My best mate died 15 years ago. I was a similar age to these lads. It hit far harder than the loss of older relatives, but it didn’t properly hit me for months, even a year after.
I got on with work and life as a distraction. There’s no distraction for these lads. His locker is still in the dressing room. His song gets sang every game. Then they have the pressure of playing in front of 60k people with constant scrutiny. We know elite sport is about fine margins and a drop off of 1-2% can have a massive impact.
I find the lack of empathy from our fanbase quite sad. The irony of singing the words of YNWA every game
What I think it should change is the patience and understanding we have for these players and this manager.
I’ve gone in really hard on Mo Salah this season. Times up. Legs have gone. Should be dropped. Fucking furious he scored that goal etc etc.
Then, by pure coincidence earlier in the week I saw that interview again that he did where he spoke about how he was dreading coming back. He looked broken. It was clearly affecting him.
And I just felt ashamed of myself.
So, no it doesn’t change much. It’s a results business, and Mo isn’t delivering. You can’t keep a player in the team on sentimentality. But maybe I could bear in mind what happened this summer and at least not be such a dick about it.
If performances don’t improve the club is going to be forced into a decision, and we all know that. But do we need to be dicks about it? Bald headed waste of space? There is a lad in post match talking about slot not knowing who the players he picked are. We hear about him buying players without a plan.
There is a point where the criticism becomes unreasonable, over the top and performative. That’s what I have a problem with.
Ok so what about people who making arguments without being dicks about it all? Can we maybe separate out the validity of those arguments from the dislike of the tone of arguments others are making?
What has come across these last two match days you come across a bit of bully when you get called out for aspects of your posts. You have been very dismissive of Germanred, Limmescouse, jaffod and myself.
Of the three posters you’ve named there, I generally like all three, although Jaffod winds me up in the politics thread . I don’t have any issue with any of them in the footy discussions.
Maybe hang around a bit longer and get yourself a bigger data set to work from before you go round calling people bullies?
“There are multiple reasons we have lost so many games but with all the reasons still are no excuses to lose so many but it hasn’t been helpful that all the games we lost there were only two days in between the games we had to play away from home.”
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. I don’t have any issue with any of them in the footy discussions.
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