I must say that I’ve really not understood this virtue signaling that fans do over other fans like there is a fanbase that will honestly not behave exactly how City fans are behaving now.
Fanbases that have defended racists at some point, some that have defended an abuser, some that defended an accused rapist, some that stood behind a player that hit and killed a person with his car, these guys are virtue signaling City fans too. Let us be serious please.
Please, we can make our points about how City are cheats without this nonsense moral superiority over their fans. Fans are tribal and will stand with their club.
This article is spot on, but there’s one other reason why Messi hate has spread like wildfire this World Cup:
~15 years ago with the GOAT debate at its peak, hundreds of millions of young fans worldwide picked CR7 as their idol while he and Messi went band for band.
And the battle was legendary.
But for the past decade, Ronaldo fans have watched their GOAT slowly decline while an aging Messi remained on top of the world, surpassing Ronaldo on individual awards and lifting the game’s most prestigious trophy, which Ronaldo could never get near.
Ronaldo’s millions of supporters now roam social media like a leaderless army who has lost the war.
With the debate on the pitch settled and Ronaldo’s legacy capped, his fans desperately undermine Messi’s achievements in a futile attempt to close the ever-widening gap between stars.
And I don’t blame them.
But that is why, as football fans everywhere enjoy the glittering sunset of Messi’s unparalleled career, millions of Ronaldo diehards are reduced to complaints about referees and TikTok aura edits from 2017, while they watch a little boy from Rosario forever eclipse their childhood hero and take his rightful place as the greatest footballer to ever live.
4 similiar challenges, 4 consistent consequences, No complaints from either teams, yet only one "controversy".
I wonder who exactly is calling it controversial?
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