Football fans are stupid. I don't think this is a particularly controversial statement. We've all moaned and groaned about something only to be proved completely wrong. Furthermore, it is common place for fans to pursue the belief that they actually know more about football than the players or the managers.
But sometimes, fans take it too far and their criticisms of their clubs are so ridiculous that people outside of their circle just think they are plain unreasonable.
Here are some contenders for "most unreasonable fans of the season".
Newcastle fans: We all remember the signs they held up at St James' park. Silly pictures of Pardew with a W/D/L ratio that spelled out a welsh town. The amount of abuse that the silver fox received on a weekly basis surely made his life hell. But why couldn't the fans see that on the 10th January when Pardew got his first result as Palace manager that he had left Newcastle in a very respectable 10th position and looking up? Now that Newcastle look increasingly like getting relegated, most of the toonarmy are still of the belief that Pardew was a crap manager and that him leaving was the right decision. Verdict: Morons
Leicester City fans: What a magnificent job Nigel Pearson did with Leicester in the 13/14 season. They won the league with 102 points, 9 more than 2nd placed Burnley. Leicester carried over their good form in the championship into the Premier League where they started brightly and deservedly beat a Manchester United side 5-3 who had spent £200m on world-class players. But suddenly Leicester fans realised they were not winning every week in the Premier League, even though they had spent a fraction of the money the top clubs had. This was deemed unacceptable and all of Pearson's achievements in the previous season had been deemed irrelevant. The fans wanted him out and believed they would kick on with a new manager. Verdict: Deluded
Cardiff City fans: After booing the players after only the second minute of Cardiff's 1-0 loss to Middlesbrough in mid-September, Ole was sacked as Cardiff manager and Russel Slade was eventually appointed manager in October. He took over a team in 17th who were playing poorly. Fellow addicks will recall an extremely woeful Cardiff side coming to the Valley and somehow holding out for a 1-1 draw in December after Johann scored an absolute worldy. It is fair to say though that Slade has done a pretty reasonable job in turning round their fortunes. Not only did they finish the season beating Forest away, but Cardiff actually finished above Charlton in 11th position. Slade, however, still receives dogloads of abuse from the fans who simply think he is unsuited for this job. All signs seem to point to Cardiff having a much better season next year. Verdict: Bastards
Any other contenders for most unreasonable fans of the season?
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West Ham fans need a kick up the arse for making even me feel sorry for Big Sam. Giving him pelters every week because they're only 9th (9th!) in the Premier League, as that doesn't fit their perceived manifest destiny of dominating the planet and turning it claret and blue. All based on the fact that over 50 years ago they had a centre half that was quite good. Idiots.
Was that anger aimed at RD or was the, "You don't know what you're doing" a cri de coeur after the surprise dismissal of Big Bob?
The abuse Luzon got was possibly the most embarrassing moment in all my years of supporting and loving our club.
I hate chelsea fans.
Liverpool fans from Basingstoke who still think they are good enough to compete for the title.
Arsenal fans from south London.
For me, the most unreasonable fans will always be west ham fans. They actually think they are under achieving.
Defines it.
The Joni Mitchell lyrics, "You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone" spring to mind.
The good times will come again and are just around the corner.
bad investment from Suarez money
poor showing in champions league
I don't blame Liverpool fans acting that way, its like they have gone back in the last 12 months not gone forward
Liverpool will never attract players of Suarez's calibre so anyone that they buy in after Suarez is arguably a bad investment.
All the English clubs struggled in the CL this season and Liverpool had just lost the player that got them a top-4 finish.
If Liverpool fans think that they were going to get anything above 4th this season then they're an even bigger bunch of deluded fools than I thought. We binned our manager because 7th wasn't ambitious enough, look where we are now.