Jordie
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If you can't see number 5's knee contact Raheems knee then you need a trip to Specsavers. It is also enough with the other player coming from the other side to make him go down.
It's a penalty all day long. 100%
Sterling and the hate he gets
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It's a penalty all day long. 100%
Chris Holmes
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Kane creates his own tactical fouls. Some refs are on to him.
Grealish is the same, though out of the two I would prefer City signing Kane
Man_City_Loyal
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agreed, id prefer Grealish tbh
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To be fair the media has been gushing about Sterling all tournament. And he did go down soft yesterday and I’m glad he did. As Dixon said “frankly, I don’t care”.
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Here we go again with this old chestnut.
What occasion during this tournament has the conduct of England fans not been good? What do you consider to be arrogant? There's been debates raging on here all summer about whether or not the team have been doing well. I don't know one English person who has thought we're going to win a tournament before it starts since 2006.
As for the group game between the two, can you class a 0-0 as "dominating" your rivals?
Another contradiction to point out is you saying that you haven't qualified for 23 years but then were below par against the Czech Republic. You weren't below par. You've been really shit for over 2 decades.
Manchester_lalala
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Diving really does annoy me. City’s top two summer targets are up there with the biggest cheats in the league.
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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.No I dont think so
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.
Oh come on, you know we are arrogant. My god, we should really all just sit inside miserable playing down our first chance to win a tournament in most peoples life. We have no right what so ever to actually enjoy it and god forbid sing and look happy. We are a disgrace.
its a Barm
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Sterling in my opinion had a poor second half of the season and I was very critical of him but the hate this lad gets from the media and other fans is just terrible my hope is he scores the winner in the final so the haters will have to show him the respect he deserves.
shevtheblue
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He didn't dive, wtf is everyone on about? He was poor backend of last season, i'm sure he would admit as much, but at the beginning and mid he was decent. Finishing the season as possibly the POTT for the Euros, why is Jorginho more fancied to win Balon D'or? Wasn't even the best player in his club or international teams, if we're using the same reasoning then i'd say Raz should be in there as well.