Who are your first and second favorite teams?

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1. Easy question

One club, one country. That's all you should get. In answer to the first, WHTID.



In answer to the second, I have the misfortune to be associated with this bunch of congenital losers.



Some things in life you just have no choice over.

As for the rest, clubs and countries are ranked in descending order of detestation, starting with Spurs, then Man City, Millwall, on down to the nothing clubs I have no strong opinion on but still would never support. So, if Spurs play Arsenal, I want Arsenal to win, but not because of any affection for the Gooners. I just dislike them less. However, if Spurs play Man City or Liverpool, I hope they both lose. The manager can make a difference. I admired Revie's Leeds (not a popular opinion, I have to admit), have a lot of respect for Arsene Wenger, but really didn't like Mancini.

Same with international teams. Argentina are top of that particular list (not known for their charm or likeability), followed by Scotland and Germany (I'm of the generation that remembers Klinsmann diving his way to a World Cup winner's medal).

Football on one level at least should be a healthy sort of tribalism, a chance to blow off steam with irrational emotions. As for Bayern, they are the German Man Utd - too full of themselves to be admired.