Wrong question.
People explaining their actions on here are only doing so because sad needy online trolls are criticising their actions to make themselves feel better about their own lives.
Your question should be why are the needy wannabe superfans criticising other blues ?
Doesn’t happen in real life.
That’s a lot of incorrect conjecture there.
I’m neither sad nor needy nor a troll nor do I need to make myself feel better about my own life.
I’m also not any sort of superfan nor a wannabe one.
Blues criticise other Blues all the time. There’s nowt up with that. We’re not all some sort of untouchable infallible delicate creatures who melt anytime anyone says anything that’s not 100% positive about us. You yourself have just criticised me as the OP and anyone who’s contributed to this thread in agreement with the sentiment, and it hasn’t made me think of a sentence to deconstruct your personality.
Plus this isn’t about me or others who stay to applaud; it’s about the players, and the player-fan bond. Which makes your point a bit redundant.
Pep’s already come out this week and said that the players are enjoying playing at the Etihad more this season because the atmosphere being noticeably better. It’s all about forming that bond between the fans and the team. And I bet they’d all feel an increase in that bond with their efforts being attended to the end and applauded for afterwards.
I’m sure a lot of them have a nice tidy bank account to soften the blow if we don’t, but for players at our level it’s about more than just money, it’s about winning trophies and becoming legends of the club, legends of the sport, and with the fans and leaving a lasting legacy, but I also think it’s just as important with us fans in having the same impact with and meaning to the players.
Plus this sort of bond is maybe something that’s missing a bit when it comes to us going that extra mile and finally winning the CL. Think about it, we’ve had all the ingredients over the last decade to win it, but we have fallen short every single year. Do the players lack that final bit of belief that we are completely intertwined with them and “together” (a club motto for a decade now), something that would simply be in their subconscious but something that gives them that extra 1%? Because those involved in sport are constantly talking about all the 1%’ers. All those extra 1%’ers you can get hold of and utilise, despite being just an extra 1%, are fucking huge!
Maybe not, maybe that’s bollocks, but I’m dead certain that 30,000 people getting up and leaving in the last ten minutes of every home game is never ever going to build it.
There’s a fella called Jamie Jones-Buchanan who played for Leeds Rhinos in rugby league, he’s now a coach and pundit after retiring from the game. Something he always talks about are those extra 1%’ers. When he played he always used to get his team to do loads of things that contributed to it all: celebrating the little wins within a game, at half time all the team gather on the half way line and jog to the changing rooms together as a team, doing a lap of honour after every game win lose or draw, to name but a few, and also the fans contributing to all of it n’all… he and his Leeds side won
everything in the game.
