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Ferrari Fans And Their Football (Soccer) Teams

Started by RacingCrusaderUK , Apr 24 2003 20:54

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Poll: Ferrari Fans And Their Football (Soccer) Teams (62 member(s) have cast votes)

Ferrari and A Soccer team that has won it's domestic championship twice in the last 5 years. (6 votes [9.68%])
Percentage of vote: 9.68%
Ferrari and a side that doesn't match the above. (22 votes [35.48%])
Percentage of vote: 35.48%
Not Ferrari, but a side that has won its domestic championship twice in the last five years. (3 votes [4.84%])
Percentage of vote: 4.84%
Not Ferrari and an obscure side. (16 votes [25.81%])
Percentage of vote: 25.81%
Just Ferrari and I despise Soccer/Football (14 votes [22.58%])
Percentage of vote: 22.58%
I loathe Motorsport and love my football. (1 votes [1.61%])
Percentage of vote: 1.61%

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#1 RacingCrusaderUK

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Posted 24 April 2003 - 20:54

Here's an interesting little idea. I would really wuite like to see how many Ferrari fans on this BB also support teams like Manchester United or Real Madrid etc. Quite often it seems to me that a lot of the Ferrari support we get on this board has very little to do with loyalty and a great deal to do with Glory hunting. Thankfully I can look at this objectivly since my F1 team hasn't been an F1 team since 1994 and my Football team is extremely obscure. So please, answer the poll and comment honestly below.

#2 molive

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Posted 24 April 2003 - 21:23

weird poll... :eek:

#3 fifi

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Posted 24 April 2003 - 21:27

why just ferrari fans
you do realise that other teams supporters can support footie

anyway i dont give a ****

my footie team has just made the UEFA cup final :clap:

#4 tifosi

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Posted 24 April 2003 - 21:32

Being a yank, well........ u know, my team is the Washington Freedom, I know u never heard of them, so there goes the glory-seeking. BTW Ferrari fans oput with 17 years of no championships so I hardly think they are glory seekers.

Hockey - Caps - again no glory in 29 years

#5 tifosi

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Posted 24 April 2003 - 21:33

Originally posted by fifi
why just ferrari fans
you do realise that other teams supporters can support footie

Its called flamebait fifi

#6 RacingCrusaderUK

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Posted 24 April 2003 - 21:34

Oh how extremely paranoid of you Tifosi. Perhaps you would like me to list every single Football Team and F1 team for you to choose from. :rolleyes:

#7 Mickey

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Posted 24 April 2003 - 21:34

Weird yeah.

I voted option 1, but does that make me a glory hunter? I was already a supporter of Juventus and Ferrari when I was little kid in a village in the Italian Alps.

Both Ferrari and Juventus in these last few decades have gone through many difficult spells, so it's not much to do with glory hunting.

Back then I thought the only football teams in the world were Juve and Toro (both teams from Turin, which is the main city of the province I live in). The only cars I had heard of till then were Ferrari and FIAT :lol:

#8 tifosi

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Posted 24 April 2003 - 21:36

Originally posted by RacingCrusaderUK
Oh how extremely paranoid of you Tifosi. Perhaps you would like me to list every single Football Team and F1 team for you to choose from.

yes

#9 RacingCrusaderUK

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Posted 24 April 2003 - 21:37

Well then Mickey, thats legitimate, I wonder how many people's reasons arent?

#10 The RedBaron

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Posted 25 April 2003 - 02:23

What would be more interesting is a poll showing the number people that have joined the Kimi bandwagon in the last 9 months and jumped off JPM's one! :smoking:

This Ferrari one is a nonsense though, particularly since they had a barren spell of nearly 2 decades.

I support West Ham and Hamburg SV, neither club are have been successful for quite awhile.

#11 BuonoBruttoCattivo

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Posted 25 April 2003 - 02:40

I support AS Roma and Ferrari. My two loves
Always have (since the age of five).
Roma won only 2 championships since 1982.

#12 squiggle bob

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Posted 25 April 2003 - 02:40

i am a ferrari fan..

i am a carlton (Australian Football League) fan.. they last won the premiership in 1995.. appeared in the grand final in 99.. "won" the 'wooden spoon' last season, you know, finished LAST.. this season they are currently second last! :clap:

i am a melbourne tigers fan.. australian basketball.. last won the championship in 1997... before that 1993.. only won it twice.. last season finished 6th, just made the playoffs, lost in the first round..

i am a craig lowndes fan.. V8 supercars.. won his first round since the 2000 season a few weeks ago..

and thats about it for sports that i follow..

#13 siggers

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Posted 25 April 2003 - 06:45

Originally posted by RacingCrusaderUK
Thankfully I can look at this objectivly since my F1 team hasn't been an F1 team since 1994 and my Football team is extremely obscure. So please, answer the poll and comment honestly below.

Well then Mickey, thats legitimate, I wonder how many people's reasons arent?

Sure shows your subjective perspective on things. But what gives you the idea that your perspective is objective and legitimate, while other people's isn't?

I think that love is hard to explain. Honestly ... :rolleyes:

#14 Schuting Star

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Posted 25 April 2003 - 07:02

Well I'm Ferrari and Liverpool. So it is fair to say that I'm not a huge fan of Manchester United!

#15 shays

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Posted 25 April 2003 - 07:08

i like ferrari, but sauber is my favourite team ...support collingwood (afl) who was runner-up last year (their first one in many years...Carlton?? :lol:

) and leeds united...

#16 BRG

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Posted 25 April 2003 - 09:13

A good try, RacingCrusader, and I am sure that your premise is right for many of the most rabid Ferrari/Schumacher fans who only jumped on the bandwagon recently. They like to hitch up to a winner, so I think you are right that they will also support winning football teams. Unfortunately, even the most dim of them will see through this poll and will not vote!

Of course the REAL tifosi, whose love for Ferrari is a lifetime obsession, are a different matter and deserve respect for their loyalty through all those crap years. There are probably REAL Manchester United (or REAL Real Madrid :stoned:

) fans out there as well.....

#17 philhitchings

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Posted 25 April 2003 - 09:31

soccer sucks. Ferrari have been a passion for me for decades! As BRG says the those who jupm on the bandwagon merely shy away from questions like this

#18 mach3

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Posted 25 April 2003 - 12:37

I am not a huge Ferrari fan but I have a great deal of respect for their history and tradition. I also enjoy seeing history in the making. MS possibly winning his 6th WDC certainly falls into this category. It makes watching F1 all the more exciting.
As for football, I was always a Borussia Moenchengladbach fan. They seem to be close to the relegation zone again this year! but these days I watch football and racing to see a good match or race.
I do, however, lose some rational thought when it comes to my Maple Leafs. Yes, I am one of the ones suffering through a 26 year drought. they just lost again in the first round of the playoffs! I hate to admit it but they lost to a better team :mad:

#19 baddog

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Posted 25 April 2003 - 12:53

A far more interesting poll would be how many people who whine on about ferrari/schumacher fans, are above all else fans of their own voices...

Or perhaps less provocatively, how many of those who hate ferrari or michael, also hate manchester united for their success?

Shaun

#20 FEB

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Posted 25 April 2003 - 13:06

this is the team that I support...
a brazilian team... of course...

nothing to do whit this thread.. but...

#21 Nikolas Garth

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Posted 25 April 2003 - 13:06

RacingCrusaderUK,
Why is it that I think you have an unhealthy interest in Glory Holes?

#22 Nasty McBastard

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Posted 25 April 2003 - 14:42

im a ferrari fan, and a chelsea fan....

make of that what you will, but i doubt it proves the suggested theory.

by all rights, as a chelsea fan id be a villenuve fan, or a sauber fan....

#23 TAB666

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Posted 25 April 2003 - 14:59

Originally posted by fifi
why just ferrari fans
you do realise that other teams supporters can support footie

anyway i dont give a **** my footie team has just made the UEFA cup final

Im guessing you are a Celtic fan ..... go Henke !

#24 squiggle bob

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Posted 26 April 2003 - 05:11

Originally posted by shays
i like ferrari, but sauber is my favourite team ...support collingwood (afl) who was runner-up last year (their first one in many years...Carlton?? ) and leeds united...

yeah., you laugh now, but.. er.. um... the only way for carlton is up! and so far, they have been quite successful this season.. they went up one spot on the ladder.. what have collingwood done..

lost two grand finals in succession! thats what!

#25 azha

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Posted 26 April 2003 - 05:19

I love Ferrari.
I support Liverpool. They havent won the championship for more than a decade now.
Hate Man U. :mad:

#26 Jacar�

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Posted 27 April 2003 - 13:09

Originally posted by azha
I support Liverpool. They havent won the championship for more than a decade now.
Hate Man U.

I think this rivalry between ManU and Liverpool supporters only makes sense for people living in that area of England, it's part of the local culture, but doesn't mean so much for fans of these teams all over the world. At the recent Manc - Real match at Old Trafford, the only Real Madrid player booed by the crowd was the ex-Scouser McManaman, while the destroyer of Manchester United -- Ronaldo -- was given a standing ovation when he left the field!?! The big derbies are the best thing about football and should be left to those fans who watch the matches at the stadium. Earlier in this thread it was mentioned that Celtic are in the UEFA Cup Final but I'm sure the fans still rate the Old Firm derby as the most important matches of the year.

#27 squiggle bob

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Posted 27 April 2003 - 13:13

for the handicap!

carlton won again this weekend! now they're third last! :up:

#28 Jacar�

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Posted 27 April 2003 - 13:30

Originally posted by RacingCrusaderUK
I would really wuite like to see how many Ferrari fans on this BB also support teams like Manchester United or Real Madrid etc

every football fan has to have an opinion about ManU or Real because they are dominant teams that win everything in the last decade. You can't follow football without having an opinion about such teams, which polarises opinions: half of all football fans end up liking them and half of all football fans end up disliking them. It's like Ferrari in the last few years, you've gotta have an opinion about them, but you could easily follow F1 and not have opinion about Sauber, or you could easily follow English Premier League and not have an opinion about Charlton Athletic etc

#29 azha

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Posted 27 April 2003 - 15:17

Originally posted by Jacaré

I think this rivalry between ManU and Liverpool supporters only makes sense for people living in that area of England, it's part of the local culture, but doesn't mean so much for fans of these teams all over the world.

Well it still makes sense for both fans here in Asia. Arsenal's fans all over the world most probably dislike ManU, because ManU is their main rival in the league. It's got nothing to do with the local culture, it's just the fact that ManU are winning so much and thus preventing their favourite team from winning.

Better comparison would be the bitter rivalry between Everton and Liverpool, or ManU and ManCity or Arsenal and Spurs. It means so much to the local, but not to the others outside England.

#30 The Soul Stealer

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Posted 27 April 2003 - 15:29

Ferrari and Chelsea

#31 The Soul Stealer

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Posted 27 April 2003 - 15:34

Originally posted by Nasty McBastard
im a ferrari fan, and a chelsea fan....

make of that what you will, but i doubt it proves the suggested theory.

by all rights, as a chelsea fan id be a villenuve fan, or a sauber fan....

Not really McB, Chelsea have always been an inconsistent team with some of the best players... the same could be said about Ferrari a few years back

#32 maxell

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Posted 27 April 2003 - 16:07

I voted "Just Ferrari and I despise Soccer/Football" although despise it too strong word for it. I don't often follow football and I HATE MANCHESTER UNITED. I'm just glad when Man Utd loses, then I'm happy on the football side. If I support any team, then it would be Liverpool first and then Chelsea (because of my fellow countryman Eiður Smári GUDJOHNSEN).

#33 LB

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Posted 28 April 2003 - 17:35

I actually don't mind Ferrari its Schumacher I don't like.

I'm a Jordan fan and a Blackburn and St Mirren fan. so I spend my life in perpetual disappointment

#34 30ft penguin

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Posted 28 April 2003 - 18:40

Well, I don't actually despise soccer, I am just not interested. The only time I really watch soccer on TV is the World Cup.

#35 sschinning

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Posted 28 April 2003 - 19:05

I'm not such a big soccerfan, but you have to (want to or tend to) support your hometown soccer team (That would be PSV Eindhoven).
But if PSV gets beaten fair and square and it's a good match i don't have any problem with that!
Same goes for F1! I am a Williams suporter for 17 years now (I started watching in 1986 and ma favorite driver was Nelson), but i rather see them closely losing from Ferrari then easily winning from them.