Rex wrote:
So why were people getting on Gervinho's back then? He too was a hard worker. In truth, too many people need a scape goat. They identify one, and then the mass psychosis in a group of dimwits does the rest.
Don't know where this idea that the 'crowd was massively against him' has really come from. Most players who play terribly get abuse from the stands, that's just how it is. Don't think he was ever booed, the worst it got would have been the huge groans every time he missed a sitter. He kept missing sitters, so he would have heard a lot of groans. That seemed to affect him eventually, but I don't think anyone should blame the crowd for his inability to shoot.
