Who are your first and second favorite teams?
I was thinking it might be fun to talk a little bit about our favorite teams. Which team's song do you know by heart? Why do you like that team so much? Who do you especially like seeing your team beat? If everyone employed by your team suddenly decided they'd all rather be accountants than footballers, is there a second team that you'd like to cheer for?
My team of course is FC Bayern Munchen. I got hooked on the lot after watching several of them finish 3rd with Germany in the last World Cup, and I really appreciate how they all just seem to work with such precision, determination, and understanding on the pitch together. None of them (apart from Arjen Robben, who will likely be going away this summer) take on a diva-ish persona either, which is nice given some of the personalities in the game. Teams that are especially fun to see my boys beat include Schalke 04, Dortmund, Chelsea, and Barca!
If all the guys at Bayern decided to go help Uli Hoeness with his tax problems, though, I would support Norwich City. They need a little help up front, but on the whole they play a pretty clean, attitude-free game. They are majority owned by a woman, which is awesome IMO, and they hired a coach last summer who is more or less a socialist.
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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.
...FC Santa Claus! 
Best football team name ever, that!
The Silverbacks are basically the only local pro-soccer team in my area. They are also #1 in the NASL table right now. Team USA I've been a supporter of since 1994.
Altidore and Bradley have been the two best players on the team over the last few qualifiers. Klinsmann's managed the team to the top of the CONCACAF hex table. You post makes zero sense to me... 
I've a complicated international background with relatives in (reading from left to right), the US, Iceland, the UK, Holland, Germany, & Italy and grow up and lived in different countries (military family) myself, though I've now lived in the US for well over 30 years now.
I actually only became a football fan late in life while living in Holland in the seventies and getting caught up in the fever of the '74 World Cup. I had season tickets for the local club, FC Twente of Enschede from '74 through '79. Incredibly cheap at the time because if was for the terracing (standing section) in a corner of the stadium. At that time, Twente were a decent side but by no means a great one. Still, they usually played in the UEFA every year and I saw some great European sides play there.
I suppose you could say the Dutch national team and Twente were my first teams, though my feelings have cooled somewhat since. After moving to the US, I almost got out of football altogether because it was almost impossible to keep up with it at that time, though I managed to never miss a World Cup.
I was able to get access to English first division games through an Arsenal-supporting mate who worked in the audio-visual department at my workplace, and who had access to international satellites. We'd support them together and I continued supporting them after he died. This was when Arsenal played terrible, dull unimaginative football under George Graham, but hey, when they won the league with that final kick of the ball against Liverpool at Anfield... Well... That was magic...
As with love, you can't pick your club, your club picks you 
Other than that, I have number of clubs I like and dislike to various degrees in the EPL as with international sides.
Mainly due to the fact that I'm a Derek & Clive fan, devout anti-facist and Clint Dempsey plays for them. 
..but essentially I'd still think he was a shit footballer even though he was wearing the correct shirt...
May your time in relegation be brief!
Mallorca, Mallorca, tot Mallorca està amb tu; i sempre direm com el Mallorca no hi ha ningú.
Mallorca, Mallorca,...
Cap amunt, cap amunt! sempre amunt, sempre amunt! el Mallorca guanyarà.
Cap amunt, cap amunt! sempre amunt, sempre amunt! el Mallorca triomfarà.
Mallorca!!, Mallorca!! Mallorca!!, Mallorca!! Mallorca, Mallorca tot Mallorca...
Guanyarem, guanyarem! triomfarem, triomfarem! el Mallorca és superior!!
Guanyarem, guanyarem!! triomfarem, triomfarem!! El Mallorca és superior!!
Then FC Barcelona.
YNWA
Oddly enough my second team is Arsenal. Yeah, I haven't figured it out either.
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This word. I think I choose to be in Bayern Munich. His performance has been in reason. Have no what can be picky. I want to see his progress. Instead of his achievements.This is Bayern Munich:http://www.wysjg.com/bayern-munich-c-1_2/ .
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