JW1985
Vital Champions League
I understand that the Blues have to have someone to hate. But don't quite understand why it's worse with Grealish than it was with players like Gabby, who deliberately went out his way to taunt and get under their skin, or Olof who made specific public statements on his hatred for them. To my knowledge, Grealish has never said anything of that ilk. Is it just pure 100% jealousy?
Obviously he's got the local boy, villa fan thing like Gabby for them to hate. He's also obviously our best player and talisman in a way that Gabby never was in spite of his Derby day heroics. He's also got a certain otherness about him, a maverick streak in the way he plays and looks. The hair, the socks pulled down, the party boy image he's got really wind up a certain type of person as well again in a way that someone like Gabby or Olof never could. They are also 100% convinced that he somehow cheated them in the Villa park game so all their dislike of us got centred to Grealish.