Our watfordfc correspondent androofrench feels the personal abuse directed at new club captain Daniel Bachmann went way, way too far
Nonetheless, those bitter and twisted comments – whether with some good reason or totally without foundation – are generally not broadcast publicly.
And, all of us armchair fans – and I accept many have played football to a far, far higher level than I ever did – will have their thoughts on whether any individual player is good or not. Many fans say they haven’t seen that level of vitriol for themselves. I read a fair few dreadful comments, and I wasn’t actively looking for them.But in my opinion – and it is just my opinion – suggesting the new club captain is disliked or disruptive in the dressing room, commenting about his private life and describing him as a ‘very questionable character’ goes way, way beyond fair comment and opinion.
After the dismal defeat at Blackburn last season, Bachmann tried to placate the angry travelling Watford fans His sending off against Huddersfield was embarrassing, petulant and let everyone down. I’m sure he knows that. The first time I interviewed Dan was almost exactly a year ago, and I’d watched him make a bad error in a behind-closed-doors friendly with Bolton a few days earlier which had led to him conceding a goal.
I think I know Dan well enough to say that he’s a thoroughly nice bloke with no ego and he is well liked around the training ground and in the dressing room. One of the accusations made over the weekend was that it’s wrong to give the captaincy, and a five-year contract, to a player who was desperate to leave not so long ago.
“All I kept thinking was I didn’t say that. I’ve come to love this club and there are always rumours, which are part of football. But I didn’t say I wanted to leave or that I wanted to get out of Watford.”“It’s obviously very flattering having a conversation about Man United, and I fit the profile of what they were looking for. And that was it really. For a club like that to show interest in you is nice clearly, and it felt nice.
For me, though, it happens very occasionally. But for footballers, it’s every game – dissected on TV, on social media, on forums, in the media. What I found particularly distasteful and perturbing about what I read in the days after the Bachmann news was the depths that some – not all – people who apparently support Watford went to in order to make their point.
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