Sterling and the hate he gets

[manchester blue]

The foul was by Jenson. It was a foul. It was a penalty.

There's no way Rashford would get this shit.

 

[DontLookBackInAnger]

Didn't watch the game live and don't follow England at all, so don't really have a horse in this race so to speak, but I have to say when I heard it was "soft" I was quite surprised it looked a pretty clear penalty to me

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Having watched it many times. He’s already somewhat off balance and the 24 comes in and finishes the job. It isn’t a penalty because there’s ‘contact’. There’s contact in the area between defenders and attackers many times in every match. There’d be 10 penalties per match if it were a simple matter of ‘feeling some contact’. It’s a penalty because, running at speed and slaloming, he is sent over. I’ve come round 180° on the way I see the incident. Kudos to the ref for getting it in real time. I couldn’t. I admit I thought it was a dive in the first instance. Kudos also to VAR, for once, for seeing what the ref saw and seeing no good reason to send him over to the monitor.
England are in the final.I suppose a lot of people will be pleased if they’re beaten by Italy. I was a big fan of Italy until, I think, a couple of matches ago, when they were being pressed really hard (was it by Spain? someone else, I think), and various players took it in turns to fall down on the pitch pretending to be hurt, one after the other, for the last ten minutes. That’s anti-football! I’ve never seen a City team do that. Or an England team. Love Roberto, but I’m 100% behind England on Sunday. And I’m not even very patriotic by temperament.

Oh, by the way. Let’s tell the truth. Raz does sometimes dive. Yes, yes, he does! Like a lot of other attacking players. (Phil doesn’t do it, but he’ll learn...) The other night was not one of those cases.

 

[adrianr]

Didn't watch the game live and don't follow England at all, so don't really have a horse in this race so to speak, but I have to say when I heard it was "soft" I was quite surprised it looked a pretty clear penalty to me

Being made out as the softest penalty ever given at a major tournament. Total nonsense.

 

[Dobsy]

Only Raheem could have a penalty given after a VAR review but the general consensus still be that it wasn't a penalty and he dived.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

You’re exactly right, but why?

I just don’t get how certain media outlets have berated him, even England and City fans have joined in the celebration to have a pop, when the whole of the country should celebrate them getting to the first final, a quarter century following the release of their favourite song.

I can't understand it. It's pretty irrational. There are even elements of our own fans who seem to give him grief for no apparent reason.

 

[eastmanc]

Being made out as the softest penalty ever given at a major tournament. Total nonsense.

It was soft but it was still a penalty. Might of not been one years ago but it is today, I’ve seen penalties given for less think about a lot of the spot kicks given to Liverpool in the last couple of seasons.

 

[Protein Junkie]

As I have posted elsewhere it was a perfect result for non City England fans. A win and an incident to slag off Raheem.
Secondly not all non-English Brits are against the team. That is a false and sweeping generalisation.

 

[eastmanc]

I can't understand it. It's pretty irrational. There are even elements of our own fans who seem to give him grief for no apparent reason.

I don’t think City fans give him grief per se but he does get called out if he is not preforming , that is no different to any City player.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

I've heard him claim this, but I'm calling bullshit. He's by far the worst US-based commentator - never has a good word to say about us.

He‘s mentioned it a few times, no longer a City fan since he moved to his beloved Gooners.