I’m at the closest I’ve ever been to jibbing this place off. Not as a mod - totally.
I don’t have the energy for another fucking witch hunt. I saw it with Rafa (unfairly) and Rodgers (less so), and I never want to put up with it again. The point where criticism starts to get personal, hyperbolic and performative, and where for many it stops being an honest discussion about football and become just any chance to boot the boot into a man they already all in on hating.
I want to talk about the team’s performance, I want to talk about where Slot is going wrong, but I want to do it in an atmosphere of rationality rather than febrility. To be frank, I could get the latter from Twitter.
And now I have to deal with people attacking me personally for calling for calm, and calling out a few of the more hysterical, personal overreactions . Accusing me of ‘bullying’, of taking it out on people (whatever it is), and (like last night) a lad on three days membership deciding to have a pop at a poster who has been part of this community for nigh on twenty years. Which is fine, apparently.
So yeah, maybe I’ll take a step back and evaluate. And maybe that evaluation will be ‘fuck this. I’m done here’