The Football Thread

[jucklesjenk]

I haven't seen a thread up about football yet (soccer, not American Football) so I've decided to post one.

Anyone who's interested can post who they support and any interesting comments or discussions they have to offer about recent footballing events.

I will begin:

I'm a huge fan of Leeds United. I don't know if any of you from Europe have heard of us, but we're a very big name here in England, most notably for our recent 'fall from grace'. We were also famous in the late 60s and early 70s for having arguably one of the greatest ever football sides.
10 years ago we made it to the Champions League Semi-Final to get knocked out by Valencia (our Champions League adventure). Since then we have been relegated twice, reached play-offs four times and finally acheived promotion to the npower Championship on the last day of the 09/10 Season, a journey that even took us to beating Manchester United 1-0 at Old Trafford.

We are now sitting comfortably in the play-off spots in the Championship and are looking for a back-to-back promotion back up to the Premier League.

Just less than one hour ago we drew 1-1 with Arsenal in the FA Cup with Fabregas levelling for them 5 minutes from time in a thrilling game.


I'd like to read what the rest of you guys think, who you support and what's happening with your favourite football teams.

Please post