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During the recent England game against Kazakhstan, a portion of the crowd decided that they no longer approved of the efforts of one of the idolised millionaires before them and opted to boo him accordingly. Fair enough, you’d suppose.

NO! Not so, for it seems that the act of booing one of our footballers violates some unwritten rule, they must be praised. Constantly, I presume. It certainly seems to be de rigueur to accord these people more privilege than seems sensible. Personally, I fail to understand the furore.

In terms of sheer volume, the discussion this non-event has created has been inordinate; most people, for reasons unknown, appear to be shocked and outraged that anyone could possibly boo one of the precious little moppets on the pitch. I assume that this is because they’re ‘our boys’ and we should support them unwaveringly at all times; patriotism and all that.

Yet I can’t help but feel that this is bollocks, complete and utter. If you feel like expressing your opinion by booing, then you should go for it. It isn’t big, it isn’t clever, and it certainly isn’t helpful, but then neither is a back-pass that gifts the opposition a goal. Turn and turn about.

Ultimately, when you go to work, you shouldn’t be expecting endless praise, you shouldn’t be surprised if people decide you’re shit for no other reason than they do, and you certainly shouldn’t be fazed by any of it. I know many footballers are detached from reality these days, they’re certainly detached from the majority of fans in the higher leagues, but fuck me, you’d think they were a school’s under-8 team the way they’ve been whining.

One of them was booed for making a mistake, you say? Well shit, is the world ending next?

In other news, Notts County were on Sky Sports tonight, looks like we’re moving up in the world.