I thought today was a decent atmosphere once the game caught to life second half.
When they started to sing “Your f***** s***” after they scored l thought to myself you might live to regret that. And sure enough when Carey hit that beautiful free kick Argyle fans sang it back to them.
It was all rather simplistic banter but it seems passions cant help run high between the two sets of fans. Unfortunately, banter to some means they lose control and it’s abit sad to see the baiting for a fight.
Yet the atmosphere created is because of this fierce rivalry between the two “Dockyard” cities. It makes me wonder if Southampton had been in the lower leagues and we played them as many times in recent years as we have Portsmouth, would there be as fierce a rivalry? Or was it just because of the high intensity games we had against them when both teams were going for promotion?
Apart from your “derby” games (and as I go as far as Bristol because if the lack of south west league football clubs), do Argyle have any other rivalries as passionate as say the one today due to intensity of previous matches.
Burnley in the 90’s would of been one given the set of circumstances we played them under. However, it’s been so long now l think that rivalry would of been and gone given both clubs achievements since 2000.
This is not so much, who do you hate as a club, but more can you think of another rivalry between Argyle and another club which you feel passionate about due to how certain matches played out between the two sides.
For example, Wycombe. Not many like Ainsworth or his style. Yet more so the rivalry you could say has been built by those two playoff games in two years (under Sheridan and Adams). One year they knocked us out in the semi final. Then obviously the final defeat followed. (Sorry as corrected that was Wimbledon..brain meltdown) This year it feels like the two games against them have been intense.
Are there others you can think of?
When they started to sing “Your f***** s***” after they scored l thought to myself you might live to regret that. And sure enough when Carey hit that beautiful free kick Argyle fans sang it back to them.
It was all rather simplistic banter but it seems passions cant help run high between the two sets of fans. Unfortunately, banter to some means they lose control and it’s abit sad to see the baiting for a fight.
Yet the atmosphere created is because of this fierce rivalry between the two “Dockyard” cities. It makes me wonder if Southampton had been in the lower leagues and we played them as many times in recent years as we have Portsmouth, would there be as fierce a rivalry? Or was it just because of the high intensity games we had against them when both teams were going for promotion?
Apart from your “derby” games (and as I go as far as Bristol because if the lack of south west league football clubs), do Argyle have any other rivalries as passionate as say the one today due to intensity of previous matches.
Burnley in the 90’s would of been one given the set of circumstances we played them under. However, it’s been so long now l think that rivalry would of been and gone given both clubs achievements since 2000.
This is not so much, who do you hate as a club, but more can you think of another rivalry between Argyle and another club which you feel passionate about due to how certain matches played out between the two sides.
For example, Wycombe. Not many like Ainsworth or his style. Yet more so the rivalry you could say has been built by those two playoff games in two years (under Sheridan and Adams). One year they knocked us out in the semi final. Then obviously the final defeat followed. (Sorry as corrected that was Wimbledon..brain meltdown) This year it feels like the two games against them have been intense.
Are there others you can think of?