Never change do they Chelsea fans, considering some of there best players were black.
This isn’t just Chelsea fans, though. It’s Burnley fans and Stoke fans and Norwich fans and fans of dozens of other teams in the U.K., including our own sometimes. I remember sitting in front of a guy during our 1-0 win over Feyenoord last season - he lambasted Sterling at every opportunity, going as far as shouting “fucking useless wanker” at him for misplacing a pass. He left on 85 minutes in a huff because Sterling let the ball run out for a throw-in and missed him scoring the winner.
Raheem is booed and jeered at every ground he goes to, not just Stamford Bridge. He’s abused in pubs and living rooms up and down the land when he plays for England. Burnley fans loudly let him know that he’d “let his country down” when we played them once. This only happens because the people doing so know it’s not socially acceptable to call him any one of the racist slurs they hold in their throats. Their racism is subconscious and they don’t know how to express it, but it’s still there - hence the level of vitriol and scrutiny that’s applied to every second of his performance.
And when these people leave the ground, calm down after the 90 minutes is over and resume their normal lives, they’ll pick up The Mail or The Sun and read about how Raheem has a tattoo, or how he was late to training, or that he bought things from Primark. And the cycle starts again. If these numbskulls keep reading in the media that it’s okay to dislike Sterling, to track his every move like a stalker, then it eventually reaches the point where one of them works out that they can call him a “black ****” without immediate consequence.
This guy will be found guilty and he’ll be banned from Premier League games for life. He might lose his job and his family might eventually learn to forgive him after a few estranged years. But that’s not enough. The guy should have been beaten up, right there on the spot. At the very least he should have been violently manhandled by a group stewards and escorted out. It’s the only language these idiots speak so we might as well use it against them.
It’s open season against Raheem and it will continue to be until someone is loudly made an example of. Quietly banning these people from the game just allows another one to keep trying their luck, it’s not a strong enough deterrent. Players should walk off the field as a collective, City and the PFA should be all over the media demanding changes in the way black footballers are talked about and covered, the police need to start emptying the prisons of “drug offenders” and start filling them with fuckers like the Chelsea lot. It’s the only way it’ll begin to get better.
