Which Club has the Best Support in the Premier League?

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  • dorithian - 16 years ago

    p.s. sunderland was probably the loudest team at spurs last season, considering they lost 2-0 they still kept singing untill the end.

  • dorithian - 16 years ago

    For those of you who say that this only proves how many fans a team has on this site, you're probably just upset that ur teams home ground is a library.
    Chelsea is currently last, with teams like arsenal having only 1% and man u with 2%. man united are the most supported team in the world, with arsenal and chelsea both attracting huge home crowds. this proves that people are NOT just voting for their team.
    also, in the last report on loudest fans in the prem, that was atchually measured in decibels, sunderland and spurs came 1st and 2nd, look who is the top 2 in this poll ... no coinsedence lads.

  • SAFC - 16 years ago

    Go on google, type in loudiest fans in england, 1st website double click, wait for it to load and who wins.... SUNDERLAND AFC, we have the loudest fans, doesn't mean the best but proves that we are louder than any other club in england:) We have amazing fans, home and away, win lose or draw... we never shut up, every time we go a goal behind at the stadium of light, all you hear from the south west corner is singing striaght away. OUTSTANDING. The person who said boro have best fans is on DRUGS. the ground half full your away support is crap, when we beat you 3-2 last season and i was at the barrier shouting at you kiddy fiddlers your fans where like so what who cares... Joke CLub.... :)

  • scoreywitt - 16 years ago

    I agree 100% with Ian Q,
    i,m also a baggies fan and have to say that we are so passionate at our games be it winning losing or drawing, theres almost as much entertainment from us in the stands as there is from the pitch!!
    i know theres other clubs with bigger grounds hence more fans but you never hear them unless the teams winning!!!!
    and which other clubs hold a party at the final game of the season like we do (regardless of where weve finished )?
    Sod the prawn sarnies & all that nonsense! give us an horseshit sandwich & a cushion to sit on and were happy as pigs in muck, cuz we,re more interested in supporting our team to the max & having fun at games.

  • Ian Q - 16 years ago

    As of now the Baggies are 7th - I'll settle for that this seasn ;-)
    Truth is with many of the 'big' clubs, whilst they do have a passionate band of true supporters, these people often can't get tickets for games & can't take their kids. Selling a million shirts in the far east may be good business but it's not a real investment in the future.
    Some of us were born to a club, be it Exeter or Liverpool, those that choose a club because they're having a good spell will fade away. It's the former that are the real fans, loose them & the game will disappear when the next fad comes along.
    Me, I'm raising 5th generation Baggies & we're going to have a good year - win or loose.
    Boing Boing

  • Nick - 16 years ago

    I agree with Ged. This pole proves nothing....except that Spurs still have the most dilluded fans in the prem!

  • joetoon - 16 years ago

    Gringo get it off ya chest ffs. Roker roar or fcukin jabber jaw.
    No disputin ya huge following, behind that of the toon but best not to include such things as ''statement was made by Journalist'' if you want any credability.lol
    Next time limit your comments to 20 000 words it was like reading a fcukin novel a catherine cookson at that.lol
    Should be a good season with both of our teams with the managers we want and both with stronger sides to last season.
    Oh aye for the boro supporters look up what a fcukin derby is. the term derby stems from l/pool and everton and the land owned that divided the two grounds owned by lord derby. with nufc and the mackems it stems back to the english civil war so how the fcuk can a team 60mls away be a derby?
    Why not try Leeds utd, or is it because their support even in the lower leagues dwarfs yours

  • Gringo - 16 years ago

    Continued: Statistics can't tell the story of the Roker Roar but finally think on this:

    In both 1991 and 1997 Sunderland took over 15,000 supporters to Manchester City and Wimbledon on the final day of the season to witness their team relegated. The game at Maine Road saw a higher crowd than that of the Manchester derby. Whilst there were expected tears from the rank and file from Wearside, many City fans openly wept with them, the sign of a devotion recognised by fellow "loyals".

    By 1998 Sunderland had won 1 domestic trophy in 60 years. They had suffered third division football, 3 trips to Wembley in which they failed to score a solitary goal, and had not been in the top half of the top flight for 40 years. The Club had been relegated 7 times in that period. A whole generation had grown up on a diet of, at best, mediocrity. In terms of what should be parallel clubs e.g. Arsenal, Aston Villa and Liverpool the transfer outlay was insignificant, a lack of "stars" evident.

    Playing Reading on a Tuesday night in February they attracted over 40,000 to what was a Nationwide "second division game". Can someone please tell me what other Club in British, perhaps world football, could emulate that feat, having endured so much?

    The words "I'm thinking hard" and "none" spring to mind. We haven't won a trophy since 1973, we have beaten the all time lowest point record twice and still the fans go back in their droves! You'd think there's only so much a set of fans can go through. But Sunderland fans continue to go back.

  • Gringo - 16 years ago

    continued: Every Club thinks that their fans are special, and rightly so, but some, including the famed Roker Roar can quite literally change the course of a game. The atmosphere generated by the Roker Roar, can at times be so intimidating that opposing teams and supporters alike have quite simply capitulated. It shouldn't be regarded as a weakness on the part of our foe, just inevitability. Many have gone before you.

    Danny Blanchflower once said that having travelled the world the Roker Roar was the most awesome display of support he had ever seen. The majestic and brilliant Irishman knew what he was talking about.

    The Roker Roar is the "secret" of Sunderland AFC, and why one day we will rediscover what past generations have raved about. Wearside is no place for the faint hearted. Shrinking violets need not apply to join our massed ranks.

    When success happens you can be sure that the Roker Roar will have been with the Club every step of the way, and whatever success is achieved, can only be dedicated to the loyal men and women, some of whom have quite literally given their life, in service to what they consider to be an Institution.

    However, as we have already stated, the story of the Roker Roar is not of individuals, although many noted fans became legend. It is the story of a travelling band of "footballing nomads" bound together by a cause that only they can understand.

    Sunderland AFC realise what they have, and know that frustrating as they can sometimes be, without them, we might as well all pack up and go home.

  • Gringo - 16 years ago

    Sunderland without a doubt!

    Boro haha, you're having a laugh!

    Read this:

    A football club is nothing without its fans. Sunderland AFC are fortunate to have some of the most loyal fans in football. In the build up to the 1996/97 season the following statement was made by Journalist Paul Wilson of The Observer.

    "Amid all the hype and hysteria, it might have gone unnoticed that Sunderland are up too, but this will be put to right once Roker's red-and-white hordes begin their travels through the Premiership. Contrary to popular myth, the Geordies of Newcastle are not the most fanatically exuberant followers in British football; that honour belongs to their Sunderland rivals, the Mackems. Whether disdaining the option of sitting down for the entire duration of matches, standing bare-chested throughout the coldest January afternoon (I'm talking male fans here - Wearsiders are not that exuberant), or collectively ignoring the evidence of their eyes and acclaiming their team as the greatest the world has ever seen, Sunderland followers are in a class of their own."

    Paul Wilson - The Observer – August 1996

    Following that article I tried to build upon it and capture what it feels like and what it is to be a supporter of Sunderland AFC. This was the offering:

    Whilst Sunderland had many venues before settling at Roker Park in 1898, the ground was made famous, and became synonymous with vocal support due to the passion with which the fans, traditionally miners and those from County Durham, displayed.

    The hardship endured by the supporters in the shipyards and collieries during the working week meant that the release of Roker Park, turned backing the Club into a partisanship that has often led to violent incident. Like any passion it can sometimes generate white hot vitriol.

    The North East is a hard area, one where traditionally it often boiled down to survival of the fittest. The supporters of Sunderland AFC do not suffer fools gladly, and to paraphrase Frank Sinatra, "if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere".

    To many, perhaps the overwhelming majority, supporting of the red and whites is of almost religious significance, and the oft heard saying "keep the faith" is nothing blasé or crass. Unlike Glasgow however, the sectarian divide never played a part. The religion derives not from a "community" but an "intangible thing". A memory, a story, an instinctive family birthright, an emotion. Although of different origin from Rangers or Celtic, it leads to the same intense devotion. It has been said that Sunderland are the Bhoys or Gers of English football. Praise indeed to be compared with such football fanatics.

    Perhaps it is no co-incidence that the Roker Roar supports with such emotion a Club founded by a Scotsman, arriving from Glasgow (via Ayr).

    Whilst supporting a football team is a personal thing, to be a member of the Roker Roar, is a selfless act. It is a contradiction which cant be explained. If you aren't a member willing to help your fellow Sunderland fan, then you betray the forefathers who went before you. Many acts within supporters' branches throughout the world have amply demonstrated a willingness to put group benefit before individual profit. No pain, no gain, as they say.

    If something is of importance to you then the downs are cherished almost as much as the ups. In search for the Holy Grail, it is the historical significance of the club, and the past glories it has witnessed that drives many of the fans forever onwards, with tales from their Grandfathers and fathers, whetting the footballing appetite.

    The Roker Roar is demanding, but in truth would the club have it any other way? At the end of the day it is evident that if something is so worthwhile to so many people then the hard times will be endured, so that the good times, when they come can be enjoyed, so very, very much.

    Every Club thinks that their fans are special, and rightly so, but some, includ

  • JoeToon - 16 years ago

    Andy must be a boro supporter with his comment of:
    'Without being biased at all i would say portsmouth middlesbrough and everton are the best over recent seasons. liverpool on euro nights.'
    Are you for real forget all the other clubs lets just look at boro. You put their shower of sh^te ahead of both n/cle and the mackems. Put ya kid and the glue down and tell me how the kiddy fiddlers who can't even fill their own stadium can even compare themselfs to clubs who have bigger and noisier away support than they have in the smog.
    At least the other two teams you could open a reasonable debate ffs.

  • Paul - 16 years ago

    Don't agree Ged. I've always thought Spurs have the best support and this poll seems to confirm it. If there are loads of Spurs voting then that tells you something and perhaps neutrals and fans of other clubs think the same.
    A full-house (36,000) for a pre-season friendly last Sunday against AS Roma and they weren't lacking any passion or vocal support either.

  • Andy - 16 years ago

    Without being biased at all i would say portsmouth middlesbrough and everton are the best over recent seasons. liverpool on euro nights.

  • Ged - 16 years ago

    The "winnner" of this poll will be the club that has the most fans on-line doing it. Everyone will vote for their own club's fans as being the best. What I can say is that whatever the "result" here some the fans of some clubs can clearly be ruled out. Seriously, those of LFC, MU, Chelsea, Fulham, Wigan, Blackburn and Bolton cannot be considered. I have been to all those grounds and the general support there is shocking. LFC is good on "European nights" but often a funeral parlour at other times. MU fans are noisy away from home but dire at OT. Chelsea... well...

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