[Football] It’s the [insert club] way!

[BNthree]

Seen this a lot recently with all the talk about Potter and Lampard where fans are talking about “doing things the Chelsea way”. What is the Chelsea way? Being obnoxious and slightly racist? I’ve no idea.

The only other time I’ve ever really noticed it is when used by Palace fans. What’s the Palace way? Taking a shit on the floor at an away stadium? Going into administration to avoid paying debts?

I’m sure it is a common phrase used by fans of most clubs but what does it actually mean?

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

It is a statement designed to deflect from any personal responsibility (as Frank did yesterday) and also give an impression of grandeur and legitimacy to some kind of secret formula or history. It's hubris. It's bollocks.

 

[Molango's visa]

Trope used when your team is shit and your sense of entitlement tells you 'normality' will reassert itself according to some sort of natural law, soon, with no actual effort necessary.

 

[BN41Albion]

The 'West Ham Way' is another that you hear a lot. God knows what it means, as they've been mostly bang average for donkey's

 

[Bob!]

I've heard of the Wembley Way

 

[WATFORD zero]

The Brighton Way is a route through farmland, villages and over the South Downs linking with the South Downs Way National Trail at Buckland Bank and the Sussex Border Path near Burgess Hill. From the nominal start of the walk at Horley the Brighton Way visits Fernhill, Burstow, Copthorne, Layhouse Wood, Worth, Worthlodge Forest, Worth Abbey, Paddockhurst Park, Balcombe, Pilstye Wood, Upper Ryelands Bridge, River's Wood, Haywards Heath, Cuckfield, Burgess Hill, Ditchling Common Country Park, Ditchling, Keymer, Hassocks, Jack and Jill the Clayton Windmills, Ditchling Beacon Nature Reserve, Stanmer Down, Falmer, Buckland Bank, Balmer Down, Long Hill, Newmarket Hill, Whitehawk/ Race Hill Nature Reserve, Red Hill, Kemp Town and Brighton Promenade before finishing at Brighton Station. The walk passes and/ or deliberately diverts to a number of railway stations which Norman purposefully added to make the walk a simple exercise in breaking down to daily stages by using public transport.

 

[Nobby]

Who is Norman?

 

[Baldseagull]

The Burnley Way

 

[WATFORD zero]

Who is Norman?

I'm impressed you actually read it. Norman Willis was the bloke what was inspired to create the walk while looking out of a train window during his railway journeys commuting to and from Brighton of course. Bloody DFLs

 

[Goldstone1976]

It is a statement designed to deflect from any personal responsibility (as Frank did yesterday) and also give an impression of grandeur and legitimacy to some kind of secret formula or history. It's hubris. It's bollocks.

Well, that’s both more accurate and more succinct than I was about to type.

TL;DR? This. In spades.

 

[Taybha]

This is the Chelsea way,fact.

 

[Stat Brother]

The Spurs Way is the funniest.

For at least the last 2 generations of fans, what we currently are seeing is the very epitome of The Spurs Way.
Yet they think the very same 3 words mean the exact opposite.

 

[Me and my Monkey]

As "ways" go, the Albion seem to have a cracking one at the moment. Are we now destined to bore the rest of the footballing world to death for decades to come harping on about the famous Albion Way? I hope so!

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Big fan of the South Downs Way, here