Some of his teammates were. Again, what happened in that game was not about "shittalk". And neither btw, was it without consequences. There was quite a bit of fallout after the fact, even if it didn't involve the tournament.
People did not just laugh and move on.
I deliberately only mentioned Lichtsteiner, and it's interesting to me that you're giving Lichtsteiner all the benefit of the doubt in the world while ascribing maliciousness to Morgan.
Either way, let the following image be my final contribution to this exchange:
"people seem to give a complete pass to"
I assumed referees and governing bodies were included in "people". Even with that distinction, think you're still wrong. The Swiss controversy was hitting BBC sports front pages regularly months after the fact
Practically impossible to "prove" public outrage on past incidents, so i'll concede.
and i can't believe you just posted a link to a reddit subforum to try and prove that there was no outrage.... I don't think a group of white 20 something year olds on an internet forum is indicative of how the general footballing world is feeling on anything... ever.
I mean, no. Cards/fines are almost never relevant to how people perceive events (aside from how officials handled them), and the argument here definitely isn't about whether Alex Morgan deserved to carded/fined.
And I never said there wasn't outrage. I said "most fans embraced it as fantastic shithousery" - the groups not to be included there are obvious. The existence of outrage among this or that segment of football fans certainly doesn't imply the existence of some universal rule of etiquette that players are consistently criticized for not adhering to.
Anyway, that Reddit link was to give an example of fan reaction to make the whole discussion a touch less amorphous, not to "prove" anything. I quite honestly didn't see a whole lot of people questioning Lichtsteiner's character after he did that, though.
