What have Manchester United got that Watford haven’t?

GREAT Article!!!

There’s one thing English football has that African Local football hasn’t, “DIVERSITY”. In England, no one sticks to Liverpool, Chelsea , Arsenal or ManUtd just because they are the top 4 teams but because they love to support them. It gives me great joy when I remember how Fulham Fans supported their club with so much passion at the end of last season.

In Ghana, for instance, the two reigning clubs are the only clubs people concentrate on. That makes watching the local football very boring. It’s either Hearts or Kotoko.

In England, however, each team has got people who back them. It makes it much more competitive.

I am a Man U fan and I say,’ Keep supporting your respective teams coz u love to not bcoz everyone loves them”.

I only wrote what I wrote to spark tension. Of course this guy was joking… so was I.

Nordic = Sweeden, Norway, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland and Finland.

Some of you guys take this article too serious, and clearly if you have followed Graham’s editorials here on SoccerNews.com you will see there is a comical undertone to this piece. I’m sure he is not overly happy about his son being a United fan, but at the end of the day, I’m sure it matters very little to him and his family in the big scheme of things. Read it from a comical view and you will find this piece very entertaining…

Can i just say that i think this Guy might be joking! I’m sure he loves his son very much, and would not really mind if he chose to watch a team on TV rather than support a club. Those of you who are not appreciating his tongue in cheek humor, mainly seem to have foreign names and as such are probably not getting the reasonably subtle english humor involved.

In summary:

– Yes, Man Utd are much more successful than Watford. That was never in question you stupid, stupid people.

– Your (Man U fan’s) reaction to this, is only confirming your ignorance that this should directly equate to it being the ‘best/most rewarding’ club to support.

– No, he isn’t really going to disown his son (probably). ITS A JOKE.

– The Swedes don’t have a sense of humour

p.s. Great article

surely the fact that u are his father should count a million times before football even enters the equation! how would you feel if he were to go around telling people that he had no father, before you got the chance to go around saying you only have two sons? u r basically forcing him to choose between man united and u, dont be surprised if it turns out to be that u the one who gets relegated! u surely deserve it! twit

You can’t say UK football fans have an interesting life, do you? Beer, fights and football – maybe get laid by a fat ulgy English woman once in a while?

/Portugal out

Ps. GO RONALDO!!! 🙂

In Sweden we have the greatest band – ABBA, the greatest boy-band A-HA, and the best porno. We sure as goodness know what we are talking with football. Manchester are the bestest by far, and bestest that Wotfard. They play best football and have best players. Also Red is better than yellow. I watch Manchester when Inga lets me, but in the winter there is no sun so I have nothing else to do excepting eating whales. Manchester make my sad life happy. Please donot upset Swedish Manchester fans. We will cry.

Yooooooooooooooooooooo Orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrns

I fully agree with Mathis Borgen. And jealousy shines through here.

Although, I live in a Nordic country, I’ve been to OT 17 times and at Wembley for 2 MU FA CUP finals. I’m 29 years old and I’ve supported Man Utd since I can remember… age of 6-7 – this because of my father.

I saw 36 of 37 PL matches on SKY (ya, I have a “illeagal” SKY+ subscription :P), and 1 match (Man Utd vs. Liverpool) at OT. I value MU over my local team. I have no other connection to the region, I have no aunt, no long lost onkel.

Its total BS to be forced to support your local team, and that mindset is… foolish.

To he*l with posers, and also jealousy.

And scr*w my English grammar! 🙂

Well, first off, I agree that United has lots of poser-fans, but that doesn’t change the fact that it also has a loyal supporter-base! I’m from Norway, I’m 23 tears old, and I’ve been a United supporter since I was a little kid… I started liking them because of their playing style, they are always on the offense and playing entertaining football…

I’m so tired of hearing jealous supporters of other clubs going on and on about United being a rich successful club, and that it doesn’t deserve to be… I can understand that it can feel unfair that a club has a lot of money and is successful, while the club you support has a tight budget, and struggles to succeed… The difference between United and Watford I think is a man called Sir Alex Ferguson… He has made United the successful club it is today… Maybe with the right management, Watford could be a succesful team to! But it has to be done from the ground up, like SAF did, not like Chelsea wich has bought their way to success…

Why can’t you just consentrate on your club,instead of being jealous of another?

And to answer your question; If he really likes United, then let him! At least it’s a club wich hasn’t “cheated” like Chelsea, or being a bunch of crybabies like Liverpool… 😛 If you suspect he’s just a poser, then I agree with you that he shouldn’t be a United supporter… I hate posers in football as mush as I do in music… 😛

you tell him tommy…. 🙂

Who needs Wayne Rooney, we’ve got Lloyd Doyley. Who needs Wayne Rooney, we’ve got Lloyd Doyley.

In reply to Khalid: ‘the greatest experience of your life… sitting on a sofa’

Your greatest shag might as well be you and your own hand whist watching a porno! I suppose it is the difference between finding a nice girl and enjoying some intimacy, or continually fantasizing about a girl who is well out of your league whist continually buying her gifts in the hope she might let you spend time with her.

What’s Does Manchester United have that watford doesn’t??? WHERE DO WE START Man Utd have Cristano ronaldo Carlos Tevez Wayne Rooney. And all those cups the UEFA cup FA cup FIFA Cup FIFA International cup The Barclay’s Premier League SIX times!!

Well there are lots and lots of things and it will take a whole day to write everything but firstly Watford should do what manchester united did in 1999 to start any discussion on this topic.

Watford should do same as below:

Giggs scoring the greatest FA cup goal against the Arsenal in Semis and united winning with just 10 man. In the same match Beckham also scored a great goal and heroic penalty save from Schmeichel.

2 classic 3 -3 draws with Barcelona in CL…Unbelievable games.

United coming back from 2-0 behind in semis of UEFA semi final at Old lady to win 3-2(on italian terrirtory) ….who says liverpool comeback is the best ever in UEFA CL..

United winning the league on the last day…

finally United scoring twice in injury time against Bayern in CL final to comeback from 1-0 behind …one of the greatest experience of my life.

You should tell people that you only have two sons, or go on a vacation to someplace that the boys would like but don’t include the Manchester United supporter. I’m an Arsenal fan, and if my yet to be born son turns out to be a Man Utd fan, he’ll be banned from watching football. Give him a better choice than Watford, just make sure its not Man Utd or Chelsea.

That’s a tough one and im sorry to hear that your youngest has fallen into the wrong crowd.
Im afraid I think you might have left it too late to change his mind… this is something you really should have been doing at a much younger age.
Why dont you compromise with him and settle for Watford to be his “second” team (cos all prem fans like to watch real football occassionally)
THEN… take him to a game or two (“well im going and seeing as theyr’e your second team why dont you come along”)
Follow this up with a spot of bribery………
Ensure that he never gets the opportunity to go to old traffic (the theatre of silence)
Disconnect your tv / sky whatever when United are on the box and slowly but surely keep feeding him with stuff about the mighty horns.
Get him interested in the latest gossip such as whether Lloyd will ever score a goal or watching lewis youngs rise to fame…..
Theres lots you can do mate…. luckily for me, my daughter (whos 6) hasnt been given a choice. I made it clear roughly 30 seconds after she started breathing by whispering in her ear “Hi there, im your dad and you are a Watford fan”
which seems to have worked… better still her Grandads a united fan and is absolutely gutted when my daughter tells him she’s Watford and “Who are Manchester United?” Bless her
Good luck.

As a Watford season ticket holder living in Poole I sympathise as like you I have no reason to connect my kids to Vicarage Road. My Son isn’t interested in footy, but my solution was to buy my daughter a season ticket. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Each time we go to the Vic I point out that she sits less than 100 yards from where she was born, and we often get to Watford early to take her through The Harlequin to buy something.

However, and seriously this time round, my daughter is 17 and the best quality time I spend with her is when we both go to see the Golden Boys. Its a whole day together in the midst of exams, boyfriend and parties.

Try the following
1) Hypnotism.
2) Bribery (as my solution)
3) Remind him that Man Utd supoporters are like rats – you are never more than 10 meters from one!
4) Have the chat with him about identity, and being his own man, and not following the crowd.
5) Write to Aidy and get him to a training session at London Colney – I bet he’d say yes!
6) Pray.

Good luck.

Well it’s simple really. You have two options.

1. Disown him. You have two other sons – that plenty.
2. Send him to China or Guantanamo in Cuba – they have methods of changing people’s minds for them.

Good luck – and up the ‘Orns.

I call this bad parenting indeed – had you forced them to every Watford fixture and beaten them sufficiently when they were younger then this would not be an issue. Although aged just six at the time, I remember clearly my fathers wrath when a good natured (but scouse) uncle cheekily sent me an Everton shirt one christmas, garments weren’t flame-proof in those days so it didn’t survive long in the fire.

Be warned any young parents out there, it is your duty.

Let’s hope he doesn’t turn out to be gay as well! Only joking. As a fellow watford fan, I can only say he is missing out! No, really. To share in both Watford’s triumph and misery makes those good times even more sweet. Man U fans don’t understand losing, so cannot fully appreciate winning. Existing in a bubble where failure to win the champions league is ‘failure’ is not living. Supporting a team via watching sky, is no real experience. Try running onto the field after Man U win the champions league final to mob the players and stick a few strands of grass in your wallet! Not going to happen, especially when the game is being played 2000 miles away in Moscow and the likelihood of getting a ticket is less than zero.

My heart felt condolences go out to you and the three members of your family at this most difficult of times.

I think that to be a true football fan you either have to have lived locally and supported the club as your local team or have moved to the area and then got into football and adopted the local team. I too am a Watford fan and would have it no other way. Watching Man U or any of the other top teams means that your low point is not winning the league or getting knocked out of the Champions League at the quarter final stage, for a WFC fan it can be losing 3-0 at home to Barnsley on a cold Tuesday night! To have this “grounding”, this level of expectation so much lower is what makes supporting a smaller club so special. It’s not that I despise or smirk at “supporters” of the big teams, especially if the person in question IS local or does go & watch them every week, but I think too many kids see who is winning and THAT is their team – surely this is just because they want to be associated with winners – and judging by the national teams level of success in recent years, you can kind of understand it. Come on kids, get behind your local team, you can go every week, smile when you edge past Scunthorpe 1-0 (reverse score at the end of last season by the way) like you just won the champions league and proudly wear your shirt while all the glory hunters watch “their team” play on TV every Sunday afternoon and say “Didn’t WE play well last night”…. Shame on you all 🙂

Just point out he is a football FAN and not a football SUPPORTER – that’s usually enough to rile any Man Yoo ‘fan’ who’s never even been to Old Trafford, much less have any kind of connection with the region.

What? Terrible joke -_-

What MU has that Watford dont? Well, you answered that pretty much yourself:

“Manchester United have won six Premier League titles, two FA Cups, one League Cup, two Champions League’s, two Community Shields and one Word Club championship” – and everything that follows those titles.

Why is it a shame, to support a better team than Watford? You need to get over your egosim.

ur a terrible parent

ur a terrible parent

What MU has that Watford dont? Well, you answered that pretty much yourself:

“Manchester United have won six Premier League titles, two FA Cups, one League Cup, two Champions League’s, two Community Shields and one Word Club championship” – and everything that follows those titles.

Why is it a shame, to support a better team than Watford? You need to get over your egosim.

What? Terrible joke -_-

Just point out he is a football FAN and not a football SUPPORTER – that’s usually enough to rile any Man Yoo ‘fan’ who’s never even been to Old Trafford, much less have any kind of connection with the region.

I think that to be a true football fan you either have to have lived locally and supported the club as your local team or have moved to the area and then got into football and adopted the local team. I too am a Watford fan and would have it no other way. Watching Man U or any of the other top teams means that your low point is not winning the league or getting knocked out of the Champions League at the quarter final stage, for a WFC fan it can be losing 3-0 at home to Barnsley on a cold Tuesday night! To have this “grounding”, this level of expectation so much lower is what makes supporting a smaller club so special. It’s not that I despise or smirk at “supporters” of the big teams, especially if the person in question IS local or does go & watch them every week, but I think too many kids see who is winning and THAT is their team – surely this is just because they want to be associated with winners – and judging by the national teams level of success in recent years, you can kind of understand it. Come on kids, get behind your local team, you can go every week, smile when you edge past Scunthorpe 1-0 (reverse score at the end of last season by the way) like you just won the champions league and proudly wear your shirt while all the glory hunters watch “their team” play on TV every Sunday afternoon and say “Didn’t WE play well last night”…. Shame on you all 🙂

Let’s hope he doesn’t turn out to be gay as well! Only joking. As a fellow watford fan, I can only say he is missing out! No, really. To share in both Watford’s triumph and misery makes those good times even more sweet. Man U fans don’t understand losing, so cannot fully appreciate winning. Existing in a bubble where failure to win the champions league is ‘failure’ is not living. Supporting a team via watching sky, is no real experience. Try running onto the field after Man U win the champions league final to mob the players and stick a few strands of grass in your wallet! Not going to happen, especially when the game is being played 2000 miles away in Moscow and the likelihood of getting a ticket is less than zero.

My heart felt condolences go out to you and the three members of your family at this most difficult of times.

I call this bad parenting indeed – had you forced them to every Watford fixture and beaten them sufficiently when they were younger then this would not be an issue. Although aged just six at the time, I remember clearly my fathers wrath when a good natured (but scouse) uncle cheekily sent me an Everton shirt one christmas, garments weren’t flame-proof in those days so it didn’t survive long in the fire.

Be warned any young parents out there, it is your duty.

Well it’s simple really. You have two options.

1. Disown him. You have two other sons – that plenty.
2. Send him to China or Guantanamo in Cuba – they have methods of changing people’s minds for them.

Good luck – and up the ‘Orns.

As a Watford season ticket holder living in Poole I sympathise as like you I have no reason to connect my kids to Vicarage Road. My Son isn’t interested in footy, but my solution was to buy my daughter a season ticket. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Each time we go to the Vic I point out that she sits less than 100 yards from where she was born, and we often get to Watford early to take her through The Harlequin to buy something.

However, and seriously this time round, my daughter is 17 and the best quality time I spend with her is when we both go to see the Golden Boys. Its a whole day together in the midst of exams, boyfriend and parties.

Try the following
1) Hypnotism.
2) Bribery (as my solution)
3) Remind him that Man Utd supoporters are like rats – you are never more than 10 meters from one!
4) Have the chat with him about identity, and being his own man, and not following the crowd.
5) Write to Aidy and get him to a training session at London Colney – I bet he’d say yes!
6) Pray.

Good luck.

That’s a tough one and im sorry to hear that your youngest has fallen into the wrong crowd.
Im afraid I think you might have left it too late to change his mind… this is something you really should have been doing at a much younger age.
Why dont you compromise with him and settle for Watford to be his “second” team (cos all prem fans like to watch real football occassionally)
THEN… take him to a game or two (“well im going and seeing as theyr’e your second team why dont you come along”)
Follow this up with a spot of bribery………
Ensure that he never gets the opportunity to go to old traffic (the theatre of silence)
Disconnect your tv / sky whatever when United are on the box and slowly but surely keep feeding him with stuff about the mighty horns.
Get him interested in the latest gossip such as whether Lloyd will ever score a goal or watching lewis youngs rise to fame…..
Theres lots you can do mate…. luckily for me, my daughter (whos 6) hasnt been given a choice. I made it clear roughly 30 seconds after she started breathing by whispering in her ear “Hi there, im your dad and you are a Watford fan”
which seems to have worked… better still her Grandads a united fan and is absolutely gutted when my daughter tells him she’s Watford and “Who are Manchester United?” Bless her
Good luck.

You should tell people that you only have two sons, or go on a vacation to someplace that the boys would like but don’t include the Manchester United supporter. I’m an Arsenal fan, and if my yet to be born son turns out to be a Man Utd fan, he’ll be banned from watching football. Give him a better choice than Watford, just make sure its not Man Utd or Chelsea.

Well there are lots and lots of things and it will take a whole day to write everything but firstly Watford should do what manchester united did in 1999 to start any discussion on this topic.

Watford should do same as below:

Giggs scoring the greatest FA cup goal against the Arsenal in Semis and united winning with just 10 man. In the same match Beckham also scored a great goal and heroic penalty save from Schmeichel.

2 classic 3 -3 draws with Barcelona in CL…Unbelievable games.

United coming back from 2-0 behind in semis of UEFA semi final at Old lady to win 3-2(on italian terrirtory) ….who says liverpool comeback is the best ever in UEFA CL..

United winning the league on the last day…

finally United scoring twice in injury time against Bayern in CL final to comeback from 1-0 behind …one of the greatest experience of my life.

What’s Does Manchester United have that watford doesn’t??? WHERE DO WE START Man Utd have Cristano ronaldo Carlos Tevez Wayne Rooney. And all those cups the UEFA cup FA cup FIFA Cup FIFA International cup The Barclay’s Premier League SIX times!!

Who needs Wayne Rooney, we’ve got Lloyd Doyley. Who needs Wayne Rooney, we’ve got Lloyd Doyley.

In reply to Khalid: ‘the greatest experience of your life… sitting on a sofa’

Your greatest shag might as well be you and your own hand whist watching a porno! I suppose it is the difference between finding a nice girl and enjoying some intimacy, or continually fantasizing about a girl who is well out of your league whist continually buying her gifts in the hope she might let you spend time with her.

you tell him tommy…. 🙂

Well, first off, I agree that United has lots of poser-fans, but that doesn’t change the fact that it also has a loyal supporter-base! I’m from Norway, I’m 23 tears old, and I’ve been a United supporter since I was a little kid… I started liking them because of their playing style, they are always on the offense and playing entertaining football…

I’m so tired of hearing jealous supporters of other clubs going on and on about United being a rich successful club, and that it doesn’t deserve to be… I can understand that it can feel unfair that a club has a lot of money and is successful, while the club you support has a tight budget, and struggles to succeed… The difference between United and Watford I think is a man called Sir Alex Ferguson… He has made United the successful club it is today… Maybe with the right management, Watford could be a succesful team to! But it has to be done from the ground up, like SAF did, not like Chelsea wich has bought their way to success…

Why can’t you just consentrate on your club,instead of being jealous of another?

And to answer your question; If he really likes United, then let him! At least it’s a club wich hasn’t “cheated” like Chelsea, or being a bunch of crybabies like Liverpool… 😛 If you suspect he’s just a poser, then I agree with you that he shouldn’t be a United supporter… I hate posers in football as mush as I do in music… 😛

I fully agree with Mathis Borgen. And jealousy shines through here.

Although, I live in a Nordic country, I’ve been to OT 17 times and at Wembley for 2 MU FA CUP finals. I’m 29 years old and I’ve supported Man Utd since I can remember… age of 6-7 – this because of my father.

I saw 36 of 37 PL matches on SKY (ya, I have a “illeagal” SKY+ subscription :P), and 1 match (Man Utd vs. Liverpool) at OT. I value MU over my local team. I have no other connection to the region, I have no aunt, no long lost onkel.

Its total BS to be forced to support your local team, and that mindset is… foolish.

To he*l with posers, and also jealousy.

And scr*w my English grammar! 🙂

In Sweden we have the greatest band – ABBA, the greatest boy-band A-HA, and the best porno. We sure as goodness know what we are talking with football. Manchester are the bestest by far, and bestest that Wotfard. They play best football and have best players. Also Red is better than yellow. I watch Manchester when Inga lets me, but in the winter there is no sun so I have nothing else to do excepting eating whales. Manchester make my sad life happy. Please donot upset Swedish Manchester fans. We will cry.

Yooooooooooooooooooooo Orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrns

You can’t say UK football fans have an interesting life, do you? Beer, fights and football – maybe get laid by a fat ulgy English woman once in a while?

/Portugal out

Ps. GO RONALDO!!! 🙂

surely the fact that u are his father should count a million times before football even enters the equation! how would you feel if he were to go around telling people that he had no father, before you got the chance to go around saying you only have two sons? u r basically forcing him to choose between man united and u, dont be surprised if it turns out to be that u the one who gets relegated! u surely deserve it! twit

Can i just say that i think this Guy might be joking! I’m sure he loves his son very much, and would not really mind if he chose to watch a team on TV rather than support a club. Those of you who are not appreciating his tongue in cheek humor, mainly seem to have foreign names and as such are probably not getting the reasonably subtle english humor involved.

In summary:

– Yes, Man Utd are much more successful than Watford. That was never in question you stupid, stupid people.

– Your (Man U fan’s) reaction to this, is only confirming your ignorance that this should directly equate to it being the ‘best/most rewarding’ club to support.

– No, he isn’t really going to disown his son (probably). ITS A JOKE.

– The Swedes don’t have a sense of humour

p.s. Great article

Some of you guys take this article too serious, and clearly if you have followed Graham’s editorials here on SoccerNews.com you will see there is a comical undertone to this piece. I’m sure he is not overly happy about his son being a United fan, but at the end of the day, I’m sure it matters very little to him and his family in the big scheme of things. Read it from a comical view and you will find this piece very entertaining…

I only wrote what I wrote to spark tension. Of course this guy was joking… so was I.

Nordic = Sweeden, Norway, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland and Finland.

GREAT Article!!!

There’s one thing English football has that African Local football hasn’t, “DIVERSITY”. In England, no one sticks to Liverpool, Chelsea , Arsenal or ManUtd just because they are the top 4 teams but because they love to support them. It gives me great joy when I remember how Fulham Fans supported their club with so much passion at the end of last season.

In Ghana, for instance, the two reigning clubs are the only clubs people concentrate on. That makes watching the local football very boring. It’s either Hearts or Kotoko.

In England, however, each team has got people who back them. It makes it much more competitive.

I am a Man U fan and I say,’ Keep supporting your respective teams coz u love to not bcoz everyone loves them”.