Nady;3027755 said:
I think these are still not enough to make your team "the most hated" though. I think most of hate a team can get is from rivalry.
As with Chelsea, all these boos are probably directed to individual players. Not Chelsea as a team.
I'd have to disagree with yer on that. I don't believe rivalries are necessarily the requirement to generate hatred towards a certain team.
You mentioned just now that the boos are directed towards individual players, but when you have all those booed players in one team, it's safe to assume that the team would likely be booed most of the time in almost every match.
As for Lamps, the general feeling that I get is that he is constantly booed and disliked because the English public feel that he's not performing on the same level for club and country, whereas the same can be said for a lot of other players, he's usually made a scapegoat.
Surely they can't blame the well beloved Steven "DJ Basher" and "I hate divers" Gerrard can they?
Seeing that we've gone OT, I'll leave it at that.
Back to the hate thing.
When it comes to comments I'm reading from the public and journalists, whether online or from the papers, the general view that I see is that Chelsea is the most hated of all English clubs across the globe.
We don't have as many fans as Arsenal, Liverpool or Utd and I don't think the fans of those clubs see us in a good light as we crashed their top 3 party a couple of seasons ago.
So combine all of them with Spurs, Barca, Fulham, and QPR you'd probably have a lot of fans who dislike Chelsea.
You can also add that fans of our club is always being accused as having glory-hunters most of the time, even if you get that with almost every team that's winning trophies.
City just came more recently, so they'll probably have to wait until they win the Premiership.