#fan-backlash

#fan-backlash

In case you think this is just an algorithmically spawned dunkfest, the vibes are similar on YouTube. "This just looks like one episode of the show," reads one comment. "I feel like people were more excited for the 20th anniversary of Revenge of the Sith re release than for this one," reads another. My favorite, though, is this summary: "50% of the comments: Jimmy Kimmel and the Empire, 49.9% of the comments: This Looks Like Season 4, 0.01%: Somehow Razor Crest returned!"

The kit, which combines a white base with black sleeves and neon yellow detailing, was worn for the first time in Saturday's 2-0 Bundesliga win over Heidenheim. But instead of excitement, its debut was met with anger in the stands and online. Fans unfurled banners blasting it as the cruelest jersey in the league while chants of We want black and yellow jerseys rang out before kick-off, a pointed reminder of the club's traditional colours.

Some signings are better received by fans than others, as is well known, but it is questionable whether any new addition has been at the end of such an outpouring of anger as Dynamo Kyiv's acquisition of Vladislav Blanuta. The 23-year-old Moldovan-Romanian striker joined last week for 2.6m (2.3m) from FC U Craiova and the transfer had barely been made public before it transpired that he had shared content by a Russian propagandist on TikTok, to the fans that made him pro-Putin.

Celtic fans were up in arms in 2021, ridiculing their club for bringing in a manager who had only succeeded in far away places like Yokohama, Brisbane and Melbourne. Once a domestic treble was delivered and the green and white half of Glasgow had fallen head over heels for him, it was the turn of Tottenham fans, the English press and Premier League fans more broadly to poke fun at, and doubt, Postecoglou.

"It feels ultimately gratifying, and I can't say we've seen a ton of that in movies and television," Zuritsky said. "So I feel like it's kind of a beautiful punctuation mark to a life well lived."

The news of Thomas Partey's imminent transfer to Villarreal has sparked outrage, with fans launching petitions against his signing due to his serious legal charges.