Media persecution of Raheem Sterling

toffee balls said:
lOl.
That coming from Vinnie Jones.
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Put his comments down to shock. Only once. Next time you hear him count the money and put your seat belt on. Never heard him slate Harry Kane, "No, 'Arry, you can't."
Vinnie's [Jones, not Kompany] part was so slow-worded in Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels that Stephen Hawkings could have keyed a smarter return per sentence and looked harder in the role. It's been emotional.
 
Wreckless Alec said:
Vinnie Jones, Talkshite, 06.23 - "sometimes you look at Sterling and you think, if he didn't have pace, he'd be playing for Exeter" - to general agreement from Brazil and Quinn
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How do talkragshite manage with all the ex-footballers around to find someone like him?

Jones, Saunders, Parlor etc the list goes on, surely there's players out there who would take talkragshite's money and talk some sense.

On topic, I'm supposed to be out in town for the semi but I'm going to duck out as I'll end up getting annoyed with all the Rashford fanboys that'll be around.
 
Bert Trautmanns Helemet said:
And we wonder why English football has been left so far behind for the last 40 years or so?
Let’s go 4-4-2 and hoof it forward up to the ‘big men’! Put it in the mixer! Let’s play the ‘position of maximum opportunity’
All standard typical quotes from the talkSPORT tosses.

It’s amazing though if you listen to talkSPORT 2 it’s more than decent at times.
None of your washed up has beens with their own agendas spouting drivel.
Just the opposite
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True. Talks port 2 is much better.
 
mosssideblue said:
I think you are seeing stuff that aint there.
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Racism is definitely a part. No matter how uncomfortable that may feel. 93.20 podcast boys called it out weeks ago. Time to get of the fence and acknowledge what it actually is. Your linekers etc finally begun to acknowledge this a month or two agoband since within many media outlets the focus on sterling has softened but be in no doubt racism is playing a part.
 
Wreckless Alec said:
Vinnie Jones, Talkshite, 06.23 - "sometimes you look at Sterling and you think, if he didn't have pace, he'd be playing for Exeter" - to general agreement from Brazil and Quinn
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And then they started reading out derogatory comments about Sterling from random punters who had sent texts or tweeted!
They then decided to open it up to a phone in obviously thinking (hoping) Raheem would get more pelters from joe public.
If it wasn't so disgraceful it would be laughable.
 
mosssideblue said:
Read again what I put and apply some intelligence - The old guard were the media darlings

Throwing out wild accusations of racism is far from cool bud
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Minimising what's going on with sterling to being about only footballing tribalism or alliegances, whilst disparaging other factors could also be considered to be equally wild, if not dangerous.
 
Bert Trautmanns Helemet said:
And then they started reading out derogatory comments about Sterling from random punters who had sent texts or tweeted!
They then decided to open it up to a phone in obviously thinking (hoping) Raheem would get more pelters from joe public.
If it wasn't so disgraceful it would be laughable.
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Fortunately, I didn't hear that. It comes on my radio alarm so I can hear if we've signed anybody then listen while I eat my Weetabix. Then off it goes.
 
I have just 're read chunks of this thread. The point that was most striking; that so many regular posters do not want to believe that British Newspapers are capable of racist undertones.

So politically unaware.
 
I have had red mist syndrome this weekend and it has all been around the abouse of Raz on social media. I have called out people who have aimed disgusting and downright ludicrous comments at him. The replies I have had back have been laughable where these idiots have been unable to justify their own point of view.

just come into work and said morning to one person, started discussing the game and then they slated sterling - they first said that he was rubbish and then went onto to state that he was greedy as he always wanted the ball and it was turning into the Sterling show !!!!!!


You cannot fucking make it up....it is a lost cause. The resentment that has been fueled from the day he left LFC to us is ingrained so muc. For the majority of these idiots stating that he should dropped for Rashford or Vardy - well that has been tried and England looked garbage

Raz could score the ultimate goal but these mindless cretins would still find fault
 
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I actually think a lot of the media (not all of course) have swung around to being very supportive of him. The problem is that its now ingrained in a large proportion of the public's brains (brains used loosely!) to hate him. Watching the game in the pub tells you all you need to know, no matter what part of the country, every time the he gets on the ball, you can hear the vitriol - what's more, it is clearly just Sterling that gets this, no other player was being chastised for giving the ball away, not closing down as much as some would want, not scoring etc. Literally not one single other player got any abuse at all.
The title of this thread should change to something more accurate now, like 'media-initiated public persecution of Raheem Sterling"
 
The lad is currently getting the full treatment from Saturn Head and the horse bother-er on Talksport first caller outraged white van man cockney, the hate and bile coming out of every fucking pore, fuck em fuck em all
 
Bert Trautmanns Helemet said:
By the constant and sustained persecution of Sterling over a long period of time - particularly in the tabloid newspapers.
It's not just his football that gets torn apart. It's also his private life, his family and his character.
If not what other reason(s) can you give for it?
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It's because he left Liverpool and came to City. Nothing more, nothing less. Nowt to do with race, otherwise would you not think it would be a "get Vardy in the team over Sterling" debate created by the media rather than a "Rashford for Sterling" one.

He's made their party line of "Liverpool and United are the be all and end all in this country and City have to be shown to be nobodies" look fucking moronic by leaving one of those clubs to come to City and winning three trophies to Liverpool's ZERO in that time.

If Jordan Henderson was a player good enough to come to us and play in place of Fernandinho long term and we won a load of trophies with him, they'd be laying into Henderson like thy do Raz. Just like the media have done with other white people in the past - Gascoigne, Beckham, McLaren, Robinson, Taylor, Bobby Robson...

Paul Scholes used to get “Scholes never does it for England” hate stories from the media because of the United-Arsenal rivalry in the 90s (the media used to fucking LOVE Arsenal, in the last eight years they’ve taken the piss out of them daily). The media was pro-Liverpool and Arsenal back then and not so much United. Scholes got boo’d at an England game by England fans and that sparked off the whole “UNITED > ENGLAND” flags at United games and them always being seen to be anti-England.

It was only after Ferguson started banning people for printing stories he didn’t like about United did the anti-United stuff stop from the media. Now they’re the darlings of the media. Even Scholes used to just get laughed at for his dirty cynical fouls “oh he can’t tackle can he put Paul? Hahaha” - they turned from anti-Scholes/anti-United/pro-Liverpool/pro-Arsenal to total brown boards of the Rags.
 
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Bodicoteblue said:
Dean Saunders on talkshit marking the squad.
‘Sterling- 5 out of 10 , because he’s done nothing’
Rashford- 6 out of 10.
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Thats just mind-boggling. what a fucking cretin. Rashford has done fucking nowt when coming on, along with Vardy. In fact we have looked worse and dis-jointed as soon as Raz has been subbed
 
Whichever way you view it the UK Media has been led and has followed the anti RS path.
If Southgate continues to pick him then logically he should be the one to receive their vitriol but no they adore him for getting his England team playing so well together. Not really logical but seemingly very effective.

For whatever reason they have targeted him personally.

Faced by foreign press that sees his true value and other teams that desperately try to nullify him they choose to ignore his qualities and dwell on his goal misses.

Their crusade has been very successful but true to form some media is changing its opinion to appear to see RS in a different light but frankly publishing two versions of the story is a just in case reference point.
The damage has been done.
 
Another very positive 2 page article in today’s Times showing why the media mob are wrong.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
It's because he left Liverpool and came to City. Nothing more, nothing less. Nowt to do with race, otherwise would you not think it would be a "get Vardy in the team over Sterling" debate created by the media rather than a "Rashford for Sterling" one.

He's made their party line of "Liverpool and United are the be all and end all in this country and City have to be shown to be nobodies" look fucking moronic by leaving one of those clubs to come to City and winning three trophies to Liverpool's ZERO in that time.

If Jordan Henderson was a player good enough to come to us and play in place of Fernandinho long term and we won a load of trophies with him, they'd be laying into Henderson like thy do Raz. Just like the media have done with other white people in the past - Gascoigne, Beckham, McLaren, Robinson, Taylor, Bobby Robson...
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I agree with everything you've said with exception about what your saying about rrace.Sterlings race is definitely a further factor.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2018/07/06/harry-stopes/the-press-v-raheem-sterling/
 
It's important to recognise two factors. The power of the "popular" press in this country, and its significant influence. Second, the limitations of our education system, which does not equip people to think for themselves. These two factors have an impact way beyond Raheem Sterling.

The other thing is, we in this country love to have a scapegoat. You can see it at City. There's always at least one player the (majority of the) crowd think is "shit" and want to get rid of. There's a long list of names going back all the way to Ian Bowyer, and probably back to some guy in the 19th Century I've never heard of.
 
They've pushed and pushed and pushed this agenda against Raheem and as we can clearly see, the less knowledgeable ones have bitten.

Now it is full on furore between those of us who know better and the 'know nowts', many of the meeja are now flipping the story to positive.

And again, they win, because the 'know nowts' have a rant, whilst the rest applaud them.

Whip up a storm, reverse the trend at it's peak, sit back and watch the clicks coming bounding in.

Either way, the aim is clicks and the meeja can't lose either way.
 
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