My question to this gentleman was ‘what is the point of booing, and what will it achieve?’
I’m sure Martinez, Whelan and the players are fully aware that the supporters aren’t happy when there’s a bad result, so is it a message to the press? We only get five thousand on for cup games, and three thousand of those boo their own team and manager.
Scenario: You are a big fan of a band – you have all their albums – you read all the Press about them and about their big homes and lifestyle.
They are playing near you and you scrape up the money to go and see them.
But on the night they amble around clearly uninterested. Chords go astray – the vocalist forgets half the lyrics. They don’t perform anything you recognise. They clearly can’t be bothered and at the end stroll off unconcerned.
Question: What do you do?
a) Applaud wildly and say how brilliant they are and they’ve just had an off night, or
b) Let them know this just isn’t good enough, despite the fact that you’ll carry on buying their albums?
