Sounded to me like the consensus was from the whole stadium, being in the upper tier you get that with boos. It seemed to happen before he came on.. Holtby must have thought they were booing him coming off.
That's what I was thinking actually. The boos happened when Holtby was coming off, but had pretty much stopped before he reached the end of the pitch, by the time Ade had taken a few steps onto the pitch there were cheers and clapping. At least, that's how it sounded to me.
I suppose it would be incredibly naive of me to hope that Holtby and Ade take that as the crowd were unhappy to see Holtby going off, but wanted to cheer and clap them both?
It was hilarious when Arsenal booed their own players, it still is funny that Chelsea boo their own players, it's really disappointing that we boo our own players. Considering how much we're going to be counting on Ade for the future it was a really strange thing to hear, especially given how diplomatic AVB has been and how well he has man managed everyone.
I'm not sure what people think booing is going to achieve in that situation... Some people seem to think AVB should have clashed with Ade on 4 occasions, on top of that the crowd should boo him and expect all that stuff to spur on someone like Ade? I don't get it, even if you hate Ade, it's not like we can exchange him for Falcao, so demotivating him seems strange. It's not like anyone even knows what happened anyway. AVB could have given him a few days off in an attempt to improve a manager-player relationship that AVB hopes will last for years and figured losing a few days of training and risking another 1-2 would be worth it. If you look at how AVB handled Lloris coming in and other situations, he generally takes a long term approach.
It's not like booing has ever helped anyway. Blackburn, Chelsea, the England World Cup team... Hell, if you want an example of how fragile footballers are mentally, Wayne Rooney's "loyal support" response to being booed during the world cup came as his form dipped for the majority of a season, the boos did not jerk him back into life. But that was booing a country anyway, a team you want to do well because it is
your country... Fans booing someone playing for a club that doesn't have that sort of connection seems so weird to me.
Considering we boo opposition players at the risk of inspiring them to play well to spite us, it seems strange we'd boo our own players... I just can't wrap my head around it, should we start cheering Arsenal/Chelsea players and any player that nearly breaks one of our players' legs? Maybe we could boo Bale and see if that convinces him to stay at the club? I really don't get why you'd boo someone that you need to play well.
