There’s this weird notion that you absolutely HAVE to and MUST love every player on your team in order to be “a true fan.”
To me, this is a wild position to have and as much as I try to understand where people that think that way are coming from, I just can’t comprehend it.You can still love and support the team more than ever, and also not vibe with one, two, three or X amount of players.
For several reasons this might be the season where I’ve been the most impressed by the team and it might also be the season where I have felt the most disconnect with the squad. To put it in other words: this is the squad who has the most amount of players that I don’t necessarily think are good enough for our club, but that means absolutely nothing. Not only does it mean nothing because my opinion is irrelevant and based on nothing but also because at the current moment in time, I would not want any other player in their place.
This squad is what it is and I mean that in an incredibly positive way. Every single player has been paramount to where we are and we are in a great place. In a way, every player is like a decision. We are where we are because of every decision we have made, and some are great decisions and some are not to the greatest but all of them make us who we are. I would like to think that I honor that, but I have to admit that I don’t always do that. I don’t do it privately and that’s fine but I can do a better job publicly.
Expressing my opinion is different than having one. I have strong opinions on several players but I don’t need to tell you about it because it’s not important or constructive at all, but that depends on who I express myself. Moreover there is always context behind the opinions that can’t be summarized properly in a single tweet.
My point is that it’s OK to not love every player. You don’t have to love them to support them. I think it’s actually a sign of a “true fan” or whatever that means, to not settle and strive for the best options out there, biased or not, and express those feelings in the most kind way possible.
And that last sentence is mostly for myself. I can be nicer and kinder.
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