Media persecution of Raheem Sterling

[taleofbluehalves]

It’s not about the missed pen though. It’s about the cockiness to take a pen like that, which failed, and the keepers reaction to that failure. I dare say had the keeper not reacted like that, the photo wouldn’t be there at all. It isn’t to do with sterling. It’s to do with the keepers reaction to the penalty.

Got to admit I was surprised most of the media ran with a headline about Sterling. Not KDB, Not Zinchenko, not Muric. Have they learnt nothing this week?

 

[Rolee]

Sorry. I’m not too clued up

Fixed, I'm the same age, perhaps I need to grow up.

 

[Pigeonho]

Fixed, I'm the same age, perhaps I need to grow up.

Nah you crack on fella.

 

[cheekybids]

It’s not about the missed pen though. It’s about the cockiness to take a pen like that, which failed, and the keepers reaction to that failure. I dare say had the keeper not reacted like that, the photo wouldn’t be there at all. It isn’t to do with sterling. It’s to do with the keepers reaction to the penalty.

So it’s about the cockiness of the pen taker not the cockiness of the keeper lol.

I’m surprised it’s considered cocky when the aim is to mislead the keeper, if he’d have gone left it would have been saved.

It’s not important but strange when it becomes a non story, crucial if we went out.

 

[somethingelse]

Lots of players try and dink the ball into the goal from the spot, in fact Aguero did it last season
What doesn't usually happen ,is for the keeper to take it personally and goof off at the taker

 

[Pigeonho]

So it’s about the cockiness of the pen taker not the cockiness of the keeper lol.

I’m surprised it’s considered cocky when the aim is to mislead the keeper, if he’d have gone left it would have been saved.

It’s not important but strange when it becomes a non story, crucial if we went out.

First article I just looked at was the telegraph. Has sterling and the keeper as the main photo, the. Further down the celebrations. A quick google of similar incidents and low and behold there’s one of Ronaldo missinga penalty in the World Cup but Portugal still going through. Picture of him with his head in his hands and then the celebrations too.

 

[Rolee]

First article I just looked at was the telegraph. Has sterling and the keeper as the main photo, the. Further down the celebrations. A quick google of similar incidents and low and behold there’s one of Ronaldo missinga penalty in the World Cup but Portugal still going through. Picture of him with his head in his hands and then the celebrations too.

No issue with the pic being used, it's how it's used.

Out of interest, the Ronaldo one, main pic on the article or not?

 

[Pigeonho]

Lots of players try and dink the ball into the goal from the spot, in fact Aguero did it last season
What doesn't usually happen ,is for the keeper to take it personally and goof off at the taker

Reverse that then. Vardy misses the same penalty and Muric reacts the same. Is it goofing off or him reacting to say ‘ahhhh!’

 

[eversince 76]

It’s not about the missed pen though. It’s about the cockiness to take a pen like that, which failed, and the keepers reaction to that failure. I dare say had the keeper not reacted like that, the photo wouldn’t be there at all. It isn’t to do with sterling. It’s to do with the keepers reaction to the penalty.

It’s indeed NOT about the missed penalty. It’s about the headline-picture for an article that issues a cup run via a penalty shoot out. Anyone with more than one brain cell will agree that this picture shows all what has been going on in the press this and last week. If you have the choice out of about a hundred pictures you don’t go for this one. If you can’t see that and change the subject to the way Sterling took his penalty ( and in whether you can agree or disagree) one tend to believe you miss that one brain cell.

 

[Pigeonho]

No issue with the pic being used, it's how it's used.

Out of interest, the Ronaldo one, main pic on the article or not?

It’s the bbc football site so videos rather than pics, but they’re shown as stills of the money shots, so to speak.

 

[aguero93:20]

Reverse that then. Vardy misses the same penalty and Muric reacts the same. Is it goofing off or him reacting to say ‘ahhhh!’

It's him goofing off, he should be getting his head right for the next penalty.

 

[Rolee]

It’s the bbc football site so videos rather than pics, but they’re shown as stills of the money shots, so to speak.

So that's a no then? Thought as much, thanks.

 

[Pigeonho]

It’s indeed NOT about the missed penalty. It’s about the headline-picture for an article that issues a cup run via a penalty shoot out. Anyone with more than one brain cell will agree that this picture shows all what has been going on in the press this and last week. If you have the choice out of about a hundred pictures you don’t go for this one. If you can’t see that and change the subject to the way Sterling took his penalty ( and in whether you can agree or disagree) one tend to believe you miss that one brain cell.

Why don’t you go for this one? It’s iconic in the fact it has a rather embarrassed sterling and rare photo of a reaction of a keeper. Replace sterling with any other player and it will still be used.

 

[Pigeonho]

It's him goofing off, he should be getting his head right for the next penalty.

So you wouldn’t be saying Vardy is a cocky fucker then and Muric was giving it to him for being so?

 

[cheekybids]

First article I just looked at was the telegraph. Has sterling and the keeper as the main photo, the. Further down the celebrations. A quick google of similar incidents and low and behold there’s one of Ronaldo missinga penalty in the World Cup but Portugal still going through. Picture of him with his head in his hands and then the celebrations too.

I agree they’d use Ronaldo I’m not calling agenda I’m calling shit journalism. They make the story about Ronaldo / Sterling when it isn’t.
When choosing pics you’d imagine them saying this is a good un then someone yeah but we’d look stupid using that one when they went through.

 

[eversince 76]

Why don’t you go for this one? It’s iconic in the fact it has a rather embarrassed sterling and rare photo of a reaction of a keeper. Replace sterling with any other player and it will still be used.

Like I say. You miss the one brain cell.

 

[aguero93:20]

So you wouldn’t be saying Vardy is a cocky fucker then and Muric was giving it to him for being so?

No. There's nothing cocky about a panenka, they're missed no more often than regular penalties.

 

[Pigeonho]

I agree they’d use Ronaldo I’m not calling agenda I’m calling shit journalism. They make the story about Ronaldo / Sterling when it isn’t.
When choosing pics you’d imagine them saying this is a good un then someone yeah but we’d look stupid using that one when they went through.

Shit journalism is rife, we know that. All I’m saying is if you have a player missing that type of penalty, needlessly taken that way I’ll add from my own point of view, and the keeper letting him have it a bit, it’s going to be used. But on here it’s instantly deemed as the persecution of Sterling when Infact its just because it’s such a rare occurrence and resulting photo. (In my humble opinion of course).

 

[Pigeonho]

No. There's nothing cocky about a panenka, they're missed no more often than regular penalties.

Fair enough pal.

 

[Rolee]

Shit journalism is rife, we know that. All I’m saying is if you have a player missing that type of penalty, needlessly taken that way I’ll add from my own point of view, and the keeper letting him have it a bit, it’s going to be used. But on here it’s instantly deemed as the persecution of Sterling when Infact its just because it’s such a rare occurrence and resulting photo. (In my humble opinion of course).

It is rare, I'll give you that, I've never seen a keeper react that way before.