RoadTrip
petitioned for a just cause
Definitely irrationalI'm talking about posters here, not commentators. I don't know why but it makes me irrationally angry Max is more understandable, given he has a long surname, but Fernando is weird, given Alonso is shorter. Charles just sounds cringey.
We used to have a (since banned) annoying poster, one of a small handful actually, but he was the worst, who insisted on always referring to Pogba as Paul. It's just a bit weird and cringey, like people think they're on first name terms with them. Same with the nicknames thing- people who yelled 'go on Choccy/Sparky/whoever' always seemed smug weirdos who thought they were some ITK cos they knew a nickname.
It doesn’t bother me too much, I don’t think using first names implies a personal relationship. I see why you get it though, because when it comes to sport we are purely used to seeing players (in all sports) referred to by surname.