Raheem Sterling and Gomez - "bust up" at England camp

bobbyowenquiff said:
What about some context. Raheem was vilified for years on social media and in the tabloids. The campaign was fuelled by Liverpool fans, ex players, and former managers. This witchhunt unsurprisingly became racist and toxic culminating in Raheem being attacked and injured by a far-right thug at our training ground. He was barracked on opposition grounds and some of the abuse was racial (the worst I saw was at Burnley). On Sunday we saw the Liverpool fans continue their hate campaign against Raheem. It was toxic and poisonous and nothing to do with football. We were cheated out of the game and Sterling was denied a blatant penalty. The response of Gomez (his England teammate) was to taunt and mock him. I don't know what happened in the England camp but, by singling him out in public, Southgate has left Raheem out to dry for the haters to pour on him as usual. Sterling needs to walk away from England and we City fans need to close ranks behind him.
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This is spot on.
 
It's what happens when you are denied a clear penalty and you are pushed into the ad hoardings twice, with no fucking protection from that cheating twat Oliver.

Raheem, if I couldn't love you any more...

Keep that eye of the tiger, bud, for those last 20 minutes at Klanfield, you truly were an elite player.
 
Shorts said:
I totally agree that it should have been handled internally. It shows up Southgate’s lack of man-management. That said, if he gone in and grabbed him by the throat then anybody objective would clearly criticise Sterling for it. I’ll be honest, I don’t like the England national team and I don’t like the ‘enemy one week, support them the next’ stuff, but you can’t go around assaulting team mates, obviously. No matter how many of that team I’d like to give a good slapping to.
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We don't know the full story and lets see if the media question all the non dipper players if they all wanted Raz excluded from the next game. The true facts are that everyone associated with Liverpool have done everything they can to wreck his career. His treatment on the pitch started with his first return there and Flanagan made a nasty tackle that sent him flying over the touchline to great applause from the festering lowlife that make up the majority of their support. It won't stop, it's an organised campaign and Raheem needs and deserves the support of all fair minded people.
 
Raheem stuck with Southgate and his team mates by playing through horrible abuse from his own supporters and racial abuse from opposing supporters and even some of his own. He didn’t let Southgate down. Southgate has hung him out to dry just when he needed the same commitment that he has given. Extremely poor management, and for Southgate to say it’s a squad decision shows how weak he his.
 
Liverpool fan on talksport has just said Gomez elbowed Raheem in the face twice and should have been sent off. I did not see this but I know scousers have a history of laying into sterling at anfield and have been lauded for doing so.
 
City_Sean said:
Fair play to Rio Ferdinand, his statement about it is spot on. Southgate is a fucking wanker.
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Here's RF's statement from his Facbook

GARETH has handled being England manager brilliantly - up to this point.

"He has conducted himself in a admirable, eloquent & engaging way. Helping to make a Nation feel like they can have some sort of confidence & respect for the national team.
However, I feel this incident could have been handled better.

Keep it behind closed doors & deal with it internally surely?! Come International Week, it’s meet up time between Sterling & Gomez... Raheem Sterling was still upset with Gomez about the result on Sunday & their little pushing/words said during the #lfc vs #mcfc game.

So he has obviously gone into the England camp heated & gone for Gomez, in doing so grabbed Gomez by the throat. Obviously as a manager I’m sure having a harmonious squad is the best scenario - handshakes and hugs on sight not confrontations. But let’s be honest now this kind of stuff isn’t uncommon in squads full of testosterone.

In the various squads I have been a part of I have seen players get punched in the face, ribs broken, nose busted, head kicked like a football.....a throat grab was the equivalent of the intricate handshake embraces that are all too familiar today!

The main question is: Why this couldn’t be handled internally?

I suppose the management have felt it would be better to nip it in the bud prior to the press, agents, family friends leaking the news. However, the worst case on this instance would have been someone asking in a press conference “what happened between Raheem & Gomez, we heard there was a fight”. Easy answer & we have a game to concentrate on. Incident done and dusted. No player looks any worse, we move on.

Now Raheem is left to defend himself from all of the haters that had had their keyboards turnt off due to him becoming a very worthy ambassador for the English game, and rightly so.

If this was a terrible incident then I would be all for public shaming & discipline. But for this ‘throat grab’ that we are TOLD it’s for I can’t understand it.

Gareth would no doubt had seen worse many times during his time as a player and manager.
I just feel this could and should have been handled better to support the player & not hang him out to dry.

One of our World Class players who has conducted himself wonderfully through Racism and unwarranted criticism in an England shirt will now come under more scrutiny and be vilified in the media no doubt - when this could have been dealt with internally. Hindsight is a great thing though.

It seems to me, Raheem felt embarrassed by all that went on at the weekend.... a sign of winning mentality..... however channeled wrongly. Help educate him!

RF"
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
What about some context. Raheem was vilified for years on social media and in the tabloids. The campaign was fuelled by Liverpool fans, ex players, and former managers. This witchhunt unsurprisingly became racist and toxic culminating in Raheem being attacked and injured by a far-right thug at our training ground. He was barracked on opposition grounds and some of the abuse was racial (the worst I saw was at Burnley). On Sunday we saw the Liverpool fans continue their hate campaign against Raheem. It was toxic and poisonous and nothing to do with football. We were cheated out of the game and Sterling was denied a blatant penalty. The response of Gomez (his England teammate) was to taunt and mock him. I don't know what happened in the England camp but, by singling him out in public, Southgate has left Raheem out to dry for the haters to pour on him as usual. Sterling needs to walk away from England and we City fans need to close ranks behind him.
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This 100%
 
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