Who are the greatest fans in the world??

[sylvo]

St Pauli are my choice. Went to see them this season v Lubeck, and they were fantastic, it took me back to the way football used to be in the days before football became a corperate product. Over twenty two thousand for each game even though they now play in the Northern regional league in Germany. Plus they get over a thousand people to watch their reserve games and youth teams.

There not just a football club, their more like a movement, would defo recomend a trip to see St Pauli, more so if you like Punk and Ska music, cause you'll hear plenty of that in the pubs around the ground.

[drinkfeckarse]

The greatest fans in the world are the one's who quite simply love their team no matter what league they're in or what position they're in and the one's who bust their b0ll0cks in getting to as many games as they can, when they can.

Any GENUINE football fan really.

[Kicko]

and people who actually make the effort to go to see their team play ... no time for arm chair fans...

[mandrake]

i thought psv where great wedsnesday night. although like liverpool it was a big game.
agree with sylvo and pat o banton I have a few friends who st pauli fans and they say they are great, all the time.
irish/english(apart from the scum element) fans could fill stadiums twice or three times over.
and of course drogheda united fans are great....

[Karlos]

AFC Wimbeldon, anyone? Takes guts, determation and genuine love to turn your back on regular english league football just to keep a club you love's identitiy. That's loyalty in my books.

[Éanna]

Can't believe nobody's said 'Ireland' yet!!!!!!!!!!

Because the vast majority of irish "fans" are complete idiots who don't know the first thing about how to support a team. They wander along to 5 or 6 games a season, chant a few times and then watch the rest of the season from their barstool.

[Lim till i die]

Galatasaray
Fenerbache
Red Star Belgrade
Napoli
Limerick F.C.

Honourable mentions to Tranmere Rovers and Partick Thistle fans for not going with the flow

Also Fair play to you Eanna the majority of Ireland fans are indeed barstool populating morons

[Dublin12]

Galatasary me b0llix,best blade merchants more like

[Karlos]

Because the vast majority of irish "fans" are complete idiots who don't know the first thing about how to support a team. They wander along to 5 or 6 games a season, chant a few times and then watch the rest of the season from their barstool.

that's my point exactly - that's why i couldn't believe it wasn't said yet!!! There's a few lurking within our midst!

[Lim till i die]

Galatasary me b0llix,best blade merchants more like

Are we talking nicest fans or best fans? By saying Galatasary had brilliant support I wasn't in any way condoning the stabbing of those two English hooligans a few years back I was merely pointing out that the athmosphere they create at games in support of their team is brilliant.

[Karlos]

I wasn't in any way condoning the stabbing of those two English hooligans a few years back .

I'm open to correction but I thought the two people stabbed were merely 'fans' and not 'english hooligans'??

[Éanna]

according to reports at the time, one of the guys stabbed had wiped a turkish flag on his arse. thats kind of asking for it IMO

[Dublin12]

No point in going off on a tangent on this,they were fans yes and another thing remember when Ireland played Turkey under Jack,they p1ss coming down from the Turks on the Irish fans was shameful,mostly Galatasary fans I'll have you know.

[eirebhoy]

Because the vast majority of irish "fans" are complete idiots who don't know the first thing about how to support a team. They wander along to 5 or 6 games a season, chant a few times and then watch the rest of the season from their barstool.

The rest of what season?

[anto eile]

City Fans are clearly the best, we bring 10,000 to every single away game

In fairness, In terms of fans groups I've seen in action
1. Celtic
2. Barca
3. Derry

celtic park on non-old-firm days is dead
barcelona fans?1,000 sing in a crowd of 70,000.the rest sit quietly

[anto eile]

Leeds fans are the best ,when you look at everything that we've been through over the last couple of years and the gates that we still get now,we have to be the best and most loyal

the 37000 napoli fans who show up every week in the san paolo to support their team in serie C1B (the 3rd division southern group) might disagree

[anto eile]

>>>>St. Pauli (and yes I do have a massive soft spot!) regularly get between 15,000-20,000 in the German third division.


>>>>(Liverpool fans should maybe note about the noise and colour, which is easy to do in a big European match but when the season is falling apart and all your hopes are ending in mid table nothingness in the third division is slightly harder to motivate people for.)

true bout st pauli and anti fascism etc. but up til 1981 they averaged crowds of 1,500.then the club became a sort of cult, and quickly got to the level of support it has now.theyve only been what they are since bout 25 years ago

true bout the big match=great atmosphere syndrome.but what dyou expect from english clubs?

[anto eile]

Are we talking nicest fans or best fans? By saying Galatasary had brilliant support I wasn't in any way condoning the stabbing of those two English hooligans a few years back I was merely pointing out that the athmosphere they create at games in support of their team is brilliant.

i remember chelsea hammering galatasary 5-0 in the ali sami yen stadium back in 1999/2000. even at 5-0 down the galatasaray fans sang constantly, thousands of them singing to drum beats as if they were winning 5-0.there was no difference in the atmosphere from the gala fans regardless of the game being 0-0 or 5-0

good mention for afc wimbledon btw. milton keynes fc?sickening