Hating United staff/players

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Is really weird, at least on a personal level.

I can understand disliking them due to not performing to expected standards but not hating them.

Every time a player/member of staff leaves, we get posters on here posting cruel goodbye messages. Only a few players/staff actually merit this hate but others don't deserve insults and the like.

Why is it that people can't separate the professional side from the personal side?
 
People on here are way too emotional. Embarrassing reactions at times to people they've never met and are unaware of like 99% of that person's time in the job.
 
Just the modern way with posting on social media, forums etc

Everything is toxic hyperbole
 
Sad little lives with empty little minds. Talking in such hateful ways about strangers in charge of a sports team is bonkers.

Glazers deserve it all though xx
 
Are you sure it's hate though? or is it just contempt? For example, I think Sancho is a giant bellend for his recent actions, and when he goes it'll be good riddance, but I don't "hate" him... lifes too short and its too much effort to hate people, especially people you've never met.

Though I hate do the Glazers. They're a bunch of cnuts.

Oh and the Tories, obviously
 
Critical assessments are fine. Jokes are fine. What I can't understand is vitriol. You'd think that some of these players and staff members personally went out of their way to ruin the lives of some posters.

"It's only game, why you heff to be mad?"
 
The difference between supporting a football club or having an unhealthy parasocial relationship with an entity whose success is somehow "yours" and doubly so with its failures.

Weird but given footballs omnipresence not entirely surprising.
 
Solius said:
People on here are way too emotional. Embarrassing reactions at times to people they've never met and are unaware of like 99% of that person's time in the job.
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Like I mentioned in the other thread which I presume prompted this one, I largely agree. Although in the case of Richard Arnold, from personal experience and from the experiences of others I know who worked at United during his time there in various roles, he is a legitimate prick. The assumptions of others without personal experiences of him are, on this occassion, correct.
 
decorativeed said:
Like I mentioned in the other thread which I presume prompted this one, I largely agree. Although in the case of Richard Arnold, from personal experience and from the experiences of others I know who worked at United during his time there in various roles, he is a legitimate prick. The assumptions of others without personal experiences of him are, on this occassion, correct.
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Well at least you've got something to back it up!
 
I don't hate any of them as people as I don't even know them. But within the context of football there are a lot of United players I dislike. Lack of work ethic and professionalism are what rub me up the wrong way more than anything
 
horsechoker said:
Is really weird, at least on a personal level.

I can understand disliking them due to not performing to expected standards but not hating them.

Every time a player/member of staff leaves, we get posters on here posting cruel goodbye messages. Only a few players/staff actually merit this hate but others don't deserve insults and the like.

Why is it that people can't separate the professional side from the personal side?
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I don't think MOST people actually "hate" the players as it's difficult to truly hate someone you don't know or interact with.

But there is a sporting "hate" that's perfectly valid to feel, just like I hate Andy Robertson. It also doesn't help in United's case that we've hardly had very many likeable teams in the past decade. Even someone like Rashford that's largely been beloved by our fanbase his entire career has gone through stretches of not even bothering to try in matches which turns some off of him.
 
I always think what you choose to put out to the world reflects our mentality. A lot of it is due to our current state but still way to personal. For me I don’t have the energy for it, who suffers after all?
 
Good thread, there was a lot of viterol toward Henderson and McTominay, not least because of the imbeciles on United Stand peddling a narrative against players.

Arnold has also left us after 16 years. He may have underperformed in the year as CEO but I'm sure he was genuinely trying to add value in his long time with the club and probably got a lot of thing right in the roles he had.
 
I think the hate on Ed Woodward is justified, since he was main culprit for many things
For Arnold, we barely know what he did/done for the club except the short time on CEO position.
 
I pointed on that issue couple of times regarding our former managers. Fans are extremely happy when Lvg, Jose and Moyes lose the game.
Among former players Zaha is odd one.

I do understand dislike (i think that hate is a strong word. Dislike is much closer to the truth) about some players who really disrespected club like Ronaldo or Di Maria.
 
The nature of utd’s decline has everything to do with it. To go from the best ran club to the worst over the space of 10 years is a recipe for frustration and hatred. You have one of the biggest fan bases in the world with incredibly high standards set by SAF getting repeatedly disappointed by incompetence year after year, the compounded vitriol towards the people in charge is not surprising in the slightest.
 
These people are in public roles, and criticism is legitimate when it is deserved. However, No matter what somebody has done, getting personal is pathetic.
Also, the chants about people dying are distasteful. We should be better than that.
 
Having worked at Old Trafford for over a decade (2010-2021) there is a lot to be frustrated about, it was a dream job that started turning sour around 2016, the culture changed, this coincided with the rise of the money men, bringing in horrendous departmental managers to do their bidding, funnelling much needed money from wherever they can find it upwards to their bosses, the handling of covid was disgusting (yet they spun it into wonderful PR) after that they hemorrhaged staff, many of whom hate the place with a passion, I speak to people at the club daily, it's worse than ever by all accounts. I wouldn't describe what I feel as hateful, just a bit sad, sort of inevitable, where there is that much money there will always be people skillfully directing it whilst appearing to have the fans/staff/communities best interests at heart.
 
luke511 said:
The nature of utd’s decline has everything to do with it. To go from the best ran club to the worst over the space of 10 years is a recipe for frustration and hatred. You have one of the biggest fan bases in the world with incredibly high standards set by SAF getting repeatedly disappointed by incompetence year after year, the compounded vitriol towards the people in charge is not surprising in the slightest.
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Theres some truth in this, but even when we were winning titles year in and year out there was a sizeable amount of the online fan base that were vitriolic towards the likes of Fletcher, O'Shea, Park, Carrick, Hargreaves, Young, Welbeck, Valencia etc, there were even nasty comments at SAF (usually when he didn't sign a player that was being linked with us, and people raged out because they didn't get the sweet dopamine hit from seeing Quaresma or Benzema or Hazard unveiled in a United kit)
 
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