Cripes, it's not like SCM to overreact and either write someone off or label them heroes after a bad performance or two.
Players this season that have suffered from this, on this site, only for a markedly different reaction half a dozen games later:
Mignolet
Cissokho
Toure
Johnson
Flanagan
Agger
Sakho
Enrique
Lucas
Allen
Henderson
Sterling
Coutinho
Gerrard - Who for half the season had daily threads about what a shit captain he is.
Do you not get embarrassed when calling someone fucking shit one week, and then having to backtrack 2 weeks later?
Let me remind you, we were top of the league at Christmas - and Lucas had started every game. Since then he's been in and out of the side due to injury and Gerrard's form. When back in, he's played out of position, still made some superb cameo's - Stoke away, West Ham away, etc. - and been at fault for zero in our run-in.
But I understand the need for a scapegoat. I understand it cos most of you have no fucking idea what happens on a football pitch. I read the bile that was coming out at half-time yesterday; 'Take Johnson off!' 'Bring Countinho on!' times fucking infinity. It was a competition as to who could say it the loudest. Not one post about how we should alter shape or tactics to win the game. Because let's face it - none of you know how that's done do you? So we get unending pages of "Johnson's fucking shite" or this bollocks thread which amounts to a rather inglorious attempt at finding humour in a post-match 'analysis'.
Why couldn't we break through Newcastle's deep lying midfield yesterday? Cos someone who wasn't on the pitch is shit.
Christ.
I see you're still on that high horse called 'I play football'.