Your mention of 90% of their fans acting as such seems a stretch when there''s only one in this thread.
I'd be just as justified pulling the card that Canadians just hate "p***yfied european"" squads and that there are loads of them.
There are not. Just a couple of VERY vocal idiots. It's the same everywhere. Direct your annoyance at the individuals... don''t judge the entire group.
it's not just this thread,it's a tendency i've noticed from observing Russian fans attitudes and behaviours concerning non-Russian players and past failures that i've witnessed here over the course of a couple of years here. But even in this thread(if you look at a couple currently on here like this one and the Koharski one here) you'll see it's definately more then one guy.
For me,the majority being 50+1 (though i've observed over the years that the percentage of their fans who feel this way would blow 50+1 straight out of the water) Not that i'm going to go through 2 years or so worth of posts to prove anything,i simply don't have that kind of time.
Remember (it keeps sadly being forgotten) no Canadian fan came on the thread here and was the one to start things up here so i don't know why people are after me.It was a Russian fan..................go give him heck.As i've said before,you're after the wrong guy!!! When you concentrate on going after someone who had nothing to do with starting things here to begin with you're off target and actually give them a reason to think they have carte blanche in doing that sort of thing without expecting people to take them up on it.
and i don't deny them their right to say whatever they want,i do however have the right to question them when they do so.
It's just a general trend i've noticed after a few years around here,not just one thread.
I'll give you the point about not lumping all Russian fans into the same group as surely not every russian fan shares the same attitudes as a few you see here in a couple of threads.However,i have noticed over time that a striking amount of them do,so much so that it's kind of disturbing.I'm the type of person who will call it as i see it.I won't cozy it up in the interests of keeping the peace,i just tell it like i see it.
As for Canadian fans who think European players are a bunch of *******,i agree.............plenty of our fans do.You can't say all of them do but plenty of them do.Since it's o.k to admit and talk about the great amount of Canadian fans that have this attitude.......is it not equally o.k to alk about the great amount of Russian fans who still cling to the idea this very day that Canada cheated their way to many victories? And there definately MANY. Is there a free pass for Russian fans?
That's how i see it anyway.
But yes,not ALL Russian fans feel this way.But then again,not all of them need to for me form an opinion on them as a group concerning their general feelings on this subject.A strong majority allows me to do that.