Lucky1985
Winger
I’m interested to learn where in your ‘honest and semi-objective’ opinion the line is drawn behind the club and the business; are the players part of the club or the business? what about the youth team?Coaching staff? Manager? The medical staff? The scouting team? Director of football?My sense is the football club is something separate from the Business and the Club belongs to the supporters and if the Business folded, the Club would go on in one form or another. Most criticism, or what you call hate is directed at the Business and its not your child, or, does it help when so many people self identify with the Business and has led many supporters to take any criticism of the club personally and its that, which has given the ownership such an easy ride.
So its toxic because we have a division in the fans, with around maybe a third who support the Club and hate the Business. With two thirds of fans on here who see the club and business as the same and are incapable of critical thinking or rational thought and why you see so much wishful thinking.
I try to be honest and used to visit the site once in a blue moon. After the playoffs, I was foaming and watched the fury of fans after the playoff defeat get steered by a clique of fans to backing the Business that masquerades itself as Sunderland AFC and joined the site as I've stopped attending the game to try and chuck in a few honest and semi-objective observations.
Who is ‘us’ and who is ‘them’? Clearly as I’m am ‘incapable of critical thinking or rational thought’ I could do with some training off an honest and semi-objective poster like you