I couldn't watch the game uesterday, so I sort of followed it on Twitter, here and the Guardian.
It was a truly bizarre experience. There must have been some hundreds of people desperate to share with me, and other viewers, how rubbing we are as a team, how our players are c**ts to a man, and how stupid our amateur is. Indeed,without context one would have imagined that one was seeing the fall out from an awful side losing their 13th game I a row.
My point isn't so much that Arsenal supporters are generally obnoxious spoils brats; we can take that as a given. It's more to wonder whether people in general have always been ignorant fools, and social media has simply given them a platform upon which to express their foolishness, or whether social media has, I'm some way, turned ordinary people into ranting cretins.
Opinions like, 'Flamini's having a poor game' now seem utterly redundant. A player having a poor game is now a 'c**t' upon whom one wishes a career-threatening injury. Where will it all end?
I don't recall so much rubbing.
That's an autocorrect issue, but you probably got that.
I'd like to see more rubbing. Perhaps Giroud.
Gabriel was rubbing the ball a few times, instead of kicking it.
He will win us the league. When Gabriel plays 90 mins.
Arsenal have conceded just one goal when Gabriel played all 90 minutes.
The matches:
0-0 v Liverpool
1-0 v Newcastle
3-0 v Man Utd
2-1 v Everton
2-0 v B’mouth
0-0 Southampton
2-0 v B’mouth
I think you are spot on with regard to this:
It's more to wonder whether people in general have always been ignorant fools, and social media has simply given them a platform upon which to express their foolishness
Oh for the halcyon days of my youth where you'd avoid the sort of establishments such persons would frequent...
It's because, in the sheer Ryan Babel of the internet, you have to shout to be heard at all
So simply saying 'Flamini's having a poor game' won't do. You have to be more extreme to get noticed.
That said, following the game on here is always a bad move. I tried to check the score yesterday and briefly looked on here and assumed we must have been suffering a terrible time. Imagine my surprise, then, when I looked at the real score to discover we were actually winning.
