[johnno_pne]

Thought about starting a new thread with the following but not sure if a thread is warranted. Advice welcome on that.

Comments on the following also welcome :

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Potential thread title : About so-called 'haters' in football

On the topic of 'haters' this genuine dialogue was seen recently :

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Fan1> Miraculously the NNFC haters disappeared from the comments. Pretty sure they support <BiggestRival1> or <BiggestRival2> by now
Fan2> Not completely disappeared though.
A few of them have been popping up & complaining about the comments that've been making fun of them & accusing people of 'dividing' the fan base. They were mouthy as anything a few months back & now they don't like what's happening.
I swear that there's some of them who want all this to fall through, so they can come back with their 'told you so's'.
Fan1> Unbelievable! Some people are just pathetic…
Fan2> I won't disagree with that at all.
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For this comment I replaced the club acronym by NNFC and so on.

That exchange between two football fans could easily have appeared on a North End thread (social media or forum).

Have you seen something like this ?
Does the term 'pathetic' really cover the motivation ?

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