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Comprehensive guide as to why every team in the Football League hates Saints


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Man United - 1976 & a few humiliating Premiership results

Chelsea

Arsenal

Man City

Spurs

Liverpool

Everton

Bolton

Newcastle

Sunderland

Aston Villa

Stoke

West Brom

Fulham

Birmingham

Blackpool - we disrespected them in the FA Cup...well yeah, we beat you and your meant to be PL.(it was banter you drip)

Wolves

Blackburn

Wigan

West Ham

QPR

Norwich

Cardiff

Swansea

Reading - we dont acknowledge them enough as superior Southern team

Nottingham Forest

Milwall

Burnley

Leeds

Hull

Leicester

Watford - use to smash us

Ipswich

Pompey - Because we're all-round better people than them

Middlesbourgh

Bristol City

Coventry

Barnsley

Derby

Crystal Palace - apparently we are broke and deserve it for getting Fonte

Doncaster

Sheffield United

Scun-thrope

Preston North End

Brighton - they won league 1 = greatest team and manager in the world

Huddersfield -

Peterborough

Bournemouth - massive rivalry, blood spilled in some games

MK Dons

Leyton Orient

Rochdale

Exeter

Brentford - Something to do with ticket allocations a few years back.

Carlisle

Colchester

Charlton

Sheffield Wednesday - chairman looks like an avid merrion character.

Hartlepool

Oldham

Tranmere

Yeovil

Notts County - pinched Blackstock and Best

Walsall

Dagenham and Redbridge

Bristol Rovers - stole Lambert for a mill

Plymouth

Swindon - Theo was originally 'theirs'

Chesterfield

Bury

Wycombe

Shrewsbury - tickets in FA Cup

Accrington Stanley

Stevenage

Gillingham

Torquay

Rotherham

Port Vale

Southend

Oxford

Crewe

Aldershot

Morcombe

Macclesfield

Cheltenham

Bradford - Dan Petrescu

Burton Albion

Hereford

Lincoln City

Northampton

Barnet

Stockport County

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Swindon, we stole Walcott from them.

Nope, they were actually chuffed that Lowe sent them payment that they didn't even know they were owed without waiting for the League to order the payment. Most Swindon supporters never even knew Walcott was on their books. They may have been more upset that Ted stole Mick Channon from them though, allegedly signing him illegally on a Sunday in order to beat them to it.

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I hate Everton.....well I hate Adrian Heath for the FA Cup semi final in 1984....and even though many players and teams have dumped on us in the 27 years since then he/they are still top of my list ,glad im not the only one that cant stand heath

 

I won't ever forget how bad i felt when Marcus Bent scored against us in 04/05 at SMS.

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Newcastle... that 3-3 has already been mentioned. Don't forget we had nothing to play for that day and Blayney kept out a point blank header from Shearer with a miracle save that day...

 

That game had no right to be as good as it was :D

 

Also Dellhurst Park... speaks for itself.

 

Liverpool: 'Not even Saints fear to tread in Anfield anymore' when we beat them on Sky... that was the start of their decline.

 

Leeds: it was our game that all but relegated them to league one (technically not mathematically tho).

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Nope, they were actually chuffed that Lowe sent them payment that they didn't even know they were owed without waiting for the League to order the payment. Most Swindon supporters never even knew Walcott was on their books. They may have been more upset that Ted stole Mick Channon from them though, allegedly signing him illegally on a Sunday in order to beat them to it.

 

With business accumen like that no wonder they went pop. Good old Ted!

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I hate Everton.....well I hate Adrian Heath for the FA Cup semi final in 1984....and even though many players and teams have dumped on us in the 27 years since then he/they are still top of my list ,glad im not the only one that cant stand heath

 

I won't ever forget how bad i felt when Marcus Bent scored against us in 04/05 at SMS.

 

Agree with this and I also remember how clueless Redknapp was that night.:facepalm:

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Man City - Beating them at Maine Road last game there

Spurs - We thought we were a bigger and better club than them back in the early 2000's - Lowe mouthing off, getting Hoddle sacked gloat gloat gloat

Liverpool - 0-3 down with 15 left to 3-3

Bolton - Barry Horne 94th minute!

Newcastle - Always beat them at the Dell and could not work out why!! Another great comeback game with minutes left at the Dell.

Sunderland - Won 0-1 in a relegation battle in their last floodlite game at Roker Park

Wolves - 0-6 lol

Nottingham Forest - In their relegation season we had a 6 pointer and we were 1-0 down, they had a goal ruled out for no real reason and super micky evans I think got a brace and we won 1-3 and pretty much turned our season on it's head.

Leicester - Matty's first hat-trick, at the Dell

Watford - FA Cup Semi Final heartbreak!

Pompey - Weirdos

Coventry - Did not like it when they got relegated from top flight and Little Southampton where the 'small club' staying up against all odds.

Crystal Palace - Last minute leveller that really put a stop on them staying up in the season we both dropped through the trap door! It still hurts them badly!

Sheffield United - We drew at West Ham and stayed up on the last day, they let in a late goal at Chelsea. We meet around London for the rest of the evening!!

Scun-thrope - nicked their manager they debate if we are a bigger club than them!! lol

Brighton - They think they are the bigger club Hmmm, but acted small time should have just let the title do the talking!

Huddersfield - We are holding onto the 2nd spot even though they have gone on the best unbeaten run in their clubs history!!

Bournemouth - Think they are our big rivals now??

MK Dons - Well I ****ing hate them ******s more than I can say!

Rochdale - They love us lol, but also hate us because we are a big club, and they really wish they were us.

Exeter - South coast thing

Charlton SOme railway station thing!

Hartlepool - Cannot beat us at our place!

Yeovil - Some South Coast thing!

Notts County - pinched Blackstock and Best

Walsall - Relegated them 2011.

Dagenham and Redbridge - Stole their style of play!

Bristol Rovers - stole Lambert for a mill

Plymouth - Some South Coast thing

Accrington Stanley - Who are they?

Torquay - Some south coast thing (I like them)

Aldershot - One team in Hampshire

Northampton - Stuart Gray or was it Wigley!!

Stockport County Hated us for about a week when we levelled in the quarter final of the league cup that their place only to **** it up at home.

 

After going through the list I do not think many hate us, and if they do it is because we are the bigger club in our league, so everyone wants to beat us and hates us. As soon as we are out of the way they will all soon forget.

 

I think you lot smoke to much weed....EVERYONE HATES US!!! lol.

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I like this one on the plymouth forum

 

Southampton are a nothing club who have been a nothing club for the whole of their nothing of an existence. I have nothing against people that support them other than the fact that they don't know anything about football as evidenced by the fact that the follow such a boring non entity of a small club in Hampshire.

 

They are the descendants of people who broke the strike in a neighbouring port a long time ago richly earning their nick name of scummers.

 

What the hell have we ever done to plymouth? In fairness he was replying to a post started by someone called Delldays........

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I love being hated down here, i'd rather that then be a Fulham type and everyone's "second" team...

 

Adkins has latched onto this too and has created a great us against the world mentality.

 

Actually, in the 80's and 90's we were a lot of peoples "Second team" or at least there was a lot of goodwill towards us. From the 80's playing some lovely football and nearly pipping liverpool, to signing Keegan and latterly, for being plucky old Saints who always beat manure or at least one of the big guns.

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I like the idea of Plymouth calling us a 'nothing' club. Actually Plymouth and Portsmouth have a lot in common:

 

- Both naval towns

- High unemployment

- Inbreeding

- Scummy people

- Good places to drink (if you're not in a Saints shirt)

- Both clubs will cease to exist in the relatively near future

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I like the idea of Plymouth calling us a 'nothing' club. Actually Plymouth and Portsmouth have a lot in common:

 

- Both naval towns

- High unemployment

- Inbreeding

- Scummy people

- Good places to drink (if you're not in a Saints shirt)

- Both clubs will cease to exist in the relatively near future

 

Disagree with most of this ,lots of nice places to live in and around Plymouth. There is no other similar club you can compare with the skates.

I hope and think the club will survive.

 

ps I may change my mind after Monday.;)

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Disagree with most of this ,lots of nice places to live in and around Plymouth. There is no other similar club you can compare with the skates.

I hope and think the club will survive.

 

ps I may change my mind after Monday.;)

 

I used to live in Devon, couldn't stand Argyle supporters (Exeter and Torquay were OK though).

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Southend ****ing love us. that last game of the season a few years back was such a love in.... bit gross to watch by the end of it.

 

Tbf, Southend were respectful AND good fun. Not many fans you can say that about... or we could all be about machismo and manly posturing? ;)

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Sheffield United hate us because we equalised with 2 minutes to go in the 1902 FA Cup Final and despite the protestations of Fatty Foulke the goal was allowed even though our goal scorer was doing his bootlaces up in an offside position. Apparently they've never forgiven us for that.

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Bar a few internet warriors, I don't think we are hated at all. Most people I've met seem to have a bit of respect for us, want to see us go up this year and be back in the Prem in the not too distant future...

 

Spot on. Having lived away from Southampton for 20 years and knowing plenty of fans of clubs around me such as Liverpool, Everton, Tranmere, Stockport, Man City, Man Utd, Sheff Wednesday, Leeds etc from work or meeting at games etc i've never met anyone who hated Saints. Like others have said alot of people liked Saints in the past, some have mentioned unpopular Rupert Lowe in past but nothing too unpleasant. Maybe it's the people i meet but the last few years going to new mostly new grounds the fans i've met have been friendly.

 

Just ignore the internet warriors. Bitter people get left behind in life.

 

PS. like previous poster mentioned some older Man Utd fans i work with do mention offside in 76 though.

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We're a club that I think most other fans/clubs either don't mind too much or feel pretty nuetral about - we're hardly in the league of leeds or millwall for universal hatred! Aside from pompey and one or two other questionably local sides I don't get the impression we're hated.

 

I've read a few times on other clubs forums that they enjoy our visits as we bring a good number and are vocal.

 

Anyone supporting title chasing prem sides in the 90s would have loved us for the spankings we dished out to man u.

 

But this sort of thread once again backs up the view that we're arrogant and have an inflated view of ourselves.

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To be honest I'm not sure if 95% of teams really care about us. There's possibly a bit of ramping up the ante a bit with teams that have been challenging us for promotion, but that about it. Apart from that, most people I speak to across the country just talk about football.

 

Even with this Spurs thing that we created a few years ago, most of my extended family are Spurs fans and they didn't even know it existed. To some degree I think we acted a bit like Bournemouth and Brighton have with us this season. Mainly because we didn't have rivals in our own league at that time.

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Spot on. Having lived away from Southampton for 20 years and knowing plenty of fans of clubs around me such as Liverpool, Everton, Tranmere, Stockport, Man City, Man Utd, Sheff Wednesday, Leeds etc from work or meeting at games etc i've never met anyone who hated Saints. Like others have said alot of people liked Saints in the past, some have mentioned unpopular Rupert Lowe in past but nothing too unpleasant. Maybe it's the people i meet but the last few years going to new mostly new grounds the fans i've met have been friendly.

 

Just ignore the internet warriors. Bitter people get left behind in life.

 

PS. like previous poster mentioned some older Man Utd fans i work with do mention offside in 76 though.

 

Ditto, I have met fans from many different clubs in and around Watford, usually on their way to Wembley. I have yet to meet even one who even mildly dislikes Saints !

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Newcastle... that 3-3 has already been mentioned. Don't forget we had nothing to play for that day and Blayney kept out a point blank header from Shearer with a miracle save that day...

 

I live in Newcastle, and they did sort of hate us - but always with a respect.

 

They always judged it as they choked - (the 3-1 ---- 86, 89, 90 min comeback - the 2-2 --- 88, 90 min comeback)

or "Eeee that Le Tissier, hees a good player like..." (the 2-1 Sky game, the 2-1 & 1-0s @ St James)

 

even when Le Tiss scored the last goal at The Dell v Arsenal - it was Newcastle he deprieved of a top 10 finish!

He was always seen as Newcastle's Bete Noire - but I can tell you that his humour and knowledge on SS mean he's quite well liked in Geordieland.

 

The El Khallej challenge that took Dyer out the World Cup was a low point, but the 1-1 and 3-3 games @ St Marys were such great games of Football.

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