Which teams DO NOT have rivals?

[Lady Whistledown]

Every team has a rival to some extent.

We don't really care either way about Crawley Town, but 18,000 turned up the last time we played them, so the potential is clearly there for it to develop in the event that they ever actually became any good. Which seems quite likely given the money they've spent this summer.

Wouldn't necessarily be a Palace type thing initially, but I bet we'd all want to put them in their place if we played them again in a proper game.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Exeter, of course.

Torquay are the Middlesbrough of this relationship.

No Torquay and Exeter are the rivals.

 

[Simster]

No Torquay and Exeter are the rivals.

No they're not. Exeter and Plymouth are the rivals. No-one cares about Torquay in Devon.

 

[RM-Taylor]

do crawley class us as their rivals?

 

[Robdinho]

What about AFC Wimbledon. Surely everyone loves them?

 

[newhaven seagull 85]

Reading? they tried to make us their rivals, bless them.

oxford

 

[Jackthelad]

What about AFC Wimbledon. Surely everyone loves them?

I don't like Wimbledon but that is more of a personal thing not a club rival thing.
I guess they must be rivals of Kingstonian F.C.

 

[User removed 4]

Torquay are big rivals with Exeter.

Millwall are massive rivals with West Ham, surely everybody with any understanding of English football knows that one, and also with Cardiff due to the erocity of their tear ups.

Leicester bizarrely are rivals with Chelsea, and are still sung about at Stamford Bridge.

chelsea dont see leicester as rivals , they are sung about in that they are a line in the song ' we all follow the chelsea ,over land and sea.........and leicester, ie its a shithole.

 

[User removed 4]

This has always bothered me, it should be hate, not and... and it used to be I'm sure. We all follow the Albion, over land and sea, hate palace...

nope, always been 'and leicester'

 

[User removed 4]

No they don't. It's Oxford and SWINDON.

used to know a few oxford fans, they hated reading as much as swindon.

 

[Simster]

nope, always been 'and leicester'

Most teams sing "and Leicester" as some sort of joke. Never understood it myself.


However, we've always sung "and Palace", definitely not "hate Palace".

 

[lethaldrizzle]

Wycombe and Yeovil are too laid-back to have bitter rivals.

My Dad followed Weymouth in his youth and says the rivalry with Yeovil back then was pretty bitter. It's interesting that it's survived according to that fans survey even though they can't have played each other in years.

 

[patchamalbion]

Do Peterborough really give a f*** about Cambridge? im sticking with them....and who do Shrewsbury hate??

 

[Grassman]

However, we've always sung "and Palace", definitely not "hate Palace".

Really? I must be the only one then who sings: "hate Palace.." Though, I don't think I am.

 

[Exiled in Exeter]

No they're not. Exeter and Plymouth are the rivals. No-one cares about Torquay in Devon.

I am 100% with Simster on this. In the three years I was down there, Torquay were never mentioned. However, on Exeweb (their NSC) I remember a thread where someone complained 99% of chants at SJP were anti Argyle and the fans should be getting behind the team!!

Also n the words of Exeter midfielder Bertie Cozic: "To be part of the team that will face Plymouth next season is an exciting prospect. Since I have been in Exeter everyone has talked about Plymouth and how it is the game to play in.

"It is another reason to be part of something. Derby games create such excitement Plymouth will be the first game I look out for when the fixtures are announced this week because I have never played in a big derby before.

"Yes, we played Torquay two seasons ago but that is not a massive derby match — certainly nothing along the lines of Exeter against Plymouth. For me to experience this one would be something to savour."

EXETER City midfielder Bertie Cozic admits the prospect of playing in next season's Devon derby against arch-rivals Plymouth Argyle played a part in him signing a short-term deal.

 

[RM-Taylor]

Really? I must be the only one then who sings: "hate Palace.." Though, I don't think I am.

I used to sing that until I heard it properly so don't worry

 

[Sheebo]

Milawall and Charlton are 'rivals' aren't they?

 

[On the Left Wing]

Middlesbrough don't really like Newcastle or Sunderland but don't think it can count as a rivalry.

Tranmere for some reason are Wrexhams rivals.

Only vaguely .... Wrexham have much more bitter rivalries with Chester, Shrewsbury and Hereford!

 

[On the Left Wing]

Not quite -

Grimsby hate Scunthorpe and Lincoln (2nd)
Lincoln hate Grimsby
Scunthorpe hate Grimsby and Hull (2nd)

and Scunthorpe also hate Donny Rovers, who in turn hate Sheff Utd and Rotherham .... lot of hatred going on in Lincolnshire/South Yorkshire LOL

 

[On the Left Wing]

Must agree with earlier posts.... having lived on Tyneside for many years and worked on Wearside .... Newcastle and Sunderland hate each other with a vengeance but neither give a toss about Middlesboro