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Second team

Second team

Preston North End for me mate. Reason being, I was born in Sharon Green Hospital and have lived in the area for all of my life.

My first team generally depends on who is at the top of the Premier League as I don’t like to be seen supporting a losing side. Over the years, I’ve flitted between Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool and Blackburn Rovers. I’m sure you can see the connection here though. 😉
 
Not got a proper ‘second team’, but I look out for my local non-league team’s results and go to games occasionally. And I am annoyed when citeh win the title again, but my annoyance is with them buying success not the other teams in the prem!
 
I don’t ‘support’ a second team as such but I do ‘follow’ Hibernian in terms of results and wish them to do well, one one day hopefully see them win the SPL, not that any cares why but here goes 🙂 similar start to PNE…. I went to Edinburgh as a 7 year old (after my love affair started with North End but I was still football mad and during our family stay in Edinburgh my Dad took me on a Hibs game and I’ve followed them ever since!
 
My first love has always been North End . However when I started my missionary work in Yorkshire , me and my boys were Leeds Rhinos season ticket holders from 1994 to 2017.
Still feel I am a Rhino too.
 
I'm from Leeds, my first match resulted in Leeds 3 Grimsby Town 1 under Don Revie before he took them up to the old first division.
I still consider myself a Leeds United fan but I've lived and worked in/near Preston since 1983 and had a season ticket for PNE for nearly 25 years. I believe in supporting my local team and I'm passionate about PNE without having lost my love of Leeds United. If it sounds strange to you then believe me it feels even stranger to me. They were never meant to be in the same division as PNE were in League 1 (third division in old money) at the time and Leeds were playing Champions League football when I first watched a boring 0-0 draw against a Wycombe on a freezing Tuesday night in February!
 
Not really, though sometimes I do find myself having temporary team I follow on a situational basis.

E.G The season Leicester won the league I ended up making a point of watching a fair few of their games, especially during the 2nd half of the season when they were always on TV.

I don't care for Leicester or anything, just at the time I was loving seeing a club like them have the 'big 6' on strings.
 
Don't support any other team but have always been interested in how Liverpool do, mainly for the connections between PNE and Liverpool plus married to a Liverpool supporting scousewife 🙂 Only ever seen them play live against PNE.
 
Has been and always will be PNE & PNE only for me... I've tended to have an admiration of teams who play the most attractive football in the EPL for a while and usually make a point of watching them when they are live on TV. For a few years , under Arsene Wengers reign, it was Arsenal. Lately , under Peps resign, it has been Manchester City. I cannot bring myself to have any form of admiration for Liverpool or Manchester United. This being due to a deep seated hatred of all their glory hunting fan base that infest Preston & surrounding area & I feel has contributed to PNE failing to push on to the top flight for the whole of my lifetime.
I did actually watch a Citeh game at the Etihad last season ( they had an offer of £20 entry for both me & my daughter to watch their FA Cup tie v Fulham. PNE were away at Hull). The stadium is fantastic, the catering good. The football is on another level. The touch and movement of players like Mahrez & De Bruyne is unbelievable. But to me , though being a reasonably enjoyable experience, the football was bordering on boringly efficient, it wasnt my team & I wasnt sat amongst my people. It didnt stir any passion & I will probably do it again next season if there is a similar offer & PNE are away
 
I lived in Darmstadt, Germany for many years and follow them as my second team. They have some strange coincidences with PNE:

- their nickname is Die Lillien - The Lillies
- they play in blue and white
- they are about the same level as PNE, mid-top half 2nd league (though they did have a brief spell in the top flight)
- they struggle for money and operate on a small budget
- they were outbid by PNE for Emil Riis

Their stadium is a lot worse than Deepdale, but the atmosphere is way better. Here's a link to the club anthem being sung at the promotion fixture:



you might hate the music, but look at those flags!
 
At high school I became best mates with a lad who moved down from Glasgow as his dad was a Prison Officer and converted him into a Nobber. I also went up with him and his dad to a few Rangers games and even some European away games in the mid 9Os. Not into the religion bollocks, most my family/wife are RC but still Rangers over Celtic as they are just scousers in green.
 
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