Hungry Joe
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I'm getting increasingly bemused by the reductionist nature of a lot of modern life in general and football in particular, and now Tony Bloom seems to be joining in. There's no such thing as 'the fans' Tony (see Argus article http://www.theargus.co.uk/sport/albion/12189421.Bloom__Get_off_Forster_Caskey_s_back/). If he'd have said 'some fans' then fair enough, but it's just the same old nonsense that 'we're' all fickle, there's no independent thought beyond the hive etc.
Regarding JFC, yes, he's had some dogs abuse at games and on the internet. But that's nothing new, it's just more easily accessible and instant now. In fact, you could argue player abuse now is handbags compared to the abuse of old, abuse that would get you arrested or banned from football at the very least now. Yes, some of it has been OTT, but the lad earns a living most of us can only dream of, there's only so far my sympathy can stretch when the performances that I've seen regularly don't justify what's coming out of my pocket week in, week out.
The more sinister side to this is that if you can group a bunch of people together, say fans of a football club, and treat them as one homogenised unit, then you can excuse dismissing them as one as being irrelevant. That's what's wrong with the "I'm more interested in what the manager thinks" nonsense. The manager is a human individual too, prone to the same weaknesses and bias as the rest of us. Surely if a significant number of people who go to games are saying the same thing it doesn't mean they're a bunch of fickle sheep, it probably means they're on to something, whether you like it or not Tony.
Regarding JFC, yes, he's had some dogs abuse at games and on the internet. But that's nothing new, it's just more easily accessible and instant now. In fact, you could argue player abuse now is handbags compared to the abuse of old, abuse that would get you arrested or banned from football at the very least now. Yes, some of it has been OTT, but the lad earns a living most of us can only dream of, there's only so far my sympathy can stretch when the performances that I've seen regularly don't justify what's coming out of my pocket week in, week out.
The more sinister side to this is that if you can group a bunch of people together, say fans of a football club, and treat them as one homogenised unit, then you can excuse dismissing them as one as being irrelevant. That's what's wrong with the "I'm more interested in what the manager thinks" nonsense. The manager is a human individual too, prone to the same weaknesses and bias as the rest of us. Surely if a significant number of people who go to games are saying the same thing it doesn't mean they're a bunch of fickle sheep, it probably means they're on to something, whether you like it or not Tony.
