South Derbyshire Ram Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 Just wondering if theres any other reasons we all follow the Rams. As a kid i followed dirty Leeds for no other reason than i liked there yellow kit with the blue and white stripe down the arm. (I don't mind any abuse i'm about to get for owning up to this) My brothers where not to impressed either had many a beating whenever leeds beat Derby and i was a cheeky little barsteward. But in 1978 my brother took me to watch a Derby Game and the rest they say is history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alph Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 Think, if you'd stayed a Leeds fan then you'd have Ross McCormack right now... A family friend dragged me along. I was into wrestling. Football is boooring. Was all about Legion Of Dhoom and Earthquake and Typhoon. 5-0 win over Tranmere and Tatanka was history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davenportram Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 Simple my old man is a Ram through and through. And I witnessed his pain at having to take me and my Brother to the city ground for our first ever football match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjo Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 As an impressionable 6 or 7 year old, glory seeking Liverpool fan coming from a family full of derby fans I still remember listening to the radio and hearing how exited Graham Richards got over a consolation goal in a 3 - 1? defeat to Grimsby? in the mid 80's and thinking "Jesus! just imagine how mental everyone will go when derby win the league again" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spanish Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 Genetics Got it from my dad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry Ram Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 Paying for a previous life I think... Must have been a serial killer before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 Paying for a previous life I think... Must have been a serial killer before. Surely that would have made you a gump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archram Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 As my son said " Never realised I had a choice"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry Ram Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 Surely that would have made you a gump. Flipping heck, I must have been a crap serial killer then.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cisse Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 When Peter Shilton moved to Derby I started to follow Derby results and at the beginning of the 90's I was a true fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 Didn't choose Derby - they chose me. Family reasons, too many and too boring to go into here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WheatoRam Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 At 5 or 6 I was listening or watching the football results and I heard Derby County. I then found out they played in Derby (I lived in Derby at the time) which at the time seemed amazing to me. Hooked ever since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nfb Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 Im not being a grump,but didn't we have this topic recently? I remember writing about my 1st trip to the Baseball ground etc.... Maybe I am being a grump, so i'll go..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McRainy Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 I get lost if I wander about on my own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smalley Ram Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 My older brothers were Derby fans but I didn't get interested until we were fighting for survival in the mid eighties, asked one of them to take me along and I was bitten by the bug and it's been a roller coaster of emotion ever since - if only our Phil has said "no" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shuff264 Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 Think, if you'd stayed a Leeds fan then you'd have Ross McCormack right now... A family friend dragged me along. I was into wrestling. Football is boooring. Was all about Legion Of Dhoom and Earthquake and Typhoon. 5-0 win over Tranmere and Tatanka was history. So you started supporting Derby last season? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Spalding Ram Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 Taken to my first match in 62, and hooked ever since! Oh the 60s, .............centre halves with no front teeth, wing halves, inside left, inside right, outside left, outside right, crunching tackles and centre forwards built like brick ***** houses and a Bill Curry autograph, priceless! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alph Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 So you started supporting Derby last season? They've not brought them out of retirement homes have they?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwram1973 Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 Me great grandad, grandad and dad all supported derby. Me mams from Belper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StaffsRam Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 Mum's family from Stoke, Dad's family from Derby, lived in the middle. No-brainer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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