#3570

Is that Xhaka you’re referring to? because i was thinking the same.

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#3571

Isn’t there a chance Dier will face punishment, and didn’t Xhaka just get a fine?

I don’t think the two situations are close enough to compare, anyway.

#3572

I’m talking about the thing that happened this season at the arsenal game

#3573

Must have missed that incident completely, sorry.

#3574

Oh wait the stuff where he was getting booed? Didn’t realise he received any punishment for doing what he did.

#3575

Wasn’t talking about punishment, more media treatment, response by fans etc

#3576

Thought Xhaka had received a lot of support at the time. People will have different opinions and different opinions on very different events though I guess.

#3577

nah he was crucified by the Arsenal ‘fans’, certainly online, they only really forgave him when Arteta arrived and his performances/confidence improved. Even now you’ll have some who are still outraged that he’d stand up for himself like that

It’s the underlying attitude that because players are paid a lot that the fans are entitled to say/shout what they like about them - there’s definitely a bit of a disconnect here in terms of the reaction to Dier and the reaction to Xhaka

#3578

remember when Eboue was booed off.

#3579

Arsenal do it a lot though, innit. Booing their own players.

#3580

Yeah absolutely, and they never seem to gain any self-awareness about it. That Eboue incident should have been the end of it, it was so disturbing to watch that.

#3581

he was in tears coming off the pitch, wasn’t he? still stands out as one of the worst things I’ve seen in football.

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#3582

Arsenal fans were being utter pricks to Adebayor less than a year after the Eboue incident

#3583

The differing opinions on Dier along club lines online, especially on Twitter, is really, really fucking weird, but of course in absolutely no way surprising.

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#3586

Juve saying the quiet part loud here.

Knobheads

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#3587

great goal that

not sure what the defenders could’ve done differently, their positioning was fine right?

they just got absolutely done by terrifying levels of acceleration

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#3588

That’s Arsenal fans though. They love crucifying their players/managers.

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#3589

United and Liverpool have been arguing this to UEFA for years. Successfully as well. A couple of seasons ago they changed the prize money to award “historic success”.

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