Sterling and the hate he gets

Trevor Morley's Tache said:
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.
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A bloke I know can and does spend pretty much all game slating the kid. If any other player loses possession or fluffs his lines, silence, but if it's Sterling, he's all over it. With him it's made me question if there's a race element to it because I can't for the life of me think what else it could be.

As for the general population of non-City fans, I think because he left Liverpool for little City he generated alot of hate and a tag where he only came for the money. Liverpool themselves, the fucking murderers, didn't do him many favours during the move. How dare someone of his talent and age leave the mighty Liverpool for City, is the feeling I got at the time. All these years later though and Sterling has won everything domestically, most of it several times over.

I love the guy.
 
Was a total joke of a penalty, no contact at all, he doesn't get gifted that in a City shirt.
Sterling, Kane and Grealish do dive for fun playing for England and I hope we don't add Kane or Grealish to our squad.

Raheem has been very poor this season for City and I think he has focused too much on the off-field stuff than trying to do well for City.

Although not his fault and I don't blame him, his selection in Champions league final was the reason we lost, primarily because Pep felt he had to shoehorn him into the team.
Hope he improves his form for City but to think he is intentionally playing poor because of his contract situation must be long way off the mark. I'm not his biggest fan, he's a very frustrating player imho and his inability to finish one on one is criminal at times.
 
You‘d have thought all England fans or even casual supporters of our national team who ‘follow football’ once every major tournament only would all be delighted we got to a final after a wait longer than most of our lifetimes, no matter how it was achieved.

It doesn’t need to be an assault to get a penalty. Sterling was just impeded and fouled, it was in the box, VAR checked it. It was a foul in the box, penalty. The hypocrites screaming for any kind of England goal in that game who now call out Sterling can fuck off.

I‘m absolutely certain no-one would be calling out Sancho if he was felled in the box, and if it had been Rashford who won a penalty for England the media would be calling for the rag **** to get a fucking knighthood.
 
MadchesterCity said:
Was a total joke of a penalty, no contact at all, he doesn't get gifted that in a City shirt.
Sterling, Kane and Grealish do dive for fun playing for England and I hope we don't add Kane or Grealish to our squad.

Raheem has been very poor this season for City and I think he has focused too much on the off-field stuff than trying to do well for City.

Although not his fault and I don't blame him, his selection in Champions league final was the reason we lost, primarily because Pep felt he had to shoehorn him into the team.
Hope he improves his form for City but to think he is intentionally playing poor because of his contract situation must be long way off the mark. I'm not his biggest fan, he's a very frustrating player imho and his inability to finish one on one is criminal at times.
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Off field stuff like? I would say it would be hard to find a more dedicated professional than Mr Sterling, he works incredibly hard to improve himself, year in year out, constantly looking to improve.

He had a poor season by the standards he set from the previous two.

Still a high quality player whom should get far more respect than he does.

He is also a genuine modern role model not a manufactured one like a certain player for the Trafford Red socks.
 
I don’t think the penalty is the best example of hate towards criticism. It was in a semi final against a team the entire or Europe would have been rooting for, it’s going to get scrutiny and it’s one of those that VAR would have gone with whatever the ref decided. Had it gone against us, I’m sure the papers would have been in uproar, even if it wasn’t.

It’s more the scrutiny he gets continuously over his every action that other players don’t that’s the issue. I don’t think it’s as bad in this tournament as most at least realise he is the main reason we’ve reached the final.

Personally, I root for him more than virtually any other footballer. I just think he’s such a brave footballer. There’s plenty that will make a mistake and then hide or play the safe ball. He’s constantly going again and trying to make something happen and deserves huge credit for that.
 
MadchesterCity said:
Was a total joke of a penalty, no contact at all, he doesn't get gifted that in a City shirt.
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That’s demonstrably untrue. He gets a knee in the back of his knee and is then barged sideways at the hip. You can say the contact is slight, that he didn’t need to fall over, that the penalty shouldn’t have been given. I thought all of those things myself until I watched the footage again. Now I think it was maybe 50-50, certainly not the most outrageous decision in the history of football as the media would have you believe
 
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