Sterling and the hate he gets

Maybe it was a so called 'soft' pen, but sometimes watching athletes running around a track and get the slighest touch they go tumbling over..
I thought as he went inside, the defender touched his knee which put him slightly off-balance, and then the other one used his hip to knock him off balance. All seen by var .
Didn't one of their players get booked for diving in a previous game, not much said about that.
 
Sibierskii said:
Not even sure why it's up for discussion, quite clearly there's contact - twice!
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It’s a stonewaller in the prem for Fernandes or Salah every day of the week and twice at weekend. Salahs joke penalty against us in the 4-1 was a million times more of a dive but with zero media condemnation
 
danielwood5 said:
Watching it last night we all thought it looked a soft penalty at first but after they showed a replay from behind the goal you could see it was 100% a penalty.
That replay showed quite clearly the no 5's right knee hit Sterling as he was running and then the other defender took him out with a body check while Sterling was off balance from the initial contact. I was pretty hammered but don't remember it being shown more than once.
I can't quite believe this has been made out to be anything other than a 'stone waller'. Even in the video above you can see that one defender impedes his right leg and the other stops the movement of his left, all without touching the ball, how is that not a penalty? If either defender had tried to play the ball rather than the man then I could understand the 'soft' argument but they don't go anywhere near the ball.
Maybe if Sterling had stuck out his right leg to catch the defenders trailing leg a la Fernandes, Salah, Mane, Kane or Vardy it would have been talked of as 'clever play'.
It would be interesting to know whether the penalty was awarded against the number 5 or 24.
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You make very good points.

I must admit, I hadn’t seen No. 5's knee catch Raheem’s previously, but it is as clear as day, in this video, that he did.
 
The hate for Sterling was insigated by that horrible football club Dipper F.C. , Rodgers hung him out to dry by announcing he had turned down £100k a week and made him look like a gold digger , the scum Dipper fans then turned on Sterling to the extent that everywhere Sterling played he was booed for years.
Te small minded scum that support the infamous european murderers didnt stop once to think that Sterling actually wanted to win things and eventually play under the best coach in the world
Thirty years of hurt had twisted the minds of the vermin Dippers fans and they are as set of supporters who can hate like no other , well done Raheem for shoving it right up the scousers , ten fold.
 
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