I always love football growing up but the culture isn’t really here for it. I would still watch a few matches here and there, then I got turned onto Ted Lasso (laugh if you want). It reignited my interest in football and the Premier League.

I have watched a few matches, can’t really go to the games because of where I live but I always seem to cheer on the same 4 teams and I feel like an impostor coming back decades later and not having my own team.

So I guess I’m looking for who I can call my home team and have the others as a “if you win or lose it doesn’t matter” attitude

These are the four teams I keep going back to;

  1. Crystal Palace
  2. Arsenal
  3. Man United
  4. Barcelona

Any advice?

  • slightlymedicated@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Soccer is the fastest growing sport in America. Don’t limit yourself to just a prem team. Pickup an MLS team, a USL team, whatever! There is a culture.

    With that said, Arsenal is the only correct answer.

  • BromleyReject@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    If your choice of team hasn’t already been decided by fate or some family / place of birth connection, simply write down all the names of all the teams in the EFL /EPL on bits of paper (if you really want to be a football hipster, include the National League) take a pin, get a mate to blindfold you and go for it.

  • puppup2323@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You should go for which team has the abbreviation that suits you best. CP I hope not. Arse nothing wrong with that. Man if that’s what you are into. Barce boring.

    So why not go for two teams you double the chance of winning.so from now on you are a huge fan of …Manarse.

  • ArtieFoucault@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago
    • Crystal Palace is a working class team which currently has a few very good young players. I respect them, but if you’re going to choose them as your team get ready for a very unattractive brand of football (at least for now) and a fight against relegation every season.
    • Arsenal has been my team since I was five years old. We’ve been avergae and sometimes plain bad for the best part of 20 years now, but the last three seasons have been huge steps in the right direction. Attractive and attacking football are an essential part of the identity of Arsenal since the mid 90s and we currently have a very likeable group of young, very good players. It’s a great time to be a fan.
    • Manchester United are like the Boston Celtics of the premier league, but their history is much more recent and is still relevant despite how bad they’ve been for 10 years now. Great team with a huge fanbase around the world and they are bound to come back from where they’ve been for a while now, which is something we’ve been saying a lot for a few years but their organisation is just very bad despite the recources they have, still, they’re too big of a club with too much money to find themselves out of the top six for a long period of time.
    • Barcelona would’ve been a great choice in the mid 2000s or the early 2010s but currently they’re a shadow of what they were even if they are run a little bit more competently than a couple of years ago and they’re winning domestic titles. Great club that used to have the identity of the most beautiful and attractive style of play (for me at least) but they’ve become more pragmatic in the last few years.