RacingPhoton
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"Specific procedures for dealing with performance issues" This applies only for white collar jobs. And how else are fans supposed to show displeasure? By setting up one-one meetings with Xhaka and respectfully say that he is a ****ty player?Yes, 'the point of sport is the booing'
If your boss shouts at you at work, they're a bad boss. They can and should be held accountable for their actions and there are specific procedures for dealing with performance issues at work. SINGLING ONE WORKER out and group booing them is absolutely not part of that and would constitue harrassment and probably involve some kind of legal challenge for the employer. Terrible example.
Also, it's just a nasty, compassionless thing to do. So it can and should be criticised, not excused for....
If Xhaka can't "shout f-off", why can thousands of Arsenal supporters do it to him in the first place and it be acceptable and regarded as anything other than bad conduct?
Xhaka was playing busy playing football at the time of the match. He was kind of occupied. He was a little distracted from documenting every abusive taunt he heard and attributing to whom it was directed, working out if it was directed at his family etc etc. So just because he hasn't cited specifically verbal abuse in the stadium, it doesn't mean it didn't feel to him, a man who has received online threats to his family, a man who has seen team mates robbed at knife point, that he was under threat.
Xhaka obviously wasn't generalising and labelling all fans as bad, he was responding to thousands giving him abuse for NO REASON.
This isn't about trying to justify Xhaka's behaviour. He's acknowledged he made a mistake. What this is about is fans trying to justify their despicable behaviour in goading him for NO REASON, in the first place. That's what you've done and continue to do.
Please stop desperately seeking to justify the unjustifiable with this rubbish reasoning...
Again. i ask you to read the post I mentioned to see the sequence of events. It was Xhaka's actions which made the situation worse. All he had to do was sprint faster when he was subbed off. But no. Being the whiny child he is, he started throwing tantrums. And what right does he have to disrespect Auba there. Xhaka is not even 5% a player Auba is. So he will disrespect Auba too because some fans abused him online?