Booing our players...
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I never defended the fans booing.
Delighted this hasn't turned into another match goers vs armchairs btw.
Do you think it has anything to do with their respective styles? Rooney running around vs Nani who likes to be a bit flash?
I agree about the contrast, the crowd at OT can be in turns responsible for standing ovation following a Ronaldo [the Brazilian version] hat trick and rudely chanting over SAF about Tevez.
On top of that you also have to say Rooney will fight, Nani will hide. That's the more telling aspect of their styles in my opinion.
"Fully understandable".
Nani doesn't hide at all though. He takes the ball again and has another shot, etc. Thats why they boo'd him, not because he went missing like Young. Young doesnt get boo'd doing that
We didn't even boo the team after the 1-6 vs City. I was a bit surprised but it just shows gow frustrated the fans are. We just have to be patient I guess.
Understandable in the heat of the moment, yes. Was it right to do so? No.
Maybe I should have explained it better. In terms of what teammates want from each other. He doesn't hide from the ball, he hides from the battle. I have never seen a player go into challenges that he is favourite to win so softly (Actually Young would push him close).
Never really understood booing or abusing your own players. In the end we should be trying to get the best performance possible from them to get the results. Booing them is hardly going to do that. If anything fans should just be silent as he walks off and then massively cheer the player that comes on. Cheer the good things and give a positive flow towards the team to get them believing as well that they can pull the game back.
I can support booing the team - at half time or at the end of a match. But I can't understand how anyone can possibly boo a player walking off the pitch, when there were 7-8 out there who was equally bad.
It's just the logic of a fecking simpleton. It's not understandable in the slightest and those who did it should be embarrassed and are better off not turning up next time.
There is a huge difference. The tiresome bollox on 'United websites' does not make the slightest difference to the players or team thank god. Fans booing players or the team, can.
Mindless we have not long won the league and this team has given us unbelievable success to boo them is nothing short of a disgrace imo!
Sometimes boo's at the officiating can be misconstrued as booing at the players. Not saying that this is one of those times but it definitely happens.
Bet at least half of those that booed fecked off at 2-1 down and all.
feck them, hopefully they stay away next time and a real fan gets their seat.
feck them, hopefully they stay away next time and a real fan gets their seat.
I thought Nani was being booed for trying to make a scene of sulking really slowly off the pitch when we were a goal down and trying to chase the game, in which case fair enough. He'd played like complete shite and then decided to be a selfish little tart when he was rightly subbed. THe booing only erupted when he started his little sulk walk, and at that point lets be honest, anyone not booing was probably too busy swearing at him to do so.
He also got booed for trying a shot from about 60 yards out, which he was only able to do because he spent most of the game playing miles too narrow and ruining the team's shape.
He also got booed for trying a shot from about 60 yards out, which he was only able to do because he spent most of the game playing miles too narrow and ruining the team's shape.
When was the last time a player was booed off at OT for walking rather than running off 
It's bullying. If they have to boo, boo the whole team, you win as a team and you lose as a team, not that I agree with booing at all. To pick on a certain player is disgraceful. This is not the first time United fans have looked for a scapegoat. Why they are picking on Nani, when he hasn't been playing, god only knows. He wasn't responsible for the other bad performances.
Are they going to boo Rooney every time he tries to chip a goalie? De Gea when he flaps at a cross. Did Evans get booed for hitting a clearance against Crouch, Jones for giving away a stupid free kick that led to a goal. They are looking for a scapegoat.
I dunno, but he wasn't just walking, he was making a point of walking really slowly, and feck knows what that point was because that was one of the worst performances I've seen from a United player.
There's plenty of times I've been at games and the crowd have got on our own players backs when they've taken it upon themselves to behave like bellends. Ronaldo's tantrums/floor hugging sessions were never well received.
There's plenty of times I've been at games and the crowd have got on our own players backs when they've taken it upon themselves to behave like bellends. Ronaldo's tantrums/floor hugging sessions were never well received.
The away support is fantastic. They would not do that.
Someone rang MUTV last night and told them to stay away and that we didn't want them supporting United.
No, they weren't. They were watching their team play poorly and frustrated that one of the players was seemingly more interested in making a scene of himself than helping to turn the game around.
I don't know about other fans but I have infinitely more patience for players making mistakes than I do for them acting like spoilt children...and I don't have an agenda against Nani at all. I want him to play more...but not if he's going to play like that.
Nani has been 'treading water' for ages, I dont really understand as he has so much ability.
Problem with Nani is he's a confidence player, not sure booing will help him. Unfortunately he needs to be more thick skinned. I don't think he doesn't care, but when he isn't performing well his shoulders slump and he let's it get to him, instead of knuckling down. I agree that if fans see effort, they will forgive mistakes and the odd bad performance.
You wonder why they signed him to another contract. You presume it was to make sure they got good money for him if sold.
And that should be the medicine he has to take, not being booed by a few hundred spoilt twats, who don't think that maybe they should actually support a player whose had a bad game rather than feel their entitled to boo them off.
I was as frustrated as anyone with him yesterday, but hearing a player booed off like that at OT is a particularly low point for me.
I can't believe people are trying to justify it, booing your own player is the act of a spoiled, self entitled tosser, and not a supporter.
I was surprised he walked off instead of leaving the pitch fast. But you do not boo your own players, end of. Leave that to Real Madrid fans.
Yeah, but from what I could tell he wasn't being booed off initially. The boing didn't start when his number came up, it started after it became clear he was going to take as long as he possibly could to sulk his way to the touchline. Something he had no entitlement to do considering the score and his indisciplined, feeble performance. He deserved to have the crowd telling him they wont put up with that, tbh.
I can't say I've seen fans boo one of our players off in that situation before, but that's partly because I can't remember one of our players ever being so feeble as to try and sulk off like that when we were chasing a game. I can't imagine any set of home fans taking particularly kindly to something like that. I suspect he'd have got an earful from some of his team mates as well.
Earful from his team mates and management is fine, that's their job.
Supporters jobs are to support our players and team.
For me there's no justification for it, other players have had equally bad games, other players have walked off the pitch rather than run. Booing a player off at home is a new low in terms of spoilt cuntishness.
Supporters jobs are to support our players and team.
For me there's no justification for it, other players have had equally bad games, other players have walked off the pitch rather than run. Booing a player off at home is a new low in terms of spoilt cuntishness.
Since when supporting players is a job? Do they get paid for it?
In Italy players get booed if they perform badly. Same thing in Spain and I wont be surprised if the same thing happens in SA. I guess half a dozen WC wins play in their favor don't they?
"We were 1-0 up and there are one or two stray passes and they are getting on the players' backs. It's not on," Keane said.
"Some people come to Old Trafford and I don't think they can spell football let alone understand it. As I've said, away from home our fans are what I would call the hardcore fans - but at home they have a few drinks and a prawn sandwich and don't realise what's going on out on the pitch and that's a worry."
"Some people come to Old Trafford and I don't think they can spell football let alone understand it. As I've said, away from home our fans are what I would call the hardcore fans - but at home they have a few drinks and a prawn sandwich and don't realise what's going on out on the pitch and that's a worry."
Supporters don't have a job. They turn up because they want to see their team win. They don't have any obligation to keep their frustration to themselves, whether anyone likes it or not.
You don't boo your own players because generally it just isn't very helpful, but equally, when a player is getting on the crowd's nerves, they will always get stick. People are acting as if this doesn't happen...everywhere I've sat in Old Trafford there's always been no end of abuse aimed at one of our own players if they do something rubbish, or sometimes if someone near by just happens not to like them or think they're not doing well enough. This happens ten fold if one of the players decides to do something prattish.
Nani was certainly pushing his luck yesterday. It was like an exhibition of prattishness. He refused to stay in his position, he never bothered to track anyone back. He had that stupid shot. He lost the ball on the haf way line with most of his team ahead of the play, and threw himself on the floor instead of getting back to try and amend for his error...he lost the ball by the touchline and just stood there as if it wasn't his job to do anything about it. He pretended to be injured for no reason other than to make a scene of himself. The strop walk was probably the last straw, and to be honest the strop walk annoyed me a LOT more than the booing it received.
Jesus Christ you lot are boringly pedantic at times. Forget I said 'job'.
'Supporters' there's a clue in the title if you look hard enough, they should turn up to support their team, not just 'to see their team win' those people are called glory hunters. At 2-1 down you get behind your team and 'support' them, not single out a player and boo them off.
Say what you want noodle, booing your own players off is Prawn sandwich brigade at their finest, nothing more.
'Supporters' there's a clue in the title if you look hard enough, they should turn up to support their team, not just 'to see their team win' those people are called glory hunters. At 2-1 down you get behind your team and 'support' them, not single out a player and boo them off.
Say what you want noodle, booing your own players off is Prawn sandwich brigade at their finest, nothing more.
Supporters owe the players NOTHING. They are actually paying their salary and are entitled to voice their opinion in any way possible (as long as its legal). If Manchester United went financially bust then I can assure you that there's a bigger chance that the supporters would stick to the club rather then the players.
Booing players is common in Italy, Spain and (I think) South America and guess what they are the most successful nations in national football terms. I guess that keeping players on their toes does work to improve them.
And with all due respect, I refuse to take lessons on how to support Manchester United from Feckin Roy Keane. We're talking about a person who nearly fecked off to Juventus because the club initially refused to give him 100 grand a week. I wonder how many prawn sandwiches you can buy with that.
You're living in a fantasy world where only "glory hunters" give their own players stick from the stands.
It's happened at literally every game I've ever been to, and it's usually the season ticket holders who are by a long way the worst, because they're the ones who actually care enough to be getting wound up.
They'd still be there if the team were bottom of the table, and they'd probably be angrier and shout/swear/boo more. Others wouldn't, but it's pointless trying to pretend it's out of being "spoilt" rather than out of frustration.
Nani was being a bellend yesterday during a time when the team needed to pull together, some of the fans obviously felt that he needed help to be made aware of that. I wouldn't have booed but it was hardly some great injustice or non comprehendable event. The fans were frustrated, Nani did something to infuriate them, and got a reaction for it.
All of which may be true, but it doesn't change the fact that people who boo their team are dicks.