Wumminator
The Qatar Pounder
It happens like this.Why are we (England) so obsessed with ripping our own national team players instead of supporting them? We always need to have a villain or someone to take the piss out of, but do we have a better GK than Pickford atm? I can’t think of any that stand out
Football fans like to appear smart. People on forums like to think they’re above pundits and the lads down the pub. (Which they probably are, people in pubs always know nothing about football)
Which then leads to people trying to look above the average bloke who watches footy. So in the summer when everyone and their dog watches the World Cup and Pickford does well and people like him... suddenly footy fans smell a chance to make themselves look better than Jim in accounts who claims Harry Maguire is England’s greatest ever centre half.
This leads to all kinds of comedy. Like when Jack Wilshere came through and played in a more “European” style everyone lauded him. No more of the classic English idiot like Frank Lampard, but a player who can control a game. Of course no one on the internet noticed that he was actually pretty wank.
Silva who went to Everton was another one. Sure he got tanked by David Moyes and was relegated BUT he was foreign and cultured so he was going to teach the prem a thing or two. Of course actually he couldn’t organise a defence to save his life and will soon be forgotten.
Anyone who has a bit of hype around them in the press has to prove themselves ten times over to the footy lads on twitter. Look at how Mane was treated when he was linked to us. Look at how Kagawa and Mikhytarian were treated. If they’ve been mentioned by Shearer - overrated. If Merson struggles to say their name - class.
Football fans now have this bizarre rating system where they have opinions about people they’ve literally never seen play. Hence you’ve got people here claiming Butland is the best keeper England have as he is in the middle of a poor season for Stoke with distribution of a donkey. How do I know this, well I’ve been to three Stoke home fixtures this year as one of my mates with a season ticket fecked off to America and left it for me and a few others to share and I regularly end up watching shitty streams on a second stream if my mate Rob comes around.
Ask me how good that Pulisic Chelsea have signed is and I have absolutely no idea because I certainly don’t have time to watch him.