Comment posted by U, at 4 Sep U Tottenham Hotspurs never knew they existed! I should support Brighton. Liverpool I do actually support them!
Comment posted by U, at 28 Aug U I actually support Arsenal. Comment posted by bananapig, at 26 Aug bananapig. I should support Liverpool but I actually support Man U. Comment posted by Basketballgirl19, at 26 Aug Basketballgirl I should support Leicester City. However, Manchester City is way better!!! Comment posted by Maxwell, at 24 Aug Maxwell. Bournemouth Come on you cherries.
Wolverhampton Wanderers! Like if u got the same! Comment posted by Issy, at 22 Aug Issy. Comment posted by U, at 21 Aug U Comment posted by unicornCookie, at 21 Aug unicornCookie More comments Back to top.
All BBC Sport. All shows. Anyone that is better than the last bloke! Someone that is young, hungry and willing to succeed. Consistently average.
Slowly getting better. One of the best footballing teams in Europe. Sack him! What a brilliant team goal! Defend, for god sake! Why can't our strikers score?! A loud atmosphere with a trademark celebration for when we score!
Nothing too noisy, I want to enjoy the match. Anything would be an improvement on our atmosphere! Loud and passionate to intimidate the opposition! Atmosphere doesn't bother me when we're the biggest club in the world! I'd just take a top four finish to be honest. The Premier League so we can dominate English football!
If we sign the best players and do well in both, I'll be satisfied. Champions League all day long! Realistically we can win both! Our youth policy. A hugely historical club that was a founding member of both the original Football League in and the Premier League in , the Villans have won tons of silverware and believe it or not used to be a force in European competitions decades ago but the club fell on especially hard times right around the time Randy Lerner — owner of the world-beating Cleveland Browns — bought them in Probably neither.
However, the club is now co-owned by Egyptian and American billionaires who have been spending BIGLY and appear to be charting a course back to the comfortable upper middle class. In the midst of all the buying they just sold their best player in Jack Grealish to Man City for a buttload of money, which will be a big chance for the club as he was the heart and soul of the squad, but they have already begun reinvesting it in a bunch of new players to spruce up what was already a decent team.
All in all a very solid choice for anyone looking to jump on a club on the rise but not wanting to be called a bandwagon fan. That said, things are changing — at least a little bit. The club recently moved from the historic but small Upton Park to the massive but sterile London Stadium. Maybe some fans would disagree with me about that, which is fine, but it is what it is. There are some similarities between West Ham and some American teams that are overshadowed by higher profile rivals in the same very big city… notably the New York Mets and Chicago White Sox.
Like both the Mets and White Sox, West Ham feels like a team on the upswing as they are fresh off an impressive season that saw them finish 6th that — for the first time in a long time — gave them bragging rights over London neighbors like Arsenal and Tottenham but not Chelsea.
They come into this season looking good, playing good and feeling good led by guys like Thomas Soucek and when healthy workhorse forward Michael Antonio. Bonus fact: rooting for West Ham means you are tangentially associating with the Green Street Hooligans of Elijah Wood movie lore, which is in fact a fictional group based on the machinations of the Inter City Firm, one of the more infamous groups of European soccer hooligans.
Big club with a rich history but two important things to know about them: a for reasons that Americans will never quite fully understand Leeds are absolutely despised by pretty much everyone else in England and b Leeds recently bounced back from being the posterchild for what can happen if a club spends way beyond their means as they went from playing in the Champions League semi-final in to declaring bankruptcy five years later, which sent them down to League One.
Last season marked their first official return to the big boy league and needless to say fans were pretty excited.
As for the here and now, Leeds have one of the most interesting managers in the world in Marcelo Bielsa, a quirky Argentinian who has developed a cult following while achieving success at non-traditional powerhouse clubs all around the world. The players have totally bought in on his wild and woolly playing style that makes for fun, unpredictable, high-scoring games.
On their day Leeds can beat anyone… but they also end up taking a few big losses like the spanking they got on opening weekend at the hands of United.
They have the talent and support to be a solidly mid-table team, which is precisely where they finished in their first go-round back in the EPL last season 9th. Fun fact: while some of their fans are dumb enough to still think hooligan-ing is fun… they are at least respectful enough to mask up. The Toffees are mostly known for two things: Tim Howard, who was the face of the club for a decade, and always being good but never being quite good enough. That said they have a proven manager in Rafa Benitez and tons of talent.
If you are looking for a club outside of the usual suspects that has an outside chance to win silverware and — should things seriously break their way — could even break through into the big time… you could do a lot worse than Everton. Just know going in that the club is notorious for snatching failure from the jaws of victory. Five years removed from the most preposterously successful season in the history of sports, they have done an incredible job of translating that success and the money that came with it into a solid foundation among the upper middle class of EPL clubs.
Most of the key pieces from that Cinderella squad have been poached by bigger clubs eg, Kante, Mahrez, Maguire and Drinkwater — LOL , but they still have Jamie Vardy running amok up top and Kasper Schmeichel holding it down in back. Teams like Lester often finish ahead of several of them. However, at the end of the day money talks and these six clubs both take in the most money and with some notable exceptions spend the most to secure what most of them see as their god-given Champions League slots.
Especially for n00bs, if picking a team that wins more than they lose is going keep you more connected to the sport, then just do it and tell anyone giving you grief to go eff themselves.
The Gunners were once known for playing beautiful soccer under long-time manager Arsene Wenger that was the closest thing that the EPL had to Barrrrrrrrrthelona. That was then and this is now, however, as the club has struggled to compete for a number of years in a row as Unai Emery and more recently Mikel Arteta have tried to right the ship.
Arsenal are nevertheless a club with a decent history of success especially in the FA Cup , with deep pockets when their hated American owner Stan Kroenke opens the purse strings and a lot of good young talent like Bukayo Saka and Emile Smith-Rowe, plus some big-name attacking talent — if and when guys like Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Alexandre Lacazette feel like playing. The club lacks a little identity at the moment and this season may be a make or break for Arteta who needs to at least show some progress if he wants to stick around.
Also, if you like loud boisterous fans who yell a lot whether you win or lose… perhaps this is the team for you. Bonus fact: the club has won the 2nd most Community Shields in history!
Very impressive! Not a club for the faint of heart. Jozay Mourinho came and went like a shart in the wind and now the club finds itself at the very start of the Nuno Espirito Santo era with lots of revenues coming in from a big beautiful new stadium and just as many question marks about whether it will ever actually win something. Or they could suck and finish 9th. Those outcomes are basically equally likely.
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