Media persecution of Raheem Sterling

The article itself doesn't seem too offensive they, and other shitty papers have done this type of article on various players in the past. The problem is leaving the article open to comments. When they run such an article on national treasures like Steeeevie Gee or Goldenbollocks, the masses only comment on how classy and lovely the house is because they are stupid sheep whom have swallowed hook and line all the previous positive articles. Given that the gutter press only write execrable and unpleasant articles on Raheem, then obviously the sheep will do the mails job for them in the comments section.
 
I think there's a lot behind this media racism claim. He's young and black, and the old white elite don't like him because of it. You very rarely hear about how he's an incredibly kind person, how he does a lot for charity and how he's brought a lot of his childhood friends and relatives with him on his journey.

I remember someone pointing out that Spurs were the media's blue eyed boys. They get a lot of airtime and praise compared to other clubs. His point is based on Spurs being seen as a Jewish team and our mostly Jewish-owned media companies like them. I think the same media companies probably have an issue with a club that's owned by Muslim billionaires, hence the countless negative stories about us. More recently, they want more 'clicks' for advertising - so they praise the clubs with the biggest fanbase and give them a common enemy who they can scoff at from their high horse. All this leads to more clicks, more advertising, more drama, more comments and engagement. It really is an advertising dream - and most of us are stupid enough to get enraged by it.
 
domalino said:
I actually don't think this is unfair coverage.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3259796/Wayne-Coleen-Rooney-spend-150-000-KITCHEN-neither-use.html

www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3760474/amp/PICTURE-EXCLUSIVE-Beck-good-Removal-men-unload-three-vans-Beckham-s-refurbished-31-5-million-West-London-mansion.html

www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/182550/Arsenal-star-Jack-Wilshere-snaps-up-1-2m-house

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3155516/The-boy-good-Welcome-Steven-Gerrard-s-18million-Beverly-Hills-super-home-complete-six-bedrooms-pool-cinema.html

www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-3204550/Can-match-stunning-homes-current-former-Premier-League-stars-mansions-penthouses-lived-footballers-WAGs.html

www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/pictures/10141499/For-rent-Phil-Nevilles-15000-a-month-Manchester-apartment.html

www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3725123/amp/Manchester-United-ace-Memphis-Depay-moves-plush-16-500-week-home-Cheshire.html

There you've got Beckham, Neville, Wilshere, Gerrard, Depay and Rooney, plus one which just does a load at once.

"Footballer earning X buys expensive house for Lots of money, here's some photos to make you jealous" is a classic story that the daily mail and co run every time they get a chance.

It might seem unfair because of the earlier article about Poundland, which I think everyone agreed was bullshit, but this is just the norm for any footballer, white or black, City or elsewhere.
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The difference might be that those articles were probably not given as much precedence(main page/back page) and I remember Beckham did get it bad at times as did most of the players you mention but there were other pro Beckham articles all the time to balance it out the following week... where is this balance for Sterling? It's all negative.
 
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he builds what he wants, he builds what he wants "raheem sterling".......

12 months before he signed for city they did a full profile interview on sterling on BBC.. They said wonderful things about the guy showing his goals and runs, Liverpool had one of the best up and coming players in the country,he couldnt do anything wrong.

Then he signed for city, oh how the shit media now like to put him down.
 
Think people are being oversensitive with this one and looking for something that isn't actually there.

Unless it's since been edited, the article in question is not even giving him any grief about it. It's just stating that he's bought a fancy new house and saying what's included with it.

I've seen plenty of similar articles over the years about loads of different footballers and their big houses. Far from persecuting him, it's actually quite an aspirational piece.
 
As a standalone article isn't not particularly bad, but it's part of the wider scrutiny that Sterling seems to come under. The sink, Poundland, THREE garages etc. There seems to be a disproportionate amount of interest in how Sterling chooses to spend his own money.
 
Not only did he have the gall to leave the incredible, ancient and honourable Liverpool FC for a team with no history, full of horrible foreign mercenaries which is financed by Arab oil money but he had to go and be black on top of it all. The young lad clearly deserves everything that is coming to him.
 
oakiecokie said:
I think that was probably Robbie Fowler who has a fucking massive portfolio in the housing market.And good luck to the lad as its now a full time business,as it was when he was playing.
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Not knocking them Oakie,it's their money,as you say "good luck to them".
It's just getting silly now,how they pick up more on what Sterling does compared to others.
Sure Owen bought a full street for his family and was praised to the heavens for it.
Sterling bought his mother a house and was lambasted for it.
 
domalino said:
What about Cahill? - https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/n...-mega-mansion-despite-neighbours-kicking-off/

I'm not disagreeing that he's had disgusting treatment in the past, and he might well do in the future (and if he does I'll be one of the first putting complaints in) but this isn't part of that. This is just what everyone goes through. Wilshere isn't a household name worldwide, nor is Luke Shaw who's had it, Gary Cahill, Sol Campbell - all of whom have got the same article.

The sink fiasco was appalling, the twitter picture was borderline comical, but this house article isn't part of a campaign against Sterling, it's what they all get.

You can't just jump at any and all media coverage and throw it in with the unfair stuff, or you create a world where no media coverage of one of England's top players is a campaign, and it isn't. You can't point to this article and scream racism when there's literally dozens of articles with almost the exact same wording but different photos for white footballers.

If you do this, it will become just like the media bias against City thread where it descends into conspiracy theories and stops being taken seriously - people will laugh off the genuine racial element the coverage in the summer seemed to have. Keep the complaints to articles that actually are unfair treatment.


And for what it's worth, the sink thing, along with the Sun's prolonged campaign against him turned the public and the sports press (who weren't actually involved in that) against Sterling bashing. They went too far and everyone knows it. The poundland thing got dominated not by the original story but by the fact it was from an old article and the reaction from pretty much everyone was disdain for the paper not the player.
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I don't disagree on the whole, except for the contention that this is something that everyone goes through. The sheer number of manufactured Sterling stories (ie dredging up 3 year old photos) set him apart IMO. The Mail is the cnutiest paper in Britain and, unfortunately, the most read online in the world allegedly. Virtually all of its articles from first page to last have comments sections, and are written in a style designed to reinforce the prejudices of its traditional (and moronic) readership. Sterling, young, black, rich, and impertinent enough to have deserted one of the media's holy cow clubs, represents everything your average Mail reader hates. Whilst the article itself might seem like one in a long line of "look at this footballer's house" specials, you've only got to look at the bile laden comments section to understand the true underlying purpose of it. Sterling is a cheap clickbait score for certain parts of the media. I have no proof of that of course, but that's my reading of this article
 
I've heard he even has a bathroom the sick fucker. Who does he think he is not shitting in a trench like the rest of us?
 
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