Ronaldo having his penalty saved against Slovenia on Monday sparked oceans of social media joy
, temporarily the centre of the universe while this century’s second-best footballer graces it with his presence. I’m prostrate on a second-hand sofa in east London, some 650 kilometres and 633m Instagram followers away.in every other feasible manner, steps up to take a penalty he didn’t win. I consider a second bag of Hula Hoops. His penalty is saved, and he promptly bursts into tears. I start laughing and don’t stop until I struggle to breathe over a minute later. 1-0 me.
Fans dislike Ronaldo for a wide variety of reasons, largely centred on natural and learned aversions towards his relentlessly brass-necked self-obsession and increasingly joyless approach to football, reducing the game to a vessel through which to further his own labyrinthine statistical legend. Originally coined as a TV term for watching trash TV shows or bad movies to laugh at them, the football equivalent inevitably feels dirtier and meaner, given you’re targeting the actions of real people in real time. There’s more behind this than just rinsingThe most obvious footballing hate-watch is any match involving your club side’s direct rivals, but the increasing fandom/ anti-fandom surrounding individual players drags them into it too.
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