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[Albion] Deluded Leeds (an EFL club) fans



JBizzle

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Apr 18, 2010
6,610
Seaford
Of the three teams likely to go up automatically, I want Sheffield Utd the most by far. Then Leeds, then Burnley. I'd be a bit disappointed if Sheffield United missed out, whereas there are lols to be had otherwise.

Then Coventry via the play offs, or perhaps Sunderland - an away trip to either would be decent.
I want Sheffield United to get promoted for a very different reason. I have a friend who's a Sheffield United fan, who's from Sheffield but lives in Brighton but absolutely hates Brighton. Something he makes clear at every opportunity.

Therefore, watching them get promotion and then get HUMPED every week until their inevitable relegation is something I'd dearly enjoy.
 




Sep 15, 2023
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I sadly have a Leeds fan who works for me and he spent half an hour last week explaining (with an absolutely straight face) that Rutter will hand in a transfer request as soon as Leeds’ promotion is confirmed. He also is under the impression that (and I quote) ‘the worry for the Premier league elite now is that we (Leeds) know what to expect. So this time I can see us in the top 4 - our experience now will tell and we’ll be pushing for champions league. Biggest attraction in Europe ‘.

He’s only one I know. But Christ on a seesaw that’s delusional.
 


LamieRobertson

Not awoke
Feb 3, 2008
49,481
SHOREHAM BY SEA
I want Sheffield United to get promoted for a very different reason. I have a friend who's a Sheffield United fan, who's from Sheffield but lives in Brighton but absolutely hates Brighton. Something he makes clear at every opportunity.

Therefore, watching them get promotion and then get HUMPED every week until their inevitable relegation is something I'd dearly enjoy.
Why does he hate Brighton?
 




One Teddy Maybank

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Aug 4, 2006
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Worthing
I sadly have a Leeds fan who works for me and he spent half an hour last week explaining (with an absolutely straight face) that Rutter will hand in a transfer request as soon as Leeds’ promotion is confirmed. He also is under the impression that (and I quote) ‘the worry for the Premier league elite now is that we (Leeds) know what to expect. So this time I can see us in the top 4 - our experience now will tell and we’ll be pushing for champions league. Biggest attraction in Europe ‘.

He’s only one I know. But Christ on a seesaw that’s delusional.
Actually, I take it back, I want them to fail again…..for the reason that they have so many fans like this.
 




Lady Whistledown

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Jul 7, 2003
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Kinky Gerbil

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Jul 16, 2003
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Of the three teams likely to go up automatically, I want Sheffield Utd the most by far. Then Leeds, then Burnley. I'd be a bit disappointed if Sheffield United missed out, whereas there are lols to be had otherwise.

Then Coventry via the play offs, or perhaps Sunderland - an away trip to either would be decent.
Lampard is showing again he's actually a decent manager.

He gets shit, but I think he's done fairly well most places, if not everywhere he's been
 


JBizzle

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Apr 18, 2010
6,610
Seaford
Why does he hate Brighton?
Because we've progressively improved over the last 15 years and gained new fans. He doesn't like new fans and firmly believes that any fans that support us in the Amex era are only there because of the PL.

"You only have 3,000 fans in the early 2000's" etc
 




GT49er

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Feb 1, 2009
50,687
Gloucester
I still remember a radio phone in thing I listened to when Ben White got them promoted to the prem a few years back. They had Leeds fans, & ex players predicting how they would do. EVERY SINGLE ONE of them said something along the lines of “comfortably stay up first season, and then be in the top 6 from there on”. They all basically predicted European football & challenging for trophies after a couple of seasons back in the Prem. Not even the slightest glimmer of being humble amongst them. It was as if the last 20 years had not happened.
Slightly amended for you, and just to rub it in! Was there a reason they let him go? - I can't seem to remember now; shocking management though! :lolol:
 


A1X

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Sep 1, 2017
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I sadly have a Leeds fan who works for me and he spent half an hour last week explaining (with an absolutely straight face) that Rutter will hand in a transfer request as soon as Leeds’ promotion is confirmed.
He won't, because he's too classy, but by Christ if he scores at Elland Road next season and runs away kissing the badge and giving it large to the home fans I will build his statue myself.
 


Lady Whistledown

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Because we've progressively improved over the last 15 years and gained new fans. He doesn't like new fans and firmly believes that any fans that support us in the Amex era are only there because of the PL.

"You only have 3,000 fans in the early 2000's" etc

Average The Leeds United home crowd in 2003 (Premier League): 39,146

Average The Leeds United home crowd in 2007 (Championship): 21,613

Guess all our supporters must have been hiding in the same place as those missing 17,000 or so The Leeds United fans.
 




Happy Exile

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Apr 19, 2018
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I very much enjoyed Crawley beating Leeds on TV a few years ago in the FA Cup. Now that’d feel like a game similar to Palace v Chelsea where it’s borderline impossible for me to choose which one I’d most like to be beaten in the most humiliating fashion possible. Amazing what a difference a few years, clogger players, and grim fans celebrating a serious injury can make.
 


Green Cross Code Man

Wunt be druv
Mar 30, 2006
21,037
Eastbourne
Because we've progressively improved over the last 15 years and gained new fans. He doesn't like new fans and firmly believes that any fans that support us in the Amex era are only there because of the PL.

"You only have 3,000 fans in the early 2000's" etc
Maybe point out that in 2000 they had an average attendance of only 13,218. And they had lows under 9000 and had a lovely stadium of their own, in a prime spot (unlike our athletic track). And that considering they are part of the third world, there's nothing else worthwhile doing up there except racing pigeons and whippets.
 


Green Cross Code Man

Wunt be druv
Mar 30, 2006
21,037
Eastbourne
Average The Leeds United home crowd in 2003 (Premier League): 39,146

Average The Leeds United home crowd in 2007 (Championship): 21,613

Guess all our supporters must have been hiding in the same place as those missing 17,000 or so The Leeds United fans.
The chap he was referring to was Sheffield not Leeds.
 




Deportivo Seagull

I should coco
Jul 22, 2003
5,814
Mid Sussex
Because we've progressively improved over the last 15 years and gained new fans. He doesn't like new fans and firmly believes that any fans that support us in the Amex era are only there because of the PL.

"You only have 3,000 fans in the early 2000's" etc
TBH he sounds a right twat.
Are you his friend out of sympathy?
 




Lady Whistledown

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Jul 7, 2003
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The chap he was referring to was Sheffield not Leeds.
Ah, I see. And the smaller of the two massive Sheffield clubs too.

But at least they've beaten The Massive today, which will cheer him up and distract him from worrying about Albion attendances until they're about to get relegated from the Premier League next season.
 






brighton_tom

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Jul 23, 2008
6,144
Leeds are a big’ish club. But not near to the levels their fan base think. So many clubs have overtaken them in the last 25 years, by quite a distance. The football landscape has dramatically changed while they’ve been in the Championship & League One.
 


Brian Munich

teH lulZ
Jul 7, 2008
665
I still remember a radio phone in thing I listened to when they first got promoted to the prem a few years back. They had Leeds fans, & ex players predicting how they would do. EVERY SINGLE ONE of them said something along the lines of “comfortably stay up first season, and then be in the top 6 from there on”. They all basically predicted European football & challenging for trophies after a couple of seasons back in the Prem. Not even the slightest glimmer of being humble amongst them. It was as if the last 20 years had not happened.
Well they were half right, to be fair. They surprised us all and did stay up comfortably in the first season; they couldn't have been more wrong for the subsequent seasons though.
 


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