As someone who follows the English Premier League closely and casually keeps up with the happenings in various other European leagues, let me first tell you this: Not all supporters love and adore their club's owners like, say, the Portland Timbers' Merritt Paulson.
In fact, many are downright hated for a wide range of reasons, whether it be lack of investment, lack of ambition or total absenteeism. Season-ticket holders often phone into radio shows and call for the owner to pony up the cash, or sell the club.
Paulson, instead, gets
photographed while leisurely juggling a soccer ball
on the practice field — admittedly, it's a somewhat goofy picture, but Paulson's a tall guy; Peter Crouch looks goofy when he
juggles
does any soccer thing, too — and Timbers fans turn him into a fun Photoshop meme.
We present to you, #MerrittBomb:
