It’s absolutely a thing, and anyone who is a regular attendee will admit it.
We hear often opposition players mention it ‘we can use the crowd against them’, and you hear other fans mention it.
Gladly we aren’t perceived like the Mags fans, they think they are loved but one glance at social dispels that, but we are known as liking a scapegoat, putting pressure on the team, and turning early.
We had visuals live on Sky several times of fans walking out before half time with a chorus of boos ringing under Short. People have selective memories.
34 years I been going the match. Never boo’d our own. Been sat I stunned silence many a time of course.