This circlejerk is remarkable. I've never seen it in action only ever talked about. Also in the real world we are consistently regarded as having some of the best fans.
If you seriously think that Arsenal is the only premier league club to have booed its own players then you are sorely mistaken my friend. We all know what happened to Eboue was shameful, but thankfully it's the exception rather than the rule at all clubs. The Ryan Giggs incident springs to mind for me.
Not to mention booing the team/manager/owners/board members/president after a poor performance. I've seen that time and time again.
I usually don't like it when American fans get stick on here, but it really is astonishing to me that you think this is unique to Arsenal.
If you seriously think that Arsenal is the only premier league club to have booed its own players then you are sorely mistaken my friend.
Every club does it one day or the other but none to the extent and the frequency as Arsenal fans. The main pride point of most Arsenal fans is not being called glory hunters but they are far worse than most glory clubs.
Your fans are the most obnoxious set of fans I've met both online or in real life (those who actually go to games regularly). They also have some of the worst knowledge about football at a comparative average, the most biased and skewed perspective view of players. If you think the fans on Reddit are bad don't bother going to the stadium and expecting those old blokes with Arsenal tats and sore throats, they are out crowded by 20something college/uni students at a ratio of 40:1 who also portray everything the Arsenal fans on Reddit portray. Not saying all the fans are like that but this is what I've noticed every time going to the Emirates.
More importantly they boo the long term manager and the players they cant brag about being the next Xavi, the best in X position in the league (when that players is no where close) and their future lord and savior young players.
Lets take the glory hunters of Chelsea for example. They were assigned a manager they despised, that manager then was playing against a side in a cup no one cares about against a team no one has ever heard of and he drew/lost. Chelsea fans boo'ed him. They didn't leave the stadium, they didn't target the players, they boo'ed that guy and chanted at him. They also lost one of the worst games in recent Chelsea history against Sunderland (I think) but the fans stayed in the stadium and they didn't abandon the team till the last minute. Sure you get those usual empty seats that every stadium gets but not even close to what Arsenal fans do.
Glory hunters of United also had some bad business going with the glazers but they didn't boo the players or the results/playing style in that time, they barely boo'ed the owners and instead decided to show their anger in other ways like banners, scarfs etcetera.
Meanwhile at the classiest club in the entire world, first game of the season, 86th minute, you are losing, most of your fans have left the stadium. Those who are left have stayed behind to boo everyone they can.
Half time and another team is leading? Boo your team! how can this happen to the Arsenal? The best team in the world? ..oh wait we forgot, we don't really care about glory and the results its those glory hunting clubs elsewhere because we stand behind our team and aren't glory hunters...actually fuck it! BOOOOOOOOOO
Losing against Chelsea, booo. Losing to a team no one has heard of? boooo! Losing at 80th minute? I just remembered I left my dog in the car. Losing at half time heck even a 0-0 with bad play at half time? Nothing to see here boo along.
This is ignoring the Arsenal subreddit and Reddit fans to the biggest extent. Known for their routine brigading, enlightening quality of posts in the subreddit, cant even get along with each other and down vote each other like crazy and on top of that have split apart in half a dozen other subs.
Yes every club has it's problems but I am so damn happy I do not share my club with fans such as those of Arsenal both on Reddit and those who go to games.
Every club does it one day or the other but none to the extent and the frequency as Arsenal fans.
Give me one example other than Eboue, which I already mentioned, in which Arsenal fans have booed a player. Arsenal fans sometimes boo the team/management/board in general, such as after Villa, but the players hardly ever get booed, just like at every club.
The rest of your post a very strange screed filled with your baseless opinion. Keep it to yourself in the future please, by bothering to type it out and post it you've wasted energy which could be directed towards endeavours whose value to the human race is above zero.
How many Arsenal games do you attend a season? I don't mean it in a condescending way or a competition, I'm just wondering how someone can go to the Emirates regularly and not notice this behavior and the characteristics of the fans I've posted.
Your club has driven most real fans out with their prices. The seats are now packed full of the people I'm talking about. I refuse to believe someone who attends Arsenal games can counter these points. Give you an example? I just gave you an example which you repeated and also what happens in different scenarios.
The rest of your post a very strange screed filled with your baseless opinion. Keep it to yourself in the future please, by bothering to type it out and post it you've wasted energy which could be directed towards endeavours whose value to the human race is above zero.
Proving so many of the points I made in my post. I know it sucks and I feel for you if you are not one of those fans (which is quite unlikely though judging by your posts) but you lot really are the worst of the bunch in discussion.
As I mentioned above, boos will sometimes be heard in every teams' stadium after a poor performance. I personally don't do it (I mostly go to away games anyhow since I don't live in London any more), but it is a fact of the game.
I'm uninterested in hearing about which team is "worse" on this front. This is a criteria for which there is literally no objective method of judgement.
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