A mechanism or tactic · 1900 · Sport
The transfer
A player who has been attached to for years leaves, and the grievance is felt as betrayal by the entire locality.
The standard parasocial grievance story, and the one nobody frames as parasocial. The word for the feeling is betrayal, which is a relationship word, applied to a person who never signed anything.
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