Why are we so hateful toward other teams? Even when those teams have little too no influence on our personal choice
.......I do it and have done it for years but some of the teams I disliked or hated have had me change my mind if only for short periods of time.

Teams or clubs I hated or teams I liked or have enjoyed watching.

Loved watching Liverpool.....not so much now.
Wanted Man Utd to win the Treble.......no way now!
Loved all the European cup wins in 70`s and more recent ones.
Never liked Birmingham City, Millwall..or Milans clubs.
Never wanted Brighton to do well......it would be like my little brother losing his virginity before me!
Like West Ham in the 70`s not now!
Liked Arsenal on and off for years.....when I did not like them I hated them.

Loved England games..........don`t watch them now until Finals then I go back to not watching again.

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I don't hate any team and find the concept rather silly. I'm sure that every team has it's idiot supporters including Palace and whilst one can dislike individuals I think it's daft to hate the whole club.

Brighton because its fun. Millwall because its fun. Charlton because I've been to Eltham.

I quite like the fact that Brighton is an entirely fabricated rivalry really, to make both clubs more 'interesting', it fits my love of the absurd.

Millwall, I think its more because a lot of other fans I know have to live in or around Millwall fans - So it makes sense. Its not really so much of an issue for me as I don't.

Growing up, I hated Liverpool and later Man Utd because of their fans around me, who had never even been to a football match, and would likely now all be Chelsea fans (and claim to have been all their lives). At my school, there were more Man Utd / Liverpool fans than Reading or Oxford.

Sunderland - When I was at University, my girlfriend spent a year at Sunderland, and I occasionally had to go and visit her (usually I'd pay for her ticket to come to me as the place was a f**king hole). F**king horrible blight on the face of humanity. People I knew at University who were from there, seriously considered being homeless to moving back.

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Personally I don't dislike any team, well the players anyway, now the fans that something else.

I like watching a good hearty match, a few goals then all the players shake hands and trot off to the dressing room for a well earned cup of tea and a jammy dodger.

Its some of the fans of the teams that I cannot stand .... with there shirts off in -20c weather, fat belly, bowl type hair cuts and a non shaven face.

Oh for jollier times, jumpers for goal posts, black boots and smile on the face of the managers.

But then again I did go to woodstock...

Enough of that shi** .. come you Palace and stuff the goners tonight.

That better now its out of my system.

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I sometimes think the "hate" thing for other teams is a fashion. People can be very sheep-like and tag on to the prevailing dislikes of any moment without any logical reasoning behind it.

What I do dislike ( hate is perhaps too stronger word) are some of the supporters of big clubs who have sense of entitlement and sneer at "smaller" clubs. That's why it is so enjoyable to beat the likes of Chelsea and Arsenal and rub their noses in their own smugness.

The Brighton thing is interesting. Although there had been some shenanigans before, it was really the 1976 FA cup 2nd replay at Stamford Bridge which was the catalyst for the rivalry. However, a lot of Palace fans aren't even aware of this, so their dislike of Brighton is just a case of following what has now become an ingrained tradition without any knowledge of its source. In fact for me it is Mullery who is the devil incarnate rather than Brighton.

Who could be so bone-headed that they get a season ticket and go to football matches week in week out despite having zero interest in or understanding of football but just because they've been told that it's a requirement for someone born into your part of society and you're supposed to be there because if you don't go you're a social outcast and a pariah and worse people might think you're a Protestant?

Answer: 90% of Celtic fans. And they're as dense as neutronium.

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