Proper mates will, like mine congratulate you, it's the "social media" mates who disappear into the inky blackness. People you're friends with on Facebook but don't really see all that often. The number of "Champ20ns", "Put back in your place", "It's all gone quiet from the bitters" statuses and comments that appeared on my timeline after the Arsenal game was unbelieveable. Nothing from them for months but, as soon as they felt safe that their gloating couldn't ever possibly come back and bite them they were out in droves. Now, after we won 6 in a row, and they dropped 8 points, there's a deathly hush from them. No congratulations, no begruding acceptance that the better side won, nothing at all in fact, except for cowardly silence. Ignore the matter as if it never happened.