Caesar2290
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You can open any thread about any player and your going to notice that 50-80% of the posts(depending on the player) are labeling him as garbage. Even after a good performance people find something to complain about.
It's easy to write it off as social media trolls, but I remember frequenting football forum in 2005-2009 and it was a different atmosphere. It was mostly positive unless the player had a mare of a performance.
So this got me thinking: what if the perception of football was changed by fans playing these games. You see players in games don't have brain farts or are caught out of position because they're napping. They're not affected by cheating girlfriends, ill parents, depression, etc. Strikers are always consistent and clinical if the player is skilled enough. You won't see RVP going on a 10 match drought in FIFA or PES at the most crucial part of the season or Rashford holding on to the ball a bit longer when everyone and their dog is yelling for him to pass because it's impossible to code.
So my question to you is do you think fans developed unrealistic expectations in part by playing these games and expecting their team to perform as in FIFA/PES where everyone is a robot and executes the system flawlessly 100% of the time?
It's easy to write it off as social media trolls, but I remember frequenting football forum in 2005-2009 and it was a different atmosphere. It was mostly positive unless the player had a mare of a performance.
So this got me thinking: what if the perception of football was changed by fans playing these games. You see players in games don't have brain farts or are caught out of position because they're napping. They're not affected by cheating girlfriends, ill parents, depression, etc. Strikers are always consistent and clinical if the player is skilled enough. You won't see RVP going on a 10 match drought in FIFA or PES at the most crucial part of the season or Rashford holding on to the ball a bit longer when everyone and their dog is yelling for him to pass because it's impossible to code.
So my question to you is do you think fans developed unrealistic expectations in part by playing these games and expecting their team to perform as in FIFA/PES where everyone is a robot and executes the system flawlessly 100% of the time?