I do watch the game. Stats go along way though to showing what a player does in those games. Sterling has only 3 fewer goals than Martial, despite one being a winger and having a "shit season", whereas the other is a striker.
Rag-media go into hyper drive on players who (as stats show) aren't doing anything overly special. Same thing is happening to Rashford hence why he's gone from a no-one to a possible England call up for the Euro's despite having a worse scoring record than our 3rd choice striker (though I feel he should be second but that's another debate).