Sterling and the hate he gets

MadchesterCity said:
at least have the decency to quote the entire passage for context

FWIW I really like the player and always back him when people give him grief at Etihad but I do know why he frustrates fans, just look at that game via the rags where he missed at least 3 one on ones to finish the game.
He has all the talent in the world and if he could nail the one on one he would be genuine world class

"Although not his fault and I don't blame him, his selection in Champions league final was the reason we lost, primarily because Pep felt he had to shoehorn him into the team."
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After 5 years of Pep and everything hes won and what we know about him, you think Pep feels obliged to shoehorn players into his starting 11? Wow, thats just a bizarre opinion.
 
willipp said:
After 5 years of Pep and everything hes won and what we know about him, you think Pep feels obliged to shoehorn players into his starting 11? Wow, thats just a bizarre opinion.
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Well explain to me why Sterling started and we never played with a Defensive midfielder despite doing it all season
 
JRockBlues said:
The diving rhetoric by pundits and the rest of the media is quite an obvious ploy in my mind. They're just setting Sterling's reputation up for next season so no ref's will award a penalty for us when he gets hacked to the ground. Don't know why they're worried as we miss more than we score anyway.
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You've almost hit the nail on the head, his diving for England which he is rewarded for works against City. I agree the media use this against him and in turn against City. Saying that, he is refereed harsher than any other player in Premier league I can think of in the box and should receive many more penalties for City.
 
MadchesterCity said:
Well explain to me why Sterling started and we never played with a Defensive midfielder despite doing it all season
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We did, he played Gundogan there. I don't need to explain it, Pep made a decision and it didnt work out. Why did Mahrez go missing? Why did Benardo have a stinker? Why did Rudiger take De Bruyne out of the game? Nothing to do with shoe horning players into the side, all to do with Pep picking the eleven he thought would win the game and for many reasons we didn't.
 
Eccles Blue said:
A friend of mine, who know and understands my allegiance to a certain football club, sent me this link. I apologise if someone has already posted but I haven't got time to go through 150 odd posts.

It Was All a Dream by Raheem Sterling | The Players' Tribune (theplayerstribune.com)

It made me emotional. :-)
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Eccles Blue said:
A friend of mine, who know and understands my allegiance to a certain football club, sent me this link. I apologise if someone has already posted but I haven't got time to go through 150 odd posts.

It Was All a Dream by Raheem Sterling | The Players' Tribune (theplayerstribune.com)

It made me emotional. :-)
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Me too..........
 
Sunday night,few mins left,Foden running into the penalty area,there is a bad tackle from the defender,Foden stumbles but doesn’t,t go down.Its now just the penalties,which Englan lose.The media would all scream “There was contact,he should have gone down”.The Media don’t you just hate them.
 
sterling is the McCanns of football. The negative/sensationalist media have always had hate figures. And it sells.

I do wish Sterling would come out and just declare it all started with him leaving lfc. And the facts on the internet bear it out, no attacks on him whilst he was there, the shit started in Sept 2015 . Its unbelievable how stark the change in attitude was around that time of him leaving
 
Didsbury Dave said:
Totally agree. People can have whatever opinions they want but the Sterling thing is just weird. The casual England fans were mainly the ones who slagged him off in the past. He’s now a hero to them. For the first time in history we actually have A City player who is most people’s man of the tournament, and the talk of England, and potentially about to become as big a hero as Geoff Hirst, but we still have some City fans curling their lips and going “yebbut he’s not that good”.

Thats what they call cognitive dissonance. People have played their cards and can’t back down.
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We’re fickle fuckers anyways. Due to me holidays the first game I got to watched with old man Schmeichel in sticks for us was the Blackburn game at home, I refused to applaud or cheer his name at the start but I started to warm to him and by the end of the game I was fucking sold.
 
If anyone other than Sterling had won that penalty they would probably have a knighthood by now. Papers and social media filled with "Payback" "Thats how you win games" "the dark arts" "just what we have been missing" but no. Raheem Sterling won it. I wish he took it and buried it in the top corner like he did in the Chelsea shootout a few years back and ran down the pitch like Adebayor, then they would have had something to moan about.
 
Meetings are taking place in Basketball Ireland today in the wake of chief executive Bernard O'Byrne's apology for a social media post regarding Raheem Sterling he has since deleted.

O'Byrne posted the phrase 'BLACK DIVES MATTER!!!' on a BBC News Facebook post asking if Raheem Sterling should have been awarded a penalty in extra-time of their Euro 2020 semi-final win over Denmark.

Mr O’Byrne's statement read: "My choice of words commenting on a penalty incident were not thought out. It was an error of judgement and I wholeheartly apologise for the comments."
 
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