In conclusion: I think we can all agree that we’ll mostly support whatever our team does, whether it’s right or wrong, whether it’s classy or not. The difference I see is that many Madrid fans can also see when their team does wrong (just look at us condemning the actions of Cristiano and Sergio) but most Barcelona fans can’t (and it’s in their right not to). Imagine if the situation had been reversed. I would still say the same things, but the Barcelona fans would then say the complete opposite.
i changed my mind though. aside from the insinuations that barca fans are too blindly loyal to see their own flaws, i can't really fault her for either post. she takes every opportunity to point out all the unsportsmanlike things the opposition did, and glosses over the things that her own team did. isn't that what a supporter is supposed to do? it's like, the exact opposite approach from how i approach a paper. not like hundred-page thesis-scale papers, mind. but for small five-to-eight-pagers i go through the source material, type up relevant quotes, then cobble together a likely-looking argument from said quotes. the way she seems to be doing it is coming up with a thesis argument beforehand, then looking for all the evidence to support it and ignoring the evidence against it. which, tbf, is what we all do as fans to some extent. but the intentional dig at barca fans for being somehow ... less rational? .... still hurts. god what a shitty analogy it's three in the morning i should go to bed and stop trying to comapre football and academia.
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Re: crying tears of joy rn
Date: 2010-12-01 08:34 am (UTC)i changed my mind though. aside from the insinuations that barca fans are too blindly loyal to see their own flaws, i can't really fault her for either post. she takes every opportunity to point out all the unsportsmanlike things the opposition did, and glosses over the things that her own team did. isn't that what a supporter is supposed to do? it's like, the exact opposite approach from how i approach a paper. not like hundred-page thesis-scale papers, mind. but for small five-to-eight-pagers i go through the source material, type up relevant quotes, then cobble together a likely-looking argument from said quotes. the way she seems to be doing it is coming up with a thesis argument beforehand, then looking for all the evidence to support it and ignoring the evidence against it. which, tbf, is what we all do as fans to some extent. but the intentional dig at barca fans for being somehow ... less rational? .... still hurts. god what a shitty analogy it's three in the morning i should go to bed and stop trying to comapre football and academia.