mike_field
Vital Football Legend
The counter is, can you blame them after the years where it was completely ignored.
I know we all seem to accept BLM was the trigger point, arseholes come out of the woodwork in response to be 'big, clever' whatever it might be. But there's no point pretending this didn't happen before, it just wasn't covered as widely.
I'd say that's extremely hard on Rashford and others, unless you think our own like Mings (oh he made a mistake) or Tyreik Wright (on loan at Walsall) was asking for it?
I know you weren't mate btw!
But that's the problem with taking the attitude they should come off. They shouldn't, the abuse shouldn't exist full stop. Yes call out the performance, call out the mistakes - crack on with that, but would it be any different for a female fan who banged on about hetero males - it shouldn't.
It's a crack that's irrelevant.
I no longer use our Facebook or Twitter as I started getting sucked in (which JF warned me about) - I can come off that because I was dealing with fucking idiots who hadn't bothered reading the articles and lived in a headline world. Difference is, I didn't get that kind of abuse, they were complete cockwombles BUT it was opinion. Nothing more.
If it had been more, I know myself well enough to know I'd have digged in.
I've got a massive freedom there others don't have. Which in itself, is kind of the point of why they are highlighting it now they have a moment to do just that.
I know we all seem to accept BLM was the trigger point, arseholes come out of the woodwork in response to be 'big, clever' whatever it might be. But there's no point pretending this didn't happen before, it just wasn't covered as widely.
I'd say that's extremely hard on Rashford and others, unless you think our own like Mings (oh he made a mistake) or Tyreik Wright (on loan at Walsall) was asking for it?
I know you weren't mate btw!
But that's the problem with taking the attitude they should come off. They shouldn't, the abuse shouldn't exist full stop. Yes call out the performance, call out the mistakes - crack on with that, but would it be any different for a female fan who banged on about hetero males - it shouldn't.
It's a crack that's irrelevant.
I no longer use our Facebook or Twitter as I started getting sucked in (which JF warned me about) - I can come off that because I was dealing with fucking idiots who hadn't bothered reading the articles and lived in a headline world. Difference is, I didn't get that kind of abuse, they were complete cockwombles BUT it was opinion. Nothing more.
If it had been more, I know myself well enough to know I'd have digged in.
I've got a massive freedom there others don't have. Which in itself, is kind of the point of why they are highlighting it now they have a moment to do just that.