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Tharvot
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This is my first season following the EPL. Most of my live I've been a drive by soccer fan, cheering on the national team during the world cup and otherwise ignoring the sport the rest of the time.
I got turned on to the league because a number of the radio hosts on my local sports talk station follow. They each did the same thing: did a little homework and kinda blindly picked a team. A few of them picked Everton because of Tim Howard, one picked Liverpool because the owner used to be the owner of the Rangers and Stars. A few are Man U fans, and one picked Arsenal because he thought their name was cool.
I decided on Tottenham partly because none of those guys were currently Spurs backers and I wanted to take on one of the big clubs as my own w/o seeming like a complete frontrunner like I would if I just picked Chelsea or Man City.
Gotta say, even though I'm still kind of a soccer idiot, I'm really enjoying it. The gametimes are perfect during the mornings before US football comes on most of the time and when our football season ends its a great bridge b/t football season to baseball season. Also helps that the team I randomly picked is in a title race.
I got turned on to the league because a number of the radio hosts on my local sports talk station follow. They each did the same thing: did a little homework and kinda blindly picked a team. A few of them picked Everton because of Tim Howard, one picked Liverpool because the owner used to be the owner of the Rangers and Stars. A few are Man U fans, and one picked Arsenal because he thought their name was cool.
I decided on Tottenham partly because none of those guys were currently Spurs backers and I wanted to take on one of the big clubs as my own w/o seeming like a complete frontrunner like I would if I just picked Chelsea or Man City.
Gotta say, even though I'm still kind of a soccer idiot, I'm really enjoying it. The gametimes are perfect during the mornings before US football comes on most of the time and when our football season ends its a great bridge b/t football season to baseball season. Also helps that the team I randomly picked is in a title race.