Did you say second degree? If some, like us, have chosen for a long time to put the comments ofEA FC (ex-FIFA) in English, others continued to see their matches hosted by Canal+ journalist Hervé Mathoux, before he gives way to Julien Brun. Who then willingly showed himself to be quiet after missed shots or wasted opportunities in great width.
But it seems that certain gamers, not content with already being bad losers, would also be aggressive towards the virtual commentator upon hearing him make fun of them. Finally, from their players. Guest of the show “Chez Jordan”, Wednesday, on C8, another channel of the Canal group, Hervé Mathoux confided to having received numerous threatening messages on social networks.
“There is zero intelligence”
“Some people are mad that I say bad things about their game. They are convinced that I am watching their match inside the screen. Death threats because I made fun of them over a missed shot, I got a lot of them. There is zero intelligence, said the presenter of “Canal Football Club”. I realized that for many people, and perhaps for the younger generation, insults are not very serious. I received atrocious insults: “I want your family to die”, “I want you to die”. Horrible stuff. And the same person said to me 48 hours later “I got a little annoyed but I adore you, can we become friends?”. »
Insults under cover of anonymity which do not spill over into real life, fortunately, but which still reflect, according to the journalist, a violence specific to the football community on social networks. “In the street, no one has ever come up to me and been aggressive, but the football community is a community in which there are violent and somewhat radical people. You have to know how to protect yourself from it, skip it and not read it. »