Baneofthegame
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Also look at the treatment Carrick 'the crab' and Rooney got. Ronaldo was getting a lot of abuse in 04 and many were wanting him sold, calling him a one trick pony with no end product. The racist abuse our own fans have levelled at the likes of Young and Lukaku on platforms like Twitter is awful but sadly predictable. Think Ben Foster interviewed Cleverley recently and I'm sure he touched on this, saying how much grief he got and how it affected him.
Our fans also gave Fergie tons of stick around the same time. Vividly recall him being called a dinosaur by our own supporters.
A club as big and successful as ours is going to get a large amount of followers and these followers are different to fans. There's no community or cultural connection to the club so it's purely about winning. If the team isn't winning then it has zero use to these people, they need a winning team so they can make more tiktom videos and 'banter' people online. That's where their enjoyment of football comes from. We have an embarrassingly bad fan base, overall, but I think that is just a by product of being a huge club. The likes of Barca etc probably have similar sections of their fan base.
The majority of fans I meet in person are the complete opposite of this, online people can say what they want with little or no repercussions so that’s generally why so much rubbish gets posted.
Which is the same for any large club.