Liverpool fans are criticised for booing Trent Alexander-Arnold but they want to explain why they were justified.<\/p>\n
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Liverpool fans get a kicking for Trent boos<\/strong> READ: 16 Conclusions on Liverpool 2-2 Arsenal: Alexander-Arnold, the weird boos, the embarrassing fans and Arteta<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u2026Petition to change the lyrics of you\u2019ll never walk alone to the following:<\/p>\n You\u2019ll never walk alone, unless you decide to go and work somewhere else. \u00a0<\/p>\n \u2026I\u2019m no fan of players going to Real Madrid, as I\u2019ve often said. The Anfield rection to TAA coming was ridiculous though. Enjoy your time there, fella. Hang your head and have a think about yourself if you booed him. \u00a0<\/p>\n Blaming Arne Slot for Trent boos<\/strong> I lay the blame for it on Slot, and to a lesser extent the club. One of Slot\u2019s few mistakes.<\/p>\n Firstly, the club should have leant on Alexander-Arnold to delay announcing his departure until the season was over. What\u2019s to gain? With the interviews and social media posts it feels like they tried to stage manage a hero\u2019s goodbye. But you\u2019re not entitled to one when you\u2019ve wound down your contract to leave on a Bosman.<\/p>\n So Slot had the choice whether to play him. Before the match, when the subs were read out, Alexander-Arnold was booed. They knew it would be hostile but did it anyway.<\/p>\n It just puts everyone in an awkward position. The player must feel awful. His team mates too. But it\u2019s a fresh wound for fans who feel betrayed. Why make them decide whether to clap or boo? Slot effectively threw them under the bus and invited criticism on the club. It also visibly rattled the players to the extent of conceding.<\/p>\n Is it really worth it for a player with no future at the club?<\/p>\n The atmosphere in the first half was amazing. Today should have been about making fun of Arsenal and Arteta, instead now we drew the game and have all this narrative to wade through. What about own goal. READ: \u2018Most\u2019 Liverpool players \u2018want to play for Real Madrid\u2019 \u2013 Carragher after Trent boos<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Not a fan of the booing but\u2026<\/strong> However, his career trajectory is entirely up to him and we need to understand that a professional decision can\u2019t be based on fandom. It does smart a bit that he purposely ran his contract down to suit their demands though.<\/p>\n A favourite player leaving is a very subjective feeling and if anyone tries to say \u2018this is the only way that you as a supporter should feel about it\u2019 then, kindly, fvck off.<\/p>\n So I would like this email to counteract the inevitable hate that\u2019s coming because of that booing, no doubt cheerled by certain F365 writers and mailboxers.<\/p>\n That said, I don\u2019t expect the nuance to filter through. \u00a0<\/p>\n \u2026I\u2019m wouldn\u2019t have booed Trent if I\u2019d been at Anfield. I think though many aren\u2019t getting (or are choosing to miss) the anger at him.<\/p>\n For most of us, it isn\u2019t that he is going. We accept every player may move even though sometimes it is sad for fans when they do. We also know we are fickle (\u2018\u2019sell Nunez and Diaz! Buy Isak!\u2019\u2019) and that the club doesn\u2019t bat an eyelid letting lifelong Liverpool fans leave if they don\u2019t make the grade.<\/p>\n It is how Trent has gone about it.<\/p>\n It is the hand to the ear and talking celebration (now very clearly aimed at the fans).<\/p>\n It is the signing a 4-year rather than 6-year deal.<\/p>\n It is the video of his agent (brother) sniggering away as we lost the League Cup final.<\/p>\n It the gaslighting at Leicester \u2013 don\u2019t you think some fans might have thought that amazing reaction might have meant something rather than adding to the personal highlights reel\/weird leaving video.<\/p>\n It is the announcing he\u2019s leaving before the end of the season (so he can manoeuvre to play in a tournament for Real this season).<\/p>\n It is because he\u2019s done it in a way that has deprived us of a mega fee and will cost us a fortune to replace. The voices saying \u2018he didn\u2019t cost you anything!\u2019 don\u2019t understand basic finance.<\/p>\n It is that egotistical video that for some reason the club shared during the season. Wait until after the parade! But see above. He wants out asap to play for a European rival.<\/p>\n It is the \u2018\u2019I\u2019ll always support the club\u2019\u2019\u2026 what? Even when we play against you?<\/p>\n It is the being Vice Captain and hiding from the media for months. He\u2019s only done scripted media since September.<\/p>\n It is the interviews saying he wanted to captain the club.<\/p>\n But mostly it is that he\u2019s done this as we are still partying.<\/p>\n Of course, Trent will be feeling many different emotions about leaving as do most of those clapping and booing yesterday. We are all complex people.<\/p>\n He could have gone about it differently. He wants his cake (moving to Madrid) and to eat it too (to be celebrated).<\/p>\n I couldn\u2019t help but note that as ever the Sky commentators couldn\u2019t hear the tragedy chanting or poverty chanting but could hear the booing. They also managed not to hear an Arsenal player being booed with every touch.<\/p>\n So we end up in a world where Rio Ferdinand \u2013 a man not noted for his personal fidelity \u2013 is lecturing people who have defended Trent\u2019s defending abilities for the best part of a decade on loyalty.<\/p>\n Anyway, if booing one of your own players is something that upsets Trent I would calmly suggest that Real Madrid might not be the best option. \u00a0<\/p>\n What else can we do? You point out that supporters are just screaming into the void. Yet when supporters actually take an action that will actually be noticed, in this case booing, you call it weird? Well what are supporters supposed to do? Many Liverpool supporters, including myself, are angry, frustrated, and yes hurt, that a player who we thought understood what it was to be connected to this club reminded us that we\u2019re all a bunch of fools. Reminded us that at the end of the day everyone of these people is just in it for themselves.<\/p>\n And then when supporters have the chance to not just yell into the void, but to share their frustration we\u2019re called weird. What else are we supposed to do? Just smile and say naw none of this matters? Well guess what if none of this matters, then everyone in this industry, from this website to the ex pro\u2019s on tv are out of a job.<\/p>\n You can\u2019t celebrate the passion that only comes from a real genuine emotional connection on one side, then call it weird because people feel hurt when that personal connection is broken on the other. \u00a0<\/p>\n Ranting about Man Utd I\u2019ve been a fan long enough to have experienced lean times at United, but even then, we were never as mind numbingly boring as this. We have played some of the most appalling, agricultural football I can ever remember us playing and everyone involved should be absolutely ashamed. Both on and off the pitch has been an absolute shambles but hey! We might be flirting with relegation and laying off hundreds of staff but we\u2019re going to build a new shiny billion pound stadium we don\u2019t need. WTAF?<\/p>\n For me, it makes absolutely no difference whatsoever if we win the Europa. Why anyone would want to watch the current 16th place team play the 17th place team of any league is beyond me. And the fact the winner gets to play in the \u201cChampions\u201d League is, like United\u2019s season, an embarrassing farce.<\/p>\n Shove United, shove VAR, and shove systems based football\u2026
Small minded, parochial, exceptionalist, self-important, pathetic, ungrateful, a**eholes. You\u2019ll never walk alone? Do me a favour. T-shirts for a racist, but at least half the stadium booing a club legend on, AND every touch thereafter. Disgusting, truly disgusting. Just when you thought it wasn\u2019t possible to despise a fanbase any more, Liverpool fans outdo themselves. You\u2019re better off out of it Trent, leave the myopic idiots to their precious club.
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Chris, NUFC<\/strong><\/p>\n
Gary AVFC, Oxford<\/strong><\/p>\n
I\u2019m going to go out on a limb and guess there\u2019ll be tons of mails about the booing.<\/p>\n
Seamus<\/strong><\/p>\n
I\u2019m really not into the Liverpool fans booing Trent. He\u2019s given us 20 years of his life, won every major trophy. As a lifelong Liverpool fan myself I can\u2019t imagine wanting to play for another club, especially when we\u2019re now in the ascendancy. More especially wanting to play for that moral vacuum in Madrid.<\/p>\n
James Outram, Wirral <\/strong><\/p>\n
Rob Marrs, Edinburgh<\/strong><\/p>\n
<\/strong>Yes you got me. Your clickbait site (it didn\u2019t used to be) got me. Your 16 conclusions<\/strong><\/a> and specifically the comments about Liverpool supporters got me. You got me to respond. And here\u2019s why.<\/p>\n
Mike Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n
<\/strong>United currently sit 16th in the table<\/strong><\/a>. 16th! If just one if the promoted clubs had been any good, we\u2019d have been in serious trouble of going down this season, no shadow of a doubt.<\/p>\n
Jimmy. (Sorry for the rant. I\u2019m constantly getting \u2018deactivated\u2019 below the line and really needed to get this off my chest)<\/strong><\/p>\n