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I've been observing some common patters between the behavior of football and starcraft fans - indeed some of the pro teams could be compared with a couple of football squads, so this is how I see things:
CJ Entus - Liverpool
Both great teams with fans nostalgic about the glorious past. Winning CL a couple of years ago doesnt really change the fact that Liverpool are hopeless in Premiership, winning WL was a sign a revival, still CJ looks so close and yet so far from winning the Proleague. The fans of both teams are really proud of their homegrown players as well, thinking they are next big thing - Gerrard,Carragher ... Movie and EffOrt. But the reality is just like Liverpool, CJ will never win PL again, and as good as Gerrard, Movie and EffOrt are, they are hardly "the next big thing".
KT - Real Madrid
The comparison has been already made a million times, but right now its actually a bit too far from being true. That doesnt change the fact KT's roster policy was always to buy the super star players from other teams, which in fact they've sort of tried to do in recent years as well, getting Luxury and ForGG who turned out to be utter flops. Just like Real Madrid, KT has genuine fans as well, who cheer and love their teams because of the homegrown talents they've produced - Raul... Flash. It was always easy to become a KT fan, but just like in the case of Real Madrid in recent times, the joy gets balanced out with disappointment.
Samsung KHAN - Chelsea
KHAN are quite good, they really are. One can say January's team is a powerhouse and it will be true. Chelsea are powerhouse as well, they are a super strong squad. But the blatand truth is that no one likes KHAN. And no one likes Chelsea. Both have no fans.
OGN Sparkyz - Juventus
Both teams havent won anything in ages but the most obvious paralel between the two are the match-fixing scandals. Indeed both Juve and OGN have likeable players, but that doesnt change the fact they've cast a shadow over their respected sports.
SKT - Manchester United
SKT and ManU are the biggest clubs in their areas. And their fans know that, in fact every SKT fan knows his team is the best, no matter the current form, the current players - SKT always wins in the end. Its easy to cheer for both as well - T1 are an obvious choice : tons of titles, superstar players, you name it. I was thinking the other day about a possible paralel between Bisu and Beckham - you see, both are really good, but just like David, Bisu became more or less a pop icon in recent time. Guys dont like him, girls love him.
Hwaseung OZ - Napoli
You might think "Napoli, wtf?". Well, Napoli is the team where Maradona reached the peak of his career it the 80s. Just like him, one may say Jaedong is the best player of his generation. But both Napoli and OZ are without a shodow of doubt one man teams. Even by the time Napoli were owning shit in Serie A, I doubt anyone all over the world was a fan of this team for a reason different from Maradona. Oz works the same way as well. Besides Haji and maybe like 2 other guys in the whole forum, the OZ fanboat is floating entirely because of Jaedong. Do you know how Napoli are doing atm? Watch Oz fall into oblivion once Jaedong's career starts to decline ...
btw if you are from the US and A you prolly wont understand shit from that. I was talking about "soccer"
  
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Happy birthday man!
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If it was a couple years ago I would have said SKT1 is Chelsea. SKT1 has the best line-up and still sucks ass.
I guess the KHAN = Chelsea thing works really well because not only do we not like Chelsea for spending ridiculous amounts of money to change their lineup, the players are either completely up-themselves or buttholes.
Nice one on OGN = Juvy.
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Haha funny, I'm a fan of both MU and T1. 
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On May 19 2010 19:57 sluggaslamoo wrote:
If it was a couple years ago I would have said SKT1 is Chelsea. SKT1 has the best line-up and still sucks ass.
T1 sucks ass? What? They've been the most successful team over the years, by a looooooooong shot:
http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/korean/teams/1_SK_Telecom_T1
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On May 19 2010 19:59 PoP wrote:Haha funny, I'm a fan of both MU and T1.
 yep, same here
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Assuming he meant SKT now = Chelsea a few years ago?
And hey, what about all 40 of us Stars fans? ^^
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Actually switch KT to Barselona, they only have one good player and because of that they are overhyped (and both have plenty of bandwagon fans).
Chelsea has a lot of fans, and they have probably one of the best starting lineups ever, referee bias is the reason they haven't won much.
SKT - Real Madrid... Both team's have the history and the glory to back it up, just compare the champions cup/league to proleague
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On May 19 2010 20:04 QibingZero wrote:Assuming he meant SKT now = Chelsea a few years ago? And hey, what about all 40 of us Stars fans? ^^
Nottingam Forest - you won the CL twice in the very beginning but thats long forgotten
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I might have become an Oz fan because of Jaedong, but I'm a fan of the other players on Oz too. If Jaedong left Oz for some reason I would still be an Oz fan. Besides Oz used to have some good players in addition to Jaedong (Anytime and Forgg), so even though it might be a one man team atm, it hasn't always been.
Edit: I'm a Real Madrid fan btw
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Airforce ACE - CSKA Moscow Both army teams, but i think there just has to be a team somewhere that is quite literally owned and run by the military
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On May 19 2010 20:04 QibingZero wrote:Assuming he meant SKT now = Chelsea a few years ago?
Chelsea has been quite successful since Abramovitch imo. Before that they didn't have that many big names compared to MU/Liverpool.
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On May 19 2010 20:04 QibingZero wrote:Assuming he meant SKT now = Chelsea a few years ago? And hey, what about all 40 of us Stars fans? ^^
What's a few years? A few years ago Chelsea won back to back titles and Chelsea won the double this year.
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On May 19 2010 20:15 MooCow wrote:Show nested quote +On May 19 2010 20:04 QibingZero wrote:On May 19 2010 20:01 PoP wrote:On May 19 2010 19:57 sluggaslamoo wrote:
If it was a couple years ago I would have said SKT1 is Chelsea. SKT1 has the best line-up and still sucks ass.
T1 sucks ass? What? They've been the most successful team over the years, by a looooooooong shot: http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/korean/teams/1_SK_Telecom_T1 Assuming he meant SKT now = Chelsea a few years ago? And hey, what about all 40 of us Stars fans? ^^ What's a few years? A few years ago Chelsea won back to back titles and Chelsea won the double this year.
"a few years ago" in football time would be the 90s. The period you are talking about is "recently"
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On May 19 2010 20:05 fox[tail] wrote:
Actually switch KT to Barselona, they only have one good player and because of that they are overhyped (and both have plenty of bandwagon fans).
You clearly have not watched any Barcelona games. The reason why they beat great teams is that they work together like no other teams. But there is some truth in what your saying.
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OGN Sparkyz - Juventus
Both teams havent won anything in ages but the most obvious paralel between the two are the match-fixing scandals. Indeed both Juve and OGN have likeable players, but that doesnt change the fact they've cast a shadow over their respected sports.
love this
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KT = Liverpool
FlaSh = Torres / Gerrard
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And what about Aston Villa...
Stars?
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