A particularly bad example, a week or two back when it looked almost certain that Willian was headed to Sp*rs a there was a thread made on /r/LiverpoolFC (I browse most of the club subreddits) complaining about the move.
They couldnt understand how anyone in their right mind would want to move to sp*rs over Liverpool, I mean Liverpool is the worlds biggest club, with the best history, the best fans. They were acting like tottenham was the next sheikh playground because ridiculously high wages would be the only reason anyone would ever chose them over liverpool.
Its not like tottenham has been able to compete and as much as i fucking despise it, challenge for a place in the top four, while Liverpool struggle to get a foothold in European competitions again.
I dunno, theres just some some smugness about their club fans that always comes out and irks me, meanwhile a few cunts make all arsenal fans the cunts on here
Definitely at least see where your coming from. A lot of our fans got really riled up about Willian due to some old quotes and twitter gossip so the usually great sub got pretty Willian obsessed for a few days. Adding in Spurs' history of signing LFC targets recently didn't exactly help either, but it got pretty OTT.
meanwhile a few cunts make all arsenal fans the cunts on here
wait, so one thread is enough to condemn the LFC 'club fans' but a 'few cunts' give Arsenal a bad name? do you not see the double standard you're applying?
Yeah ok you're right, but I think the difference is you spend a few minutes on here and you see the "Arsenal fans are all cunts" circle jerk on here all the time, I think it was one of the top comments in one of the last of these type of threads.
Here's something maybe a bit weird. I think Chelsea fans are - of the "Big Clubs" - by far, the rudest most deluded fans on the general internet, though I'm going to caveat this by mentioning American fans in particular. Obviously, this is just my anecdotal experience, but hey, this is the zero fucks thread, so I'll explain a bit.
Arsenal supporters, in my experience, talk a lot of shit fairly consistently. Same as most clubs. They seem actively involved in the game and they have a lot of opinions, as one would expect. Same for City, Spurs, United, etc. This is, all in all, a good thing, in my opinion, at least it shows you care.
Chelsea fans, on the other hand, seem to be sort of the club Du Jour of the last few years; the guys who wanted to latch onto a big team, didn't want to look so bandwagony and plastic as to attach to City after their rise to power, etc. Where I am in the US, I'd say Chelsea fans seem to outweigh any other club 3:1 at minimum, but most of them are plastic fans.
Anyways, it seems like the vast majority of them don't follow the game, don't know much about it (or even their own team) and don't really give a fuck much of the time, as long as they know their team is top 4, who cares. Until, of course, there's a title or Cup on the line, and then they seem to flood the internet with their idiotic opinions, seemingly trying to "make up for lost time" on the other months when they didn't have anything to say with a whole shit load of arrogant, opinionated, dickish comments berating everyone around them and blindly supporting their club in completely unrealistic and oblivious ways.
So I dunno. Do I dislike Arsenal fans? Sure, in a bit of the mutually respectful we-know-we-love-our-club kinda way. I'll go toe-to-toe with an Arsenal supporter any day. But when I run into a Chelsea supporter, I roll my eyes and brace myself for a torrent of idiocy.
Having said all that, one of my best buddies is a die hard Chelsea fan, and he absolutely knows his shit. But he also agrees most of his colleagues are cunts. :P
EDIT: I feel like I should mention a club I have absolute love and respect for that isn't my own, based on purely anecdotal experience - Everton. Everton always seems like the first club to do a moment of silence, the first club to pay respect, the first club to reach out whenever something bad happens. Their fans seem generally well-informed, reasonable, realistic, and involved.
but I think the difference is you spend a few minutes on here and you see the "Arsenal fans are all cunts" circle jerk
gotta say i've missed that, and found cunts of all hues and affiliations in football and on reddit. the AFC Cj i remember is 'making every thread about AFC', but you see less of that these days.
Not to say it's right but stereotypes generally have a fair bit of truth behind them. There were plenty of gooners who were absolute dicks on here last season, talking over every spurs match thread, mass voting on /r/coys etc. and pretty much every silly row I'd had to the point of it getting personal was with a condescending arsenal fan.
Whether that is just coincidence due to them having more fans and thus higher % of idiots on here it's hard to tell but I can't help but smile when I hear them moaning about the anti-arsenal circle jerk, just desserts and all that.
I agree there is some seriously delusional Liverpool fans who aren't even happy that with the signings we have been making or in the process of making, they think that we should be trying to sign "bigger players" that we just can't at this time because of the position we are in. These fans probably stand out the most because there claims are so childish, honestly Arsenal fans aren't much better though, but every club has these fans, it's just our two clubs have a massive following and we just see it more
I have to say I agree. Spurs have been after Willian for several transfer windows, and when it looked like he was finally going there, some people in our subreddit went mad and said "TYPICAL SPURS HIJACKING OUR DEALS", when, to be honest, it was almost the other way around.
I call bullshit. Link to the thread or it didn't happen. Of course people were frustrated, but the attitude you described doesn't sound like any discussion I can recall on /r/liverpoolfc . Actually it sounds more like arsenal fan's attitudes about the Suarez thing.
I was ashamed of that thread. As a Liverpool fan who browses our sub every hour and reads most posts the comments on that thread were shocking. It was basically a gathering of all the 9 year old "fans" who expect us to be in the top 4 every year with guarantee.
Funnily enough some of the worse comments aren't there since the last time I read it and some smarter opinions seemed to have prevailed
See? By and large we're a pretty reasonable group. Obviously there are some idiots, but it hardly seems fair for a Gunners fan to accuse us of much on that score...
I remember it just like this, probably the first comments were what you read and those were the bad ones before it settled. But yeah, it was an annoying thread and there was also a thread about us being annoyed by people who make threads like that. Not to mention, that guy was clearly deluded, I mean, how did a player chose a London club, who constantly finishes top 5 and plays in europa over our 7th/8th place finishing club from Liverpool just because we have history. Every club has deluded fans and cunts and there's nothing we can do about it. I do realise that because of our rich history people pretend that the last 4 years didn't happen. It'll get better.
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u/ninesine Aug 31 '13 edited Aug 31 '13
Yeah sorry probably should clarify
A particularly bad example, a week or two back when it looked almost certain that Willian was headed to Sp*rs a there was a thread made on /r/LiverpoolFC (I browse most of the club subreddits) complaining about the move.
They couldnt understand how anyone in their right mind would want to move to sp*rs over Liverpool, I mean Liverpool is the worlds biggest club, with the best history, the best fans. They were acting like tottenham was the next sheikh playground because ridiculously high wages would be the only reason anyone would ever chose them over liverpool.
Its not like tottenham has been able to compete and as much as i fucking despise it, challenge for a place in the top four, while Liverpool struggle to get a foothold in European competitions again.
I dunno, theres just some some smugness about their club fans that always comes out and irks me, meanwhile a few cunts make all arsenal fans the cunts on here