Were gooners right to continuously boo Omari Hutchinson?
Ipswich Town winger Omari Hutchinson was once at the books of the Gunners before making a shock move in 2022. The 19-year-old winger at the time hadn’t even made a senior appearance for the first team ,despite making the bench on a few occasions prior to his exit.
Having impressed with the Arsenal U23s, he just couldn’t break into the first team, with Chelsea pouncing on our failure to tie him down to a new contract. The player went on to only make two appearances in his first and only season for the Blues in 2022/23 before moving on loan to join the Tractor Boys for the subsequent campaign. Having impressed for Ipswich last season and helping them to achieve top flight status, his move was made permanent at the start of the campaign thanks to a £22million fee.
The game against Ipswich last time out was the first time he has faced his boyhood club since his move away, and it’s safe to say he was met with hostility. The young Englishman was audibly booed by a fairly huge section of the Arsenal faithful at the Emirates, this was clearly heard anytime he held the ball for a prolonged period of time. This was absolutely needless to say the least considering the age at which he even left us, yes he clearly made things difficult in our attempts to tie him down, but it certainly didn’t warrant the treatment he got in the game.
He doesn’t owe us anything, he didn’t even make a senior appearance for crying out loud! Things like that from a small section of the fan base is what is giving a negative perception of gooners in general to the outside footballing world. Regardless of what it even sends out, it just wasn’t right, we’re a club with class and that was poorly represented by his treatment, we are way better than that!
BENJAMIN KENNETH
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Yeah, I didn’t understand that either.
I never understood why people do that to a player that ‘simply’ leaves. I’m sure they themselves would change jobs for the right offer and would be astonished to be booed by their former colleagues and customers for doing so.
Don’t know why they booed, he wasn’t good enough for Arsenal for starters. Even if he was, he moved on. Do the same.
Benjamine, you call them “the Arsenal faithful”. Are you sure about this?
Sorry, Benjamin.
I was very surprised by it and honestly somewhat embarrassed. At least they didn’t fly a banner over the Emirates.
I think the booing actually started after he tried to con a penalty and earned a yellow card.
I think the booing was more for that than the fact he left Arsenal
No. Long before that.
👍Yes, unfortunately it was Vamos.
I think it has to be the arrogant way he left for Chelsea .. and well, it didn’t pan out for him.
Fans are human, and the attitudes / utterances of some departing players make it hard to keep showing them respect.
Agree. He left supposedly for a better opportunity to break through, but the fact that he went to Chel$ea and barely had a sniff before moving onward and downward, left a bad taste for some/many fans. I was looking forward to him fighting for a chance over that summer and maybe the cups. Ironically, if things had gone better/differently, he could have been playing a part in place of Saka, instead of being booed by the home fans. I have no serious ill will towards him but there is still disappointment that he didn’t stick around fight at least one more year for his home club? Would he really be in a worse position than he is now?
I’m in full agreement with the writer and posts above mine. I think it was very unnecessary!
One minute the article says he was audibly booed by a huge section of the Arsenal faithful and then it states things like that from a small section of the fanbase!!
As CorporateMan says, he tried to con the referee and every player gets booed for that – it has nothing to do with “class” more the acknowledgement of a classless act?!
What about Odegaard with the head injury Ken ,not very sportsmanlike
Wouldn’t argue with that observation Dan, so are you agreeing that the booing was justified, as I do recall Ipswich fans booing Odegaard?
Another player we made a loss on ,say what you want about Chelsea but their selling department is top notch ,Ipswich record buy ,what did we get for him 12 months earlier?
Not sure how much Chelsea paid us for him to return to them, but we got about £4m from his transfer to Ipswich.
Look at songs some sing about players who actually played and even won things for the club
I guess the same people who continued to boo Van Persie. From my understanding which is very limited Hutchinson was a Chelsea junior before moving to our youth system and then jumping ship at first opportunity. Can’t blame him though, where would he be loaned out to now if he had remained. Still booing is meaningless and should only motivate that person more to prove a point.