by muirinho »
18 Jul 2018 13:43
From Despair To Where? muirinho From Despair To Where? Hope he does well there because their fans are a bunch of fickle, whinging tossbags.
And ours aren't?
Do our fans, when we're 10 points clear at the top of the table, start booing and walk out when we concede an 80th minute equaliser?
Do our fans tear up their season tickets and walk out on masse when we go 1-0 down after 25 minutes?
Would our fans mercilessly boo an 18 year old academy player if he scored an own goal on his 1st team debut?
When we beat them 2-1 up there in 2005, I remember getting confronted by a Sunderland fan with a broken bottle at a petrol station on the A19 near Middlesbrough a full 8hrs after the game ended because he wanted to have it out with me about the match.
Not going to get into a long fight about this, but would like to point out that, to an outsider, our fans booing our own players for being negative, during a season where we came 3rd would certainly come under the category of "fickle whinging tossbags"
Or calling a player a pedophile without any proven evidence.
Or celebrating a player's leg-break.
Or accusing Madejski, who has done more than anybody to save this club of "only doing it for attention".
Or singing "Spend some oxf*rd money" at him when he had pumped millions into keeping the club afloat.
A few more games of Stam, (or Nige, before he went) and I'm pretty sure there would have been mass walkouts, regardless of the score. One more backpass, and we riot, etc.
For a number of these, they are understandable (although not necessarily right) because of what had gone on previously. But that's my point - what seems reasonable within a fanbase can seem like complete twattery from the outside.
As for criminal behaviour, no fanbase is immune from that, just like no nationality, race or creed is immune.
Sunderland may have approached us; but for the figures being quoted we could loan him out for that amount
