Sammie Szmodics M Blackburn Rovers b.1995

[pineapple stu]

Absolutely it's social media. Anonymous messages, easy to send - and then you've got pure wind-up merchants joining in too. Russians and Israelis just stirring ****. 80% of posts directed at the England team and deemed criminal in the wake of the Euro 2020 final came outside Britain for example

Social media should be burned. Except foot of course

(Slightly related, but cheating in online chess is a significant issue, way out of proportion with cheating in real games. It's a mix of relative anonymity, cheating being much easier online, plus not being able to see your opponent, which really depersonalises things and makes it easier to be a *****)

[John83]

The internet was a mistake.

[texidub]

I got so angry at the Internet one time, I printed it all out and burned it in the garden. Sure, by the time I got back in the house they had it back online. Waste of firelighters.

[rebelmusic]

I've made the mistake of reading the comments section in the journal for some of our matches. It's wall to wall horrible comments about the team. That premier league supporting class in the country who only knows Irish teams as places. I'd like to believe the players are aware that there's two very seperate groups in Ireland when it comes to supporting soccer

[Fixer82]

Unfortunately, morons who never had a platform outside the bar stool now have the world at their fingertips

[texidub]

I suppose there's many aspects to it, but I think the Internet amplifies and celebrates snap judgments about everything from footballers to politcians to religions to politics and entire peoples... the lack of reflection is exhausting.

Fair play to Sammie for kicking back a bit all the same. Should be left at that at this stage.