A number of my work colleagues reply when i state i follow Barnsley ask.....

What division do they play in then? first or second? does my fookin nut in as most of them are uneducated about any football other than the premiership, and most of them follow clubs from that league nowhere near their hometowns.
Of course i correct them and make a point of saying we are the longest serving club in the second tier of english footy, now known as the Championship, by a county mile and thats where historically we play our footy.
Unfortunately when they ask me this time next year this very same question, i'll be saying, yes pal, division 1

Well i will if we continue with flickers folly much longer!

 

Agree, I work in Leeds and was talking to one of the lads about our game v Leeds in a few weeks time & one of the other lads pipes up is that in the cup, err no we play in the same division you clown.

 

I have a customer born, bred and based in Devon who is an avid supporter of Liverpool, such an avid fan that he has been to Anfield twice in the forty odd years he has been on this earth. One of our first football conversations when like this...

Him: Who do you support then, I bet your a Wednesday or Leeds fan?
Me: Er no I support Barnsley.
Him: Oh right, didn't they beat Exeter last season?
Me: No we're not in the same league as them.
Him: What league are you in then?
Me: The championship (in my head I called him a dick at this point)
Him: Do you play Farsley in the league?

It was surreal to be having this kind of conversation with a football fan of forty odd years.

 

I don't believe you were speaking to a football fan. As you said Dick was nearer to the point.

BTW What gets on my thruppeny bits is when people don't know that there are two teams from Dundee and continually insist on calling United, Dundee.

 

A minor victory can be won by demonstrating an uncyclopaedic lack of knowledge of anything to do with the Premiership. If by some misfortune you actually follow the Prem then you'll have to affect this but I find by not doing so I am able to be genuinely annoying by knowing more about Grimsby, say, than I do about Liverpool, Man Utd, etc. It confuses them no end.

 

Spot on. Subsequent conversations with him have confirmed he not only knows bugger all about Football but he knows bugger all about Liverpool either. You wouldn't believe the conversation we had about Ian Rush and Alan Kennedy.

 

Remember back in 95 we'd just finished 6th and a Burnley fan didn't know what league we were in. We'd played them twice that year!

Perhaps it's all part of Mansford plan to get noticed. After all they get names wrong in the media even or use old badges

 

I like it when people on TV refer to Wednesday as 'Sheffield' because I know it gets right on their tits.

 

I find it hard to believe that Tom Kennedy is related to Alan.

 

His uncle. My boss at work is good mates with Tom's dad.

 

Tongue in cheek maybe?

 

I thought it was Nigel.

 

You would have thought so with this conversation in isolation but this was months ago and we've spoken several times since and despite my best efforts to avoid football he always brings it up and he has left me in no doubt that he is a bit of a ****-wit where the beautiful game is concerned.

He thought that Nottingham Forest were in the premier league and thought I was 'pulling his chain' when I told him we played Chelsea and Aston Villa in league games (not in the premier league) in the 80's.