Football Twitter's habit of labelling a player or manager a 'fraud' the moment they lose — 'fraud watch', 'the fraud is exposed', 'fraud FC' — a courtroom in which the sentence is always guilty and the appeal is the next match. The record notes 'fraud' now covers anyone who has ever been praised, which is everyone.
I remember when Fraud Watch was still a niche thing — 2019 — and you could use it without a footnote. The footnote arrived about six weeks later and never left.
The record notes the fraud is exposed on Saturday, un-exposed on Wednesday, and 'was never a fraud, the fans just had to trust the process' by May.
A fraud, in law, deceives for gain. A footballer who has a bad game against Bournemouth has not. The record has given up on this distinction but wanted it on file.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
