In my cynical nature I thought you guys would maybe have been over the top in your condemnation of the tifo throwing to distract attention from the results/ performances etc but instead it was swept aside with a "well Chelsea fans used to do loads worse" - a rather surprising attitude especially Steff who usually wants to hone in on the human aspect of things.
I just find it crazy that grown ups who presumably have jobs and families suddenly think it's okay to throw whatever is given to them at people trying to do their jobs. Do ya think the Spurs players see that and think "What a great bunch of fans we have"?
And I'm not so sure we can blame society or people not liking Australia for people not being delighted with the current state of affairs but that's only my opinion.
Football is changing for everyone, pressure is there for every team, particularly the underperformed ones and fixture congestion is what big clubs have to deal with. None of these things are exclusive to us. Whether we label something a reason or an excuse it doesn't change the circumstances, perhaps it makes it feel better for those discussing it if they are trying to newspeak their way out of negativity.
You can't be tight defensively whilst losing as many games as we have, the lack of clean sheets and the factual record of set piece goals conceded over the last two seasons attest to that. We might look good in certain metrics but how it filters through to the points on the table is crucial, and the goal difference is fascinating, but not the crucial part of the equation..
Good points on Bergvall, yeah he's looked fine running around a bit in games where the story has already been written. In some ways it's hard getting up to the speed of a game as a sub but in others, you can stand out if you do the basics well if the 1st team have not been capable of doing so up until that point in the game. It's different from the start and Sunday will hopefully be Bergvall showing he can can do it when it matters.
On telling someone verbually abusing Ange / players to shut the fudge up, I'm not really sure that solves a situation. The abusive person doesn't normally go "Oh, do you know what, I definitely should shut the fudge up, thank you good sir for making me see the error of my ways". It's unpleasant and cringeworthy though, I agree on that 100%.
I feel a bit of a "If you don't have faith in the current project, you're part of the problem" from the pod, and it's an opinion which you're all entitled to of course. I just don't know how long that stance remains viable if we show no signs of improvement. You're not a bad fan for wanting your team to improve, the idea is to progress from one season to the next, to be moving in the right direction..
Interesting points on the anger at the stadium. It'll always be a what could've been - just when the lane was becoming a fortress we shifted to a stadium that our delicate players just couldn't cope with playing at, for long term financial gain whilst bricking it in the short to medium term.
