Brilliantly put. I think this is another real time example of no criticism being allowed. Some of the people criticising you for this post were the ones jumping over everyone for daring to even suggest there was a thing wrong with Rashford‘s performances in the second half of the season throwing stats and laughing emojis in literally every single post at anyone daring to suggest he wasn’t playing well - something now considered an accepted fact, but that doesn’t matter as we’re now blindly attacking criticism on another subject.
Some posters lack the ability to separate issues. The racism is awful and those responsible should get long custodial sentences. Feeding kids is good. None of that means as a footballer he is beyond criticism. Yet even when we were seeing his performances decline we had:
stats
eye test
stats.
The “eye test” being someone suggesting that watching a player provides better insight into how he’s playing that plucking stats from the area over an undefined period of time.