The Mings v Torres debate is likely to go on forever, but lets not forget the fella on the other side who isn't exactly fault free.
Konsa has added a nasty habit into his play where he'll go down at the slightest touch, then wave his arms in the air demanding a foul/booking from the ref. Prior to this, he was like a brick wall on legs - Really needs to stamp that out of his game.
The Mings vs Torres debate is a case study for everything that is wrong with the internet, and by extension, the world.
It's a debate that only really gets attention when someone takes an extreme point of view, which then encourages more extreme points of view, either in support of that viewpoint, or against it. Once people have broadcast their opinion on a public forum, that cements it - as a species, we don't tend to like confronting the possibility that we're wrong, so that first 'broadcast' becomes our default position (even more so when we are challenged on it). It then informs other opinions, before all of a sudden, whole swathes of our personality are influenced by a couple of posts we made. All spawning from an extreme point of view that we feel we need to make in order to get attention. (Because if we don't get attention, what's the point of saying anything?)
We didn't have this in the beforetimes. Or if we did, it was on a much smaller scale. I remember my Dad getting called out in the Trinity for criticising Dalian Atkinson in his early days with us, and then that cemented his position. His pride wouldn't let him back down, so was always harsher on Dalian than our other players. These days, we all get to publicly shout every half-baked theory* that creeps into out head, and far too often, as soon as it's 'out there' we abandon all critical thought on the subject and just find new ways of saying the same thing over and over again. Or, in many cases, just keep saying it in exactly the same way, because there are only so many ways to say something that you haven't given much thought to.
This isn't the right place for this post. No good will come from writing this, and it won't change anything. I just find it interesting. This is one of the best places on the internet, in my opinion, so I just find it interesting that even here, where the debate is nuanced and thoughtful in a way that I don't see in many other places, the same tropes are still played out. All it takes is one poster with an axe to grind (or too much time on their hands) to derail almost any topic. How much power does that give them? Maybe that's the point. We all get manipulated by people that haven't thought things through.
I think, what I'm trying to say is: I really like Pau and Mings. I wish one of them was right-footed.
*This post falls perfectly into that category, especially with the over-the-top opening sentence. Apologies.
