Once upon a time, football fans used to come home from seeing their side lose, and they would shrug their shoulders, kick the cat or get roaring drunk.
But now, a new generation of self-obsessed morons are taking out their angst by switching on a video camera, putting on the latest multi-sponsored £100 football shirt of their team and, literally, screaming into the microphone. Welcome to the world of fake outrage spouted by, predominantly, young and often photogenic YouTubers and vloggers.
Unsurprisingly, it is the ‘big’ clubs that attract the most prominent of this new breed: mostly Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal.
After United lost 4-3 away to Bayern Munich this week, one video had a young woman shrieking ‘I’m sick of this club’ in a performance worthy of a soap opera. One of Liverpool’s myriad fan channels, The Redmen, posed the question: ‘Should Doak start over Salah’ in what surely must be a wind-up.
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