Wrong. They can pay what they like for a season ticket but its a privilege to have one, plenty of people to take their place if they don't want to act like proper fans.
Don't boo Fellaini.
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Fellani ain't no Guardian reading snowflake. Those boos are like fuel to him. Watch him go now.
Fellaini is a Moyes signing. People will subconsciously associate that whenever Fellaini plays a bad game. Is it justified? Absolutely not. This club is characterised by standing together in good and bad times. The fans play a vital rol in enhancing this togetherness by cheering the players forward. Say no to booing your OWN PLAYERS.
They have a go at a player, who hasn't been our worst this season, off the back of a goal collectively given away by the entire back line but put up with the shite Moyes and LVG served up with barely a murmur for months upon on months. Odd.
I guess two Fellaini threads weren't enough to contain the righteous indignation.
Classless as feck,like its all his fault but hey guess its better to boo him then to mock a guy when he makes a 5 yard pass.
Disgusting from our 'fans'
It makes a player feel just as bad though, no matter what the booing is for, no?
Obviously poor from those that booed, but i feel like it was more than just booing the player. It was the fans way of making their feelings known about the impending change of tack as well. An 'are we really doing this again?' kind of thing.
We should know better than to boo a player before he comes on though. If you thought he was liable to feck up before...
We should know better than to boo a player before he comes on though. If you thought he was liable to feck up before...
Someone actually said in another thread that the booing might have changed Mourinhos mind to put Feallini on in the 75th min so he put in Bailly instead.
The guy gets what, 80-90 thousand a week? Yeah, it's really hard to stay professional with that kind of motivation.
Pathetic to boo one of our players.
Absolutely. The bloke is about to come on representing United, for better or for worse. Why the hell would match going fans give a United player an extra reason to feel negative before he's even entered the pitch? A groan of exasperation when they mess up a chance or lose the ball poorly is one thing, and I think it's more of a shared frustration than anything else, but booing your own isn't for me.
They've paid their money, they can do what they like within the parameters of the law and stadium rules. But I find it silly and self-defeating.
You've got that the wrong way. It's a privilege for the club to have people willing to pay for season tickets.
And there is no "proper" fan. There are just supporters who pay money to watch their team. They can do what they want without having to correspond to someone's vague notion of fandom.
Fans or supporters are meant to .... support. Thats the role they have at a club, especially during a game.
I mean, how can booing motivate a guy just about he's about to go onto the pitch? I have no issue about booing after the final whistle and wish our fans did more of that last season under LVG. But during a game, when a player is about to come on. Its idiotic and stupid.
You can always rely on this place for the moral high ground alright. It was a banker this thread was going to be started with all the morally charged outrage. I'm sorry but I just can't pretend that I care that he was booed.
Good to know that paying our players lots of money guarantees their professionalism and total commitment to the cause. Almost makes you wonder why we've been so shit over the last few years, doesn't it?
I very much doubt it
It's mean-spirited, at the very least. Although it's the potential for counter-productivity which makes it cretinous.
Good. Not a fan of Fellaini but booing our own is unacceptable. I'm glad the majority realises this.
Well, not really. Being jeered for being a bit shit at your job isn't quite the same as being jeered because you happen to have black skin. I can only imagine that the latter is markedly more horrific than the former.
Yeah, I was surprised when I logged on after the match that this type of thread wasn't top of the page. I feel the same, I just don't give a shit, we've put up with this clod for 4 seasons, I wouldn't boo him myself but I'm not going to slag off those that did.
The worst part is that some were actually thinking that booing would change Mourinhos decision to put him on, talk about deluded.
I have to disagree. There's a waiting list for season tickets, no?
You've made a factually incorrect statement.
Supporter: a person who approves of and encourages someone or something (typically a public figure, a movement or party, or a policy)
A Fan: sometimes also called aficionado or supporter, is a person who is enthusiastically devoted to something or somebody.
I've yet to see a definition of a 'fan' or 'supporter' who berates his own team or players. Thats not being supportive or providing enthusiastic devotion.
I think players can cope with being booed by opposition fans for all sorts of reasons without ever feeling hurt. I'd say being booed by Russian neanderthals over the colour of your skin hurts less than being booed by your own fans because they think you're crap.
yeah...shut up,pay the season ticket and be a nice cash cow. applaud calamity lump on 100k a weak because its classy .
Somehow I doubt that. Then again, I've never been racially abused and I'm not Marouane Fellaini.
I agree with the OP. I hate to hear our fans boo any of our players.
Aye, the only thing that surprised me is that it took so long for this thread to appear. Personally, I find these self righteous threads extremely pretentious. If it was a racist incident then yeah, I would expect people to be outraged, but it clearly wasn't.
I wouldn't boo him myself either but I couldn't give a flying feck if others choose to. I won't get on my high horse and feign some sort of outrage that I don't really feel, just to try make myself look like a 'proper fan' or some other cliched drivel.
It just shows that Old Trafford is finally fed up with mediocrity. It is a bad thing to do, but after 3.5 years of looking shit (both the team and Fellaini), I can sort of understand them.
People are going off the rails because a player was booed. It's not the nicest this but it's simply people showing displeasure or frustration, as anyone in any work of life is entitled. There are worse things than booing and you only need to hear abuses hurled at players and their families when things aren't great. The fans have been great all season and I see the moment of booing as nothing more than venting their frustration rather than hate. Each person knows how hard they've worked to get a ticket or show support in anyway, so its only natural they have an expectation, and how they express frustration is up to them. It's not like our fans wave hankies, or walk out of the stadium in droves.
The fact that it's the third time it's involved Fellaini is an indication of how some sections feel about him and how frustrated they are with him.
Yes, we would hope that it won't come down to booing but questioning our fans who have been equally amazing this season imo , for showing their frustration in one moment is baffling. I don't remember any thread, when fans were chanting "you're f**ing s**t" for a few games last season.
And this nonsense of because we are Manchester United we don't do stuff like that, we are classy, is absolute rubbish. Giggs, Rio, Evra, Neville, Nani, Welbeck, Cleverley, And etc all got some serious stick despite winning stuff and some coming through our academy.
The idea that people boo just because the have tickets is nonsense. Fletcher used to be booed but it all turned around when he stepped up. In that one season where he turned it around, he won the hearts of many that booed him.
Questioning the fans in this thread is just some pretentious and self righteous stuff!
The fact that it's the third time it's involved Fellaini is an indication of how some sections feel about him and how frustrated they are with him.
Yes, we would hope that it won't come down to booing but questioning our fans who have been equally amazing this season imo , for showing their frustration in one moment is baffling. I don't remember any thread, when fans were chanting "you're f**ing s**t" for a few games last season.
And this nonsense of because we are Manchester United we don't do stuff like that, we are classy, is absolute rubbish. Giggs, Rio, Evra, Neville, Nani, Welbeck, Cleverley, And etc all got some serious stick despite winning stuff and some coming through our academy.
The idea that people boo just because the have tickets is nonsense. Fletcher used to be booed but it all turned around when he stepped up. In that one season where he turned it around, he won the hearts of many that booed him.
Questioning the fans in this thread is just some pretentious and self righteous stuff!
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I can accept that, yes, you are right but no doubt Fellini was still made to feel like shit today, regardless of the reason for his own fans booing him.
It actually sounded really quiet (could simply be the tension) albeit, I was watching from home. Regardless, it really isnt nice to see/hear.
Who said he should have been applauded? Ironically, the only reason anyone did applaud him was to drown out the wankers who were booing.
Booing was embarrassing and awful, no 2 ways about it.
If Moyes never got booed for instance but Fellaini does get booed and it isn't the first time than it's even worse.
If Moyes never got booed for instance but Fellaini does get booed and it isn't the first time than it's even worse.
It really was and i'm by no means the only person to say that.
How is it a factually incorrect statement? The way in which people support things or people, the more abstract, the more intangible and more complicated, is incredibly varied. No one has a patent on the "approved" way one may ritually take part in a football match in a supporter's role.
I also have access to a dictionary -- as do most people, what with the internet these days. But thanks anyway.
There are other players who have been much worse this season. Fellaini was one of our better players at the start of the season and was vital in the FA Cup win.
When he's bad it's a horror show but I'd still have him around
When he's bad it's a horror show but I'd still have him around
That's a good point too. Obviously being racially abused is much worse but as you say, that is usually only done by opposition supporters. Being booed by your own for whatever reason must still feel horrible.