I don't remember it being any different. If players were continually shite they got dogs abuse from some fans. It's part of football.
Quote from: saunders_heroes on January 23, 2013, 01:32:36 PMI don't remember it being any different. If players were continually shite they got dogs abuse from some fans. It's part of football. But the gulf has widened due to the fact a poor player can still pick up more a week than most of us earn in a year.
I agree it used to go on back then, but it seems so much worse these days.Perhaps it just seems worse because there's no getting away from it in all-seated grounds or, like has been pointed out, the gulf between players and fans is now bigger than ever and so any negative feeling is magnified.
Have we ever been this bad before though? Even in 86-87 I don't remember us being this appalling.
Whilst not condoning this behavious (some of it makes me cringe), I thnik it's because the modern day footballer is so far detatched from your average supporter. When I started going down, I could cycle to Bodymoor Heath is the school holidays and watch them train up close, then wait for them to drive out in their Rovers and grab some autographs, with most of them happy to stop and chat. Nowadays everything is fenced off so you feel miles away from them, then if they do stop in their Audi Q7's or brand new Range Rovers you are lucky if they bother to make eye contact with you as they give their autograph.When they earned a reasonably moderate wage back in the day, I could forgive almost anything on the pitch because they were my heroes and were doing something I could aspire to, but they were also regulay guys. Nowadays the first sight of a mis-placed pass or a half-hearted attempt to win the ball and my first thought is nearly always 'that twat earns in a week what I earn in 3 years, and is doing something I'd do for free', maybe a lot of people think the same.