- Jan 31, 2013
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Have you never seen someone at work get flustered or make mistakes when someone is applying pressure on them or standing over their shoulder watching them work?
Now magnify that by 30 thousand, throw in some boos, and groans when they don't do something really good, and then if they do something bad add a sprinkling of abuse on top.
It becomes very hard to do even the simple things let alone tricks, flicks, through balls and bits of flair.
Some players maybe able to play or even thrive under that pressure, but they are in the minority. And even if they do play well it almost always drives a wedge between the players and fans.
I don't have a single ounce of sympathy for them. They get paid MILLIONS to do a job, albeit high pressured, and someone breathing down their necks. It's part of the job and what they signed up for. If you are a PROFESSIONAL footballer and can't deal with the rough then you're going to fail.
Toby came out this weekend and actually said the team tried 'everything' to win on Saturday. Utter bullshit.