Media persecution of Raheem Sterling

[dickie davies]

Martin Samuel:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...-Raheem-Sterlings-gun-tattoo-easy-target.html

That's an excellent piece.

Todays DailyFail has an unbelievably shitty article http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...FA-Gary-Lineker-PRAISING-Raheem-Sterling.html
If you don't want to give the mail clicks, you can use this donotlink https://donotlink.it/V1wn

A few choice excerpts
Showing off his new tattoo of an assault rifle, this £200k-a-week England star sums up all what's wrong with football
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It was 2005 and the baby-faced product of one of North London’s grimier neighbourhoods was already displaying an unfortunate talent for self-destruction that has characterised much of his football career.
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Thirteen years and 37 England caps later, Raheem Shaquille Sterling’s success on the football pitch continues to be as stratospheric as his all-too-regular failures off it.
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Yet, on the other hand, this supposed role model has for far too long allowed himself to be defined by acute lapses in judgment that — in the eyes of many critics, at least — have turned him into a symbol of the amorality that is today at the heart of the so-called Beautiful Game.
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Plus the obligatory mentions of "gaudy house" and "bling watches"

And so on, ad nauseam. This stream of bile, innuendo and selective reporting has, if possible, made me even more angry that the Sun's original shite.


As a slight balance to that lot, this excerpt from BBCR5L - which will, no doubt, reach far fewer people, has good content from Rory Smith and Nedum Onuoha who speak from a rational perspective.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p068l32q

Who's going to tweet Martin Samuel the article from his own newspaper?

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

I've just signed that petition. Strength in numbers n' all that...

 

[The blue phantom]

About time the club stepped in and did something

Have they ever stepped in abt anything? I'm one of the non agenderist folk but i'm still aware we've had the piss took out of us aswel as players being mocked an abused. Fuckall as ever been done.

 

[aguero93:20]

About time the club stepped in and did something

Like hang them from the roof of the South Stand.

 

[aguerrrroooooooooooo]

Like hang them from the roof of the South Stand.

Not a bad start

 

[aguerrrroooooooooooo]

Have they ever stepped in abt anything? I'm one of the non agenderist folk but i'm still aware we've had the piss took out of us aswel as players being mocked an abused. Fuckall as ever been done.

I don't know but I'd hope the club would protect one of their own high profile players from blatant racism

 

[BlueAnorak]

The Telegraph state he got it in March.

Extra bits. He had some of it in September.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Extra bits. He had some of it in September.

Yes, domalino has provided an October pic on p118 that shows it.
'Ducker in being wrong' non-shocker.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Everton banned the Sun for one article about Ross Barkley. We definitely need to do the same after the targeted campaign of hate against one of our players. We've tried maintaining a dignified silence, and if anything it's got worse.

Incidentally, it'd be interesting to know how many times the Sun has put the rising murder rate in London on their front page this year, given that they're obviously so concerned about it.

 

[Bozo]

The club needs to act, now!

What the actual fuck.