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
 
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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Very sort of comment I was just talking about.

Some people talk about him like he’s something scraped off the bottom of their shoe.

Bernardo was off form for an even longer period and barely anyone said anything.

Shameful behaviour tbh.
 
I don’t think it can be the racism thing. I don’t think that’ll really wash. Because if him, then why not other black players? Even within our own team? They probably get a bit of shit when they’re taking corners and suchlike, but nothing like Raheem.
It’s not rational, but I think it’s because he’s got a kind face! I think he’s got exactly the kind of face that bullies home in on in the schoolyard. He looks kind, so they think “fucking softie, let’s sort him out!”. I’m serious. I just can’t think of any other explanation. The dipper factor is long gone now (except with some dippers themselves, who are not quite mentally all there).
 
HelloCity said:
Very sort of comment I was just talking about.

Some people talk about him like he’s something scraped off the bottom of their shoe.

Bernardo was off form for an even longer period and barely anyone said anything.

Shameful behaviour tbh.
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Totally agree. People can have whatever opinions they want but the Sterling thing is just weird. The casual England fans were mainly the ones who slagged him off in the past. He’s now a hero to them. For the first time in history we actually have A City player who is most people’s man of the tournament, and the talk of England, and potentially about to become as big a hero as Geoff Hirst, but we still have some City fans curling their lips and going “yebbut he’s not that good”.

Thats what they call cognitive dissonance. People have played their cards and can’t back down.
 
HelloCity said:
Very sort of comment I was just talking about.

Some people talk about him like he’s something scraped off the bottom of their shoe.

Bernardo was off form for an even longer period and barely anyone said anything.

Shameful behaviour tbh.
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We have a history as fans of having fall guys, to the point the hatred becomes appalling, vicious and unnecessary.

Richard Edgehill, Dzeko , Kolarov to name just a few.

If a player is attracting abuse due to lack of respect of the shirt or lack of effort I get it, but abuse because they arn't flavor of the month is a disgrace.
 
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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That’s a fucking donkey’s arse of a post.
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
I avoid abusive language on this forum. But that is utter bollocks.
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at least have the decency to quote the entire passage for context

FWIW I really like the player and always back him when people give him grief at Etihad but I do know why he frustrates fans, just look at that game via the rags where he missed at least 3 one on ones to finish the game.
He has all the talent in the world and if he could nail the one on one he would be genuine world class

"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."
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
I don’t think it can be the racism thing. I don’t think that’ll really wash. Because if him, then why not other black players? Even within our own team? They probably get a bit of shit when they’re taking corners and suchlike, but nothing like Raheem.
It’s not rational, but I think it’s because he’s got a kind face! I think he’s got exactly the kind of face that bullies home in on in the schoolyard. He looks kind, so they think “fucking softie, let’s sort him out!”. I’m serious. I just can’t think of any other explanation. The dipper factor is long gone now (except with some dippers themselves, who are not quite mentally all there).
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You say it's not racism as if Raheem's not been the victim of two separate racist incidents, racial assault and racial harassment, in the last four years.

www.theguardian.com

Man charged with racially aggravated common assault on Raheem Sterling

A 29-year-old man has been arrested in connection with an alleged racist attack on the Manchester City and England forward Raheem Sterling
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

www.bbc.co.uk

Raheem Sterling: Chelsea fan banned for life for 'racially abusive language' in Man City game

Chelsea ban a fan for life for using "racially abusive language" towards Manchester City's Raheem Sterling during a match in December.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
 
Protein Junkie said:
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.
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Most England fans are dicks, especially some of the ones now attending Wembley stadium at present, white , cockney muppets with swagger, attitude and huge chips on their shoulders, the ones that go around berating 'foreigners",

One reason I am utterly indifferent to supporting the national team. City results are life and death for me, England mehhhhh.
 
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youngbob said:
You say it's not racism as if Raheem's not been the victim of two separate racist incidents, racial assault and racial harassment, in the last four years.

www.theguardian.com

Man charged with racially aggravated common assault on Raheem Sterling

A 29-year-old man has been arrested in connection with an alleged racist attack on the Manchester City and England forward Raheem Sterling
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

www.bbc.co.uk

Raheem Sterling: Chelsea fan banned for life for 'racially abusive language' in Man City game

Chelsea ban a fan for life for using "racially abusive language" towards Manchester City's Raheem Sterling during a match in December.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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All black and etnic players get racism though. It doesn't reall explain all the extra stuff directed at Sterling in particular though.Think that was the point
 
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