Hate towards footballers

[Mutchy]

Inside the Premier League unit hunting online trolls who threaten players

The BBC meets the troll-hunting unit that striker Neal Maupay called when his family were threatened online.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[berwickwolf]

Matt Jarvis was on 5live this morning talking about it and the abuse he got. I missed the first bit of the interview, but I think he was talking about when in London

 

[Teddy Ruxpin]

Hate is an odd thing and football certainly has the ability to generate plenty of it.

Its sad that this is now transferable from the terraces and pubs/workplace to actually reach players and effect their lives. These are people after all, not robots

I remember watching us against Arsenal during the McCarthy years and I don't think I have ever felt such hatred towards a player* as I did towards Fabregas. I could (if I had the physical ability) have run down the SB and ran on the pitch to punch him.

Theres alot of extremity on line, the written format and relative anonymity of it doesn't lend itself to well balanced debate, often pushing people down extreme views quite quickly. As the internet quote goes, everyone got used to insulting people on line without getting a punch in the face.

*The Notlob striker aside who appears to revel in his shenanigans during the play offs

 

[Highlandwolf2]

If you had stood next to the Bolton ****** as I did in W H Smiths, Inverness the last thing you would want to do is even thinking of hitting him. Built like an out house...

 

[Jefe]

I wonder if this is the same online team who are spying on fans' sociopolitical / non-Football views and referring them to clubs to be served with three-year stadium bans?

 

[Madmalc]

Footballers have a team of people provided by the Premier league to deal with the trolls.
There will be many victims of trolls outside of football who wish they had access to something similar.

 

[Woodsetton Wolf]

I hated Lee Hughes and saw him out many times a complete *****, saw him being chased once down the waterfront, I’m guessing they hated him too

 

[Mile End Wanderer]

I hated Lee Hughes and saw him out many times a complete *****, saw him being chased once down the waterfront, I’m guessing they hated him too

Waterfront merry hill? I remember that night well lol

 

[Woodsetton Wolf]

Waterfront merry hill? I remember that night well lol

Yes mate, so many good nights up there, late 90s 00s

 

[BlahBlah]

It's not just hate towards footballers is it? It's hate towards anybody, and it's so easy in a decentralised world where every pleb not only as an outlet for their own frustrations at their fingertips, they can also see those people who are doing better at life than they are.
It's more to do with what society we've created, or what the internet has forced us to accept has always been there under the surface but previously had a lid on it.

I think privacy and identity is going to be a massive issue in coming years, along with scamming and deception.
If everything becomes even more ultra-accessible then more and more people will be protecting their lives by disappearing inside themselves. It will become a situational irony to start avoiding the system that makes everything easier.

 

[Aurum Lupus]

Yes mate, so many good nights up there, late 90s 00s

I was the Asst Manager in PJs Moon and 6 Pence early 00's. Had some great nights out down there!!

 

[Mile End Wanderer]

Yes mate, so many good nights up there, late 90s 00s

Was great for a time

 

[Woodsetton Wolf]

Was great for a time

Yes when they started adding boxing machine’s in some bars , in the late 00s, it definitely went downhill fast