03-09-2022, 08:46 AM
(03-09-2022, 08:26 AM)omahen Wrote: I spent some time thinking about the issue. I have to say, comparing to Europe, USA players are extremely soft. I think Westbrook received less than 10 % of stuff players in Europe face and I don't see much whining here. Of course it is not nice from people to say bad things about players, but on the other hand the sports involve high emotions which are sometimes difficult to control.
But what you describe is mostly match day pressure by paying "emotional in the moment" customers in the stadium in Europe, which is 1-3 times a week. Europe simply does not have the insane amount of BS artist media that do nothing else, but bully and harrass players publically at every opportunity without any substance. The abuse Westbrook receives through the media is utterly absurd. If you acted like that toward colleagues in a real job, you´d be fired five times over. Assholes like Bayless, SAS or the whole Twitter brigade are getting paid millions to be professional trolls. That culture simply does not exist in European sports.