Perhaps the best way of emphasising the Marlon Pack discourse is by illustrating two tweets posted within a few minutes of each other in responding to the story that Bristol City are one of three clubs known to have made contact with the veteran midfielder.
To the question, "would this make sense?", Kory @korc07 responded with an emphatic “yes” while his fellow Robins fan Ben @bennzky delivered an equally definite “[expletive] no”. The 40-odd other replies to Bristol Live’s tweet, plus 22 others on Facebook, ran along similar lines - you’re either in or you’re out, when it comes to Pack, there isn’t much room for nuance. He is a footballer very much for our times.
Certainly the age-old football cliché of “never go back” is at play here, albeit a statement without much empirical evidence outside of a few anecdotal examples that fit the very obvious confirmation bias at the heart of that saying.
