shelfboy68
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- Jun 14, 2008
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Thanks for your opinion David ?What goes inextricably with this is that the same disapproving supporters always focus on individual players for their complaints and criticism ... sorry, I meant their "opinion".
They never discuss the team, its functioning as a collective and the communication between its various parts. You'd think it was it's a competition of individuals, whereas football is probably the ultimate team game. There's no scope for the concept that players can be coached, that the team can be coached, that the player at 20 is not the same player as the player at 25.
I have a little ulterior thing that I do, mainly on match threads, which is almost always to reference the failings or successes of "the midfield" instead of name-checking Winks or Højbjerg for criticism or praise. I think it's obvious and pointed, even slightly mischievous, but no one ever notices. They just go back to ranting on about Winks (or whoever) being "useless" and "always passing sideways", or Højbjerg being "a donkey".
The same people always put their so-called "opinion" in terms of what a player is, as opposed to what he just did. Winks "is shit". Højbjerg "is a donkey". Kulusevski "is slow". It's not even a proper "opinion", because there's no content, no trigger for debate. It's just personal abuse, motivated by a combination of inattention and prejudice, masquerading as a point of view.
I think we should institute one of those automatic edit things like the one we have for the word "****". Every time someone uses the word "opinion", it should be replaced by "I have nothing useful to say"
It's a team game. Scarcely anyone ever talks about the team. It's all about individuals. Which makes it bullshit.
