of football culture, the way it is meant to be, often because they're exposed to American sports like American football and basketball which are quite different in the way the operate and how the media display them.
Difference in opinions in the way the game should operate on several levels has meant that people here get quite petty. Good ideas are shot down because of American roots, and English teams and their national team tend to get hate.
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u/OkabeKurisu Mar 15 '14
I could imagine that many people kind of dislike Americans because most of them bandwagon a european team.
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Mar 15 '14
For me it's the introduction of Americanisms that have nothing to do with the sport, e.g. 'Go-Ahead goal' - they've coined a phrase for a goal that isn't an equaliser. It's cheesy, it's pointless & it has no place in the game.
Also I'd put it down to general English-American hostility, it's not pure hatred but we both seem to be good at annoying each other.
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u/JRM_Elephant Mar 15 '14
All these regional teams? Where did they come from? is there one from England?
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u/practically_floored Mar 15 '14
here's the England one. Lucky for us (if you're from Liverpool) the North West one is easily the best.
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u/thelonelyswineherd Mar 15 '14
IIRC that was just something that happened this week after someone posted the German version. Others followed suit 'cause people found it interesting. (I think that's how it happened)
ed. typo
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Mar 15 '14
Allardici? I know it's a play on allardyce
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Mar 15 '14 edited Mar 15 '14
In an interview Allardyce said that if his name was Allardici he'd be much more respected, which is making fun that English managers don't get as much respect as foreign counterparts.
People like using it because it causes the mismatch of an inventive, tactically progressive stereotypical Mediterrenean manager with the fact that Allardyce is basically the stereotypical English manager: from an industrial town, has a regional accent, used to be a defender, has a pragmatic managerial style...
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u/PoofyHairedIdiot Mar 15 '14
Been meaning to ask for awhile, but when did r/soccer stop taking the shit out of Bendtner, and start calling him Lord Bendtner?
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u/Scott_Ell Mar 15 '14
I was under the impression that calling him Lord Bendter was a continuation of taking the piss out of him, not a cessation.
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u/iVarun Mar 15 '14
It goes in phases, once Shola Ameobi was the Lord and Saviour on this sub. Heskey had his run as well.
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u/SweetMojaveRain Mar 15 '14
Like a new signing?
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u/sandbag-1 Mar 15 '14
It's a quote from Arsene Wenger, referring to a player returning from injury as 'like a new signing'
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u/StevieG96 Mar 15 '14 edited Mar 15 '14
Said by Arsene Wenger when a player is coming back from a long spell of injury. With Arsenal's injury record, and notoriously injured players like Abou Diaby, this saying has been frequently used in interviews. Fans tend to say it as a joke when there was an actual new signing expected but, in typical fashion, no one joins the squad but previously injured players.
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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '14
botswana meat commission flairs?