Sterling and the hate he gets

[The Future’s Blue!]

We would not be having this conversation if this was Rashford instead of Sterling because the NOBODY would be making an issue of it.

Got to give credit to the ref for seeing it, always seemed to be in the right position to make the calls.

 

[Saddleworth2]

He had two contacts in the penalty box, one on his right foot, the other on his left thigh. The ref gave it immediately. Var looked at it and didn’t overturn. These decisions are made week in week out.

He won the game for England and posted a performance that was exceptional. That’s what we should be celebrating, not moaning about soft bloody penalties.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

We would not be having this conversation if this was Rashford instead of Sterling because the NOBODY would be making an issue of it.

You’re exactly right, but why?

I just don’t get how certain media outlets have berated him, even England and City fans have joined in the celebration to have a pop, when the whole of the country should celebrate them getting to the first final, a quarter century following the release of their favourite song.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

You are saying that Sterling dived because he drew contact but others are being hypocritical because he dived.

What I seen was 2 hits on Sterling

There was definitely contact. The penalty was given and VAR agreed with the refs decision.
What it definitely was not was 2 hits.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

There was definitely contact. The penalty was given and VAR agreed with the refs decision.
What it definitely was not was 2 hits.

Say again, not sure if you’ve seen the gif that’s on many of the last pages but it clearly shows 2 incidents, one where the Denmark player catches Sterling’s leg and the other where he gets the double team across his body.

Either way, as you say, contact that stops the move, definite penalty to England.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Say again, not sure if you’ve seen the gif that’s on many of the last pages but it clearly shows 2 incidents, one where the Denmark player catches Sterling’s leg and

I have seen several differing views and videos of the penalty. I can see the contact with both players and Sterling and can see how the ref gave a penalty and rightly so.
Maybe I'm taking a different meaning to your use of the word "hit" . If someone "hit" me I think I'd know it.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

I‘ve watched it many times and don’t see what you are alluding to. You are saying that Sterling dived because he drew contact but others are being hypocritical because he dived.

What I seen was 2 hits on Sterling, the first knocking his right leg and from all angles you can clearly see him still trying to run, not throwing his leg backwards as you’d see in a dive, before then getting hit from the opposite side with enough force to clearly force him down.

Eyes, eh, we’ve all got them and see things differently.

I’m saying that if his life depended on getting to the goal line, the first contact would not have caused him to go to ground. I’m absolutely not saying he dived, because that has a wholly different meaning, and context.

He didn’t leave a trailing leg, or throw out a leg yo initiate contact, either.

But, ignore the first contact altogether and just look at the second challenge, if you like.

Look at the position of #24 the second before he makes contact, and then the second after he makes contact.

THE CONTACT HE INITIATES IS SO FORCEFUL IT TURNS HIS ENTIRE BODY AFTER HE HITS STERLING’S BODY. He tries to hide this body check (no shoulder to shoulder, but stepping across Sterling’s trajectory with his hips) by NOT throwing a leg or boot out, but THE REACTION OF HIS OWN BODY MAKES CLEAR that he has made significant physical contact.

And, let’s be serious, anywhere else on the park, when a player drives between two staggered players and one throws out a leg and the other then lays the body on him, you’re getting a free kick!

Had Sterling thrown out his right leg, I’d have called it as I saw it and said HE INITIATED THE CONTACT and thus no foul. However, it was contact initiated TWICE, by two different, slightly offset, players that creates a foul, and it’s a penalty

 

[paulchapo]

The media did a great hatchet job on him for having the audacity to leave their beloved Liverpool. Not content with labelling him greedy they then went after him for buying his mum and sister a house. So something to be applauded was made out to be him showing off his wealth. He was also made the scapegoat for England's loss to Iceland and every other loss too. Of course the sheep lapped it all up, including some so called City fans too. Booed by England fans and booed by fans up and down the country. Once he called the media out as racist it died down a bit but they were smarting and it's always bubbling below the surface. His performance was so good against Denmark that even Lineker said it was the best display he's ever seen by a player in an England shirt. Yet all they can talk about is the penalty.

I actually wish by some quirk of fate Sterling had found out he could play for Germany, Italy or Spain and said fuck you to the haters of England. I wish he'd then gone on to tear up our defence and knock us out of every tournament we faced him. That is all the two faced fuckers deserve

 

[burnley blue mcfc]

It was a total dive yesterday but the issue i have with it is that City are going to be the ones that suffer next season. City find it hard enough to get penos and this will hardly help Sterling or City.

We’d miss it anyway!! last time i felt confident of us scoring a pen yaya was stepping up to take it

 

[lasereyes]

Huge generalisations and exaggeration there I think. Of course there's a bit of inferiority complex there probably but you need to understand how easy England are to fucking despise when you have the arrogance of pundits like Ferdinand and Wright on the telly. The shite coming out of Lee Dixon's mouth too last night was unreal. I normally give him a pass as he's a city fan but that was too much

I've heard him claim this, but I'm calling bullshit. He's by far the worst US-based commentator - never has a good word to say about us.

 

[manchester blue]

The foul was by Jenson. It was a foul. It was a penalty.

There's no way Rashford would get this shit.

 

[DontLookBackInAnger]

Didn't watch the game live and don't follow England at all, so don't really have a horse in this race so to speak, but I have to say when I heard it was "soft" I was quite surprised it looked a pretty clear penalty to me

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Having watched it many times. He’s already somewhat off balance and the 24 comes in and finishes the job. It isn’t a penalty because there’s ‘contact’. There’s contact in the area between defenders and attackers many times in every match. There’d be 10 penalties per match if it were a simple matter of ‘feeling some contact’. It’s a penalty because, running at speed and slaloming, he is sent over. I’ve come round 180° on the way I see the incident. Kudos to the ref for getting it in real time. I couldn’t. I admit I thought it was a dive in the first instance. Kudos also to VAR, for once, for seeing what the ref saw and seeing no good reason to send him over to the monitor.
England are in the final.I suppose a lot of people will be pleased if they’re beaten by Italy. I was a big fan of Italy until, I think, a couple of matches ago, when they were being pressed really hard (was it by Spain? someone else, I think), and various players took it in turns to fall down on the pitch pretending to be hurt, one after the other, for the last ten minutes. That’s anti-football! I’ve never seen a City team do that. Or an England team. Love Roberto, but I’m 100% behind England on Sunday. And I’m not even very patriotic by temperament.

Oh, by the way. Let’s tell the truth. Raz does sometimes dive. Yes, yes, he does! Like a lot of other attacking players. (Phil doesn’t do it, but he’ll learn...) The other night was not one of those cases.

 

[adrianr]

Didn't watch the game live and don't follow England at all, so don't really have a horse in this race so to speak, but I have to say when I heard it was "soft" I was quite surprised it looked a pretty clear penalty to me

Being made out as the softest penalty ever given at a major tournament. Total nonsense.

 

[Dobsy]

Only Raheem could have a penalty given after a VAR review but the general consensus still be that it wasn't a penalty and he dived.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

You’re exactly right, but why?

I just don’t get how certain media outlets have berated him, even England and City fans have joined in the celebration to have a pop, when the whole of the country should celebrate them getting to the first final, a quarter century following the release of their favourite song.

I can't understand it. It's pretty irrational. There are even elements of our own fans who seem to give him grief for no apparent reason.

 

[eastmanc]

Being made out as the softest penalty ever given at a major tournament. Total nonsense.

It was soft but it was still a penalty. Might of not been one years ago but it is today, I’ve seen penalties given for less think about a lot of the spot kicks given to Liverpool in the last couple of seasons.

 

[Protein Junkie]

As I have posted elsewhere it was a perfect result for non City England fans. A win and an incident to slag off Raheem.
Secondly not all non-English Brits are against the team. That is a false and sweeping generalisation.

 

[eastmanc]

I can't understand it. It's pretty irrational. There are even elements of our own fans who seem to give him grief for no apparent reason.

I don’t think City fans give him grief per se but he does get called out if he is not preforming , that is no different to any City player.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

I've heard him claim this, but I'm calling bullshit. He's by far the worst US-based commentator - never has a good word to say about us.

He‘s mentioned it a few times, no longer a City fan since he moved to his beloved Gooners.