All that can be said about Maguire is that if he didn’t provide ammunition, he couldn’t be made into a joke. In addition to the lack of performance on the pitch, as United captain there were also a number of very questionable interviews after the games. Or just drunken fights in Greece. It’s not like any agency is commissioned to trash the player on YouTube or wherever. With his slapstick defense (e.g. wrestling around Shaw), he can only hold himself accountable. On the one hand, the attention in the sport makes him rich and famous (infamous), but on the other hand, he gets hit when his performance isn’t up to par. Either perform better, change clubs or end your career. Justifications, no matter from which side, will not change anything here. I don’t know what Southgate was trying to achieve by crying.
Wow, that’s quite a statement to blame someone for the fact that an almost unprecedented flood of hate and malice has descended on them on social media in recent years.
Harry Maguire can do nothing, absolutely NOTHING, for this anti-social treatment on all social media platforms. This is victim blaming at its finest what you are doing here. Is it your own fault when the stupidest and most disgusting “jokes” are made about him? Should I have just played better? The people who are responsible for this are the idiots who fabricate such disgusting (and some of them are really things way below the belt) things and put them on the Internet. Are the actions Maguire often does on the field funny? Yeah, sure. Are the things he has in there next to the football pitch worthy of criticism and does he have to deal with being in the public eye as a professional? Yes. But that people derive the justification from this to pick on him mercilessly, often in a very personal way? No, definitely not! And I think it’s pretty crazy to attribute any kind of complicity or responsibility to him. And then to accuse the coach, who does his job and stands protectively in front of his player and – quite rightly – criticizes the way he is treated, that his words are “whining around”, that takes a pretty deep look. These statements lack any empathy, so I highly recommend that you question your perception.
Also these comments here in the thread about how he deserves so much and therefore has to endure it. None of us know what it looks like inside another person. And you don’t want to imagine what such comments can do to a person. Robert Enke is an extreme example of a player who sought a tragic way out of a situation in which he was hopelessly overwhelmed by the spotlight in which he stood. Despite all the millions he has earned. This is not a panacea for the psychological pressure and sometimes massive criticism that one is exposed to in such a position. And that was before social media, I can’t even imagine how much more pressure this can put on a player today, especially when the public treats you as maliciously and negatively as in this case.
Harry Maguire would certainly be the first person who would be happy if he could stop making mistakes and mistakes and improve his performance. But he could be the worst player in the world and score three own goals a game, cost a hundred million more and earn forty million a year – that would in no way justify treating the person behind the professional like that.