DOES BOOING YOUR OWN PLAYER MAKE HIM BETTER?

Booing is the act of showing displeasure for someone or something, generally an entertainer, by loudly yelling “Boo” (and holding the “oo” sound) or making other noises of disparagement, such as hissing. Also, people may make hand signs at the entertainer. The sound is often accompanied by one or two hands giving the thumbs down sign, imitating. If spectators particularly dislike the performance they may also accompany booing by throwing objects onstage, though the objects may not be meant to physically hurt the performer. Booing can also be expressed to startle someone.

Am not an Arsenal fan but as a soccer fan I was very saddened by the way a few oafish Arsenal fans booed Eboue.

Let’s look at circumstances where booing your own player doesn’t cause more harm than good:
In fact, I can’t think of any except if you want the player to leave your club. Am sure some of them will say:

We boo to voice our displeasure for the player
When a player loses the ball, he can hear the fans anger and that is good enough. Just shout “Hey!” You don’t have to boo. You will be surprised to find out that dead silence sends a bigger message than anything else.

It’s one thing booing the team and it’s another thing booing a specific player. Some teams have a tendency to sleepwalk against inferior teams at home so in that case boos are warranted. However, if you are booing to inspire your struggling team you are just digging a deeper hole for the team. The odds are that they already know that they are struggling. Please don’t boo Sunderland.

We boo because it is fun to boo
Then why not just sit at home and boo your analog TV: Booooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sounds silly, doesn’t it?

We boo to make the player better
The player that is struggling needs as much fan support as possible. If you are trying to motivate a specific player by booing, usually you end up making him more panicky and timid.

Booing your own player is counter-productive no matter how long or loudly you boo him. Cheer and support is more productive than booing. If you ever watch the OSCARS and an award winner is at loss of words when accepting the award what does the audience do? Do they boo or give a big applause? They applaud or give a standing ovation. That’s called civilization and class my friends. The fans who booed Eboue would boo the award recipient: “Boooooooo!!!!!! He doesn’t know what to say”

We boo because it makes us feel like part of the game and not just idle spectators
What do YOU gain from booing a player on your team other than a satisfaction that you voiced your opinion to other fans? Do you really think it affects coaching decisions? Does it help the other players on the team? It probably makes them feel that the fans are fickle and not behind them.

We boo because we pay for the right to boo
Being a ticket holder doesn’t give you the right to boo. Booing is free so why not just sit at home and boo as much as you want? Also, where on the ticket does it guarantee that the players will not make mistakes?

Eboue is just a victim of circumstances. If Arsenal were on a winning run would he have been booed? The so called Arsenal fans booed him because he is an easy target (Why not boo Gallas? They can not afford to upset him). They think that even if they boo Eboue he will still remain loyal to Arsenal. One day they will learn a lesson like the one New York Knicks learnt/learned. Pay back is a …..

What did we learn today?

1) Booing your own player or team helps the other team. Also, during the next game the other team’s fans may boo your player you booed the last game and the player may think the boos are coming from his own team fans.

2) Booing your own players may give the players who already want to leave your team another reason to leave. Don’t forget that Ade and Eboue are friends.

3) Fans are not coaches unless you live in Brazil:

The Blues need a win to guarantee them a place in the knock-out stages but Scolari said the pressure was nothing compared to managing Brazil.

“Do you know how many people live in Brazil? All the people there are coaches,” he said.
“I was coach there and you think there is pressure here? It is zero pressure.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/7772248.stm

What else did we learn?

The term “civilization” can be used in a normative sense as well: if complex and urban cultures are assumed to be superior to other “savage” or “barbarian” cultures, then “civilization” is used as a synonym for “superiority of certain groups.” In a similar sense, civilization can mean “refinement of thought, manners, or taste”

Class: social rank, esp. high rank

Did you know…:

In the Opera World passionate applause and rowdy booing have long been part of the tradition. However, as opera attendance has been viewed as an indulgence of the rich and civilized, the act of booing has fallen out of favour/favor.