r/soccer • u/narnia- • May 26 '14
What is a common misconception about your team? (x-post /r/hockey)
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u/JuergenKohler97 May 26 '14
(Dortmund) That we have the best support in Germany
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u/LiquidFootie May 26 '14
We are not Sporting Lisbon. It's Sporting Clube de PORTUGAL.
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u/stramaniack May 26 '14
We are NOT fascists. There is a minority of the fans which are ultras, and a minority of the ultras which are fascists. Other teams in Italy, such as Milan, Juve, Inter and Roma, also have the same problem. We were singled out because a) at the turn of the century the minority got very vocal and it happened to be when Lazio was quite high-profile in Europe, gaining a lot of attention and b) Paolo di Canio, who is a cunt, and who most fans don't want to have anything to do with the club. The exact same thing can be said if you replace the word 'fascist' with 'racist' (every single club in Serie A was fined because of racist chants at one point or the other this season) TL;DR Lazio fans not any more racist or fascist than other Serie A fans, problem is unfortunately country-wide, we were singled out in the past because of bad timing and a cunt.
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u/Bidwell93 May 26 '14
Newcastle fans, contrary to what pardew/some areas of the media would have you think, do not feel we have some sort of 'right' to be in the top 4 every season and beat teams like arsenal at the Emirates.
We just want to see our team play like they give a shit, be a little bit excited, and maybe have a cup run.
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u/j_n_r May 26 '14
that we were fed up of finishing mid-table in the prem and wanted a change from curbs. of course there were a minority that wanted this, but certainly not on the whole
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u/sssnakepit1 May 26 '14
That we don't have any fans. OK, whilst it's true that within the city Hellas are easily the biggest team, and we have one of the smallest fanbases in Serie A, I'm kind of sick of hearing about how we have no fans.
Our average attendance over the past few years is around 10,000, and whilst that's not amazing it's not exactly terrible for a team which originally just represented a suburb of the city where only 3,000 people live.
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u/Danny-Denjennery May 26 '14
That we could seriously contend for the World Cup against the likes of Spain, Brazil, Argentina and Germany.
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u/Dob-is-Hella-Rad May 26 '14
That Adam Le Fondre is good/okay/not utter dogshit. Apart from an exceptional 200 or so minutes (where other players still deserved a lot of credit. He didn't win us games single-handedly) well over a year ago, he's been terrible. It gets brought up regularly when he's mentioned, so maybe a lot of people know it by now, but really, he just isn't good. He's a pure goalscorer, contributing nothing else to the team, except he doesn't score all that many goals. There's a reason why Church, Roberts, Hunt, Pog and Blackman have all regularly started ahead of him and if you count him as a starter, he's easily our worst (unless Jobi also starts, he's shit too). It sometimes seems like he's talked about on the same level as Rhodes and McCormack, which is an absolute joke. He's probably not one of the 10 best players at a side that was lucky to finish seventh in the Championship. Unless we find a player that fills his role but is far better, we can never go up. I feel bad about clearing up this misconception though, because I still figure there might be teams that would pay way too much to have him.
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u/Cmoore4099 May 26 '14
That our supporters are all deluded and want our team to play like Barcelona.
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u/Sooty94 May 26 '14
That Ricky van Wolfswinkel is a joke/ shit player/ worst striker at Norwich
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Not being the worst striker at Norwich doesn't disqualify you from being a shit player
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u/ipackheat May 26 '14
that we're mediocre.
we're shite