This is not just directed at SB but to everyone; it's just that his comment leads nicely on to my point.
At the end of the day, the situation is this: regardless of your foreign affiliation, your prejudices and pre-dispositions, Lampard is now a NYCFC player, and as NYCFC fans - as NYCFC founding season ticket holders, core support group members and Day One followers, your obligation now is to back the players just as you back the team. You don't have to like a player, you don't have to pretend to praise them if they play badly, but you can bet that if you don't support NYCFC's players then the fans of every other club won't fill in and do it for you, and what this time is going to need 110% as it tries to establish itself is as much support from the fans as possible.
With the club not actually playing any games and everything being fairly low-key, it's been relatively easy so far to forget that this stuff is serious business: the team we are all here to follow is going to be going out on national and international TV channels and those of us lucky enough to be making the noise at each game are going to be the atmosphere and personality of this team. If we are all falling over ourselves to argue whether we personally like him or not come game-time then the team will suffer for it, and it's going to show.
By all means argue it out when you're here or are sitting down with each other over a cold pint, but when you go out the to Yankee Stadium and face down every other club in the league you need to make it look like Lampard signing was the greatest thing that ever happened to you, because you will be under the microscope and these things will be picked up on.
Anyway, by all means keep debating the point. Just let's not be under any illusions when March 2015 comes around.
