Bring back the golden goal I loved that
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Naaaaah.
You wouldnât have had the finest Extra Time in history ever when Arsenal went to Sampdoria if that was the case.
(Mind you, this is the unpopular opinion thread so I can see where youâre coming from lol)
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I just loved the tension of the whole thing, just doing that thing when youâre holding the back of your head the whole time having heart palpitations, maybe itâs just me 
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I always thought it represented the whole emotions of the game in a unique moment. Ecstasy and tragedy on and off the pitch. Loved it.
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Remember it at Euro 96, Gazza an inch away from glory
thatâs what you get when you donât look after your body properly.
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Germanyâs disallowed goal 
Still canât see what was wrong with it
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Or Spainâs
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Lol anyone but England
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Going to the top of my list now as well.
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If you donât have an explicit or implied family connection to a football club, you should always primarily support your local. End of, no exceptions
What is your address?
I remember in primary school most of the kids supported Man U as they were the best at the time, which makes sense for a little kid
this is fine I reckon as long as you donât change as you get older, you can pick whatever team you like tbh as long as youâre honest about why you support them
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SE17
I donât support Millwall for a variety reasons.
Lots of people hate where they grew up.
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I get where youâre coming from, everyone hates a bandwagoner. But at the same time, football is global and so itâs unavoidable.
To add to this, we donât really have anything in my country that is like what you see throughout Europe in terms of football.
But I get it because when I was growing up, it always pissed me off that most people supported either Man Utd or Chelsea because they were the two best sides at the time.
Iâd get shit whenever Arsenal choked (which was a lot) from dudes who basically just decided to support a good team whereas I obviously supported Arsenal because of my old man/grandfather. Tbh I grew up a rugby guy and thought soccer sucked until I was about 11 or so lol
But yeah I get where youre coming from cos nowadays I meet a lot of City fans over here and its obviosuly just because theyre good and it annoys me lol
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NZ right?
Going to be interesting to have a whole generation of kids bandwagoning City.
Lots of people going to resent that family connection if that family members a bad influence.
Sometimes itâs just important for the individual to have their own thing.
A bit like fashion or music it just gives them their own identity.
Growing up in Wimbledon when I was 4-10, I supported Wimbledon FC because it was my local team and the only club I would go see live and Man Utd because of Peter Schmeichel.
When I moved in 2000, I kind of fell out of love with football and stopped watching it on tv but carried on playing for a youth club.
It wasnât until around 2007 that I got back into watching football on tv and I remember it being a crazy Man City vs West Ham (Tevez and Mascherano era) game that got me back into the Prem while I was bored and home alone one day.
That one game sparked something in me and I started watching all the Sky games every weekend and decided that I wanted to follow a specific team. At this point AFC Wimbledon werenât even in League 2 yet, so not exactly easy to follow from abroad so I decided to go for a club with a high profile Danish player which at that time was Bendtner at Arsenal (basically the only Danish player in the PL at the time lol).
In fairness to me, you definitely canât call me a fair weather fan considering itâs pretty much been suffering and Banter Era since 2007/08 and Iâve always stood by Arsenal and watched 90% of games since then (although 4 FA Cups has been awesome and it could have been a lot worse - see Spurs or Newcastle or ahh myriad of useless teams).
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I grew up in South London and my pops and brothers are Chelsea fans. Iâm aware of the whole Woolwich Arsenal connection but thatâs not a connection anyone born in the 90s would genuinely be able to feel.
So in other words I donât agree with this. I chose Arsenal because I saw Dennis Bergkamp play some time around 1995/96 season and just absolutely loved the colour of the Arsenal kit and also because they won whatever game it was I was watching.
No real special reason but that connection has never faded.
Just donât think location means much itâs just that local fans will have a better understanding of what a certain club may mean / do in that local community. And youâre also much more likely to be surrounded by Arsenal fans if you live in Islington and you can appreciate the history of the club scattered everywhere.
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