Media persecution of Raheem Sterling

[Lancet Fluke]

Daily Fail:

Raheem Sterling has now gone 1,000 days without scoring for England... he threatened against Colombia but was once again the source of frustration

• It could have been the perfect night for Raheem Sterling to end his goal drought
• England's No 10 had gone 999 days without scoring going into Tuesday's game
• But he was shoved aside by the giant of a defender that is Colombia's Yerry Mina
• It was up to England's penalty heroes to make sure Sterling gets another chance

That is fucking outrageous and I say that as someone who expects the worst when it comes to the media and their treatment of Raheem. That last point is particularly awful, the implication being that Sterling played absolutely no part in England going through tonight. In fact it implies it would have been his fault of England hadn't gone through and that the penalty takers bailed him out in some way. Our shape was so much better when he was on the pitch, I'm not convinced we'd have needed those penalty heroes if he'd not been taken off tbh. Still let's hammer someone who has run their arse off for the cause and left the pitch with a few minutes left and England ahead and looking comfortable.

 

[Deleted member 81382]

Of all the things to write about after that result. It's fucking sad.

 

[Ric]

Of all the things to write about after that result. It's fucking sad.

From their Chief Sports Reporter too, the massive racist gimp:

 

[aguero93:20]

The article is still live on their site:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...ce-frustration.html?__twitter_impression=true

Tbf there's a nice change in that a lot of people commenting are obviously sick of the criticism and the article seems to have been changed since it was posted.

 

[domalino]

Do you think he wrote it before the game, or during?

 

[BobKowalski]

The replies to the tweet were ripping them a new one which was heartening. Fuck Lawton and fuck the Mail.

 

[Deleted member 81382]

 

[trumpton]

Sterling has received the lowest rating of any England player in all 3 games he has played on the BBC site.

 

[dronefromsector7G]

From their Chief Sports Reporter too, the massive racist gimp:

What an ugly ****. Probably got a small dick too.

 

[Mike N]

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