Scapegoats

[Lowie01]

Who from your team seems to cop the most criticism, either fairly or unfairly, after your team loses a match? There are obvious candidates (Carroll, Bramble, even Peter Crouch) for all clubs, but are there other players who are made the scapegoat by fans?

For Liverpool, apart from Jerzy Dudek, I think Djimi Traore has played better than people have given him credit for this season. While I still don't think he's quite up to the standard we want (and he scores brilliant own goals), on the whole he's done an admirable job.

 

[Ray Nolan]

There's always one at Birmingham.

This season it has been Gronkjaer and Damien Johnson. Gronks was hounded out of the club by the boos boys (unfairly so) and DJ has fairly copped a bucketing everytime he has been played on the right because he has been rubbish. Plus he is Brucie's golden boy so he cops it for that too.

 

[Cooldude]

For Liverpool, apart from Jerzy Dudek, I think Djimi Traore has played better than people have given him credit for this season. While I still don't think he's quite up to the standard we want (and he scores brilliant own goals), on the whole he's done an admirable job.

He's been our best left back by a mile, but sometimes his brainfades still ********es the crap out of me...

Though Kewell seems to be the new scapegoat, it's always the fat lazy Kewell even when we win...

 

[DB10]

Cygan, Lauren, Lehmann, Reyes (believe it or not) and now Pires.

 

[mattyc2422]

Matteo.

 

[Weaver]

Southampton cunningly refuse to field the same line-up twice. This makes zeroeing in on a scapegoat very tough. They make it even tougher by moving the players around. Just when we think that Delap is the one, they move him from midfield to rightback and he plays well.

Probably Fabrice Fernandes is the one. Not too many are thrilled with his running into a dead end, then stopping and turning, then running back into the same dead end.

 

[Shinboners]

Historically, United's scapegoats always seem to be the 'keeper. There was Paddy Roche in the 70s, Jim Leighton in the 80s, and Mark Bosnich, Massimo Taibi, Fabian Barthez, and Roy Carroll in the post-Schmeichel years.

Ryan Giggs has alternated between hero and scapegoat, David May was a target of the boo boys before becoming something of a cult hero, and there were many United fans that were never truly won over by Andy Cole.

 

[jezza]

For Spurs it's probably Kanoute, does some great things but at times looks lazy and disinterested out on the pitch. The other would be Atouba.

 

[BulldogMike]

The Kevin Davies bashers.He's a champ though.

 

[Bulldog1954]

At the moment Schwarzer and Doriva.

Early last year it was Zenden, but since halfway through last season he has been our best player. Job and Nemeth also cop a lot of criticism, most of it justified

 

[DB10]

Just don't ever let me catch you lot criticising Raymundo he's a legend.

 

[rumanu]

Phil Neville