Neymar in tears after Norway loss

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James212

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Absolute scenes seeing Neymar in tears after that loss to Norway. The whole thing sounds like peak football chaos: talking up to the keeper, scoring a penalty, and then ending up in bits not long after.

It feels like one of those moments that will be clipped and replayed forever, especially with how much of the reaction is about the attitude as much as the result. Some will laugh, some will feel for him, and plenty will think he brought it on himself.

Either way, it’s proper dramatic and exactly the sort of thing football does best when emotions boil over
 
He was chatting all that nonsense then the tears came out like clockwork honestly you could not script it better, proper performative nonsense from start to finish and now everyone gets to pretend they are shocked
 
Honestly this is why people cannot stand him sometimes because every single time there is some big moment he has to make it about himself first, he is winding people up, mugging off the keeper, acting like he has already won the thing and then five minutes later he is in tears when it all goes wrong and everyone is meant to feel bad for him, I get emotions are high and football is brutal and all that but come on mate you cannot be doing the full pantomime villain routine and then act surprised when nobody has any sympathy, it is just so over the top and it makes the whole thing look even worse for him and for Brazil as well because the focus is never on the actual game it is always on Neymar being Neymar
 
Neymar has always been a ridiculous talent but the way he carries on in moments like this just drags everything down because you cannot separate the football from the theatre with him, he scores a penalty and immediately starts acting like the main character in some fake drama then when the result turns bad he is sat there in tears and everyone is supposed to forget the nonsense that came before it, it is not even about one bad night it is the whole vibe around him, the constant gestures the talking the carrying on like he has got the biggest ego in the stadium and then the complete collapse when it does not go his way, mate if you want to be treated like a leader then stop acting like a clown every five minutes
 
You can make a fair point that footballers are under insane pressure and that seeing someone cry after a loss is not automatically funny, because at the end of the day this is still a human being dealing with a massive moment in his career, but then you watch the clips and it is hard not to laugh when the whole thing has that extra layer of him winding people up and then instantly getting humbled, and that is where the internet just runs with it because he has built that reputation for years, every touch is a statement, every gesture is a bit of theatre, and then suddenly it turns into a meme and everyone piles in, which is probably not healthy but it is also completely predictable at this point, and now half the replies are acting like they are football philosophers when really they just want the drama and the clips and the chance to say I told you so
 
There is a real difference between feeling for a player and excusing the performance around him, and that is why this has hit so hard. He can be devastated and still deserve criticism for the way he carried on before the final whistle, imo
 
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