Daft ( strictly friendly !) rivalries

Oopsadaisy1

Saints ( Southampton football team) and Pompey (Portsmouth football team) .MrOops father was torn, he was from Portsmouth but his sons were all born in Southampton…

I was born in Southampton but now live ‘across the water’ from Portsmouth.

My family is equally split so I keep my allegiance to myself. 😇😉

Georgesgran

I could mention Newcastle United and Sunderland AFC - but friendly, it ain’t! Now that the latter are so far removed from their former days, there’s no rivalry on the pitch, but there’s still plenty of ‘verbal’ from both sides!

I’m originally from County Durham and my dad used to support Sunderland. He went with his friend to a friendly “derby” between Sunderland and Newcastle. It certainly wasn’t friendly! They were chased through some back streets by Newcastle supports and both beaten up. It would have been worse if others hadn’t come to their aid. Dad and his pal were ex army and they did manage to defend themselves a bit. I remember him coming home all battered and bruised.

Denmark versus England, I am danish born and bread but have lived in England for 60 years. I am always torn in half, likewise my son who is very proud of his danish roots but born in England.

Bath and Glawster for rugby; I now live in Gloucester but much of my life was spent in Bath. So when they play each other I'm torn.

It's Exeter and Plymouth here which are definitely rivals.
Friendly? Maybe not...

DH is a Spurs supporter and the family joke is that no-one but no-one mentions Arsenal in our house on pain of banishment!

Aston Villa v Birmingham City here.

Bristol City and Bristol Rovers here. I don't like football but my late DH was a City fan. In Bristol we also have a sort of rivalry with Newport (and South Wales in general) which is just over the boarder from us, although I think this is fading with the younger generation many of whom have come to live in Bristol from London.

England v Scotland - Six Nations not politics!

kittylester

I get that, I stoll have a soft spot for Derby (and dgs3 goes regularly!) and Liverpool (Son in law 1) and Wolves (Son in law 3)

Coo, life is difficult!!

Yes it sure is Kitty 🤣

I get that, I stoll have a soft spot for Derby (and dgs3 goes regularly!) and Liverpool (Son in law 1) and Wolves (Son in law 3)

Coo, life is difficult!!

kittylester

Grandmadinosaur

Being an East Midlands girl my team is Derby County and Nottm Forest are our bugbears putting it mildly 🤣

I was born in Derby and supported the Rams but moved to Leicestershire and met my Foxes supporting husband. When we married, we lived in Melton Mowbray and Forest was the most easily accessible for DH to take our football mad boys. And they were doing really well!!!

So, all our immediate family are Reds and now Derby County and Leicester City are the opposition.

Yes geography does have a say in it. After we’d moved to East Yorkshire and had our son who is football mad he started going on football training schools run by Hull city so that’s his team and I admit to a soft spot for them. It’s much to the annoyance of DH who being born and bred there is Liverpool through and through.

Liverpool FC Everton FC same city but football can split families.

Grandmadinosaur

Being an East Midlands girl my team is Derby County and Nottm Forest are our bugbears putting it mildly 🤣

I was born in Derby and supported the Rams but moved to Leicestershire and met my Foxes supporting husband. When we married, we lived in Melton Mowbray and Forest was the most easily accessible for DH to take our football mad boys. And they were doing really well!!!

So, all our immediate family are Reds and now Derby County and Leicester City are the opposition.

I could mention Newcastle United and Sunderland AFC - but friendly, it ain’t! Now that the latter are so far removed from their former days, there’s no rivalry on the pitch, but there’s still plenty of ‘verbal’ from both sides!

I’m a Saints follower, too - the AFL team in Melbourne. One of the few, I’m afraid, because they haven’t won a final since 1966! Still, I remain faithful.

Being an East Midlands girl my team is Derby County and Nottm Forest are our bugbears putting it mildly 🤣

Our family is more than a little exercised about the merits and demerits of our two city football teams - Wednesday and United. SiL and GS are blue; DS and my late DH red - and there is much joshing but always an undercurrent of serious rivalry. Derby days are a nightmare.

Saints ( Southampton football team) and Pompey (Portsmouth football team) .MrOops father was torn, he was from Portsmouth but his sons were all born in Southampton…