How Fulham is perceived

Discussion in 'Fulham FC News and Notes' started by tim, Sep 24, 2013.

  1. tim

    tim Active Member

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    ESPN's Roger Bennet teamed up with Brand Tags to conduct an experiment...basically looking for knee-jerk reactions to the different Premier League clubs (his column explaining it all is here: http://espnfc.com/blog/_/name/relegationzone/id/1365?cc=5901)

    They set up http://www.FootyTags.com and let it loose on the world.

    Here's our page: http://www.footytags.com/teams/7

    Among my favorite terms to show up prominently: old, poor, quaint, simple, small, who?, and my personal favorite, meh.

    Take a look; yes there are some more positive terms in there too.
     
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    tim, Sep 24, 2013
  2. Clevelandmo

    Clevelandmo Active Member

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    I laughed at "clothing line club"
     
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    Is it bad that the first thing my eyes were drawn to was "chelsea's bitch"?
     
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  4. SteveFakeBlood

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    My eyes got drawn to a lot of "America", "Americans" and "Dempsey"'s... then again, I think that was actual Fulham fan backlash against all the negative terms. I like how we still have such a great association with American soccer even though we haven't had an American player on the first team in over a year. At a Ft. Lauderdale Strikers match, I had an English ex-pat from Newcastle actually laugh at my Fulham shirt, he was actually a nice guy just having a laugh- but he respected it more when I mentioned I had studied abroad in West London and at that point McBride and Bocanegra were fixtures of the starting 11.

    ~ Steve
     
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    SteveFakeBlood, Sep 26, 2013
  5. dcheather

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    Yeah, it can be annoying at times to wear Fulham shirts around town and get scoffed at by those who actually know who Fulham are--that's about the only time I wish Fulham were a "bigger" side. But, than again, I scoff and frown when I see Barca and Real Madrid shirts by kids who couldn't even point to Spain on a map. If they were to tell me the lived in the areas of where the team play, I would find that much more respectable. I guess the scoffing goes both ways with "big" vs. "small."
     
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  6. AggieMatt

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    Should have told him putting on a hundred pounds and going shirtless didn't appeal to you, so that ruled out supporting the Toon.
     
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