Linfield manager David Healy is fed up being damned by faint praise but is confident half-hearted compliments will drive his players on in the thick of a fascinating league title race.
Other clubs have been put on a media pedestal in recent times, including rivals Glentoran, Cliftonville and Larne and Coleraine earlier in the season.
But heading into the business end of the campaign, it is the Blues who have lost just one of their 23 league games.
