People understand rivalry. Brighton & Palace have a rivalry, Arsenal and Tottenham have a rivalry. The '8' bit works in football because players wear numbers on the backs of their shirts.
The other two examples are different, given as they have nothing to do with football and instead of...
Deserves the support of fans as he's been fantastic for us since joining. He's still young and has scored more than 50 goals for our club. Some 'fans' attitudes are atrocious to Ashley and they should be ashamed of themselves. Really hope we keep him, but if we do sell, I hope the fans at that...
Barnes is worth more than £750,000 to our team. I think he's worth more to us than he is to any potential buyers. He suits our system and he has been excellent for us. Hope beyond hope we hold onto him
I like Bournemouth as a team and I like a lot of their players (Cook and Elphick for obvious reasons, and O'Kane is one of my all-time favourite players for various reasons) but growing up in Poole, going to school with Cherries fans who took so much pleasure in taking the mick out of Brighton...
wow. What is it with officials being absolute CRAP in our league? It gets to the point where games can be decided by refereeing decisions which is not good. I'm erring on the side of technology to assist with the dingbats in charge of refereeing our games.
Thought Webb was awful. Eto'o fouling Suarez, RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM, and choosing to ignore it was horrendous. Eto'o arguably could've been sent off in the first few minutes due to a bad tackle, and Terry fouled Suarez in the box before clearing the ball away. Oscar's two footed lunge on Lucas...