Indeed, I’m in an odd minority on a United forum who goes around trying to convince fans not to hate our players. Very strange.
Loads of people here are like schoolboys to me. Many are absolutely joyless and hateful, and bounce from thread to thread carrying their vendetta against certain players, or the manager, or Exec and spend the rest of their time trying to talk anyone who dares to say something positive about anything out of it. Which is why you will see positive Pogba interviews analysed with a negative slant, or a conversation about literally any player, anywhere, invaded by casual shots at Martial, and how EVEN this player is probably better than Martial, or a conversation about his wages will have a spiteful ‘well if Martial can get this’ and so on and so forth. You start to have a conversation about a talent in the game, it’s three posts before it turns into ‘if our boards wasn’t so useless’ or ‘you know us, we’ll probably go and offer half a billion for him’.
I don’t give a feck if anyone thinks Martial is lazy. I give a feck that a perceived lack of running intensity is enough for the man to be looked at like some sort of bastard child. He’s our player, was our top scorer last season, scored on his debut against the Scousers and has provided us with many food moments. Who cares, he may well move on at some time, but nothing buys anyone any good will on here at all, rather you will have posters more preferring to actively spin the positive into a negative with ‘yea buts’ and conspiracy theory.
And you now have the nerve to call me some sort of attention seeker because I won’t join your clique who seemingly feel bigger by coming online to gang up and abuse players. I’m an attention seeker for having issue with the vitriol against Martial? There are many players I don’t rate, because that’s football. But I still love all of our players first and foremost, even the ones I’d prefer to leave, and the stuff directed at the likes of Pogba, Lingard and Martial on here is not akin to a player who plays for your club IMO. I could post a positive stat about Pogba and it’ll be 5 minutes before 5 posters come along to try and downplay it, or spin it as not being that good rather than praise it. The default position for many is to speak AGAINST some of our players, and argue against any praise or positivity.