# Greatest football fans.. **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 3, 2010, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-football-fans/545414 "2010-07-03T12:04:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-football-fans/545414/1 "2010-07-03T12:04:13Z")
… mexicans in the 1986 world cup for producing the awesome “mexican wave”. Incosiderate football fans … South Africans for spoiling the game for millions around the world with f\*\*\*\*\*\* vuvuzelas. Vuvuzelas may be part of your culture, so you should have kept your culture to your domestic events, not in an ineternational event of this reach especially after the global outcry against it. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-football-fans/545414/2 "2010-07-03T12:32:59Z")
Ask other football fans who the best fans are, and the honest and knowledgeable ones will always give this mob a mention. [FC United](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vULEMH6H8DI&feature=related) [His name is Michael Glazer, he thinks he’s rather flash…](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PczHseE97Ws&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![mascaroni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-football-fans/545414/3 "2010-07-03T13:43:40Z")
> [@ivan\_astikov](#): > > Ask other football fans who the best fans are, and the honest and knowledgeable ones will always give this mob a mention. > > [FC United](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vULEMH6H8DI&feature=related) > > [His name is Michael Glazer, he thinks he’s rather flash…](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PczHseE97Ws&feature=related) “We paid for your hats, we paid for your ha- a- hats with our council tax” My second favourite non-league team after the Shaymen. ---
**Author:** ![mascaroni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-football-fans/545414/4 "2010-07-03T14:54:05Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/PCXHbCYvzjI/hqdefault.jpg "''What a waste of council tax, we paid for your hats!''") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCXHbCYvzjI) ---
**Author:** ![mascaroni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-football-fans/545414/5 "2010-07-03T17:04:02Z")
> [@indian](#): > > .. mexicans in the 1986 world cup for producing the awesome “mexican wave”. > Incosiderate football fans .. > > South Africans for spoiling the game for millions around the world with f\*\*\*\*\*\* vuvuzelas. > > Vuvuzelas may be part of your culture, so you should have kept your culture to your domestic events, not in an ineternational event of this reach especially after the global outcry against it. > ☹ The “Mexican Wave” was first broadcast to the world at the L.A. Olympics in 1994. No cites, but I’m pretty sure it ws developed in U.S. college football in the preceding years. I can’t say I’m a big fan of the vuvuzela, but it’s what they like to do in their home country. Would you take offence if you heard “You’ll Never Walk Alone” at Anfield… or “Z Cars” over the park… or that rude Michael Jackson song that they sing at the Boleyn Ground? ---
**Author:** ![blindboyard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindboyard/32/2833_2.png) [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-football-fans/545414/6 "2010-07-03T18:38:20Z")
This bunch: [AFC Wimbledon.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFC_Wimbledon). Refounded their club when it betrayed them, right down at the bottom of the pyramid. Sort of like FC United if FC United was better. Managed to get higher attendances than the original club for a bit, when it was taking 2000 away fans to grounds that normally only got 50 home fans. After seven seasons, mostly in the depths of non-league pyramid football they’ve never had an average home attendance below 2,500 and are now up into the Conference National. ---
**Author:** ![Busy\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@Busy\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Busy_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-football-fans/545414/7 "2010-07-03T20:09:25Z")
> [@mascaroni](#): > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCXHbCYvzjI&feature=related](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCXHbCYvzjI&feature=related) FC United appear to have the most middle class support in England. Using the word ‘distraught’ in a terrace chant 😛 Do they get their own radio 4 slot? Still, FC Utd was / is an impressive effort. If only for contrast with Liverpool’s initiial supine response to their takeover. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-football-fans/545414/8 "2010-07-03T20:39:06Z")
> [@blindboyard](#): > > This bunch: [AFC Wimbledon.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFC_Wimbledon). Refounded their club when it betrayed them, right down at the bottom of the pyramid. Sort of like FC United if FC United was better. Managed to get higher attendances than the original club for a bit, when it was taking 2000 away fans to grounds that normally only got 50 home fans. After seven seasons, mostly in the depths of non-league pyramid football they’ve never had an average home attendance below 2,500 and are now up into the Conference National. ^^^ This lot. Real life Champ/Football Manager. ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-football-fans/545414/9 "2010-07-04T07:05:50Z")
**[_QUOTE=mascaroni;12646007]The “Mexican Wave” was first broadcast to the world at the L.A. Olympics in 1994. No cites, but I’m pretty sure it ws developed in U.S. college football in the preceding years._** If my memory serves me right , I saw the wave in in 1986 world cup. \* **I can’t say I’m a big fan of the vuvuzela, but it’s what they like to do in their home country.\*☹** They can do whatever they want in their homecountry. But not when their country is hosting an international event , and when fans from all over the world are complaining. They want to showcase the new South Africa, dont do it by irritating billions of fans around the world. \*\*\*Would you take offence if you heard “You’ll Never Walk Alone” at Anfield… or “Z Cars” over the park… or that rude Michael Jackson song that they sing at the Boleyn Ground? [/QUOTE] * * * In no football game I have seen, the crowd behaved in such fashion. Those songs are not sung loud enogh throughout the game to irritate the viewers . And again songs do not produce a vuvuzela noise. FIFA lacks the balls to ban Vuvuzela . . ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-football-fans/545414/10 "2010-07-04T08:16:09Z")
[North Korea’s only real fan](http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jun/14/world-cup-2010-north-korea). Bless him. ---
**Author:** ![mascaroni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-football-fans/545414/11 "2010-07-04T09:40:58Z")
**Indian** … a typo, the L.A. Olympics were in 1984, rather than 1994… it was as a result of me drinking too much beer or my computer behaving badly. I’ll leave you to decide… ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-football-fans/545414/12 "2010-07-04T10:16:37Z")
> [@mascaroni](#): > > **Indian** … a typo, the L.A. Olympics were in 1984, rather than 1994… it was as a result of me drinking too much beer or my computer behaving badly. I’ll leave you to decide… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-football-fans/545414/13 "2010-07-08T19:17:00Z")
[FC United’s rendition of “Under The Boardwalk” - (starts at 40 secs.)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3c3Gal5Nyk) You need to have a good sense of humour to be a true footy fan, especially if your team is always losing.