There are many different reasons why football fans bring signs to matches.
They either do it to show their support for their beloved club, to protest against their beloved club or to take the piss out of someone else’s beloved club.
If you look at some of the fan-made creations from a strictly objective standpoint though, you realise that, more often than not, they’re absolute monstrosities.
With this in mind, we’re going to fill the very cushy shoes of the art critic and tear apart some of the worst fan signs we’ve stumbled across in the 2015/16 Premier League season.
Starting off by not knowing where to begin.
There’s a lot going on in this photo so, it may be a big ask, but we’re going to ask you to ignore the backwards jersey and the creepy John Terry mask and focus solely on the sign.
The pun cannot be ignored. ‘Terryfic’ simply doesn’t scan at all. Not to mention the fact that if you didn’t quite get the “play on words”, the supporter has kindly pummeled it into a bloodied, cowering mess by putting the Terry part in blue.
And look! The J and T in ‘Just’ are capitalised also in blue… JusT like his initials.
How clever!
If a car crash and a trainwreck mated…
Personal favourite pic.twitter.com/KqiDwvqV9R
— James Dart (@James_Dart) December 19, 2015
“Iazzard”? “Cesl”? Who are these strange characters you speak of? Are they two of the three “bats”?
Luckily, this genius had no faith in his spelling so decided to put the three players’ numbers in some form of inverted commas that must have originated from an alien planet.
Come on now.
https://twitter.com/NotoriousBD/status/683387772447649793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Putting hashtags on a sign won’t make them trend on Twitter.
Nor will putting a player’s name you like on some inkjet be enough to convince your manager that he’s the answer to all your team’s problems.
“Hashtag Wanyama, you say? Get Koeman on the phone.”
Poor child.
Nothing wrong with the sign itself, it’s actually quite heartfelt and sweet. The issue we have is the message it conveys.
A fourth generation Spurs fan? Get ready for a lot of heartbreak and disappointment. Talk about tough parenting/grand-parenting/great-grand-parenting.
A little effort goes a long way.
The bare minimum amount of effort goes nowhere.
It’s the hope that kills them.
It’s highly doubtful, but we’re all pulling for you.
Good concept, but…
Want to know why Louis van Gaal wasn’t given the sack when this sign was made? The form was rendered null and void by this maverick approach to the block capitals rule. (Don’t say we didn’t warn you that we were pedants.)
Right…
If you really wanted him to stay, you would have made the sign a lot bigger and finished colouring it in. Unless Roman Abramovich has a NASA-grade telescope with him in the corporate box, he won’t be seeing your message.
More effort.
A product of the Vine generation. If it can’t be done in six seconds or less, what’s the point of even trying?
You can’t help but feel sorry for this poor chap for falling for the most common sign-making problem that everyone has experienced. He went too big with the letters at the start of each line and then had to overcompensate by severely reducing the letter size towards the end of each line.
Impressively, it happened to him, not once, not twice but thrice.
Just embarrassing.
https://twitter.com/DeejayDt/status/726727192164601858
You stay classy, Arsenal “fans”.
